Category: International

New Delhi: The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is expected to shift Asia Cup from Pakistan and decide on an alternate venue in March as BCCI secretary Jay Shah and PCB chairman Najam Sethi discussed the issue during a formal meeting in Bahrain on Saturday. All heads of ACC member nations attended the emergent meeting which […]

The federal government has prepared a bill to amend the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) where up to five-year imprisonment will be awarded to whoever scandalises or ridicules the Pakistan Army and judiciary through any medium. The draft bill was vetted by the Ministry of Law and Justice and […]

KABUL: The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the capital Kabul. Local media reported Ismael Mashal had been distributing academic and other books on Kabul’s streets after tearing up his own diploma on live […]

The international community may hopefully be instrumental in resolving the Kashmir issue in near future, the Pakistani nation has been steadfastly supporting the Kashmiris for decades particularly after the illegal and unilateral revocation of the special status of Indian Illegal Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIoJK) in August 2019 by New Delhi. The unequivocal support for […]

LAHORE: Irked by detentions and recent cases filed against the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party’s chairman Imran Khan Saturday asked his workers and supporters to prepare for “Jail Bharo” movement across the country. Khan’s comments come in the wake of sedition cases filed against his party’s Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry and former member […]

Tehran, Iran – Iran and the Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal have once more clashed over the country’s nuclear programme, this time after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment site. The global nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on Wednesday leaked by Western […]

Citizens in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa took to the streets on Friday against the recent wave of terrorism in the province. The rallies come as Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, mostly in KP, but also in Balochistan and the Punjab town of Mianwali, which borders KP. A terror attack also reached as far […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to China after a Chinese spy balloon flew across the US. A senior State Department official said conditions were not right at this time for what would have been the first high level US-China meeting there in years. A Chinese apology was noted, the official […]

PESHAWAR: In a shocking development, a memo circulated by the so-called special branch of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police has revealed that over 100,000 junior ranks are considering resigning en masse if the recent attack on the mosque wasn’t not properly investigated. The memo, which has been widely shared on social media, is based on WhatsApp […]

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: In a dramatic turn of events, the government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) arrested a senior journalist and a leader of an opposition party before dawn on Thursday on charges involving criticism of the military’s political influence. While anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, a fierce critic of the military and the central government, was arrested […]