LONDON , MAR 22, (DNA) – UK police are investigating a “firearms incident” near the British Parliament in London. London’s Metropolitan Police said they were called at approximately 2:40 pm to reports of an incident near Westminster Bridge. It is being treated as a firearms incident and police are on the scene, police said on Twitter. The incident occurred as parliament was in session. Proceedings in the House of Commons were suspended. Dozens of MPs remain in the House. The London Underground station of Westminster is closed because of theRead More

ISLAMABAD, MAR 22, (DNA) – Pakistan’s Interior Minister has on Wednesday said that social media isn’t more important than ‘my religion and my faith’. He said that if social media persists on the same path, ‘especially the international social media, we’ll have to take the strictest action. Talking to media in Islamabad today, Nisar said that he wouldn’t care about any threats on the subject. “If they say they’d do something if I do this or that thing, it’s pointless. Stop speculating and stop warning me. I haven’t yet made itRead More

MAR 22, (DNA) -Namaz-e- Janaza of Shaheed Maj Mudasar Sagheer and Shaheed Matiullah who embraced shahadat during exchange of fire with terrorists in Orakzai today offered at Corps HQ Peshawar. Corps Comd Peshawar Lt Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt and other Civil / military officials attended. Jasde Khakis will be taken to their native areas where they wil be burried with full military honour.

ISLAMABAD, MAR 22, (DNA) – Islamabad High Court (IHC) Judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on Wednesday revealed that the court would take a decision about whether social media websites in Pakistan, providing a platform to blasphemous content, should be banned or not during the next hearing on March 27. The court, while hearing a case pertaining to the dissemination of blasphemous content through social media, also asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to submit its latest findings in this regard in the form of a report next Monday. Blasphemous content:Read More

MAR 22, (DNA) – Army chief General Qamar Jawed Bajwa vowed to eliminate terrorism from the country in a patriotic Pakistan Day. The military’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Wednesday released a video a day before the 77th Pakistan Day. In the video, Gen Bajwa urges Pakistanis to promise to cleanse the country of ‘fasaadis’ [terrorists]. Chinese, Turkish troops to participate in Pakistan Day parade: ISPR The video begins with a patriotic song by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, following which Gen Bajwa appears stating, “March 23, 1940,Read More

ISLAMABAD, MAR 22, (DNA) -Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui Wednesday said Facebook could be closed in Pakistan if the management of social media platform does not cooperate on the country’s request. Hearing a case against blasphemous content on social media, Justice Siddqiui said the court may order the government to conduct a referendum to elicit public opinion if they want social media or not. Appearing before the court, Secretary Interior Arif Khan said the case made progress as some people have been arrested and intelligenceRead More