By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into a major breakdown in the national grid caused a massive power outage nationwide as electricity is being restored in the country after a blackout of almost 16 hours.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday appointed Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab province after a bi-partisan parliamentary committee failed to reach a consensus on the candidate within the stipulated time.
Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the opposition have agreed to appoint former bureaucrat Mohammad Azam Khan as KP’s caretaker chief minister.
By Naveed Naqvi
Islamabad: Another 35 lawmakers of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party lost their membership in Parliament on Friday after their resignations were accepted by the speaker of the National Assembly.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has now become the second provincial legislature to be dissolved in Khan’s bid to force snap polls. By Naveed Naqvi.
Terrorists used Iranian soil to ambush a Pakistani border patrol in the Panjgur district of the southern Balochistan province which shares a long border with the western neighbour. By Naveed Naqvi.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday de-notified 35 lawmakers belonging to former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party after National Assembly’s speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf accepted their long-pending resignations.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The chief minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday sent a summary for the dissolution of the assembly to the provincial governor in a latest push to force the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to hold early general elections.
Khan’s top aide and cabinet minister Shehryar Afridi had claimed the ANF had a watertight case against Rana, but Force officers later said he was blameless, leading to his acquittal. By Staff Reporter.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a conditional offer to India to open ‘serious and sincere talks’ on all outstanding issues between the two countries, including Kashmir.
