RAWALPINDI, OCT 10 (DNA) – Pakistan army has announced the appointments of newly promoted Lt Generals including the new chief of Inter Services Intelligence. Lt Gen Azhar Saleh Abbasi: Chief of Logistics Staff, GHQ Lt Gen Asim Munir: DG ISI Lt Gen Nadeem Zaki: Comd Mangla Corps. Lt Gen Shaheen Mazher: Comd Peshawar Corps. Lt Gen Abdul Aziz: Military Secretary GHQ Lt Gen Muhammad Adnan: VCGS (B). Lt Gen Waseem Ashraf: IG Arms. Lt Gen Abdul Aziz, Lt Gen Nadeem Zaki, Lt Gen Asim Munir, Lt Gen Muhammad Adnan, LtRead More

LAHORE (DNA) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will stage protests outside Punjab Assembly and Parliament against its president Shehbaz Sharif’s arrest in Ashiana Housing scandal. According to details, former National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq has summoned a joint session of MNAs and senators outside Parliament’s gate number 1 to discuss the strategy of the protest. On October 5, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam. The former chief minister of Punjab was charged with awarding illegal contracts to his favorite firm. TheRead More

ISLAMABAD, OCT 10 (DNA) – Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, visited Islamabad on October 9 in his first visit to Pakistan since being named Special Representative by Secretary of State Pompeo. During his stay in Pakistan, Special Representative Khalilzad met with key officials in the government of Pakistan. He consulted with Pakistani leaders on how best to achieve a durable political settlement in Afghanistan.  Special Representative Khalilzad reiterated that peace in Afghanistan is vital to the long-term stability of Pakistan and the wider region. After departing Pakistan,Read More

PRAGUE,  (DNA) – A young Bulgarian man was sentenced to 40 months in jail by a Czech court Tuesday over messages threatening terror attacks in Pakistan unless Islamabad freed a woman arrested with heroin in the country. The regional court in Plzen, west of Prague, found 21-year-old Nikolai Simeonov Ivanov guilty of sending the threats by email and text message to a television channel and news website in Pakistan. The threats demanded the release of a Czech woman he knew, named as Tereza H, who had been arrested in JanuaryRead More

ISLAMABAD: (DNA) – A day after the Supreme Court of Pakistan disposed of Pakpattan DPO case following an unconditional apology from the Punjab chief minister and others, the prime minister on Tuesday removed the provincial police chief in violation of the superior judiciary’s rulings in AD Khawaja and Anita Turab cases and in breach of the PTI’s commitment of depoliticising the bureaucracy. Informed sources said the transfer order of reputed IGP Muhammad Tahir Khan was issued when he refused to change some police officers in the province on the whimsRead More