Long queues of voters witnessed in Peshawar City’s polling stations

PESHAWAR:Long queues of voters are being witnessed in almost all polling stations of Peshawar City where tough electoral battle is expected among mainstream political parties for the tehsil mayor seat. The voters thronged to polling stations at Gulbahar, Hashtnagri, Nanakpura, Faqirabad, Karimpura, Lateefabad, Pachagai, Firdus, Kakshall and Sheikh Abad and polling their votes in a […]

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PNCA announces to continue ‘Tabla and Vocal’ classes

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) Sunday announced to continue ‘Vocal and Tabla’ two-day classes in a week (Tuesday-Wednesday) with talented instructors Ahmed Khan and Sarfaraz Anwer. A PNCA official Masroor Shah told reporter, PNCA believes in providing musicians and artists with the platform and inspiration they need to reach their full potential. These classes […]

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Pakistan proposes six-point mechanism for humanitarian, economic, counter-terrorism support for Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan on Sunday proposed a six-point strategy for addressing Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, food security and economic revival besides the institutional capacity building to counter-terrorism. The foreign minister, also chair of the session, in his opening address at the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation, started here, proposed […]

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OIC leaders laud Pakistan’s efforts, call for unified action on Afghanistan crisis

ISLAMABAD: The Muslim world leaders attending the extraordinary session of OIC countries’ foreign ministers, Sunday called for an immediate and unified action to avert the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan which otherwise could impact world peace. Addressing the opening session of the 17th extraordinary Session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign […]

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Pak-China friendship hospital to provide facilities to people of Gwadar

ISLAMABAD:The under construction Pak-China friendship hospital would provide state-of-the-art medical facility to the inhabitants of port city of Gwadar that was being completed with the estimated cost of $ 100 million. The project was financed by the Chinese government while the project was being supervised by the government of Balochistan. The hospital being constructed on […]

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CEC forms committee to probe Gor Gathri polling station incident

PESHAWAR: The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has formed a three members committee to probe the incident of female polling station of Gor Gathri Peshawar City. The committee has reached Peshawar and started investigations, says a statement of Provincial Election Commission spokesman here today. The two members Committee presided over by Special Secretary Zafar Iqbal and […]

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District police of Bahawalpur arrested 10 drug pushers

BAHAWALPUR:The Bahawalpur police have arrested 10 alleged drug pushers and recovered 403 liters liquor during raids conducted at dens in different areas of the district. A spokesman for Bahawalpur police said here that following the directions received from higher officials, the district police conducted raids at dens in different areas of the district and took […]

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