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Dallas (Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada) Famous Pakistani singer Rahim Shah made a significant revelation during his concert in Dallas, disclosing that he did not receive Pakistan’s highest award based on his Karachi domicile. He mentioned a deceased high-ranking official but refrained from revealing the name. Currently on a tour in the United States and performing concerts in various states, Rahim …

By: Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada Dallas : Famous Pakistani singer Rahim Shah made a significant revelation during his concert in Dallas, disclosing that he did not receive Pakistan’s highest award based on his Karachi domicile. He mentioned a deceased high-ranking official but refrained from revealing the name. Currently on a tour in the United States and performing concerts in various …

GILGIT: The police in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) claimed to have thwarted a terrorist plot in the city when the bomb disposal squad successfully deactivated an improvised explosive device (IED) discovered under the Bailey Bridge in Chinar Bagh on Thursday. According to a press release from GB police, at around 11:15am on Thursday, the Gilgit Control Special Branch received information about a …

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern on Thursday over the current tensions between Pakistan and Iran, urged them to de-escalate and offered his good offices to help resolve all their issues peacefully. “He is very concerned about this escalation, about the exchange of fire, rockets, between Iran and Pakistan. We have seen reports of casualties on both sides,” said …

LAHORE: After rescinding the seat adjustment talks with PML-N, the Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain-led PML-Q has started openly supporting PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in the race for National Assembly’s constituency, NA-127 Lahore. Addressing a press conference at the PPP secretariat on Thursday, PML-Q chief organiser and former Punjab governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar announced his party’s backing for Mr Bhutto-Zardari. The PPP leader …

GUJRAT: After PML-N launched its election campaign from Okara earlier this week, party supreme leader Nawaz Sharif made his first appearance on the campaign trail on Thursday, vowing to make Pakistan “stand on its feet again”. Addressing a public gathering in Hafizabad — where he arrived in a helicopter from Lahore — organised at the sports stadium, the former prime minister said …

A polio programme official and a policeman were injured on Friday after unidentified assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district. Station House Officer (SHO) of Mamond Police Station Dilawar Khan told Dawn.com that unknown persons opened fire on Dr Abdul Rehman’s vehicle when he was coming back from the District Headquarters Hospital Khar in the Tarkhoo area of …

MUZAFFARABAD: A member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet, Taqdees Gillani, said on Thursday she would table a bill in the legislative assembly to curb early-age forced marriages as part of efforts to ensure the rights of children and women in the state. Taqdees Gillani, minister without portfolio, made this announcement at a seminar on early-age forced marriages …

Former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday said that all political parties except the PPP were involved in the “politics of hatred and division”. Bilawal passed these remarks during two PPP rallies as electioneering picks up momentum ahead of the February 8 general elections. The PPP chairman has been campaigning across the country all month. Addressing party workers and supporters …

LAHORE: The term “Ladla” (blue-eyed) seems to haunt the PML-N as party president Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday took potshots at those who are calling his elder brother ‘favourite’ of the powers that be. “Whatever happened in the past (tenures of PML-N) shows that Nawaz Sharif is not a ladla … someone else is. The plane hijacking case (in 1999) and …