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Islamabad: Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa held meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Justice (retd) Nasirul Mulk at PM House.

PM House Spokesman said Army Chief Gen. Bajwa and PM Nasirul Mulk exchanged views on upcoming general

LAHORE: The Punjab Education Department issued a notification instructing all graduate teachers to be referred officially with the prefix of ‘honorable’ in written and verbal instances.

The decision had come while corresponding letters

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has unveiled its initial list of ticket holders from Punjab. The list almost left the entire provincial assembly seats in Lahore and a number of those in the southern part of the province undecided.

According to

ISLAMABAD: Following extreme pressure from party workers on the ‘unfair award of ticket’, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) withdrew former federal minister Sikandar Hayat Bosan’s ticket for Multan NA-154 constituency, on Sunday.

PTI has released the revised

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to launch PakTES-1A, an indigenously developed remote sensing satellite in July this year, said Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Muhmmad Faisal on Sunday.

In a tweet, the spokesman said that PakTES-1A was an indigenously developed

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) on Sunday announced the names of its candidates contesting in the upcoming general elections.

The PSP chairman Mustafa Kamal unveiled the names of its party electoral candidates in a workers convention held in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the port

DHAMIYAL: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) disgruntled leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday pressed the people to not vote for him if standards of living in their constituencies are lower from the constituencies of Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presided over an important meeting of senior Party leaders to devise electoral strategy for winning maximum number of seats all over the country and to pre-empt attempts aimed at the manipulations of

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Saad Rafique on Sunday declared the general elections an open challenge against Imran Khan, aiming the defeat of PTI chairman in all five of his selected constituencies.

Briefing an electoral campaign at Lahore’s Bedian s

ISLAMABAD: After days of deliberations and protests from enraged workers at Bani Gala, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has released a final list of its candidates running in the general elections next month.

According to a statement issued by the PTI on Sunday, the list  

LAHORE: Days after Zaeem Qadri announced to run as an independent candidate in Lahore, another PML-N loyalist Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor parted ways with the party.

In a press conference on Sunday, former provincial minister announced that he would personally launch an

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Sunday filed candidates to challenge former interior minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan who is at loggerheads with Nawaz Sharif.

Chaudhry Nisar will be running on two national and two provincial assembly seats in the general

MIANWALI: PTI chairman Imran Khan has kick started his party's campaign for the general elections 2018 from his home constituency Mianwali.

Addressing a gathering of supporters here on Sunday, Imran Khan said that he chose Mianwali to start his election campaign because he had

MULTAN: Dozens of PTI women workers staged a protest outside the residence of Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday and protested against "unfair distribution of tickets" on reserved seats.

The workers staged the sit-in outside Qureshi’s residence, accusing the p

KARACHI: In its latest report on the properties owned by the ‘super rich’ family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a UK paper on Sunday revealed that the assets Sharif family owned in London were estimated at at least £32 million.

One of the most priced property

Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asif Ghafoor said that one more Army personnel has been martyred while performing his duties at the Pak-Afghan border on Sunday.

The DG ISPR stated in his tweet: “Another son of soil sacrificed his l

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LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has ruled out an immediate return to Pakistan owing to critical condition of his wife Kulsoom Nawaz who remains on a ventilator in a London hospital.

Kulsoom Nawaz has been admitted to Harley Street Clinic in London after

Islamabad: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his deep sorrow and grief over the martyrdom of two army personnel during an operation against terrorists in South Waziristan. 

Two army

MULTAN: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has not yet awarded a ticket to veteran politician Javed Hashmi who is aspiring to contest the next general election from his home constituency in Multan.

Javed Hashmi’s name doesn’t feature in the list of candidates iss

KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s spokesman has issued a clarification about the price of Bilawal House declared by PPP chairman in his asset details.

Reacting to reports concerning Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s asset details, Spokesman to the Chairman, S

A petition challenging Maryam Nawaz’s candidature for Punjab Assembly constituency PP-17 was dismissed by an appellate tribunal in Lahore on Saturday.

The former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz had her nomination papers for PP-173 c

Tehreek-e-Taliban Taliban (TTP) announced it had appointed a new leader on Saturday after the militant group confirmed for the first time its former chief Maulana Fazlullah was killed in a US drone strike last week.

Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided not to field its candidates opposite disgruntled senior party leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.

According to a source privy to the development, PML-N wants to keep its door open for Chaudhry Nisar at

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed a claim by India that its High Commissioner in Islamabad was denied access to a Sikh religious site.

“Sikh pilgrims were protesting against maltreatment in India and release of controversial movies,” according to For

Pakistani singer Ali Zafar has taken Meesha Shafi to court for the allegations of sexual harassment she placed against him, terming them ‘baseless.’

The singer turned actor filed a case against Shafi under the Defamation Ordinance 2002 in Lahore