Pakistan

KARACHI: As the #MeToo movement's shocking weaves finally hit Pakistan with new revelations, triggering a long debate on media after singer Meesha Shafi accused her colleague, renowned singer-actor Ali Zafar of sexual harassment.

Another

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday took stance at the frequent load shedding and questioned public’s fault in the disputes between K-electric and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC).

Citing the plague pertaining to the ongoing energy

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday approved a probe into former president Pervez Musharraf's disproportionate assets and misuse of authority.

The former president also faces high treason charges in Pakistan.

The NAB also approved a

The fiasco that broke out after Meesha Shafi accused Ali Zafar of sexual harassment has divided the entire Pakistani showbiz industry into two, with some standing in solidarity with Shafi while others defending the accused. Hamza Ali Abbasi

PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice Mian Saqib Nisar here Friday ordered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government's Healthcare Commission to shutdown clinics of all quack doctors within a week in the province.

The Supreme Court's three-member bench presided

LAHORE: Mother of Ali Zafar has come out in defense of her son amid growing allegations of sexual harassment saying the accusations will be dealt in court of law.

Talking to Geo News, Dr Kanwal Ameen, said that “a man also has a family just as a woman d

KARACHI: The world's largest cargo aircraft, Antonov AN -225 Mriya, made its first landing in Pakistan today at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi for refueling, Geo News quoted sources as saying on Friday.

Russian-made wide body aircraft is powered

BEIJING: In a response to Indian Prime Minister Modi’s remarks against Pakistan’s counter-terrorism campaign, a Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Friday said that terrorism was an enemy of the international community and stressed all parties to strengthen cooperation

ISLAMABAD: Tayyaba case convicts former additional session judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and spouse challenged the verdict in high court on Friday.

In the verdict announced on Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court declared one year imprisonment, including a

BEIJING: There is no military alliance between China and Pakistan, but China's arms exports to Pakistan are a powerful weapon to safeguard the South Asian country's military sovereignty, state-run Global Times said in a commentary.

Pakistan has been

ISLAMABAD: Senator Raza Rabbani has written a letter to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi over naming of new Islamabad airport urging him to name if after former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The name of new Islamabad Airport has been a matter

PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday praised Khyber Paktunkhwa Police Inspector General Salahuddin Mehsud as he sat to hear cases of public welfare in Peshawar.

He said if the court can salute one person, it is Inspector General (IG) Salahuddin Mehsud,

An elderly man leans against the brick walls of a primary school in Bhatti Dhilwan Village near Sheikhupura with his arms folded above his elbows. He lowers his gaze, as if to concentrate on something crawling on the cement floor.

“There was no clean drinking water,” he say

HYDERABAD: Seven family members, including  a newlywed couple, were burnt alive in their car following a road accident on Karachi-Hyderabad M-9 Motorway late on Thursday.

As per details,  the car, carrying six family members, was reportedly  heading 

KARACHI: Britain has promised Pakistan of more generous market access post Brexit than what it currently has under GSP Plus regime, a statement received here from London said on Thursday.

The release said Greg Hands, the UK minister of state for trade

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blamed the PML-N’s federal government unleashed a policy of crushing the province of Sindh by depriving its people of water, power and federal transfers and "this is a political agenda."

This he said while

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has invited disgruntled PML-N leader and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to join his party.

Talking to reporters in Lahore, the PTI chairman praised Nisar for showing courage and refusing to work under

ISLAMABAD:  An Airport Security Force official was taken into custody after he brought down  a drone camera hovering over the new Islamabad International Airport.

The drone  was being operated by  workers of a Chinese  company who had permission to film the new

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reacted strongly to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim about 'surgical strikes'.

The Foreign Office spokesperson, in his weekly press briefing on Thursday, said that Pakistan has earlier rejected these so called 'surgical

ISLAMABAD: Senior leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Nadeem Afzal Chan is likely to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf on April 25.

 A close aide of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chan is the latest to jump ship after many other

Peshawar: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Thurday summoned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak.

The Supreme Court chief justice was hearing cases of public interest in the Peshawar Registry of the apex court.

He also sought

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has issued a show cause notice to an entertainment TV channel for airing content that is "highly offensive and against the commonly accepted standards of decency as

RAWALPINDI: An Uzbek government delegation headed by Lieutenant General Makhmudov Victor Vladimirovich, Secretary Security Council under the President, Uzbekistan called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday at General Headquarters (GHQ).

During the

LONDON: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif late on Wednesday arrived in London with his daughter Maryam Nawaz to visit his ailing wife Kulsoom.

Soon after their arrival at Heathrow Airport, they left for   hospital to inquire after Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, who has been under t

ISLAMABAD: The opening of new Islamabad International Airport has been delayed and it will be now functional from May 3 instead of April 20, a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) official said Wednesday.

Geo News quoted CAA director planning Nadir Shafi Dar as saying the

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed Works - Services Department to complete three under construction overhead bridges on railway crossings at Tando Adam, Kotri and Jacobabad by June 2018 because the incomplete work has

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesperson said on Wednesday, foreign ministers of the SCO meeting will be held in Beijing on April 24. Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj will attend the

LAHORE: An Indian Sikh pilgrim girl, Kiran Bala daughter of Manohar Lal, has accepted Islam and married to a Pakistani boy in Lahore.

According to Geo News, Kiran Bala accepted Islam at Jamia Naeemia Lahore. Her Islamic name is Amina Bibi.

Amina Bibi