Islamabad, April 5 (INAS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has demanded that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) initiate a thorough probe into the financial holdings of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members after…
Washington, April 5 (IANS) The US Navy has ordered nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for Pakistan, the US defence department has said. The US Navy on Monday awarded a $170 million contract to Bell Helicopter…
Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will consider the “Panama Papers” revelations for the possible initiation of an inquiry against those alleged to have offshore companies. An NAB source told The News…
nay Pyi Taw, April 5 (IANS) Days after Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party assumed office in Myanmar in a historic transition of power, former president Thein Sein has joined the…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “apologize to the nation” for allowing a Pakistani team to probe the terror attack on the Pathankot…
Kabul, April 5 (IANS) At least six people were killed and many injured in a suicide bomb attack in Parwan province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, official said. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle in…
Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) At least one passenger was killed and several injured as a bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday. The Quetta-bound Jaffar Express was attacked by unidentified men…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, April 4 (IANS) In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, the Pakistan government on Monday asserted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no wealth stashed…
Ankara, April 4 (IANS) The first ferry taking migrants, mostly Pakistanis, deported from the Greek island of Lesbos docked here on Monday morning. The migrants will first go through the camps set up on the…
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) At least 49 people were killed and dozens injured in separate rain-related accidents in Pakistan’s north Gilgit Baltistan area, northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and northeast Kashmir area over the last 24 hours,…
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) At least 36 people were killed in rain-related incidents and land-slides across Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, media reported on Sunday. According to details, the torrential rains in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan have…
Colombo, April 3 (IANS) Sri Lanka looks forward to further strengthening its relations with China when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe undertakes an official visit to the communist country next week, a statement released by his…
Kathmandu, April 3 (IANS) Nepal’s intelligence agency, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), has arrested a person accused in the 1995 murder here of an Italian national. A gang of 13 men, led by Tashi Gurung,…
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) Bangladesh has banned the vuvuzela, the popular but noisy South African horns, from the country’s most colourful procession, the Mangal Shobha Jatra, in the capital Dhaka. Hundreds of thousands of people,…
(160105) — DHAKA, Jan. 5, 2016 (Xinhua) — Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia addresses a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 5, 2016. Khaleda Zia’s BNP organized a…
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Iran has conveyed to Pakistan that it is investigating whether an alleged Indian spy arrested last month in Balochistan crossed the border illegally or was picked up from its soil, the…
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Pakistani military killed 252 terrorists over the past two months and cleared more areas in the remote mountainous North Waziristan region in the final phase of the major offensive, it was…
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan reiterated that Iran was not working hand in glove with Indian intelligence agency RAW to stoke instability in Islamabad. “Iran has nothing to do…
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) Over 1.2 million students across Bangladesh on Sunday appeared for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams. The number of students has increased this year by 144,744 from last year,…
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) The appellate court here has deferred the hearing on a petition of Motiur Rahman Nizami, chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, to review the Supreme Court verdict upholding his death sentence….