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KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his prime task was to achieve the unfinished mission left behind by his mother and former Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for a Pakistan, which

LONDON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa sent a flower bouquet to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s ailing wife Begum Kulsoom in hospital on Wednesday, wishing her early recovery.

Expressing his sympathy for former first lady and her family

KARACHI: The demise of legendary humourist Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi on Wednesday has left social media in grief.

Yusufi was admitted at a private hospital a few days back after contracting pneumonia. He was shifted to ventilator after his health deteriorated.

Twitterati have

DUSHANBE:  President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday said since peace and stability in Afghanistan was a must for regional stability and development, Pakistan was working with Afghanistan to achieve this objective.

The President said this during a

KARACHI: PTI chairman Imran Khan, former president Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz have submitted details of their assets in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

According to documents obtained by Geo TV, Imran Khan has disclosed agriculture,

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan handed over two Afghan soldiers, who crossed the border, to Afghan Authorities on humanitarian grounds as a good will gesture at Chaman on Wednesday.

According to Inter Services Public Relations, Frontier Corps Balochistan handed over

General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) reached Poland on an official visit. 

During the visit COAS met Mr Mariusz Blaszczak, Minister of National Defence and Deputy Minister of National Defence. 

The COAS also held separate meetings with Polish

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz, while submitting her nomination papers, declared that her net assets amount to a total of Rs 845 million.

This information was shared by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding assets of

ISLAMABAD: Ashtar Ausaf Ali has resigned as Attorney General of Pakistan, Geo News reported Wednesday.

The resignation comes hours after the caretaker Punjab government removed Asma Hamid from the post of advocate general of the province.

Ausaf has forwarded his resignation to

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday filed an appeal in Appellate  Tribunal against the Returning Officer's decision to reject his nomination papers from NA-53 for the Genera Election 2018.

Filed through his lawyer Babar

QUETTA: Four suspected terrorists including a woman were killed during an operation carried out by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday, according to Geo News.

A spokesman for the CTD said the operation was conducted at a residential compound

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has constituted 20 tribunals to hear appeals on nomination papers rejected by the returning officers across the country.

According to the electoral body, high court judges will be part of the appellate tribunals.

It has set

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has called for an immediate removal of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, arguing that the latter could influence the outcome of elections due to his affiliation with the PML-N.

In a letter to Prime Minister

KARACHI: Days after a bus hostess in Faisalabad was murdered for turning down a marriage proposal, a similar video has emerged on social media of a security guard harassing a female hostess in Karachi.

The security guard can be seen misbehaving

HAFIZABAD: A seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a man on Tuesday in Hafizabad’s Muhalla Tajpura, police said.

The suspect identified as Asad Sohail convinced the minor, residing in the same neighborhood as him, to escort him into his house while she was out

KARACHI: Former finance minister and PML-N leader Miftah Ismail has claimed that Pakistan’s next Prime Minister will be from Karachi.

“If Karachi is facing a water shortage crisis, the Sindh government is to blame,” said Ismail while addressing a press conference in Karachi on Tue

ISLAMABAD: Officials at National Database Regulatory Authority (NADRA) have rejected suggestions that the authority has leaked voters’ data to a political party.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, four NADRA directors said that no data had ever been breached by the

DERA GHAZI KHAN: A women’s rights activist was shot to death in Dera Ghazi Khan allegedly by her sister's father in law in a gist to kill for honour on Tuesday.

The victim, identified as Asiya Akbar, was traveling to Khanpur when two men forced her to get off her van and fired

ISLAMABAD: Bomb Disposal Squad workforce along with the police disposed a hidden hand grenade warding off a terror attack in Sector I-10 as reported by Geo News, here on Tuesday.

Geo News, citing SHO of the Sabzi Mandi police station, informed that the hand

KARACHI: The nomination papers of former PTI leader Fauzia Kasuri were rejected on Tuesday after she failed to satisfy Returning Officer about the status of her dual nationality.

Ms Kasuri, who has joined Pak Sarzameen Party after leaving the PTI, is seeking to contest from

ISLAMABAD: The nomination papers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi  Ayesha Gulalai and Mehtab Abbasi for NA-53 Islamabad have been rejected by the Returning Officer  over violation of Section N of the

KARACHI: The nomination papers of MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar for NA-245 have been rejected by the Returning Officer.

The RO informed Sattar's counsel that the MQM-P leader is an absconder in two cases and did not mention this in his papers. The lawyer stated that his client