The word 'GREAT' is best suited for Dera Ghazi Khan's Asma Bashir for her indomitable love for education and can-do nerve for the education pursuit. Be inspired by having a peep at her life in Akhtar Ali's report.
KARACHI: More than 6000 candidates have filed their nomination papers for 1520 municipal seats in Karachi as local bodies' elections draw nearer, Samaa reported. Hustle and bustle in electioneering is set to grip the metropolis and other cities of Sindh where the polls are going to be held in three phases.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan –  A militant commander and an intelligence formal say the Pakistani Taliban have selected the male who prepared the attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai as the group's new chief.
MILAN –  Police in Sicily suggests they have arrested a Somali gentleman who has allegedly organized a ship crossing of migrants from northern Africa to Europe that ended up in a shipwreck off a southern Italian island, killing extra than 365 men and women.
KARACHI: As many as five political workers have been arrested during a raid by the personnel of paramilitary force in Karachi area of Liaquatabad in Friday's wee hours. The rangers continued their targeted operation in different parts of the metropolis and arrested overnight five people hailing from a political party near Sindhi Hotel's Arshi Chowk area of Liaquatabad.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have allegedly blown apart the code of conduct by dumping millions of rupees above the prescribed limit in NA-122 by-election campaign...Watch this report.
ISLAMABAD: Accusing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of raking in donations from Persian Gulf States for elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) captain Imran Khan Saturday gave himself a 'clean chit' for the same, Samaa reported. "A foreign country offered me 'funds', but I refused. I have never received a single penny from illegitimate or controversial sources.
KARACHI: At least 15 Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers have been arrested during the last 24 hours, who haven't been presented before any court of law, said Coordination Committee of the party which on Friday decided to withdraw resignations of its lawmakers from the parliament and the Sindh Assembly.
LAHORE: Claiming to have upset the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) apple cart for good Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership Sunday night accepted the election results hinting at discrepancies in the voter lists. "Lahore is not a bastion of PMLN anymore.
KARACHI: A bunch of pro Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) hackers have broken into Pakistan Meteorological Department website here on Saturday evening, Samaa reported. The hacker(s) calling themselves/himself Hunter Gujjar posted 'Go Nawaz Go' slogan on the 'farmer's weather link' likely showing solidarity with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ahead of NA-122 by-election.
UNITED NATIONS: Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries have called for resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India. At their annual coordination meeting Friday, the foreign ministers of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted the reports of various OIC Contact Groups, including the one on Jammu & Kashmir, which reaffirmed the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions.
KABUL: An air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday left three Doctors Without Borders staff dead and dozens more unaccounted for, the medical charity said, with NATO conceding US forces may have been behind the attack.
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh said they have detained four people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week.
BISARA: The murder by a Hindu mob of a Muslim man rumoured to have slaughtered a cow has thrown a spotlight on the hardline, polarising agenda of some followers of Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi, undermining his promise of development for all.
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan army says that at least 123 people have died from a powerful earthquake which has rattled many parts of Pakistan today (Monday). In a press statement on social media, DG ISPR Let-Gen Asim Bajwa said that Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif flew to some affected areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to assess the rescue operation.
JACOBABAD: AT last eight people have been killed and several others injured when an explosion struck a Muharram procession here on Friday. Our correspondent said the blast took place on Quetta road. The dead and injured were being taken to a nearby hospital.