ISLAMABAD: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif visited JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence in the federal capital on Wednesday, and the two opposition leaders discussed bringing a resolution of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan. According to sources, they also discussed the success of the opposition alliance’s long march, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), […]
Day: January 13, 2022
Fault in submarine cable slows internet speed across the country
Fault in submarine cable slows internet speed across the country. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Thursday that it had discovered a fault in the SMW4 international submarine cable, which is operated by the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) in the Indian Ocean, which can also result in some internet users experiencing slower speeds […]
Scheduled meeting of interprovincial education ministers postpones
Due to a spike in Covid-19 cases around the country, the meeting of interprovincial education ministers scheduled for Thursday (today) has been postponed. The 34th meeting of the Provincial Education Minister’s Conference (IPEMC) was to be convened at 11 a.m. under the chairmanship of Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, with the goal of reviewing the […]
Government needs more time to submit report on APS attack
ISLAMABAD: The federal government asked the Supreme Court on Thursday for an extension of three weeks to submit a report in the Army Public School (APS) attack case. Prime Minister Imran Khan signed the petition, which asked the Supreme Court for extra time. According to the letter, the premier has already met with the victims’ […]
Pakistan: A hard country
A British writer, who experiences the pure land for twenty years, meets people from the upper strata of the society to the lower one, takes interviews and visits the houses of the politicians and shrines of the holy saints, and writes down a masterpiece. In his book, Antol Lieven has infused his blood to make […]
South Asia Needs China
South Asia indeed needs China in its development process because ‘China’ is synonymous with the term “Development”. China’s ambitus project ‘Belt and Road Initiative” provides benefits for almost all South Asian Countries. Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are benefitting from the project directly. On the other hand, China helps most of the South Asian […]
Initial report of Murree tragedy points finger at administration
PAKISTAN: The early findings of the five-member committee tasked with investigating the causes and errors that led to the Murree tragedy point to the inability of major government ministries to take preventative measures in the wake of the Met Office’s warnings. The metrological department had issued an advisory on January 6 deeming the weather unsafe, […]
Shehbaz, Hamza file plea in court to quash FIR against them
Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz, leaders of the opposition in the National and Punjab Assemblies, submitted an application on Wednesday to quash a First Information Report (FIR) filed against them for allegedly possessing assets beyond known sources of income, impersonation, forgery, and money laundering between 2008 and 2018. The father-son duo filed a plea in […]