A container blocks off an underpass to Gulberg. ─ Photo by author. BY IMRAN GABOL: Demonstrators in favour of the blasphemy law planning to rally in Punjab’s provincial capital Wednesday, on the death anniversary of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, were deterred from doing so as police erected blockades in different parts of Lahore to prevent the gathering. Taseer, a ...

The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated over his opposition to the nation’s blasphemy laws is now the subject of a fatwa calling for his death after he criticized the nation’s blasphemy laws and voiced his support for its victims on Facebook. Shaan Taseer, the son of slain Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer and a human rights activist, took ...

State Grid of China will help build a 4,000-megawatt power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at US$1.5 billion, Pakistan said yesterday, the latest in a series of Chinese investments in its South Asian neighbor. The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town in the south, near a ...

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is all set to challenge the findings of the Quetta Commission report. A source in the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) told DawnNews that it has finalised “responses” and “arguments” to be presented in the Supreme Court in response to a report probing the Quetta Civil Hospital carnage. The source said Nacta’s response to ...

KABUL: In according to Pakistan government’s decision of management on the Durand Line, no one is allowed to enter Afghanistan without passport at Torkham from Sunday (January 1st 2017). However, tribesmen from Shinwari and Afridi tribes are exempted of passport and visa restrictions and they are allowed to travel between the two countries on showing of National Identity Cards or Special ...

KABUL: The leaders of the Afghan unity government have invited the new Pakistani army chief General  Qamar Javed Bajwa to visit Afghanistan, the media wing of the Pakistani military said Saturday. According to a statement by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor, the invitation was extended by the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief ...

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan-China Joint Cooperation Committee has approved three Khyber Pakhtunkhwa projects. However, it is not immediately clear whether the much-touted alternate route connecting the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with Central Asian Republics via northern districts of the province is among the projects approved by the committee. Three alternate routes proposed by the KP government suggest linking the corridor with ...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressing a press conference in Peshawar on Thursday. — White Star PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday said if military courts were given a permanent status, it would be tantamount to confessing that the government had failed to achieve the targets of the National Action Plan. The JUI-F chief told reporters at the party’s ...

The United States announced on Wednesday that it was adding the student wing of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to its list of “foreign terrorist organisations”. The State Department move against the student group, al Muhammadia Students, came as the Treasury Department added two Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders to the US list of “specially designated global terrorists,” subjecting them to US sanctions. LeT was ...

SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan fired a broadside at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his political allies at a huge public rally on Sunday. “[PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali] Zardari has returned to bail out Nawaz, but no one can save him [Nawaz] from us,” he added. “It is shameful that the rich is protecting the rich.” Imran also hit out ...