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Pakistan reports highest COVID-19 deaths in 4 months
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): Pakistan on Sunday recorded 59 deaths, the highest daily coronavirus deaths in four months.
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Opposition PPP slams Pak govt's plan to sack employees of PIA, Steel Mills
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): The Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) on Saturday criticised Imran Khan's government over its plan to sack thousands of employees of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Steel Mills and Railways and termed the decision illegal and unconstitutional.
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Pak's 'University of Jihad', other institutions fuelling terrorism in thei
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): Several educational institutions in Pakistan are known to propagate extremism and radicalism, which lead to terrorism and one such institution is Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Akora Khattak, about 60 kilometres east of Peshawar, known as the "Unive
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Rattled Imran Khan govt forces opposition to drop Peshawar rally plan citi
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): A war of words has erupted between the Imran Khan government and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an 11-party alliance, as the latter has resolved to hold a rally in Peshawar on Sunday, defying a ban imposed by authorities.
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Google, Facebook, Twitter threaten to leave Pakistan over new social media
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): With Pakistan government announcing new "draconian" rules for social media, which aims at giving blanket power to authorities to censor digital content, Information and Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter have threatened to leave the c
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Pakistan's FATF future seems grim with its continuous involvement in Afgh
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 21 (ANI): While Pakistan retained its position on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list and was given another opportunity to avoid being dragged down to the blacklist, its continuous involvement along the border with Afghanistan may not bode well f
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Pakistan registers highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, deaths
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 21 (ANI): The COVID-19 situation in Pakistan does not seem to abate just yet, as it recorded its highest single-day spike of 2,843 people in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 371,508.
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Tech companies express concern over Pak's new social media regulations, sa
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 20 (ANI): A day after the Pakistan government notified rules defining how social media would be governed in the country, technology companies announced that the newly-imposed regulations would make it difficult for them to continue their operations here.
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Pakistan treats Hafiz Seed as VIP, seen roaming in SUV: Sources
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 19 (ANI): Pakistan is still providing preferential treatment to Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed despite his sentencing in two terror-financing cases.
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UAE suspends visit visas for Pakistan, 11 other countries
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 19 (ANI): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has temporarily suspended the issuance of new visas to visitors for Pakistan and 11 other countries until further notice.
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Maryam Nawaz terms PoK's Gilgit Baltistan elections 'rigged', says no one
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 19 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday tore into the Pakistan ruling party for "rigging" Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan elections and said that "no one in Pakistan was ready to accept the fake result" of the
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Thousands of Pakistani labourers protest in Karachi against China's unequa
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 18 (ANI): Thousands of labourers on Wednesday staged a protest against China in Sindh's Karachi complaining about unequal wages received by them as compared to their Chinese compatriots.
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