Pakistan

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday condemned “in the strongest terms” the act of desecration of the Holy Quran by Danish politician Rasmus Paludan a day before, according to an official statement. Having strongly condemned recent such incidents in Sweden and the Netherlands, Pakistan today termed the abhorrent act done in Denmark “senseless and deeply offensive” while declaring Paludan an Islamophobe. In the …

PML-N senior vice president Maryam Nawaz returned to Pakistan today (Saturday) after a nearly four-month sojourn in London. Upon her arrival at Lahore Airport, she tweeted: “Pak sar zameen shad bad.”     Earlier, party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said Maryam was returning to begin the “reorganisation of the party”. She had left Pakistan for London in October last year, just a day after …

PESHAWAR/LAHORE: Hinting at a possible delay in holding elections, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali on Friday linked fresh polls with improvement of the province’s security and economic situation. Talking to journalists, Mr Ali also said political forces should focus on finding solutions to fix the financial and security situation and not the elections. While referring to terrorist attacks in the …

PPP leaders on Saturday announced plans to send a legal notice to PTI chairman Imran Khan, a day after he claimed PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari was behind a new plot to assassinate him for which the former president had “given money to a terrorist outfit. In a joint news conference, PPP senior leaders Nayyar Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar and Qamar Zaman Kaira criticised …

An Islamabad court on Saturday reversed an order of a judicial magistrate that denied police an extension in the physical remand of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry and ordered investigators to re-produce him before the magistrate today for the pursuance of the request. Chaudhry was taken into custody on Wednesday for allegedly “inciting violence against a constitutional institution” — the ECP. A first …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari on Thursday said the province had approached the centre for signing an agreement with Afghanistan to crack down on extortion demands over phone from the Afghan soil. “Afghan SIM cards are used in 99 per cent of phone calls made to Pakistanis to demand extortion. As Pakistan and Afghanistan have …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain on Thursday said that without revolution and innovation in the education system, the development and stability could not come. Addressing at the inauguration ceremony of student facilitation centre and online attestation portal at the Secretariat of Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), the minister said that ladder of development of nations is education, …

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Thursday indicted Dania Shah, the widow of late politician and anchorperson Aamir Liaquat Hussain, for leaking his indecent videos online. Judicial Magistrate (East) Mukesh Kumar read out charges to the suspect, Dania Shah, who was produced from the prison. However, she pleaded not guilty and opted to contest. Therefore, the judge summoned the witnesses of …

LONDON: Amidst fanfare and the sound of dhol, PML-N senior vice president and chief organiser Maryam Nawaz left London on Thursday evening to begin the journey back to Pakistan, where she will resume her political activities and kick off the party’s election campaign. Dozens of PML-N workers gathered outside Avenfield House later in the evening, carrying posters of Maryam Nawaz …

KARACHI: Cairo’s Al Azhar University joined a number of Muslim countries on Thursday in condemning the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands and Sweden and called for a boycott of their products. The Organisation of Islamic Coopration (OIC) condemned the incidents and said vile acts, like the burning of religious books, cannot be justified under the guise of …