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ISLAMABAD: Amid plans to appoint a serving army general as the head of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) for three years, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday barred the health ministry from appointing a `deputationist` as the head of the state-run hospital. The IHC direction...

The caretaker government approached the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday , challenging its verdict of declaring the trial of civilians in military courts illegal, Aaj News reported. In their intra-court appeals, the caretaker federal and provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan...

The families of martyrs on Wednesday urged the quarters concerned to restore the military courts to ensure speedy justice to the victims of terrorism as their abolition had further added to their pain. The development comes days after a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously declared...

ISLAMABAD: Amid reservations expressed by doctors who termed the move ‘unfortunate’, the caretaker government has decided to appoint serving officers of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps as the heads of the two largest state-run hospitals in Islamabad – the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences...

LAHORE: A Baloch student of the Punjab University (PU) was arrested by police and plainclothesmen from the gate of the New Campus on Friday, triggering protests and condemnation from human rights activists, students and Baloch nationalists. According to CCTV footage circulating on social media...

A five-member Supreme Court (SC) bench on Monday declared the military trials of civilians arrested in the wake of violent protests in the country on May 9 to be null and void. The court announced its verdict in the case a few hours after it was reserved. Justice Ijazul Ahsan had headed the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the 40 countries across the world where over 220 individuals and 25 organisations faced threats and retaliation from the state and non-state actors for cooperating with the United Nations on human rights, reveals a new report of the UN Secretary-General. The report...

ISLAMABAD: Director General (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum has been granted extension in service, an official source has confirmed to The News, putting to rest speculations in this regard. Summary in this respect was approved on late Thursday, September...

HARIPUR: The blanket ban on zip lines, imposed in the wake of the Battgram chairlift fiasco, has dealt a severe blow to local entrepreneurs in Haripur including Ali Swati, who rose to national fame with his daring rescue during the chairlift fiasco last month. Swati says he has suffered...

KHANEWAL: The cutting-edge corporate agriculture farming Sunday got a jumpstart by the defence forces in a multi-billion dollar move, aiming to ensure national food security and tapping the export market. “We launched a modern corporate farming project to take Pakistan’s agriculture to new...

LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Friday remanded the Punjab police public relations officer and his son in two-day custody of South Cantonment police in a case of alleged physical torture of a serving Tall and Graceful army officer. The police produced Nayab Haider and his son, Zargham Abbas...

Drunken major of Pak Army over ran 6 children in #GilgitBaltistan which led to death of 3. any other news on this matter will be appreciated.

RAWALPINDI: In a dramatic turn of events the student subjected to sexual assault by Rawalpindi police personnel has retracted her statement before a local court on Tuesday by giving clean chit to all four suspects. The four suspects identified as Muhammad Naseer, Rashid Minhas, Muhammad Azeem...

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has taken over Islamabad's former Benazir Bhutto International Airport, located on the outskirts of the adjacent city of Rawalpindi. PAF Base Nur Khan, which had previously shared the runway and taxiways with the airport, is now responsible for the large passenger...

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Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Thursday clarified that he "certainly" had not said that Dr Aafia Siddiqui does not want to come back to Pakistan. During his weekly press briefing, Dr Faisal claimed that his statement regarding Dr Siddiqui had been distorted and taken out of...

Islamabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 6th March, 2019) Rai Tahir has been restored as the Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) after being removed from the position following Sahiwal tragedy. Media reports said that Rai Tahir has been restored to the...

ISLAMABAD: Contrary to its much-trumpeted austerity drive, the PTI government is considering a hefty raise, more than 800 percent, in the salary of governors of all the provinces. Official sources said the finance ministry has been verbally asked to do the spade work for increasing the salary...

Lahore, Aug. 7 (TNS): Major Muhammad Tufail Shaheed remembered on his martyrdom anniversary on Tuesday. Major Muhammed Tufail Shaheed, the second recipient of Nishan-e-Haider, the highest military award of Pakistan was born in Hoshiarpur in 1914 and commissioned in the 16 Punjab regiment in...