Pakistan

ISLAMABAD:  Captain (retd) Safdar was sent to the Adiala jail on Monday (today) after being produced in the same accountability court of Islamabad which had declared him guilty in the Avenfield  reference and awarded him one year imprisonment.

As per details, a three-member

LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the Punjab Home Department to install more than 6,000 surveillance cameras at sensitive polling stations in the province.

The ECP, in a letter to the chief secretary Punjab, has

RIYADH: Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition military commander General Raheel Sharif welcomed a delegation of Pakistan in Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday.

The Pakistani team was headed by the Secretary Defense, Lt Gen Zamir ul

LAHORE: PML-N spokesman Marriyum Aurangzeb Sunday said former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was returning to Pakistan to make the country a ''democratic power''.

Addressing a press conference at here at the PML-N''s Model Town Secretariat, she said,

KARACHI: Maryam Nawaz, daughter of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has confirmed she will be returning to Pakistan on July 13.

The PML-N leader, who has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the Avenfield corruption reference, shared her flight details on Twitter,

LAHORE: Caretaker Information Minister Ali Zafar Sunday said the accountability court decision against former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz would not affect the general election.

“There is no provision in the Constitution for the postponement of

ISLAMABAD -President Mamnoon Hussain Sunday arrived in Ankara on a three-day official visit where he is to attend the oath-taking ceremony of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Upon arrival at the airport, the President was warmly received by the Governor and

ABBOTTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan took a dig at Captain (retd) Mohammad Safdar, saying Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law is courting arrest as if he has conquered Kashmir.

“Capt Safdar has been convicted on charges of corruption,” Khan told a gathering of sup

RAWALPINDI: Scores of PML-N workers surrounded Captain (retd.) Muhammad Safdar as a NAB team arrived in Rawalpindi to arrest the convicted son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. 

Senior PML-N leader, who was a candidate from

ISLAMABAD: Director General  Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)Bashir Memon on Sunday told the Supreme Court that Rs35 billions were transferred to 29 fake bank accounts  as he appeared before the apex court after  the ch

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam, whom the accountability court had awarded eleven and eight year imprisonment, respectively, are set to challenge the Avenfield verdict against them in the Islamabad High Court on Monday.

The

KARACHI: Pakistan is remembering renowned philanthropist and social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi on his second death anniversary today (Sunday).

Edhi passed away on  8, 2016 in Karachi after a protracted  illness.

Born in 1928, Edhi migrated to Pakistan in 1947

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that banned organizations are being encouraged, facilitated and promoted to contest elections.

Bilawal’s statement came after Punjab police briefly stopped him from

LONDON: Saleem Shahzad, one of the founding members of MQM, passed away in London.

According to Geo News, he was undergoing treatment for liver cancer at a hospital in British capital.

The family said the former MQM leader had been suffering from the disease since 2015

Being the social media and the shared voice of the people, I come up with about eight to ten on-record incidents daily that take place in Pakistan— showing how candidates who were elected to fix their designated localities, disappointed the people o

LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz has announced that she alongwith Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on Friday to go to prison despite being sentenced to eight years in prison in the Avenfield properties case.


The former first

RAWALPINDI: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar on Saturday said that he had wanted to save party supremo Nawaz Sharif from facing a situation such as Avenfield verdict.

Nawaz was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison and slapped with an £8 million fine

UCH SHARIF: Punjab police briefly stopped Bilawal Bhutto Zardari from entering Uch Sharif where he has to address a public gathering, his spokesman said.

“Thousands of people are waiting for Bilawal Bhutto’s arrival at the jaslagah in Uch Sharif,” PPP s

Rights activist and independent candidate Jibran Nasir’s crusaders fell prey to mobile snatchers amid campaign.

The candidate from NA-247 had taken to Twitter to publicize the news of his volunteers falling victim to mobile snatchers in Karachi’s DHA P

Rights activist and independent candidate Jibran Nasir’s crusaders fell prey to mobile snatchers amid campaign.

The candidate from NA-247 had taken to Twitter to publicize the news of his volunteers falling victim to mobile snatchers in Karachi’s DHA P

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz has stated on Saturday that she along with her father Nawaz Sharif will be flying back into the country within 10 days.

A day after the Avenfield case verdict, the PML-N leader, in

BANNU: A candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA) has been injured in a roadside bomb blast in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Geo reported on Saturday.

The blast took place in Takhtikhel area of Bannu.

Malik Shireen, who is MMA’s candidate in PK-89, was on his way to

ISLAMABAD: Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, sister of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on Saturday accused the rival PTI of falsifying advertisements despite poor delivery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In a Twitter statement, Bakhtawar said only delivery in the PTI-led Khyber

KOHAT: PTI chairman Imran Khan said that a powerful person was convicted by an accountability court yesterday.

Khan was referring to 10-year jail term awarded to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Avenfield apartments case on Friday.

Nawaz Sharif has to

ISLAMABAD: A NAB team left for Khyber Pakhkunkhwa on Saturday to arrest Capt Safdar who was sentenced to one-year in jail in the Avenfield reference case.

According to a source privy to the matter, NAB has already obtained arrest warrants from an accountability court in

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday issued party tickets to its alternate candidates in replacement of Maryam Nawaz, after her disqualification pertaining to Avenfield verdict.

Prior to the verdict, Maryam was contesting the polls for