A PML-N lawmaker submitted on Monday a resolution in Punjab Assembly, seeking a ban on short video app TikTok in Pakistan. PML-N MPA Rabia Nusrat submitted the resolution. It stated that the short video app misguides the masses and is being used for insulting people. The indecent and vulgar language being used on TikTok will have a negative impact on...
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that he has been shifted home after being treated for the coronavirus and undergoing plasma therapy at Rawalpindi's Military Hospital (MH), but is yet to test negative. Qureshi had tested positive for the virus on July 3 and quarantined himself after developing a slight fever. In a tweet, he had said that he felt "strong...
The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday approved the screening of Sarmad Khoosat's Zindagi Tamaasha. In a post on Twitter, PPP Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokar, who chairs the panel said the Committee had has unanimously agreed with the censor board’s decision to allow the film to screen. “We’ve found nothing wrong with it. Censor board has our go-ahead to...
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday moved National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file a reference against Prime Minister Imran Khan for withholding funds for the Narowal Sports City Complex project. Talking to media in Narowal flanked by PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday, he said that former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)...
The National Accountability Bureau has approved fresh inquiries into a number of high-profile individuals including PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, while also ordering shut an illegal allotment probe against the latter due to a lack of evidence. The decision by the anti-graft watchdog came on Tuesday during a meeting in Islamabad of the executive board. The...
BRUSSELS: Human rights and India's relations with two of its neighbours, Pakistan and China, as well better relations for peace and elimination of border tensions for normalcy, are on the agenda of the upcoming 15th EU-India Summit. It also includes a discussion on the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. However, there is no mention of a free-trade agreement...
