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MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) newly-elected Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) from Punjab Tariq Khan Dreshak passed away on Saturday after he suffered brain hemorrhage four days ago. Late MPA contested general elections form PP-296 of Rajan Pur and won the seat by bagging 49,119 votes. Four days ago, Dreshak was …

ISLAMABAD: Ayesha Gulalai on Sunday announced that four transgender persons will be contesting in the general elections via her party ticket. The former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Gulalai said four transgender persons Nayab Ali, Nadeem Kashish, Lubna Lal and Madam Rani will contest the elections on her party’s ticket. Nadeem Kashish …

Nawaz says he is being ‘punished’ for serving country FAISALABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that he is being “punished” for serving “I am being punished for serving my country, and I am summoned for hearings because the people of Pakistan love me,” Nawaz Sharif said while …

The nation is celebrating Pakistan Day 2018 across the country on Friday with traditional zeal and fervour. Pakistan Day commemorates the passing of the Lahore Resolution on March 23, 1940, when the All-India Muslim League demanded a separate nation for the Muslims of the British Indian Empire. Military parade A …

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to visit New Brunswick today. Trudeau will conduct some early morning press interviews before stopping in Sussex where he is to meet with Premier Brian Gallant. The prime minister is then scheduled to take part in a roundtable discussion on rural economic …

ISLAMABAD: Suspended Malir Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar, wanted in the Naqeebullah Mehsud killing case, was arrested on Wednesday following his appearance before the Supreme Court. Anwar was removed from his post after his suspected involvement in the murder of a 27-year-old native of Waziristan in a ‘staged’ …

ISLAMABAD: In the largest single-day parity in last around two decades, the Pak rupee underwent an almost 5% intraday downswing against US dollar as it was traded at Rs 116.01 vis-à-vis Monday’s closing of Rs 111 in the inter-bank market. As currency dealers suspected government’s commitments to foreign monetary bodies …

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday ordered the arrest of Tehreek-e-Labbaik leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi and Afzal Qadri in the Faizabad sit-in case. During proceedings of the case, the ATC directed that Rizvi and Qadri be arrested and presented in court on April 4. The ATC ordered their arrests …

NANKANA SAHIB: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that Imran Khan and Asif Ali Zardari were the two sides of the same coin. “Those calling each other ‘thief’ have shaken hands now,” the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo told a rally here, adding that both his rivals were …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Friday said that the case to put names of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family as well as former finance minister Senator Ishaq Dar on the exit control list (ECL) had been sent to the federal cabinet for approval. “As per a ruling …