ISLAMABAD: In the latest example of the misuse of increasingly popular social media, none other than Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif fell prey to an internet hoax. A fake news report that went viral on the internet quoted Israel’s defence minister as threatening to “destroy Pakistan with a nuclear attack”. This infuriated Khawaja Asif, who is a regular internet user and ...

The Ministry of Interior on Monday released a progress report on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) in 2016. In a report issued by the ministry, it conceded that NAP was unable to effectively block financial support for terrorists and terrorist organisations. The report had been authorised by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, who faces increasing criticism for the ...

Peshawar Zalmi team owner Javed Afridi has met Malala Yousufzai and her family in the UK and presented them with Peshawar Zalmi merchandise. Afridi also mentioned meeting Ahmad Nawaz, an APS survivor, in a tweet. On the occasion, Malala said sports is a platform which brings people together and the people of KP are peace loving. She added that she ...

ISLAMABAD: As the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have conveyed their refusal to fund the $14-billion Diamer-Bhasha dam project, the government is planning to lease the Ghazi-Barotha hydroelectric power project to raise financing. Earlier, the World Bank had declined to provide funds for the project following Pakistan’s refusal to get a no-objection certificate from India for construction of the ...

GWADAR: The Balochis­tan government has imposed with immediate effect a ban on transfer of land in the port city of Gwadar for three months. The provincial revenue department has issued an official notification in this regard. Gwadar Deputy Commis­sioner Dr Tufail Ahmed Baloch said on Friday that the ban had been imposed on transfer of all kinds of lands. He ...

PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, has rejected claims of the federal government and media reports regarding the award of a multi-billion rupee ad contract of print and electronic media campaign to a company in which certain PTI members supposedly hold interests. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on ...

At least one person was shot dead in Kohistan following an argument between Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and locals over the alleged assault of a taxi driver by FC men on Saturday. Station House Officer (SHO) Dasu Muhammad Haq Hashmi told Dawn an argument erupted between FC personnel and a taxi driver when the taxi hit a passing FC convoy ...

QUETTA: Reacting to the Quetta commission report, Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHCBA) has demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, president BHCBA Ghani Khilji said that the Quetta commission report has exposed the incompetence and negligence of the ministers, therefore, they ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Thursday observed 4th death anniversary of Bashir Ahmad Bilour and paid rich tributes to him for his services for Pakthuns and province. On 22 December 2012, Bilour was leaving after attending a meeting of ANP workers in Peshawar, when he was attacked and critically injured by a suicide bomber. He was rushed to Lady Reading ...

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara proved he was correct to propose curbing Muslim immigration to the United States. “What’s going on is terrible, terrible,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin and the killing of Russia’s ambassador to ...