Muslim legislator, Engineer Rashid, who was thrashed on Thursday by two BJP MLAs for hosting a beef party, staged a protest here on Friday and along with his supporters outside Jammu and Kashmir Legislature Assembly complex. Police detained many of Rashid's supporters. 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.
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 federal anti-corruption court on Monday issued non-bailable warrant for arrest of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim in multi-billion rupee scandal TDAP scandal, Samaa reported. According to Samaa correspondent, the court has directed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutors to produce the accused in the court in next hearing.
People of Islamabad expressed their immese love for Army Chief General Raheel Sharif by constructing a masjid in his name. Watch more in Fayyaz Mehmood's...;
TEHRAN: The first bodies of Iranians killed in a deadly stampede at the Hajj arrived home from Saudi Arabia on Saturday, after a controversial nine-day delay and questions over the final death toll. President Hassan Rouhani and other top officials laid white flowers on coffins at a sombre repatriation ceremony for the 104 pilgrims - among at least 464 Iranians who died in the September 24 crush.
LONDON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said both Pakistan and India will have to adopt a balanced approach to achieve the ultimate goal of establishing peace in the region. Speaking to media in London before his departure to Pakistan, the prime minister said New Delhi will have to stop mudslinging as it doesn't help bringing peace.
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.
BRATISLAVA: Thousands of people joined anti-migrant protests in three eastern European capitals on Saturday after leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia opposed an EU scheme to fix refugee quotas. In the Polish capital Warsaw, nearly 5,000 people, many chanting anti-Islamic slogans, marched through the city, an AFP correspondent said.
KABUL: An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible "collateral damage" in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents.
A tall target looked well beyond Pakistan when Zimbabwe's seamers reduced them to 56 for five, and after Graeme Cremer removed Mohammad Rizwan to make that 76 for six, the game appeared to be up. However Aamer Yamin along with Shoaib Malik counter-attacked in a brilliant 111-run stand for the seventh wicket, with the pair riding their luck as Zimbabwe dropped a series of catches.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid said Sunday that Imran Khan's politics had degenerated from 'Minar-e-Pakistan' to the Doongi Ground in Lahore within two years. "Popularity graph of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has declined sharply since 2013 when Imran Khan held a public meeting at the Minar-e-Pakistan," he said.
Mian Maqsood, Ameer of JI's Lahore chapter, said his party would also support PTI in PP-147 by-polls. "We will jointly contest elections with the PTI," Maqsood said. Yesterday, a PTI delegation led by Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar had met JI's Lahore ameer and sought his party's support in NA-122 against ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Asad Murtaza Gilani, a nephew of former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani who lost his life in Mina stampede during Hajj pilgrimage, will be laid to rest in Musa Pak Shaheed Darbar in Multan. Watch this report.
KARACHI: Two traffic constables were killed in what appears to be a targeted attack in Karachi on Tuesday, SAMAA reports. The firing incident took place in Hyderi area of the city. According to sources, unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on traffic police constables at Hyderi, leaving them critically wounded.
SHARJAH: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah, a key weapon in team's bowling attack, has suffered knee injury during a practice session that puts his availability for Tuesday's third one-day international against England in Sharjah doubtful. Head coach Waqar Younis warned his team needed to play out of their skins to take a lead over England.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan had a long day at work today. Khan led party's caravan to his hometown Mianwali and addressed thousands of supporters at more than a dozen places. Watch details in this report.