Pakistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan has “shifted its geo-political priorities into geo-economic priorities”, while speaking about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Sri Lanka. The foreign minister was briefing the media about the premier’s maiden visit to Colombo. Qureshi said that Pakistan has offered a credit line of $15 million to Sri Lanka for defence and security …

The PML-N has submitted a petition to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), demanding a re-election in the entire NA-75 constituency instead of 20 polling stations, the party’s vice president Maryam Nawaz told the media on Wednesday, adding that agencies falling under the premier were involved in the rigging. While speaking to the media in Lahore, Maryam accused the ruling …

ISLAMABAD: As Pakis­tan continues to see a fall in Covid-19 cases, a website has placed the country on the 29th position in the list of 30 countries that have conducted the most number of tests per million population (PMP). The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has, meanwhile, recorded 1,050 patients who contracted the virus and 41 deaths over the …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed on Wednesday observed that matters related to ballot secrecy had been left to the parliament and would be decided by it. During the hearing on the presidential reference on holding Senate elections through open ballot, being heard by a five-member bench of the top court, CJP Ahmed said: “We are not the parliament …

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar has said action was taken against officers responsible for the escape of former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan from military custody last year, BBC Urdu reported. Speaking to journalists affiliated with foreign media outlets at his office on Wednesday, Iftikhar said that Ehsan’s escape was a “very serious” matter that had been …

The French foreign ministry has summoned Pakistan’s envoy to protest remarks by President Arif Alvi that a French bill cracking down on ‘radical Islam’ stigmatises Muslims. Addressing a conference on religion on Saturday, Alvi said: “When you see that laws are being changed in favour of a majority to isolate a minority, that is a dangerous precedent.” Specifically referring to the …

ISLAMABAD: The father of a youth who was killed by officials of the capital police on Jan 2 filed a petition in Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking direction to the prosecution for making reports of the judicial inquiry and the joint investigation team (JIT) as part of the challan submitted to the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC). Nadeem Younis, father of Osama …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is making efforts to put in place an e-filing system in all schools and colleges as offices of the area education officers (AEOs) have already been computerised. This was stated by FDE Director General Dr Ikram Ali Malik while talking to the participants of a ceremony held at the Islamabad Model College for …

LAHORE: A heartless woman allegedly set her two minor sons on fire because of poverty at Kot Asadullah village in Manga Mandi area on Monday. Abdul Rehman (3) and Faizan (4) were recovered dead with burns from a room of a three-marla house at Kot Asadullah following a fire incident reported to the Rescue 1122 emergency service. The house was …

NOWSHERA: Former provincial irrigation minister Liaqat Khattak on Monday rejected what he said the false propaganda continuing against him for last three days by the spokespersons of the provincial government, and categorically denied that he had violated the party discipline and supported the PML-N candidate in the Nowshera by-election. Addressing a press conference at Wali Bagh here, he claimed that …