The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s doctor, Dr Faisal Sultan has said Imran will not be allowed to cast his vote in Mianwali due to his health.While speaking to the media, Dr Sultan said it was not possible to discharge Imran Khan from the hospital before Election Day. Dr ...

Lahore  -  The Lahore High Court full bench on Tuesday allowed Muhammad Aslam Madhyana, a leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, to contest elections from PP-31 Sargodha, suspending the returning officer’s decision.The full bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan also granted ...

Amir Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawar Hasan has said that how terrorism can be eliminated when it was allowed to grow under the very wings of the government for the last five years.In an interview, Syed Munawar Hasan said “we have been providing logistical support to terrorism by including ...

Nomination papers of former President General (Retired) Pervez Musharraf have been accepted by the Election Commission for NA-32, Chitral.However, Pervez Musharraf was barred from contesting general elections in another constituency, NA-250, after the Election Commission of Pakistan rejected his ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite stiff opposition of OGRA, a sub-committee of the federal cabinet has now authorized gas utilities to fleece gas consumers over the consumption of natural gas with Rs1.5billion in the name of ‘minimum billing’ for fiscal year 2011-12. With the approved head minimum ...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Tahirul Qadri has been allowed to set up stage at Express Chowk near D-Chowk in Islamabad.He‚ however‚ said no one will be allowed to enter the Red Zone where diplomatic community is housed and Parliament House and Supreme Court are ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government and parliament will complete five-year tenure and no one will be allowed to derail the democratic system.He was talking to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at the Bilawal House here on Wednesday.According to the Presidential Spokesperson, ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said the government considers elections as "Amanat" which will be conducted in accordance with the Constitution.Opening the cabinet meeting here on Thursday Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said government is going to complete its tenure and is heading towards ...

Chief, JUI-F, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on one hand hue and cry was being raised on Malala incident and on the other hand establishment and media were keeping mum over atrocities being perpetrated by US on Aafia Siddiqui.He said this while addressing condolence reference held on Saturday on the ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry remarked Thursday intelligence agencies of the country would not be allowed to violate the law.The CJP gave these remarks while presiding over a 3-member bench of Supreme Court (SC) during the course of hearing of Adiala Jail missing ...

U.S. military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, Fox News reported Saturday.Relations between the two nations have been at an all-time low since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has presented in Supreme Court (SC) a list containing 5 volumes of the persons who have got their loans waived during 2009. The list has been presented during the course of hearing of loans write off case by a 4-member bench of SC presided over by the Chief Justice of ...

In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader, Nayeem Ahmed Khan has said that the unparalleled sacrifices rendered by the Kashmiri people for securing their right to self-determination will not be allowed to go waste. According to Kashmir Media Service, Nayeem Ahmed Khan ...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani has said that the democratic government has not come from the back doors and neither we would allow Parliament to be bulldozed adding that all Chief Ministers have been taken into confidence over the Reformed General Sales Tax Bill. Speaking on the floor of the ...

Pakistan said it will clamp down on charities linked to militants trying to exploit anger among flood victims, amid fears their involvement in the relief effort would undermine the fight against groups like the Taliban. While Pakistan's government overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster has ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry said the national money would not be allowed to be squandered, a private TV reported Wednesday. A three-member SC bench headed by the CJ Chaudhry heard the case regarding the import of Liquefied Natural Gas and called the original record ...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the judiciary and the lawyers will not be allowed to take short cuts in the way of serving justice to the masses, report said. The CJ, while chairing the meeting of Supreme Judicial Policy Making Committee (SJPMC) here Saturday, urged the ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has stressed the resolve for not permitting any dictator to usurp the basic fundamental rights of people and also not allowing them to trample on the democratic aspirations. Let us also resolve that we will uphold the Constitution and never allow it to be abrogated, ...

General Officer Commanding (GOC) Major General Ijaz Awan Wednesday said the Swats displaced people will be allowed to return home until June 17. The GOC said the Grid Station of Mingora would be re-constructed in next 24 hours and people will allowed to return home after the civic services are put ...

Deposed CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Wednesday said during the last 60 years democracy was not allowed to flourish on part of the dictators who on more than occasion went ahead and usurped the rule of country. Addressing the lawyers' convention in Peshawar, Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry said a year ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned Sunday the suicide bombing that killed at least 60 people, saying it demonstrated the "destructive forces" of terrorism. Singh, in a letter to his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, expressed his "shock and sorrow" over the ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says government will not allow foreign troops to operate inside Pakistan's territory. Talking to media in Islamabad, the foreign minister said, "Terrorist need to be dealt jointly while government would not allow anyone to challenge its writ."

Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani said the government will not allow the handful of extremists to impose their version of Islam on the moderate and enlightened majority. He was talking to the delegation comprising representatives of Pakistan American Public Affair Committee and British expatriates ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has allowed PML-N leaders Mian Nawaz Sharif and his brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif to contest By-elections. The EC announced the decision after a split verdict of Lahore High Court's Election Tribunal judges over petitions filed against Sharif Brothers. The case was ...

Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has lauded the role of media and the civil society in the lawyers' movement.  In his telephonic address to a joint meeting of Sindh High Court Bar, Karachi Bar and Malir Bar associations he said the judiciary was always tried to be handled ...

National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has allowed Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) to increase per unit electricity price by 28 paisa as fuel adjustment surcharge.  According to KESC sources, NEPRA has sent a summary in this regard to the Ministry of Water and Power ...