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Pakistan van inferno kills several passengers Officials say 15 people were killed and several others injured after a passenger van overturned and caught fire on a highway in southern Sindh province. At least 15 people have been killed after a passenger van travelling in southern Pakistan...

Pakistan all set to roll out locally produced medical equipment: Fawad Medical products worth $1.4 billion will be replaced by domestic manufacturing, says sci-tech minister ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Sunday that Pakistan is all set to...

KARACHI: As the crew members clambered aboard the fishing boat, Raheem Jutt, 53, untied the rope mooring the vessel to the jetty and announced they would stop at Bhandar Island for a while to repair their fishing nets. Another fisherman laughed, "Jitna rukna hai ruk jao. Baad mein ameer log...

ISLAMABAD: The existing fisheries legislation in Pakistan needs to conform to the international standards for sustainable management and utilisation of fisheries resources as there is a need to establish an enabling environment and right policy and legal framework for investors, United Nation’s...

How A Poor Child With A Dead Rooster Exposes The Centers Of Power A video went viral on social media a few days ago in which a young boy of Sindhi origin can be seen raging at the creators of ‘new Pakistan’. He is standing in a pool of dirty water with a dead rooster in his hands and speaking...

Supreme Court admits plea against 25th Amendment: ‘Merger of Fata with KP illegal’ ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday admitted for regular hearing a constitutional petition challenging the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and issued notices to the Attorney General for Pakistan, KP...

AJK govt spends billions on uplift projects: PM MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan has said that present government has taken public interest supreme while formulating developmental strategy for the socio economic uplift of the people of...

Pakistan to hold assembly elections in Gilgit Baltistan on November 15 More than 700,000 people are expected to cast votes Islamabad: The residents of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are excited about the upcoming polls to be held on November 15 after the approval by President Dr. Arif Alvi. Over a...

South Punjab Secretariat, ray of hope for neglected region MULTAN, Sep 20 (APP):Culturally rich region, south Punjab always remained ignored in the past regarding provision of civic facilities and necessary infrastructure especially quality education, better healthcare, agriculture, sewerage...

LAHORE - Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said that all options as per the constitution of Pakistan will be used for repatriation of Nawaz Sharif. We are not afraid of the opposition’s protests. We have already faced Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s protest March. Through Punjab...

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Sunday, while addressing the much-hyped PPP-hosted multiparty conference in Islamabad, said that the opposition's struggle was not against Prime Minister Imran Khan but those who brought him into power through the 2018 elections. He was addressing the conference...

'G-B to be made province soon' Minister says PM Imran to make formal announcement soon ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to elevate Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) to the status of a full-fledged province with all constitutional rights, including its representation in the Senate and the National...

Ok... Below is an Excerpt from a book i am writing titled The Codification of Laws The Azad government knew that they needed to implement a system not just to bring order to the territory but also to strengthen their hold on the territory they now governed. To do this the Azad Kashmir...

Afghan peace talks couldn’t have happened without Pakistan’s ‘unconditional’ support — Zalmay Khalilzad US special envoy arrived in Pakistan on Monday and met Pakistani army chief General Bajwa US embassy in Islamabad says Khalilzad thanked Pakistan for ‘important’ role in advancing peace...

The police reforms Pakistan desperately needs This tragic, terrible, horrific case has opened up a very narrow window in which something can change On September 10th, outrage erupted on social media across Pakistan in response to the tragic atrocity which took place a day earlier: the...

Islamabad, Pakistan - Ten women, dressed in colourful burqas and armed with hockey sticks, cricket bats and their wits, step out of a shop to confront an angry mob. Over two minutes, they deliver a sound beating to a mainly male group that had gathered at the door, having shown up thinking they...

Indian objection to display of Pakistan’s new political map rejected by SCO New Delhi claims new political map shows ‘sovereign Indian territories’ as part of Pakistan The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday rejected India's objection to the display of Pakistan's new political...

FO rejects 'unwarranted' references to Pakistan in US-India joint statement on counter terrorism he Foreign Office on Tuesday rejected the "unwarranted references" to Pakistan in the statement issued by the US-India Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group and Designations Dialogue, which...

Proper Amendment to Rape Law is the Need of the Hour By Saiyan0321 The horrific motorway rape case has jolted the nation to its very core with many protesting and asking questions of government policy on citizen security and on the competence of the police in protecting the citizens of this...