News Pakistan

June 28, 2018

London properties: Counsel makes pitch for Sharif’s acquittal

ISLAMABAD: After a marathon hearing on Wednesday, the counsel for deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif concluded his arguments in the Avenfield Apartments reference, saying the prosecution […]
June 28, 2018

Lahore High Court reserves decision on two appeals

LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court Wednesday reserved a decision on two appeals filed against the Model Town massacre which occurred on June […]
June 28, 2018

PML-N seeks ECP’s intervention against NAB

ISLAMABAD: Faced with serious challenges stemming from infighting, defections and tug of war between internal powerful lobbies, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has now sought the intervention […]
June 28, 2018

PIA not to recruit pilots until SC verdict

The Pakistan International Airlines on Thursday banned recruitment of new pilots until the case of the national carrier’s use of a Markhor instead of the Pakistani […]
June 28, 2018

Judicial commission comes down hard on Chinese companies

KARACHI: The Judicial Commission on Water and Sanitation expressed its dissatisfaction on Wednesday over the performance of the Chinese companies responsible for collecting waste from the […]
June 28, 2018

SC temporarily allows private tankers back into capital

ISLAMABAD: With the capital’s civic authorities blaming the shortage of water in the city on the miserliness of Rawalpindi’s administration in paying their dues to the […]
June 28, 2018

‘Green gold’: Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees

The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds […]
June 27, 2018

Yousuf Saleem sworn in as Pakistan’s first visually impaired judge

LAHORE: The visually impaired lawyer Yousaf Saleem on Tuesday became Punjab’s first blind judge as he took oath as a civil judge along with 20 others. […]