Pakistan

LAHORE: Hundreds of activists and students from various educational institutes of the city participated in a ‘Student Solidarity March’ on Friday to demand free education and restoration of student unions in the country. The march organised by the Student Action Committee (SAC) turned into a rally at Charing Cross on The Mall in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. After …

The mother of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif will be laid to rest in Lahore today. In a statement, the party said that funeral prayers for Begum Shamim Akhtar will be offered after Zuhr at the Sharif Medical City in Raiwind. She will be buried next to the grave of her husband, …

ISLAMABAD: As the second wave of coronavirus continues to gain momentum in the country, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Friday that more than 3,000 cases were recorded for the third consecutive day, with the highest rate of positive cases reported in Peshawar. Meanwhile, in a bid to contain panic in the country, the electronic media …

MULTAN: With the aim to stop the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) from holding its public gathering scheduled for Nov 30 here, containers have been placed around the venue, Qila Kohna Qasim Bagh, and police deployed outside, while the PPP announced that Aseefa Bhutto Zardari will attend the event. The police and district administration have placed 30 containers around the stadium …

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalises President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory even as he insisted such a decision would be a mistake as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that massive fraud and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat. “Certainly I will. But you …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday declared three members of the family of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif abscon­ders as proceedings against them under Section 87 of the Criminal Procedure Code stood completed after they avoided their appearance in the money laundering and illegal assets reference. They include Shehbaz Sharif’s son Suleman, …

LAHORE: PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz will attend the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Multan rally on Nov 30. “Nawaz Sharif has directed me to attend the meeting of the PDM,” Ms Nawaz told reporters at Jati Umra here on Thursday. She said Nawaz said she would have to forget her grief and attend the PDM rally. She will be attending the …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday summoned two federal ministers, an aide to the premier and two others over two identical petitions seeking their prosecution for committing contempt of a special court, which had awarded death sentence to former military ruler retired General Pervez Musharraf last year for high treason. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and …

It’s finally happening! After much hoopla on social media with users falsely claiming Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari got engaged in secret, the day has finally arrived. The bride to be tweeted ahead of her engagement which is slated to take place at 4 pm today at Bilawal House in Karachi. “Very sentimental and emotional day. So grateful for everyone’s love and prayers. Especially …

LARKANA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that people have the right to run their country’s affairs whereas the establishment has to do its own job. Addressing the 26th ‘Shaheed-i-Islam Conference’ — an annual party event to pay homage to its slain general secretary Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro — at the Municipal Stadium here on Thursday, he said …