ISLAMABAD, JAN 23 (DNA) – Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will participate in the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from 24-25 January 2018 on the invitation of the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Professor Klaus Schwab The Prime Minister will participate in a number of important events and hold bilateral meetings with key world leaders and Chairpersons/CEOs of fifteen leading multinational organizations from the US, Europe, China and Japan. He will interact with Heads of States and Governments inRead More

ISLAMABAD, JAN 23 (DNA) –  The Chief of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal presided over a high level meeting at NAB Headquarter on Tuesday. In the three months since taking charge, the new chairman of the apex anti-corruption watchdog has turned its eye towards the ‘big fish’. The meeting reviewed quarterly performance report issued by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), it noted that ever since Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal had been appointed to the body on October 11, 2017, — NAB has been turned into an active and effective institution. FromRead More

TEHRAN, JAN 23 (DNA) – Iran’s Navy on Tuesday fired the homegrown long-range cruise missile ‘Qadir’ for the first time from a warship to hit targets in the sea. On the second day of a massive exercise the Iranian Army has staged in a large area southeast of Iran , the Navy warships fired Qadir cruise missile to destroy the hypothetical enemy’s vessels at a long distance. It was the first offshore test firing of the Iranian cruise missile. Qadir long-range missile has a short setup and reaction time, fliesRead More

LAHORE, JAN 23 (DNA) – Punjab Police has arrested the main accused of the Zainab murder case and the reports of the forensic specialists has been revealed. Forensic specialists on Tuesday confirmed that the DNA sample fromaccused Imran matcheswith the sample found from Zainab ‘s body. Police in Kasur claimed earlier on Tuesday to have arrested the man responsible for the heinous rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab . The accused’s DNA also matches the samples taken from seven other minor girls who were abused and murdered earlier in the area. CHief Minister Punjab is expectedRead More

ISLAMABAD, JAN 23 (DNA) –  Syed Ali Asghar has been appointed as the new Prosecutor General of the National Accountability Bureau. The stalemate between the government and the NAB Chief has reportedly come to an end and federal government has appointed the NAB Prosecutor General on the recommendation of the NABChairman. A senior official in the Law Ministry has confirmed to Tribune with that the government has decided to appoint former Lahore High Court (LHC) judge Syed Ali Asghar as new PG NAB . The notification regarding his appointment will be issued soon. The Supreme Court hasRead More