LAHORE - The president of Peoples Unity of PIA Employees (CBA) Lahore, Sajid Gujjar, and Secretary General Hussain Abbas have alleged PML-N-backed association employees, Air League, is involved in torturing the Unity office-bearers. They were addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club on ...

NEW DELHI: A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said Wednesday, weeks after the main accused died in the same jail. Vinay Sharma was rushed to the state-runLokNayakHospitalinNew Delhion Tuesday with chest ...

islamabad - Interior Ministry has recently placed the names of nine accused in RPPs scam on the exit control list (ECL) and at last, incumbent secretary interior Javed Iqbal, an upright officer, has taken a bold step to include the name of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the list, ...

BEIJING : The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country’s richest citizens prompted online accusations of hypocrisy Thursday.Kong Dongmei, now in her early 40s, and husband Chen Dongsheng ranked 242th with personal wealth ...

A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday granted bail to nine accused involved in Joseph Colony incident wherein at least 160 houses, 18 shops and two small churches were burnt by protesters following an alleged blasphemy event.The bails have been granted to Imanul Allah Khan, Farhah ...

RAWALPINDI - Overcharging of water connection fee has sparked resentment among the residents of Dhok Gujran and allied areas.The committee set up by Cantonment Board Rawalpindi to collect fee from the applicants in the areas of Dhok Gujran and new localities charged water connection fee ranging ...

PESHAWAR - Expressing concerns over alleged pre-polls rigging in NA-47 Frontier Region, Kohat, Abidur Rahman, an independent candidate, has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of the issue and ensure free, fair and transparent elections.Speaking at 'Meet the Press' programme ...

BAJAJUR AGENCY - Leaders of various political parties and several candidates in Bajaur agency on Sunday accused Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Engineer Shaukatullah Khan of misusing his official position in favour of his father and brother in the upcoming election in agency.They demanded the Election ...

RAWALPINDI - A 35-year-old man, who was accused of kidnapping her young female student, tried to burn himself to avoid arrest by police during a raid on late Sunday night at his house located at Nambal Plaza, Haji Chowk, Sadiqabad.Police and Rescue 1122 saved the life of accused namely Saeed ...

RAWALPINDI - In what appeared a big blow for PPP bigwigs, another accused Tauqeer Ali Khan, who is known to be the front man of PPP MNA Syed Ali Musa Gilani, agreed to become approver against Syed Ali Musa Gilani son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani in ephedrine smuggling ...

KARACHI  - The Karachi police in their drive against the criminals arrested 49 accused from different parts of the city during the past 24 hours. A police statement on Friday said that those arrested included 19 absconders and one proclaimed offender. It said that 22 weapons were also ...

RAWALPINDI - In what appeared a big blow for PPP bigwigs, another accused Tauqeer Ali Khan, who is known to be the front man of PPP MNA Syed Ali Musa Gilani, agreed to become approver against Syed Ali Musa Gilani son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani in ephedrine smuggling ...

ISLAMABAD – Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf on Thursday accused bureaucracy of creating hurdles in the way empowering the overseas Pakistanis with power of vote that too at the moment when Pakistan is to hold elections next month. “Unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles were being made as ...

ISLAMABAD - The Rawalpindi police on Thursday admitted before the Supreme Court that they had been unable to arrest the murder accused Imtiaz alias Taji Khokhar, the younger brother of former speaker National Assembly Nawaz Khokhar, as the accused were financially influential figures of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan No 1 tennis player Aqeel Khan rubbished the claims of Australian-based Sri Lankan origin referee Ashita Ajigala who awarded the tie to New Zealand sighting poor condition of playing field. In an exclusive interview with The Nation on Thursday, Aqeel, who provided the country ...

DUBAI -Bahrain has been rounding up pro-democracy activists ahead of its controversial staging of the April 21 Formula One Grand Prix two years after a bloody crackdown, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Plainclothes police officers have arrested 20 people so far in raids in towns around ...

LAHORE –Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday claimed to have arrested two accused allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 22 millions. In first case, Imran Rafique was arrested for getting loan of Rs 20 millions fraudulently. Imran’s father and others were also ...

BAHAWALPUR - A family has accused the Samasatta City Police SHO of killing a man in a fake shootout following his alleged denial to pay him bribe.The protesters gathered outside the District Police Officer office and chanted slogans against the SHO. The victim’s relatives including Abdul ...

ISLAMABAD - The ICT administration is allegedly not cooperating with the CDA management, which has sought the help of Rangers to retrieve the encroached land and the land under illegal possession of fake owners.A senior official of the authority while talking to TheNation on Wednesday said that ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran blamed world powers on Saturday for delays in long-stalled talks over its controversial nuclear programme, after Western diplomats said Iranian uncertainty over the venue had delayed the negotiations.State broadcaster IRIB said deputy EU foreign policy chief Helga Schmid had ...

RAWALPINDI - A two-member bench of Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, Tuesday issued notices to Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) investigators probing ephedrine quota scam to respond to the petition within two weeks, filed by an accused for quashing First Information Report (FIR) against him.The ...

MANSEHRA  - Police on Monday claimed to have arrested four suspects accused of killing three brothers of a boy who appeared in a dancing video in Kohistan.DIG Hazara Division claimed that the four accused one of them identified as Moulvi Javed were arrested during police raids in different ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A girl was gang-raped by the same accused here in Chak 54/2GB Tukra the other day.Muhammad Ramzan, father of the girl informed police that his daughter Samina Bibi had gone to sugarcane fields outside the village to answer the call of nature where accused Ghulam Murtaza and his ...

LAHORE – At least three culprits including an impersonator Army captain were rounded up by Sadar Police Division on Thursday. According to details, Muhammad Rizwan, son of Ehsan, impersonated himself as Army Captain and used to mint money from innocent people assuring them the induction of ...

RAWALPINDI - Former Director Danas Pharmaceutical Company Rizwan Khan, an accused, has become approver in the Ephedrine quota case.“The PPP-led government appointed Zafar Abbas Lakh as Federal Secretary Ministry of Narcotics Control to spoil the case of allocation of illegal quota of the ...

LAHORE – PML-Q chief, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain while claiming that he along with his associates has always supported the masses over the issue of load shedding alleged the Punjab government for playing politics in the name of energy crisis. In a press statement issued on Thursday, he had ...

Almost all the accused in Rental Power Projects (RPPs) scam have decided to approach the Supreme Court individually against National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) decision of issuing arrest warrants on the directive of the apex court without hearing them.On Thursday, in compliance of the apex ...

LAHORE – Additional District and Sessions Judge Arif Hameed Sheikh on Saturday released Major (r) Haroon Rasheed, Muhammad Nawaz Khan and Waheed Rasheed of banned outfit Harkatul Mujahideen-Al-Islami and accused of murdering Shaikh Zayed Hospital former administrator Abdul Saboor Malik. The ...

ADDIS ABABA  - South Sudan accused former foe Sudan on Friday of holding 35,000 Southerners as “slaves,” stalling talks to resolve to furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two neighbours. “There is unfortunately a disagreement, because the government of ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Christian community is an integral part of Pakistani society and the community people are as patriotic as any other Pakistani. Christians have played a pivotal role side-by-side their Muslim countrymen in the struggle for the creation of the country. But they have been meted out ...