Trump travel ban 2.0 faces new court challenges
AGENCIES President Donald Trump s revised travel ban faced mounting new legal challenges on Thursday as the state of Washington, along with several other states, vowed to block the executive…
Finance Minister launches first ever registered Premium Prize Bond
AGENCIES Federal Finance Minsiter Ishaq Dar inaugurated the first ever registered Premium Prize Bond at a ceremony held in Islamabad on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said Pakistan…
Axe attacker injures five at German train station
AGENCIES An axe-wielding attacker injured five people at the main train station in the German city of Duesseldorf late Thursday, local police told AFP, without giving a possible motive. Previously…
Pakistan demands access to 15 Indian citizens in Kulbhushan’s case
NEWS DESK Pakistan demanded access to 15 Indian citizens linked with Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav’s network in conducting terror activities in Pakistan through its neighbours. According to sources, a list…
Nisar warns blocking social media over ‘blasphemous’ content
NEWS DESK Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar on Friday intimidated social media networks of banning their services in Pakistan if they do not censor and remove reported blasphemous content from…
LUMS among world’s top 300 business Schools
MONITORING DESK The Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has been ranked by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British ranking agency, among the world’s…
Karachi’s cleanliness campaign ends in vain
NEWS DESK The 100-day cleanliness campaign launched by Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar in December 2016 ended on Friday without any positive outcome. The mayor claims to have removed 0.25 million…
NA approves landmark Hindu marriage bill
AGENCIES It also provides the concept of judicial separation where marriage remains intact, however, parties are no longer under obligation to cohabit each other. Moreover, the legitimacy of children born…
Mangla, Tarbela dams few feet away from hitting dead level
NEWS DESK Level of stored water in Mangla and Tarbela dams will hit dead level in next 36 hours as Pakistan did not receive substantial precipitation in winter season. Mangla…
Khan bars PTI workers from sharing public forums with PML-N’s Javed Latif
NEWS DESK Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday instructed all party workers to not share public forums and news platforms with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) leader Jawed Latif…