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Shahid Afridi visits Mastung blast victims, meets martyred Raisani’s family

QUETTA: Pakistan’s former skipper, Shahid Khan Afridi on Tuesday visited Mastung blast victims at Combined Military Hospital Quetta and also met family of Siraj Raisani, the Balochistan Awami Party candidate who was among the martyred of the...

Rao Anwar&s bail plea to be responded on July 20
Rao Anwar’s bail plea to be responded on July 20

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday adjourned its verdict on granting bail to former SSP Rao Anwar pertaining to possession of illegal weapons and explosives.

The ATC will announce its judgement on July 20.

The bench has also reserved its decision on DSP...

CJP Justice Nisar sways to traditional music during Gilgit-Baltistan tour

The Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has become center of attention online after a video of him swaying with locals of Gilgit-Baltistan went viral.

The CJP who is presently touring the northern areas of the country with his family,...

Pervaiz Rasheed deplores Nawaz Sharif&s absence in court hearing
Pervaiz Rasheed deplores Nawaz Sharif’s absence in court hearing

ISLAMABAD: Senator Pervaiz Rasheed deplored jail authorities for failing to bring former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to court for hearing a corruption case against him.

Speaking to media persons alongside Barrister Zafarullah on Tuesday, Rasheed said...

Muzzafargarh family robbed, poisoned by fake spiritual healer
Muzzafargarh family robbed, poisoned by fake spiritual healer

Twenty five members of a family were plundered and poisoned by a phony spiritual healer in Muzzafargarh on Tuesday.

The victimized family has revealed that the accused named Shah Sahib had initially been contacted to treat a cancer patient in the family...

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed in legal trouble for using fireworks
Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed in legal trouble for using fireworks

RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League head Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed and 22 others had a first information report (FIR) filed against them for alleged use of fireworks here on Tuesday.

Amongst those accused of breaching a ban on the use of fireworks, the AML chairman’s n...

Water commission head expresses anger over Sukkur graveyard encroachment
Water commission head expresses anger over Sukkur graveyard encroachment

KARACHI: The encroachment of a graveyard in Sukkur left the head of Water Commission Justice (retd) Amir Hani infuriated on Tuesday.

Amid a hearing by the Supreme Court-mandated Judicial Commission on Water and Sanitation in the Sindh High...

Here is how you will cast your vote in Elections 2018
Here is how you will cast your vote in Elections 2018

Pakistan is all set to hold General Election on July 25, with over 1,2000 candidates  vying for  national and provincial assembly seats.

There are over 800 seats up for grabs. As many as 105.96 million voters will be able to use their right to franchise.

23 percent...

IHC hears Sharifs' petitions challenging convictions in Avenfield reference
IHC hears Sharifs' petitions challenging convictions in Avenfield reference

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday summoned record of cases against Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Safdar as it took up their appeals against their convictions in Avenfiled reference.

A division bench of...

Political workers torture donkey to express hate towards opponent
Political workers torture donkey to express hate towards opponent
Political workers torture donkey to express hate towards opponent
Political workers torture donkey to express hate towards opponent

The election fever has taken its toll on even animals, who have not been spared by the “wrath of this time”, it seems. 

With only a week left to July 25 general elections, a brutal incident of animal abuse surfaced early Monday morning.

In a heart...

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