Chief Minister Mahmood Khan announced that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would reconstruct the Hindu saint’s shrine set on fire; demolished by a mob in the Teri area of Karak district two days ago. An official handout said the chief minister had issued necessary instructions to the quarters; concerned in this regard. Meanwhile, the head of […]
The Punjab government has removed Umar Sheikh from the post of Lahore Capital City Police Officer; it emerged on Friday. Sheikh has replaced with Ghulam Mehmood Dogar; who has served as a police officer for 14 years. A notification issued by the Punjab Services and General Administration Department and signed by the chief secretary. He […]
Police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu shrine was set on fire and severely damaged by a mob led by supporters of a cleric in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, officials said on Thursday. The temple’s destruction on Wednesday drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. Local police said […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan recently expressed surprise at how difficult governing has been. He knows better than to pretend that he was surprised. The single most important characteristic he has sought in his political proxies and partners is the capacity to shout down, harass, abuse, and tar and feather those that dare warn Pakistanis about […]
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has said that there are no institutionalized forced conversions of minorities66 in Pakistan. He said that probes into the allegations of forced conversions revealed that most of them were “fictitious, politically motivated or based on the mala fide intention of our detractors to malign Pakistan in the international […]
Pakistan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed cases of a new coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom earlier this year. According to the Sindh health department, 12 samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the Covid virus in the first […]
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has imposed an extreme cold weather emergency due to the “extraordinary cold wave” that has gripped the province. “This extraordinary cold wave is taking the form of a disaster which is likely to threaten lives of needy people who are without shelter, food, and warm bedding”; said a notification issued by […]
Seven rare deer mysteriously died in the Bahawalpur zoo on Saturday. The zoo management said 12 other deer are in critical condition; 22 have “treated” after dozens of deer suddenly started getting sick. It suspected that the deer died after eating poisonous fodder; however, the management of the zoo is saying it cannot comment on […]
Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four members of a gang believed to involve in robbing houses in Karachi’s Clifton and Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighborhoods. The Karachi South police said that the gang involved in robbing houses in the city over the weekend. The suspects identified as Nasir Shah alias Haji, Asif Khan, […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the language being used by the opposition was similar to the propaganda being peddled by India to discredit Pakistan as a nation. Addressing an event in Chakwal, where the premier laid the foundation stone for several development projects earlier today, he said: “The way the political opposition of Pakistan […]
