By Our Correspondent WANA: A 5-day anti-polio campaign was inaugurated in Wana, the headquarter of South Waziristan Lower Tribal District, According to the details, Additional Deputy Commissioner South Waziristan Lower Kashmir Khan (Finance and Planning) and Assistant Commissioner Wana Yasir Salman Kundi formally inaugurated the polio campaign along with tribal […]
PAKISTAN
A returning officer on Saturday accepted the nomination papers filed by Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid for by-election in NA-62 – a Rawalpindi constituency. RO Nousheen Israr accepted the papers in the presence of Sheikh Rashid’s representative as he was not allowed by the Adiala Jail authorities to […]
Sovereign bonds slumped on Friday after Pakistan’s bailout talks with the IMF ended without an agreement.The country’s bond due for repayment the soonest, in April 2024, tumbled 4.6 cents on the dollar or roughly nine per cent. Other bonds with longer repayment dates fell between two and three cents to […]
LAHORE -UNS: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold elections in the province in 90 days. The LHC Justice Jawad Hassan pronounced the reserved verdict on plea filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking orders for the Punjab governor to immediately announce […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Senators belonging to various political parties voiced their objection on Friday to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial’s remarks made a day ago highlighting that Parliament was being kept “systematically incomplete”. The CJP had said on Thursday that the “solution of all issues of the country […]
SWAT -UNS: Member Senior Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Pukhtoon nationalist leader Sardar Khan Yousafzai Advocate has said that the country facing economic and political crises due to unrealistic policies of political elites and establishment. Addressing a seminar on ‘Recognition of Israel by Pakistan’ i Swat he said that, […]
ARBELA GHAZI:(DR. PERVAIZ AWAN): Assistant Professors of the University of Swabi protested against the university’s administration for not restoring their services despite Peshawar High Court’s order, they marched through various departments and administration blocks, holding play cards describing slogans for their restoration. According to the source, some three months back, […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: The funeral prayers in absentia for the people of Turkiye and Syria who lost their lives in the recent huge earthquake were offered in Faisal Masjid on Friday. Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Pacaci, Diplomats of Islamic countries, Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Irfan Nawaz Memon, President of International Islamic University (IIU) […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: The Government of Japan has agreed to provide new grant assistance worth 1,686 million Japanese Yen (equivalent to around 12.7 million USD/ around 3,510 million PKR) for upgrading primary girls schools into elementary schools in rural Sindh. On February 10, 2023, a signing ceremony for the assistance was […]
KOHLU-UNS: Two more Jawans of Pak Army were martyred after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near them during a “sanitisation operation” in Balochistan’s Kohlu area, the military’s media wing confirmed on Friday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), based on credible intelligence, a sanitisation operation was initiated on […]
