ISLAMABAD, MAR 01 (DNA)  – Farooq Sattar on Thursday has challenged jurisdiction of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding hearing Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) convenership case. During the proceeding, Sattar’s lawyer challenged the decision to declare the petitions as admissible and requested to dismiss MQM leader Kanwar Naveed’s plea. The lawyer said that the solution to such issues is already present in party’s law, however, the ECP cannot hear such cases, he acontinued. ECP’s responsibility is to arrange elections for Senate, national and provincial assemblies, the added. Earlier, lawyers FaroghRead More

ISLAMABAD, MAR 01 (DNA) – Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb while addressing PML-N Youth Social Media Convention here Wednesday said that Imran Khan who was declared Sadiq and Ameen, submitted a fake NOC of the district administration in the Supreme Court in regards to the construction of his house in Bani Gala. She said that the person who had not learnt to talk properly during the last four and a half years, how could he deliver to the masses? Those who hurledRead More

DAMASCUS, MAR 01  (DNA) – An elderly Pakistani couple besieged in Syria has safely been evacuated through the Wafidin Corridor by the Syrian Red Crescent and is on their way to Pakistan. The couple, namely 72-year-old Muhammad Fazal Akram and 62-year-old Sughran Bibi was among the 400,000 civilians, caught in the siege put in place by Bashar al-Assad regime and were trapped in war-ravaged Syria for over seven years. Pakistan’s diplomatic machinery sprung into action in December through the staff deployed in Damascus which contacted the couple besieged in Eastern Ghouta,Read More