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RAWALPINDI: Anyone found involved in the case of former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence Gen Faiz Hameed will face action irrespective of their rank and office, said military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. Speaking at a press…

ISLAMABAD: An unprecedented increase has been recorded in the number of applications filed for the acquisition of Pakistani passports in the recent years. This increase has been described by many people as a sign of rapid brain drain from…

KARACHI/NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters): Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades building demand for their soft drinks in Muslim-majority countries including Egypt to Pakistan. Now, both face a challenge…

LAHORE: In order to discourage child labour in the province, the Punjab government has decided to fix the minimum employment age at  minimum of 16 years. At a meeting chaired by Punjab minister for labour Faisal Ayub Khokhar it was also…

CAIRO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sabotaged a possible agreement that was reached between negotiators on release of six hostages from the captivity of Hamas. According to a report published in an Israeli newspaper, an…

ISLAMABAD: A court in Islamabad ordered the police to arrest Khyber Pakthunkhwa chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur and produce him in the court on Thursday in an eight-year-old case. In October 216 Islamabad registered against Gandapur who…

ISLAMABAD: The local government elections scheduled to be held on October 9 in Islamabad capital territory have further been postponed. The Election Commission of Pakistan today said that due to the recent amendments to Islamabad Local…

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazal Rahman on Wednesday said that the country was becoming a battlefield for proxy wars. Speaking at the National Assembly, he said that writ of the state was losing in Khyber Pakthunkhwa and…

JAKARTA (Reuters): Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted people’s religious beliefs through…

ISLAMABAD: The Senate standing committee on interior has passed a bill that is aimed at restricting holding of public gatherings in Islamabad capital territory. According to the draft bill, any political leader holding a public gathering…