ISLAMABAD: A fire broke out Wednesday on stalls at a Sunday Bazaar in the federal capital’s Peshawar Mor in H-9 Sector. The extent of the fire was so massive that it rapidly engulfed shops leaving over 150 burnt. No causalities have been reported following the incident. Rescue sources said that the blaze is reported to have caught the bazaar’s gate number seven at Srinagar Avenue section engulfing and damaging several shops, which sell carpets and second-hand clothing for the winter season — many of which have been reportedly burnt toRead More

ISLAMABAD, DEC 07 (DNA) — Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zaradri has reached Indonesia’s Bali on official visit. The foreign minister will hold meeting with his Indonesian counterpart and will participate in two multilateral events including 15th Bali Democracy Forum and an international conference on Afghan women’s education. In the 15th Bali Democracy Forum, the foreign minister would underscore Pakistan’s commitment to democratic values and the importance of democracy in responding to modern-day challenges. At the International Conference on Afghan women’s education, Bilawal would highlight Pakistan’s efforts for lasting peace and development inRead More

ISLAMABAD, DEC 07 (DNA) — An Economic Expert Syed Sardar Ahmed Shah Wednesday stressed the need to introduce a comprehensive political, social, economic, and agriculture reforms for revamping the system to yield desirous results. Delivering a lecture here on political, socio-economical condition of the country, he being an economic expert had expressed his views and shared experiences by living in European and Central Asian countries to make the life successful. He said China and European Countries had made educational, social, political and economic reforms by achieving success in the structural betterment toRead More

ISLAMABAD, DEC 7: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Wednesday party’s chairman Imran Khan decided to announce the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)  assemblies within the next few days. “Today, the party and the party’s leadership has given the authority to Imran Khan [for the assembly’s dissolution]. Imran Khan now intends to dissolve the assemblies soon so that the process can be taken forward,” he said while addressing a press conference along with the party’s top brass. Qureshi said as a result of Khan’s back-to-back consultative meetingsRead More

ISLAMABAD, DEC 07 (DNA) — Hours after the Islamabad police notified a JIT, the Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected it directing the government to form a new Joint Investigation Team comprising intelligence officials to probe the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder.  A five-judge larger SC bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Justice Mazahir Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar held a suo motu hearing on the Arshad Sharif murder case. During the hearing, the court was toldRead More

ISLAMABAD: /DNA/ – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhary said that the imported government wrecked the fast thriving economy, the governance and the hard-won peace in the country in the daily’s war to save their rule. In a statement on Wednesday, Fawad Chaudhary stated that the terrorist incidents witnessed an alarming 52 percent upsurge since the imported government was imposed on the nation. Fawad Chaudhary went on to say that the imported government had nothing to do with the country but they were just busy in the warRead More