Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said it was an \”absolutely ridiculous idea\” to criminalise criticism, a day after a National Assembly panel approved a bill that proposes a two-year prison sentence and a hefty fine for those who intentionally ridicule the armed forces. Though Chaudhry did not directly reference the bill

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

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday said efforts were afoot to mainstream Gilgit-Baltistan in diverse areas particularly education, health and information technology so as to ensure its economic prosperity. In a meeting with newly-elected members of Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the president said effective and sustainable steps would be taken to bring Gilgit-Baltistan (GB)

Pakistan Army helicopters embarked on a \”search flight\” on Saturday but returned to Skardu after they were unable to locate three climbers, including Pakistan\’s Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who went missing while attempting to summit the world\’s second-highest mountain, K2. Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and MP Mohr from Chile have not been contacted since the