Canadian rapper Drake has become the best-selling recording artist of 2016, beating the late rock icon David Bowie all the way up to the top spot, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Wednesday. The ranking by the global industry body showed Drake scored worldwide success with his fourth album Views, […]
Myanmar is engaged in advanced negotiations with Pakistan to licence-build the indigenously developed JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft for its air force, IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly has reported. The South East Asian country has already decided to purchase 16 JF-17s from Pakistan, the military news periodical said. Quoting sources in the Myanmar Air Force (MAF), the report said […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has indicated it may accept a toning down of the language of a report — subject to record — by a one-man judicial commission that severely castigated both the interior ministry and the country’s top security czar after its investigation into the August 2016 bomb blast in Quetta. “Perhaps […]
Qatar’s ambassador to Pakistan, Saqr bin Mubarak Al Mansouri, asserted that the Qatari government is not involved in the Panamagate controversy in Pakistan. According to the Dawn, in a short video released by the Aaj News for their show Rubaru, Mansouri said that the Panamagate is an internal matter for Pakistan. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) […]
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry on Friday formally raised objections on the report of an inquiry commission constituted for probing the Quetta incident that left 73 people dead, most of them lawyers, and 104 people injured. Advocate Makhdoom Ali Khan filed a 64-page document, including the objections and replies to the recommendations and findings, in the […]
Karachi: Pakistan stocks posted sharp gains on Wednesday amid delays in the Panama case hearing and institutional interest in scrips across the board in the earning season’s rally. The KSE 100 index gained 698 points or 1.41 percent to close at 49,455 level. “Oil stocks outperformed on FM decision to increase local POL prices. Record […]
MANSEHRA: A grand jirga of people of pales in Lower Kohistan have announced to move apex court for review of its verdict which upheld Chief Minster’s notification of bifurcation of Kohistan into two districts last week. “We would not only move supreme court seeking review of its verdict which upheld Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government notification of […]
PARACHINAR: A bomb tore through a crowded vegetable market in a tribal region on Saturday morning, killing and maiming dozens of people and breaking a relatively long lull in terrorist violence in the region. Two terrorist groups — the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami — claimed they had coordinated the attack in the vegetable market, […]
KARACHI: A rather unseemly verbal duel in the Sindh Assembly between a woman member belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, Nusrat Seher Abbasi, and a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minister, Imdad Pitafi, on Friday not only gripped the attention of thousands of people watching the proceedings live on television, but also served to highlight […]
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said he supports merger of Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) due to similar cultural norms and linguistic values. Talking to media persons in Peshawar, Imran Khan said reforms should be introduced in FATA from time to time and local body’s polls should be […]
