Pakistan

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided in principle to bifurcate the health and agriculture departments into two separate administrative departments each in order to further strengthen them. Chief Minister Mahmood Khan while agreeing in principle to the proposed plan for the bifurcation of these two departments has directed the quarters concerned to submit final

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday ruled that a re-election be held in the entire NA-75 Daska constituency after suspicions that the results may have been falsified, dawn.com reported. The ECP, while hearing an application by PML-N candidate Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar, declared the by-poll held in the constituency on February 19 as null and

UK-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC has paid 20,000 pounds in legal costs to the family of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif after withdrawing its claim over the Sharif family\’s Avenfield property in London, it emerged on Tuesday. Broadsheet LLC was engaged by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in 2000 to trace offshore assets of Pakistani

ISLAMABAD (PR): Speaking at the annual Asma Jahangir Memorial Lecture instituted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Senator Raza Rabbani observed that though the Constitution protected the right to freedom of association, Pakistan has witnessed a systematic and premeditated plan on the part of the state to ‘manipulate’ and ‘deny’ this and other