Pakistan has received its first supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Russia, according to the Russian embassy in Islamabad, marking the South Asian nation’s second significant purchase of Russian energy. The consignment follows Pakistan’s first-ever delivery of Russian crude under a pact the two countries established earlier this year, which the embassy claimed was […]
A collision occurred on Sunday between the Lahore-bound Mianwali Express and a goods train near Sheikhupura, resulting in nine people sustaining injuries. Official sources report that the passenger train was en route to Lahore when it collided with a stationary freight train positioned on a loop line at Qila Sattar Shah station, located approximately 20 […]
Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has received a summons from a district and sessions court in Islamabad. He is required to appear in court on September 25 in connection with a case concerning his third wife, Bushra Bibi, and what has been termed an “unIslamic nikah.” The civil judge, Qudratullah, has instructed […]
Maryam Nawaz, the Senior Vice President and Chief Organiser of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has asserted that those who conspired against Nawaz Sharif did not escape unscathed. Instead, they received their just consequences from nature. Maryam, without mentioning Imran Khan’s name, declared during a party event at a local hotel that the individual who plotted […]
Indian authorities have prevented an award-winning photographer from flying to the United States to collect her Pulitzer Prize, the latest of several Kashmiri journalists barred from leaving the country. Sanna Irshad Mattoo was one of four journalists working for Reuters news agency that took home the prestigious award for feature photography this year. The 28-year-old […]
At least five students were injured and a person was killed in two separate firing incidents in Lower Dir and Swat on Monday. A driver of a school van was killed and two students were injured when their vehicle came under attack by unidentified gunmen in the village of Guli Bagh within Swat district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa […]
COAS Bajwa stresses regional peace, warns ‘price of status quo will be devastating’ for all Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa stressed on Saturday the need for regional peace and developing a mechanism for resolving all bilateral issues peacefully, as he warned that the “price of status quo will be devastating for […]
Russia is ready to provide Pakistan with gasoline on a delayed payment basis, Daily Jang reported on Tuesday. This major development comes after last week’s meetings of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samarkand, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. Matters regarding oil, gas and wheat supplies […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is currently in New York to attend the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), starting today (Tuesday), the first in-person session since 2019 after which all meetings were made virtual due to the pandemic. Taking to Twitter, PM Shehbaz Sharif informed about his arrival in New York a […]
A terrorism case was registered against Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb and senior PML-N leader Javed Latif in Lahore on Monday for allegedly “using religion to instill and spread hatred” against PTI chief and former prime minister Imran Khan. The first information report (FIR) was filed by a citizen — an imam of a local mosque […]