ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no assets abroad, but continues to receive colossal amounts from his son, Hussain Nawaz, who is settled in the UK, reveal the statements of MNAs’ assets released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday. According to the statements of assets for 2015, released amidst the ongoing controversy around the Panama Papers leak, ...

MINGORA: For Razia, the seven years she spent as a victim of Swara, a child marriage custom to settle blood feuds, are the ugliest and harshest of her life. Born in Peshawar and currently living in Swat with adoptive parents, the 27-year-old says her Swara days were full of physical and psychological abuse. She strongly feels had her parents been ...

Pakistan-Afghanistan border PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Afghan authorities appear to have lost interest in pushing forward any trade related agreements with Pakistan with the alternative route via Iran close to being finalised. Last week, on April 11, Iran, Afghanistan and India finished negotiating the details of the trilateral transport and transit pact, meant to provide legal framework to operate trade corridors via ...

LAHORE: A property developer summoned by ‘Shariat Court’ of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) on a complaint regarding a monetary dispute has moved the Lahore High Court, seeking action against Qazi (judge) of the organisation’s ‘court’ for running a parallel judicial system. Khalid Saeed of Samanabad has made interior secretary, federal law minister, Punjab chief secretary, Punjab IG, Lahore CCPO and Qazi ...

JHELUM: Three women and a man were shot dead in the Dhok Lona area of Jhelum in an incident of ‘honour’ killing Tuesday morning. The accused, absconded after he shot and killed his daughter, his sister-in-law, her mother, and his nephew at their home in the incident. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Jhelum, Mujahid Akbar Khan, the man’s daughter ...

At least one person was killed and 11 people were wounded in a suicide attack in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the country’s security officials said. The incident took place after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a government office in the district. Local media quoting security officials reported that the suicide bomber managed to enter ...

ISLAMABAD: Leader ANP (Wali) Aurangzeb Kasi appreciated the role of Dr. Said Alam Mehsud and his organization Pashtunkhwa Ulasi Tahreek (PUT) for making ‘Corridor Front’. He said that it is time for Pashtuns to unite. Talking to THE PASHTUN TIMES, Aurangzeb Kasi said that Corridor Front will be proved an effective forum while struggling for the Pashtuns ‘due share’ in ...

Joint ‘Corridor Front’ set up to claim ‘due’ share of Khyber-Pashtunkhwa in corridor project PESHAWAR: Various political parties and organisations representing different sections of society on Friday formed a joint forum to work for claiming the ‘rightful’ share of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas in the multibillion dollars China-Pakistan Corridor project. The formation of the Joint Corridor Front was ...

PESHAWAR: Imagine you go to a co-ed university. And one day, the administration says you are no longer allowed to communicate with your peers from the opposite sex on and off campus premises and will have to pay a fine in case you did. Wouldn’t that be a little confusing and strange? A notification issued by the University of Swat’s ...

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Thursday passed the law governing marriage functions, disallowing unreasonable illumination, display of fireworks and dowry and causing nuisance to neighbours “beyond reasonable celebrations”. The law (Clause 3) says that a person celebrating his (own) or organising marriage of any other person shall not decorate or cause to be decorated any street, road, or public park ...