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UAE to operate Karachi port for 50 years
Karachi: UAE-based AD Ports Group has signed a 50-year concession agreement with Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to operate Karachi Gateway Terminal Limited (KGTL) and invest $220 million (Rs 63.129 billion) for infrastructure…
- World
In address to US Congress, Modi makes references to Pakistan, China
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said there can be “no ifs or buts” in dealing with terrorism and sought action against state sponsors of terrorism, in a veiled attack on…
- India
Iranian, B’deshi nationals held in Tripura for suspected links with Pak militants
Agartala: A local court in Tripura on Thursday remanded an Iranian and a Bangladeshi national to five-day police custody after the police arrested them for their suspected links with Pakistani militants. A…
- Pakistan
Pak education dept faces outrage after objecting to Holi celebrations in university
New Delhi: Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) has taken an exception to the Hindu festival of Holi being celebrated at a university, claiming that it had “caused concern and disadvantageously affected the…
- Pakistan
Pak President Alvi appoints Justice Qazi Faez Isa as next chief justice
Islamabad: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, considered an independent-minded judge, was appointed as the next chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court by President Arif Alvi. He will assume office on September 17 after…
- Pakistan
Pak Army chief included in body formed for economic revival
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has constituted a Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) to provide an impetus to its efforts for economic revival — to be chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and…
- Pakistan
Pakistan imposes ban on Holi celebrations in varsities
Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission on Tuesday imposed a ban on celebrations of the Holi festival on the university campuses in the country. In a notice issued for banning the Holi celebration, the…
- India
UN: China blocks India’s proposal to blacklist 26/11 accused Sajid Mir
United Nations: China on Tuesday blocked a proposal by India and the US at the United Nations to designate Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Sajid Mir, wanted for his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror…
- India
Shehbaz Sharif praises China for ‘rescuing’ Pakistan
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday glorified China for “stepping up” to support Pakistan when the cash-strapped nation was left in the lurch by the lender of the last…
- Middle East
Pakistan to hand over Karachi port terminals to UAE
Karachi: Pakistan has constituted a negotiation committee to finalise a deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for handing over the Karachi port terminals. This move may mark the first intergovernmental transaction…
- World
Taliban pushes for resumption of Pakistan-TTP talks
Kabul: There is a renewed push by the Afghan Taliban to restart talks between Pakistani officials and the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as a delegation of tribal elders reportedly met the TTP…
- Pakistan
Pak to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges too
Lahore: Succumbing to the demands of a radical Islamist party, the Pakistan government has agreed to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges in addition to the other sections of the country’s penal…
- Pakistan
Pakistan: Imran Khan, sister summoned in land corruption scandal
Lahore: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) of Pakistan’s Punjab has summoned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, his sister Uzma Khan and her husband Ahad Majeed in the Layyah land corruption case,…
- Pakistan
Imran Khan would never be a key player in national politics again: Pak Minister
Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan would never be a key player in national politics again, hinting at his disqualification. Embattled Khan faces…
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Pakistan’s ruling PML-N chooses Shehbaz Sharif as party president
Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has picked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as the party’s president while Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of the party supremo, Nawaz Sharif, was chosen as the…
