LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has suspended basic membership of its leader Saleem Shahzad for violation of discipline. His membership has been suspended for indefinite period. The MQM said in a... Read more »
President Rajapaksa orders release of fishermen detained for poaching to thank India for abstaining from UN rights vote. Sri Lanka has decided to free Indian fishermen detained for poaching to thank India... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday unveiled his government’s plan to launch a countrywide literacy movement to ensure enrolment of every child in the school, by introducing a package... Read more »
KARACHI – The central leadership pf Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is considering to change Sindh chief minister. According to sources, the PPP is considering four names for the slot of Sindh Chief... Read more »
First ever direct meeting, after preparatory meetings last month with intermediaries, held in “conducive environment”. Face-to-face talks between the Pakistani government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [TTP] have begun in an attempt to... Read more »
Press Release Dated 23rd March 2014 Dubai, UAE Members of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), the party of Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, hosted an event to mark the occasion of Pakistan... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The government and Taliban committees met at the Punjab House on Saturday to discuss holding direct talks with the Taliban shura. According to sources, the two sides have agreed on the... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has summoned a high-level meeting over national security for Tuesday. According to sources, the meeting will be attended by Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif,... Read more »
Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder of CGnet Swara – a mobile news service – beats Edward Snowden in a public vote. Indian journalist and founder of CGnet Swara, a mobile news service, has won the... Read more »
Domestic worker for consul general of Bangladesh in New York says he was underpaid and worked in oppressive conditions. A former domestic worker for the consul general of Bangladesh has sued him... Read more »
KARACHI: The Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is likely to join the Sindh government within the week after the PPP offered five ministries in the provincial cabinet including the local government ministry as... Read more »
KARACHI: The widespread search for the missing Malaysian jet MH370 continues, as confusion deepens over ‘missing 30 minutes’ at heart of the mystery engulfing the stricken jet. Meanwhile, The Independent has learnt... Read more »
DHAKA: India extended their domination over Pakistan in World Cup events with a seven-wicket demolition of the arch-rivals in the Super-10 round of the World Twenty20 in Dhaka on Friday. Leg-spinner Amit... Read more »
A New Zealand woman and a reporter and his family are among at least nine civilians – including children – killed in a Taliban attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul. Four... Read more »
BIJNOT: Punjab Chief Minister, Shabaz Sharif has announced a package of Rs2.37 billion for the development of Cholistan on Friday The chief minister denied that any parts of Cholistan facing drought and... Read more »
JALALABAD: Seven Taliban suicide attackers stormed a police station in the centre of Jalalabad city in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 policemen in a major assault ahead of the presidential election.... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: People from different religious minorities celebrated the Hindus festival of colours ‘Holi’ with zeal and zest at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) here the other day. The event... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz informed the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday that Saudi Arabia had gifted $1.5 billion to Pakistan and added... Read more »
A US grand jury has re-indicted an Indian diplomat whose arrest strained US-India relations. Devyani Khobragade is accused of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper, lawyers in New York said. It comes... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved on Saturday the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Project (Islamabad portion) at a total cost of Rs 23.839 billion. According to the decision, the... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Taliban Committee member, Professor Ibrahim has termed the meeting with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) shura ‘encouraging’. Professor Ibrahim said: “we are making arrangements for meeting between TTP shura and the government team”.... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The special court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. The special court has ordered for Pervez Musharraf’s warrant to be implemented on March 31.... Read more »
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the dynasty that leads ruling Congress party, on Tuesday compared opposition leader Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler – his sharpest attack yet on a rival... Read more »
Report by Rehan Shakeel Sydney, Australia Justice4Musharraf.com,online social media forum, has organized its 9th consecutive protest in Karachi on Sunday 9th March 2014.Civil society is strongly committed to its cause and will... Read more »