ISLAMABAD, JAN 16 (DNA) – Federal Minister for Education and Literary Heritage Shafqat Mahmood launched the Arts & Culture Scholarship program in Thursday, in Islamabad, which is a unique initiative of the Ministry of Federal Education & Professional Training through National Endowment Scholarship for the Talent (NEST).   The program is aimed to promote Arts and Culture in Pakistan, including diverse fields like Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, Ceramics & Textile design.   Unfolding the details of the program Federal Minister Shafqat Mahmood recounted that the first stage of theRead More

Major General Asif Ghafoor has been Posted as GOC OKara whileMaj General Babar Iftikhar posted as DG ISPR .

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has on Thursday suspended membership of 318 lawmakers in both houses of parliament for not submitting annual statements of their assets by the last date. According to details, the list includes Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Allama Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul, PTI MNA Aamir Liaquat and others.

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Senator Sarfraz Bugti on Thursday has been arrested in a case pertaining to kidnapping of a minor girl. According to details, the senator was taken into custody after his bail plea was rejected by the court. It is to be mentioned here that a woman had lodged an FIR against Bugti accusing him of abducting her 10-year-old granddaughter on December 7. The court had given me the custody of the girl after the death of her mother and as per the legal orders, I brought my granddaughterRead More

Former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Thursday challenged the special court’s verdict in the Supreme Court. The petition comes days after the Lahore High Court had quashed the verdict given by the special court in the high treason case and declared the formation of the bench as “unconstitutional”. The petition stated that the former president’s absence from the special court was not intentional and Musharraf was unable to appear before the court as he was suffering ill health and he had attained permission to travel abroad for further treatment. It furtherRead More