ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said selective accountability, sacred cow syndrome, double standards and using corruption for political re-engineering are the worst forms of corruption which must be resisted. In a statement issued on the eve of the 88th birth anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the PPP Co-chairman vowed not to allow any individual ...

PESHAWAR: The Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar, has renewed its call for a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Afghanistan. A senior leader of the party, the second largest resistance group behind the Taliban, wants the Afghan government to hold parleys with all militant outfits. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Dr Ghairat Baheer suggested the ...

KABUL: Some analysts believe severed relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran could be a challenge for Afghanistan as both the regional rivals would try to weaken each other’s influence in Afghanistan. Ideological differences between Saudi and Iran are historic, but relations between them disrupted on Sunday when Saudi Arabia announced it had cut ties with Iran and fellow-Sunni Bahrain followed ...

LAHORE: Officials arrested 42 suspected militants with alleged links to the militant Islamic State (IS) group. “The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. The minister said those arrested had been tasked with setting up sleeper cells for IS, and that those arrested include the purported IS Islamabad ...

The fifth death anniversary of former Governor Punjab Salman Taseer will be observed tomorrow. Mumtaz Qadri had assassinated former Salman Taseer in Islamabad over blasphemy issue. On October 07, 2015, Supreme Court upheld the death sentence to key suspect Mumtaz Qadri while rejecting his appeal against the judgment of Islamabad High Court in Salman Taseer murder case. Salman Taseer was a ...

ENGLAND: JEREMY CORBYN is planning to scrap the British honours systems over “cronyism” fears and its historic link to the country’s days of Empire. The embattled Labour leader has privately launched a review of the honours arrangements, with proposals to radically overhaul the system if he comes into power. The awards this summer would be the first occasion when Mr ...

Who will Stop the Crimes Committed in the Name of National Security BANNU: Today, while I along with my two small daughters aged 7 and 4 respectively, and my Mrs. entered district Bannu on Kurram Bridge, a convoy of Pakistan army appeared amidst very crowded traffic. A sepoy was brandishing a huge bamboo stick to frighten people and vehicles away. ...

Sami, who has spent more than a decade living in Mumbai, was granted Indian citizenship on the New Year eve. INDIA: The famous singer and composer Adnan Sami celebrated the newly granted Indian citizenship by posing for photographs as he hoisted the Indian flag at his residence in Mumbai. Sami, who has spent more than a decade living in Mumbai, ...

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia’s execution of a leading Shia cleric  Nimr al-Nimr, as fury over the killing  spread. The 56-year-old cleric was put to death along with 46 others, who the Saudi interior ministry said were involved in Al Qaeda killings. Some were beheaded, others were shot by firing squad. ...

SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia has given an ultimatum of 24 hours to Iranian envoy in Riyadh to leave the country. According to local media reports, the order was issued after the Saudi embassy was attacked in Tehran last night. Tension escalated between Saudi and Iran after the kingdom executed a Shiite Cleric Sheikh al-Nimr on terrorism charges among 47 others. ...