Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) Pakistan has evacuated 50 Chinese nationals from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) near the Line of Control (LoC) after heavy cross-border firing from India along the LoC, Pakistani media reports said. According to…
Lahore, July 31 (IANS) The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) announced scholarships for outstanding minority students here on Wednesday, reported The Nation. The ETPB has announced to give Rs 10,000 as ‘Guru Nanak Scholarship’ to…
Gujranwala, July 31 (IANS) Pakistani fast bowler Hasan Ali will marry an Indian girl – Shamia Arzoo, family sources close to the cricketer have said. Ali met Shamia, who belongs to Haryana, through a close…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) Annual reports of the Berlin-based global watchdog Transparency International — during the past 19 years show corruption at its peak in Pakistan during General Musharrafs tenure, Pakistani media reported. However, the…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) In a major step to bring down the spiralling prices of common food items in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered to cut down the prices of “naan” and “roti”…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) Five people were killed and 35 others injured in a bombing outside a police station in Pakistan’s Quetta city, authorities have said. The attack on Tuesday was carried out using a…
Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) Pakistan officials have denied that the country is exporting salt to India at low rates, as per stories going around on social media, reports said. Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation Managing Director…
Lahore, July 30 (IANS) Four Anti-Corruption Bureau officials on Tuesday questioned for an hour Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in connection with the Pakpatan land allotment case. Showing him…
Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) Any demographic change in Kashmir would not be accepted, said Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, here on Tuesday. According to media reports, the Minister said India was neither ready for…
Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) As many as 16 people died in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan’s Sindh province as the first spell of monsoon rain wreaked havoc causing gridlock and flooding in several districts,…
Rawalpindi, July 30 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and 13 injured on Tuesday when a Pakistan Army training aircraft crashed into a residential area near Rawalpindi city. Five crew members, including two pilots,…
Rawalpindi, July 30 (IANS) At least 17 people were killed, including two pilots and five military personnel, when a plane of the Pakistan Army Aviation crashed in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Soon after the crash near…
Islamabad, July 29 (IANS) The US and the Taliban are likely to announce a peace accord on August 1, paving the way for withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, according to reports in the Pakistani…
Karachi/Islamabad, July 29 (IANS) The minority Hindu Maheswari community in Karachi on Sunday held a protest against the administration’s failure in tracing a missing 16-year-old Hindu girl. The family of the girl, who went missing…
Islamabad, July 29 (IANS) A 1,000-year-old Hindu temple in Pakistan Punjab’s Sialkot city, which was sealed for the last 72 years, has been re-opened for people. Shawala Teja Singh Temple in Dhaarowal was built by…
Islamabad, July 29 (IANS) Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that his father and former President Asif Ali Zardari was not using an air conditioner (AC) in prison. Bilawal who…
Lahore, July 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s Army chief, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa is likely to get extension in his term, reports said. According to a report in Pakistan Today, its Editor Arif Nizami, commenting on the…
Islamabad, July 27 (IANS) Upset over the players’ high-handedness, the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has decided not to send its national team to the World Team Squash Championship to be held in the US in…
Islamabad, July 27 (IANS) The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) of Pakistan on Friday confirmed the registration of one new polio case each in Quetta and Banno provinces. With this, the number of polio cases…
Islamabad, July 27 (IANS) “Will Pakistan also get a slice of the moon?” With India’s launch of Chandrayaan-2, its second mission to the moon, Pakistanis naturally want to know where they stand in science and…