Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Zulfi Bukhari and Fayyaz Ul Hassan Chohan “voluntarily” surrendered themselves to police on the third day of the “Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement)” from Committee Chowk, Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed and PTI leader Aamir Kayani, along with more than a few other leaders, reached the […]
Is president empowered to proclaim election date ‘unilaterally’?
President Arif Alvi proclaimed Monday that elections would take place in April, announcing that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab governors — Haji Ghulam Ali and Baligh Ur Rehman — and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) were not fulfilling their constitutional duties to declare the date for polls in both provinces. The president asserts that he […]
Ministers decide to give up salaries amid economic crisis
total of 12 federal ministers and three state ministers have decided to give up their salaries and work on voluntary basis due to the deteriorating economic crisis in the country. The ministers themselves proposed to Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif that they will work without pay. The Premier has approved the request and respected their […]
It’s our foreign policy to support the world: FM
Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Monday that it is foreign policy of Pakistan to support the world in difficult times. He was addressing the 42nd Diplomatic Course event in Islamabad when said that Pakistan is willing strong ties with the international community and underscored that the world helped Pakistan in its hour of […]
Sindh schools to promote students without exams
New academic session in Sindh will start from August 1 In light with the verdicts made by the sub-committee of the steering committee, the Sindh School Education and Literacy Department has proclaimed that the students of grades I to III will be promoted to the next classes without taking their examinations. The sub-committee of the […]
Peshawar attack: COAS vows to root out the menace of radicalism
After the deadly Peshawar blast that slayed at least 100 people, of which 97 were police officers, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir Friday vowed that the nation would work together for rooting out the menace of terrorism. In the deadliest attack Pakistan has witnessed in several years, a suicide bomber in a police uniform infiltrated the […]