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Punjab announces early summer vacations for schools
Punjab announces early summer vacations for schools

LAHORE: The Punjab government has announced summer vacations for schools.

“Private and public schools will close for summer vacations from May 17,” Education Minister Rana Mashhood announced on Thursday.

The schools will reopen on August 10, he said.

The schedule of...

Defence Minister says India fanning terrorism in Pakistan through Afghan soil
Defence Minister says India fanning terrorism in Pakistan through Afghan soil

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said India is fanning terrorism in Pakistan through the Afghan soil.

The minister was speaking to media here Thursday.

Dastgir said spreading fake news through media is also one of...

PTI cancels Waziristan jalsa due to ‘some highly important reasons&
PTI cancels Waziristan jalsa due to ‘some highly important reasons’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced the cancellation of its Waziristan’s jalsa due to “some very highly important reasons.”

The opposition party was scheduled to hold a public meeting at Mir Ali Ground in South Waziristan on...

Bilawal Bhutto visits Ahsan Iqbal, seeks probe into assassination bid
Bilawal Bhutto visits Ahsan Iqbal, seeks probe into assassination bid

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called on the government to launch a probe into an assassination attempt on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal.

The interior minister was shot and injured in a gun attack during a...

CJ seeks report on lawyers holding fake degrees
CJ seeks report on lawyers holding fake degrees

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Thursday took suo motu notice on lawyers holding bogus degrees and directed bar councils across the country to furnish a report on it within a month.

He took the notice while hearing a suo motu notice in connection with fake degrees...

Pakistan army chief Gen Bajwa among Forbes 'World's Most Powerful' people
Pakistan army chief Gen Bajwa among Forbes 'World's Most Powerful' people

 Chief of the Army  Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has claimed a spot on the Forbes 'most powerful people in the world' list.

General Bajwa was ranked 68 among 75 people as per the magazine.

General Bajwa is Pakistan’s 10th army chief and r...

Nawaz asks NAB chairman to step down for resorting to character assassination
Nawaz asks NAB chairman to step down for resorting to character assassination

ISLAMABAD:  Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif  on  Thursday demanded  National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman justice (retd) Javed Iqbal step down .

Addressing a press conference, he asked the NAB chairman to publicly apologize what he...

Nawaz says NAB is acting beyond its powers

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supreme leader  Nawaz Sharif on Thursday commended prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for his  speech delivered in the parliament in which he took an exception to the chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Speaking to media at...

PM Abbasi among Airlines CEOs asked to appear before SC
PM Abbasi among Airlines CEOs asked to appear before SC

KARACHI: Supreme Court Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday summoned the chief executive officers (CEO) of all airlines of the country to the apex court's Karachi Registry on Saturday, according to Geo News.

The orders came as the chief justice headed a...

Mahathir Mohamad, the man who inspired Imran Khan
Mahathir Mohamad, the man who inspired Imran Khan
Mahathir Mohamad, the man who inspired Imran Khan

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday won a shock election victory, in what is being termed a political earthquake that toppled the country's scandal-plagued premier Najib Razak and ousted a regime that has ruled the Southeast Asian nation for...