Former AJK president Masood Khan to be appointed ambassador to US
ISLAMABAD: Former Azad Jammu Kashmir president Masood Khan will be appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, a formal summary for which has been moved,...
Utility Stores Corporation rolls back notification of hiking ghee, cooking oil prices
ISLAMABAD: Shortly after increasing the prices of essential commodities like ghee and cooking oil, the Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USCP) rolled back the...
NEPRA announces winter package for electricity consumers
ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) announced a winter package for electricity consumers in what appears to be an attempt to encourage electricity...
Opposition lambastes govt’s relief package, calls it ‘a joke, acceptance of failure’
ISLAMABAD: Shortly after Prime Minister announced a Rs120-billion subsidy package for 20 million most-vulnerable families of the country, Opposition leaders criticized the move and...
PM announces Rs120bn Ehsaas Rashan, subsidy package for 20m families
ISLAMABAD: In view of the recent price hike, Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced the Ehsaas Rashan Program of Rs 120 billion, "historic" subsidy...
Samina Alvi welcomes SCP notice on provision of mammography facilities at public hospitals
RAWALPINDI: Begum Samina Alvi, wife of President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday welcomed the notice taken by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on...
Imran Khan to announce package for ‘ATMs’, not masses: Marriyum Aurangzeb
ISLAMABAD: PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, slamming the government, said Prime Minister Imran Khan would announce a "package for his ATMs", not the masses.
Her statement...
Explosion leaves 13 injured in Balochistan’s Kharan
QUETTA: At least 13 people suffered injuries in a motorcycle bomb blast in the Kharan district of Balochistan, said police.
The explosion occurred near Chief...
Not my groom: Bride calls off wedding in Sargodha
SARGODHA: A bride in Sargodha cancelled her own wedding ceremony, alleging that the groom was not the same man who was shown to her...
UK’s first-ever Pakistani Muslim QC Sibghat Kadri passes away
LONDON: Britain’s first-ever Pakistani-origin and Muslim Queen’s Counsel (QC) Barrister Sibghat Kadri passed away after battling cancer for more than two years.
Barrister Rashid Ahmed,...
