Sunday, June 24th, 2018
PML-N fields candidates to challenge Chaudhry Nisar
RAWALPINDI: (DNA) – Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Sunday filed candidates to challenge former interior minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan who is at loggerheads with Nawaz Sharif. Chaudhry Nisar will be running on two national and two provincial assembly seats in the general elections that are scheduled to take place on July 25 According to the second list issued by the party, PML-N has awarded ticket to Raja Qamarul Islam for NA-59 and PP-10. Mumtaz Khan has been given the ticket contest in NA-63. The party has named Faisal QayyumRead More
SC wants special cell formed to investigate missing persons’ cases
KARACHI, June 24 (DNA): The Supreme Court ordered on Sunday the establishment of a special cell to investigate cases of missing persons. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had earlier taken suo motu notice of the missing persons and ordered the authorities concerned to locate them immediately. Over 50 missing persons’ families were present at the SC’s Karachi Registry on Sunday, where they submitted petitions asking to know their loved ones’ whereabouts. The chief justice ordered the authorities concerned to take action based on the petitions. During the hearing, the petitioners became rowdy and slammed theirRead More
How former prime minister of Pakistan and his sons have ploughed millions into London’s swankiest addresses to amass a vast property empire
LONDON(DNA) -The address could not be swankier. Avenfield House lies in the heart of Mayfair, near the top of Park Lane, with a view of Hyde Park. It is just the kind of property that Russian oligarchs have pounced upon in recent years. But while it is owned by a family of foreign plutocrats with powerful political connections, they are no Putin cronies. For Avenfield is where Pakistan’s super-rich former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has lived when in London since 1993, knocking four luxury flats together to make a singleRead More
Soldier martyred in terrorists’ fire raid in North Waziristan
Terrorists attempted fire raid on troops busy in fencing along Pak-Afghanistan Border west of Gurbaz, North Wazirstan. Sepoy Niaz Ali embraced shahdat while a Junior Commissioned officer injured . Sep Niaz Ali age 29 years, Married and resident of Distt Mardan
Strategic importance of Baluchistan and foreign involvement
By: MustansarKlasra The largest province of Pakistan, Balochistan, consists of 43.6 percent of total area, least literate and has a 12.34 million (2017) million population only 6.56 percent of total population of Pakistan. Being poorest yet it provides significant share of national gas supply for industrial and domestic use, consisting of 200 coal mines that plays a significant role in industrial phase. It got the status of province after 23 years of British withdrawal in 1970. Enjoying the longest and deepest coast line of the Arabian Sea, it has gained importanceRead More
Election duties: Impossible for Army to spare 350,000 personnel: ex-generals
ISLAMABAD: (DNA) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) admits that the security situation is now much better compared to 2013 but still it has decided to make a heavy deployment of army troops for the July 25 elections as it doesn’t want to take any chances. “Our first and foremost priority is to hold the polls in a totally peaceful environment wherein the voters are free to exercise their right of franchise. We don’t want to take any risks,” ECP spokesman Altaf Khan said when contacted by The NewsRead More