ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi presided over on Friday a meeting of parliamentary committee of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and directed party legislators to ensure their full presence in the national and provincial assemblies on the day of Senate elections on Saturday (today). Interestingly, some of the …

ISLAMABAD: Fata mem­bers of the National Assembly have reached a consensus on the name of a PML-N-backed candidate for the Senate elections, but they are still divided over the names of two other candidates. The lawmakers from Fata accepted PML-N candidate Shamim Afridi’s name for the election to the upper …

BAKU: Twenty-five people perished in a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early on Friday, with activists saying safety standards had not been met. Footage broadcast on local television showed huge flames leaping through barred windows of a one-storey wooden hospital ward. It …