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Killing of women relatives in the name of honour is a menace still prevalent in many parts of Pakistan. (Representational Image | AFP)

19-year-old girl axed to death by stepbrother in Pakistan's Punjab

The incident took place on Sunday at Christian Wala in Sahiwal district, some 230-km from Lahore.

20 Nov 2017 5:03 PM

Convicts Musadiq Ahmed and Ahsan Hassan were accused of killing the Class 5 student after raping him in Sahiwal district. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

75 years jail for 2 Pakistani college students who raped, killed minor boy

According to the FIR, the convicts and the victim studied in same academy in a village in Sahiwal.

19 Nov 2017 11:19 AM

By law they cannot call their place of worship mosques or distribute religious literature, recite the Koran or use traditional Islamic greetings, measures that they say criminalise their daily lives. (Photo: File/representational)

Minority Ahmadis of Pakistan fear becoming election scapegoat

The Ahmadi sect has 10-20 million followers worldwide who face discrimination in a number of Muslim-majority nations.

16 Nov 2017 5:50 PM

In the letter, the National Counter Terrorism Authority said the foreign spy agency had paid Rs 80 million to two activists of a banned outfit for the assassination of Saeed. (Photo: AFP)

Pak authorities request heightened security for Mumbai terror attacks chief Hafiz Saeed

Saeed has been under house arrest in Lahore since January 30 under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.

11 Nov 2017 6:26 PM

A bus fell into a ravine while it was passing through a slope in Punjab province in Pakistan on Wednesday night. (Representational Image | PTI)

27 killed, 69 injured in bus accident in Pakistan’s Punjab province

The bus carrying more than 100 people was going from Kohat to Raiwind when the accident took place in Kallar Kahar town last night.

09 Nov 2017 1:14 PM

"I have not yet forgotten what they (Sharifs) have done to Benazir Bhutto (his wife) and me. We forgave them and signed Charter of Democracy, but still Mian sahib (Nawaz) betrayed me and went to court in memogate in order to label me a traitor," Asif Ali Zardari said. (Photo: AFP)

Sharif brothers tried to assassinate me twice: Zardari

Zardari said that the Sharif brothers plotted his murder during his corruption cases sentence.

22 Oct 2017 3:34 PM

Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26-year-old reporter of Daily Nai Khaber and Metro News TV channel, went missing on August 19, 2015, when some unidentified men allegedly kidnapped her while she was en route to her office.(Photo: Twitter)

Missing Pak journalist who fought for Indian national returns after 2 yrs

Zeenat Shahzadi was pursuing Hamid Ansari’s case, who had been jailed for illegally entering Pak to meet a girl.

21 Oct 2017 10:58 AM

‘Our leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, was wounded in one of the recent drone strikes in Afghanistan. He was wounded badly, and today he was martyred,’ Asad Mansoor, a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesman, said by telephone. (Photo: AFP)

Leader of Pakistani militant group Jaamat-ul-Ahrar killed in US drone strike

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has planned some of the deadliest suicide bombings in Pakistan over the last year.

20 Oct 2017 11:52 AM

The 30-day detention will be applicable from October 24. Saeed’s aides - Abdullah Ubaid, Malik Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Hussain, may walk out free on the expiry of their September 25 detention. (Photo: File)

Mumbai 26/11 terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest extended by 30 days

Saeed’s accomplices may walk out free upon the expiration of their detention.

19 Oct 2017 5:00 PM

Kacmaz Mesut, his wife and two young daughters were picked up in September by plain-clothed officers, blindfolded and bound before being loaded into trucks and taken away. (Photo: Twitter)

Days after disappearance, Turkish teacher, family deported from Pakistan

They were suspected of being targeted for allegedly having ties with Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet group.

16 Oct 2017 7:17 PM

An official of the Home Department of Punjab government told a three-member federal judicial review board headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan of the Supreme Court that the government did not require the extension of Saeed and his four accomplices' detention any more. (Photo: File)

Pak withdraws request for extending detention of Hafiz Saeed under anti-terror law

On Jan 31, Saeed and his 4 aides were detained by Punjab govt for 90 days under preventative detention under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.

15 Oct 2017 10:18 AM

Asif, while speaking at the Asia Society forum in New York on Tuesday, acknowledged that Saeed, the Haqqanis and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are 'liabilities' for the country but it does not have the required 'assets' to get rid of them. (Photo: File)

Hafiz Saeed sues Pak FM for Rs 100 mn over 'darling of US' comment

Saeed and his four aides were placed under house arrest in Lahore on January 30 under the anti-terrorism act.

01 Oct 2017 10:50 AM

Members of the Pakistan and World XI teams pose at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore before the start of the second T20. (Photo: AFP)

Babar Azam, Ahmed Shehzad fire Pakistan to 174/6

Sethi said the itinerary for the matches against West Indies would be announced soon.

14 Sep 2017 1:28 AM

International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson, left, addresses a news conference with Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Seth in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Pakistan have made big strides, says ICC

Richardson said he hoped Pakistan — who also hosted Zimbabwe in 2015 — would be able to build on the current tour.

14 Sep 2017 1:23 AM

Workers clean Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, which has witnessed both history and controversy — and is now preparing to retake the world stage. (Photo: AFP)

Tales of tragedy, triumph from Gaddafi Stadium

Gaddafi Stadium, which has witnessed both history and controversy — and is now preparing to retake cricket’s world stage.

09 Sep 2017 1:53 AM

JuD chief challenges extension of detention

Apparently frustrated with not getting a decision from the Lahore high court that had on June 7.

01 Sep 2017 6:10 AM

Pakistan's Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif (Photo: AFP)

After Trump's criticism, Pak's Shahbaz Sharif says 'it's time to say goodbye to US aid'

Several religious groups took out protest rallies and held demonstrations across Pakistan against Trump s threatening statement.

26 Aug 2017 7:57 PM

Qari Mohammad Yakub Sheikh is the representative of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in the Difa-e-Pakistan Council. (Photo: ANI/twitter)

Pakistan: Noted terrorist in US to contest from Sharif's constituency

Born in Bhawalpur in 1972, Yakub was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by US Treasury Department in 2012.

21 Aug 2017 9:32 AM

The petitioner's lawyer Azhar Siddique filed the plea in the Lahore High Court, saying that Mr Sharif during his four-day homecoming rally from Islamabad to Lahore last week made verbal attacks on the five Supreme Court judges who disqualified him in the Panama Papers case. (Photo: AP)

Notices issued to ex-PM Sharif, 13 leaders for ridiculing SC judges

The petition said that during Sharif made a number of anti-judiciary speeches on his way to Lahore from Islamabad.

15 Aug 2017 8:10 PM

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses supporters in Lahore on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Nawaz Sharif vows to end the ‘virus’

Nawaz says to replace old system, which led to unceremonious removal of PMs.

14 Aug 2017 1:39 AM

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