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Incompetent people have been imposed on Pak, says opposition leader Latif

Lashing out at the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led PTI government in Pakistan, opposition leader Javed Latif on Sunday said that some 'incompetent people have been imposed on the nation'

Pak PM Imran Khan wins trust vote amid opposition protests in parliament

Prime Minister Khan secured 178 votes in the 342-member lower house of Parliament during a special session convened on the directives of President Arif Alvi

Pakistan PM Imran Khan confident ahead of trust vote in Parliament

Imran Khan appeared confident of winning a trust vote in the National Assembly on Saturday even as the ruling party has warned rebels that those who vote against him would be disqualified.

Imran Khan called own legislators for taking bribes: Yousaf Raza Gilani

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yousaf Raza Gilani, has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan called his own legislators for taking bribes and selling loyalties

Pakistan opposition parties asks PM Imran Khan to resign honourably

An upbeat opposition asked P "to resign in an honourable way" after the defeat of the govt's candidate at the hands of the PDM candidate Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in the Senate elections

Pak's ex-premier Gilani defeats finance minister in Senate election

Prime Minister Khan had personally made efforts for Shaikh''s victory in the hotly contested election.

Pakistan introduces new visa rules, eases travel for medical emergencies

Pakistan has introduced the medical visa category in a recently revised policy, easing rules for people seeking entry in the country for health emergencies and work, a media report said on Monday.

Broadsheet to seize Pakistani assets after it fails to pay $2.2 million

"Our client has instructed us to seize further assets to satisfy the sums due to it on the outstanding judgments," Broadsheet has said in a letter to Pakistan

Imran Khan should not blame others for his party's actions: PDM Chief

Khan had alleged that Fazl had made "vast amounts of money" while selling votes during the polls for the upper house of the Parliament, reported Geo News

Daniel Pearl murder case: Pakistan SC orders release of main accused

The review panel, headed by Justice Omar Ata Bandyal, stood by the decision to acquit, and recommended that Sheikh should be moved to a "rest house" before being fully released

Pak SC orders release of prime suspect in journalist Daniel Pearl's murder

Pearl was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pak, investigating a story in 2002 on the links between ISI and al-Qaeda

Pak sacks 12 police officials over negligence in temple vandalisation case

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government in Pakistan has dismissed 12 police officials following an enquiry report that found them guilty of "negligence" in protecting a Hindu temple in the province, which was torched by a mob led by members of a radical Islamist party. The government also forfeited one-year service of 33 police officials in connection with the incident. The temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak district was attacked on December 30 by the mob after members of the Hindu community received permission from local authorities to renovate its decades-old building. The mob demolished the newly constructed work alongside the old structure. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Kohat Region, Tayyab Hafeez Cheema had appointed Superintendent of Police (Investigation Wing) Zahir Shah as enquiry officer to probe the incident and submit its report within a week's time. Shah conducted the probe against 73 police officials and recommended to dismiss 12 of them f

Mumbai blasts perpetrators enjoying 5-star hospitality: Jaishankar at UNSC

The crime syndicate responsible for the 1993 Mumbai blasts is given not just State protection but enjoying 5-star hospitality, said Jaishankar at UNSC

No backdoor dialogue with India underway: Pak foreign minister

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that there can be no talks with India under the current deteriorating situation between the two countries

Imran Khan govt focusing on false propaganda, not real issues: Nawaz Sharif

Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif said the incumbent PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was solely focusing on false propaganda while choking the poor and their jobs

Johnson urges Pakistan govt to guarantee fundamental rights of citizens

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a Parliament session, urged Pakistan to guarantee the fundamental rights of its citizens

Pakistan may return $2 billion Saudi Arabian loan, media report says

Pakistan may return $2 billion loan to Saudi and the cash-strapped country is looking for various options to secure more lending aimed at retaining gross official forex reserves at current level

Pakistan govt inaugurates its first transport project under CPEC

The overhead Lahore Orange Line Metro Train will operate between Lahore's Dera Gujjran to Ali Town on 27Km stretch from Monday

Pakistan's Opposition alliance all set to hold anti-govt rally in Quetta

A grand alliance of Pakistan's major Opposition parties decided to go ahead with an anti-government rally on Sunday Quetta city as part of a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan

Police chief kidnapped by paramilitary, inflaming crisis for Pakistan govt

While Khan's pro-military government has not yet addressed the issue, army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa ordered an inquiry