ISLAMABAD: After performing groundbreaking of T-Chowk Flyover on Friday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gave a go-ahead to interior and railway ministers to start rail car project to connect the twin cities. The prime minister said this rail car project would be highly beneficial for residents of both cities and other adjoining areas. “Today, Railway Minister Hanif Abbasi and Interior Minister …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday announced that Pakistan will host the next Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, stating that authorities need to start preparing. This development comes less than a fortnight after the SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, where Pakistan raised the issue of the Indus Waters Treaty and a joint declaration was issued condemning the attacks on …
BEIJING: President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Chengdu on Friday to kick off his 10-day official visit to China, where he will hold meetings with the Chinese leadership on different issues including regional peace and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A statement issued today from the President’s Secretariat said that he was received by Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong and Sichaun …
ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation from Iraq on Friday reaffirmed commitment to enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of border management, according to a press release by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The FIA is a border control agency which plays an important role in preventing illegal immigration and human trafficking . Its crackdown on human smugglers intensified following the capsizing …
ISLAMABAD: Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik on Wednesday announced that the federal cabinet has approved the resumption of new gas connections across the country, ending the ban imposed in 2021. Briefing the media on cabinet decisions along with Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, he said the government had responded to strong public demand by lifting the restriction …
LAHORE: At least 13 people, including five children, died as floods devastated Jalalpur Pirwala, where more than 50 villages have been badly affected by the Chenab and Sutlej rivers. Shops and houses collapsed, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed, and rescue teams struggled to reach stranded populations, authorities said. Relief Commissioner Punjab Nabeel Javed said that due to severe …
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday said that the talk of a “hybrid system ” prevalent in the country actually amounted to an admission to the presence of a dictatorship. What had previously only been a term coined by analysts to describe the unique system of governance currently in vogue, is now apparently being worn as a badge …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Thursday night said that tremors of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake were felt in the twin cities and areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A press release from the PMD said the quake originated at 9:56pm at a depth of 111 kilometres with its epicentre in the Hindu Kush region. It said tremors were felt in Peshawar, …
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Ayeen-i-Pakistan leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar on Thursday moved the Supreme Court (SC), seeking its intervention to pave the way for the fixation of pending petitions challenging the 26th Constitutional Amendment before the full court. The 26th Constitutional Amendment, also known as the Constitutional Package, is legislation that takes away the SC’s suo motu powers, sets the CJP’s term at …
ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-i-Tahaffuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) on Wednesday called the Punjab government’s flood relief efforts a failure, accusing officials of prioritising a media campaign for the chief minister over providing aid amid severe flooding . The remarks were made during a press conference, where leaders of the political alliance criticised the government’s response to a natural disaster affecting numerous districts. “Punjab …