ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is expected to attract direct investment of at least $150 million after the Nov 23 bidding for three direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast licences. A top official of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) told journalists that 12 companies, including three foreign operators as part of local consortiums, had been shortlisted to bid […]
President Erdogan addressing the Parliament: I am addressing the Pakistani Parliament for the 3rd time, which is a great honour for me. Pakistan and Turkey have brotherly relations for decades. Pakistan has always helped us when needed. Our citizens respect Pakistanis a lot and welcome them with open arms. The Turkish President thanked Pakistan’s support in the […]
BHITSHAH: Inclusion of sufis’ teaching in the syllabi right from the primary to university level was among several demands made through the resolutions adopted at the first ‘Shah Latif Aalmi Tasawwuf Conference’ organised under the aegis of the Pakistan Mashaikh Ittehad Council (PMIC) within the courtyard of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s shrine on the eve […]
ISLAMABAD: It is indeed proving to be a very shameful situation for Islamabad Shahzad Town Police Station, that it has been supporting sex-centres, openly running in its jurisdictions and using sex-workers for blacking-mailing and looting innocent and helpless citizens. According to reliable sources, there were dozens of sex-centres, which were openly operating in Alipur area […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that the world acknowledged Pakistan’s army for uniquely competing the entire cycle of fighting terrorism from operations to reconstruction and resettling displaced people in their areas. During his visit of Mangora, Kanju and Khwazakhela in Swat on Friday, the COAS, along with the CM and […]
KARACHI: Former Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has left Pakistan and flew to Dubai, a day after he was removed from the top constitutional position of the province. Sources said the former Sindh Governor travelled to Dubai via flight of a private airline from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport in the wee hours of […]
After years of flat direct foreign investment, it has taken China’s pledges of billions to get overseas companies to start looking beyond Pakistan’s negative headlines on security challenges and power outages. While investment into Pakistan has been little changed in the three years since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was elected, companies including Turkey home appliances maker […]
NEW DELHI: Bhutto family scion Bilawal Bhutto said yesterday that he’s “received many marriage proposals but I have rejected all of them,” because he will only marry someone his sisters choose for him, The Express Tribune reported. “And the girl who my sisters choose will be lucky,” added the modest 28-year-old head of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), […]
LAHORE, 26 October 2016 — Following the completion of the conservation and rehabilitation of the 75x8m Northern Façade of the Wazir Khan Mosque by the Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan (AKCSP), with the generous financial support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and facilitated by the Walled City of Lahore […]
SIALKOT/MUZAFFARABAD An old woman was martyred and two others sustained critical wounds as there was no letup in unprovoked mortar shelling by Indian forces on Sialkot villages in Charwah, Harpal, Sucheetgarh, Chaprar and Merajkey sectors along the Working Boundary on Tuesday. The Indian BSF fired long-range mortar and artillery shells to target far-off Sialkot border […]
