DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) on Friday launched the Sautul Quran FM channel at Dera Ismail Khan Station as part of its countrywide network to widely spread Islam’s message of peace and brotherhood. The launching of the much-needed service coincided with 36th birth anniversary of the Dera Ismail Khan station, which was founded […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday rejected claims by his Indian counterpart General Bipin Rawat about ‘so called surgical strikes’ and their possible recurrence. According to ISPR, Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa made it clear that “Pakistan Armed Forces were fully geared to respond to any aggression by India.” It may […]
KARACHI: As a goodwill gesture, the government released on Sunday 220 Indian fishermen who were arrested more than a year ago for crossing over into Pakistani waters. Though each of the fishermen was glad to be able to go back home, for Bhaggu Sarman it meant extra joy as he was hardly expected […]
MEETING AT LARKANA: PPP Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Tuesday hinted at taking along other political parties to launch an effective protest against the PML-N government. However, it fell short of announcing any date for its anticipated protest movement. Briefing the media after the CEC meeting held in the Naudero House on Tuesday night, […]
Nicolae Goia, the newly appointed Romanian Ambassador to Pakistan, has said that he intends to give new dimensions to the relations between Romania and Pakistan, picking up threads from where his predecessor left. He added he started his diplomatic career from Yemen in 1979 and then served in Iran and Japan, while his previous assignment […]
KARACHI: There is virtually no hope of reviving bilateral cricketing ties between Pakistan and India because of the current border tensions between the two neighbours. But that hasn’t stopped Pakistan’s cricket chief Shaharyar Khan from raising the issue again. On Thursday, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman told reporters in Islamabad that the Board will […]
The government of Pakistan provided a readout of a phone call between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Donald Trump Wednesday claiming that the president-elect heaped praise on the Pakistani leader, describing the South Asian nation and its people as “fantastic.” According to the readout, Prime Minister Sharif called Trump and “felicitated him on his victory.” […]
`Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi, Abdul Basit has expressed Pakistan’s willingness to hold dialogue with India on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia conference scheduled to be held next week in Amritsar, India. According to High Commissioner Basit, the schedule of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, who […]
Shock, anger and outrage gripped the security and political establishment after the suspected Border Action Team (BAT) of Pakistan badly mutilated the body of an Indian Army soldier and killed two others when they ambushed counter-infiltration patrol on the Line of Control (LoC) at Machhal sector of Kupwara district on Tuesday. Army spokesman Colonel […]
London/Karachi: More than three quarters of $46 billion of planned Chinese-led investment in Pakistan will be implemented by next year as part of the world’s second-largest economy’s flagship Silk Road plan. “Out of this $46 billion, we have been so far able to energize about $35 billion,” Pakistan’s planning, development and reforms minister Ahsan Iqbal said […]
