ISLAMABAD: A major fraud has been detected in the National Savings — a public sector organisation of Rs3.6 trillion — in which insiders have reportedly siphoned off around Rs200 million, breaching trust of more than seven million small-to-medium individual savers. The fraud came to light on maturity of 10-year saving certificates of individuals at a […]
RAWALPINDI: Former senator and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Samiul Haq was assassinated at his house in the strictly guarded Bahria Town’s Safari Villas II on Friday evening, his son and police confirmed. His son, Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq, said that Maulana Sami was in his bedroom when unidentified persons entered the […]
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: Even as they made it plain that they would take strict action if the situation grew worse, both the federal and Punjab governments on Thursday said they were not eager to launch any police operation against the rightwing groups protesting over acquittal of Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case. Information ministers in […]
Mr Sharif, who is also president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), further asked Mr Khan to disclose the name of the person who had sought an NRO (a reference to ending politically motivated cases under the National Reconciliation Ordinance that was promulgated by military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2008) and challenged the PM […]
“Do not take us [to a situation] where we are compelled to take [strict] action,” the prime minister said in a televised speech in which he criticised the sharp reaction from Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) over the Supreme Court’s decision to acquit Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case. He urged protesters not to harm the country’s […]
ISLAMABAD: In a landmark judgement, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, convicted on a blasphemy charge and ordered her immediate release from jail after around eight years. “This appeal is allowed, the judgements of the [Lahore] high court as well as the […]
ISLAMABAD: The operation “Raddul Fasaad” has quickly earned universal approval from all stakeholders because of the goals it wants to achieve and in view of the enormous threat posed by terrorists afresh. It is a positive development as such a direly needed initiative deserved such a remarkable consensus without which the gigantic targets […]
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) […]
