PRA wants YouTube, Dailymotion registered
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Thursday served separate notices to two international video-sharing websites — YouTube and Dailymotion — and a local website Mustakbil...
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PakistanSeminary torched in 2013 riots to ‘reopen’ days before Muharram
RAWALPINDI: The newly-built Taleemul Quran seminary and its attached mosque, which burned down during riots in the garrison city three years ago, is set to be inaugurated – with the permission of the district administration – on Sept 29, just a couple of days before the start of Muharram...
The seminary and mosque were torched along with a nearby cloth market during violence that led to the clamping of curfew in Rawalpindi on Nov 15,...
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PakistanRawalpindi Police gear up for Muharram
RAWALPINDI: Police in the garrison city are gearing up for Muharram...
He was chairing a police officers’ meeting, which outlined a security plan for Muharram...
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ArchiveSOPs chalked out for Muharram processions in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI:The district administration on Thursday asked the law enforcement agencies to provide foolproof security to Majalis and mourning processions...
“No one is allowed to establish Sabeel stall without permission of the district administration and the organisers of the mourning processions would ensure timings set by the administration,” saidDeputy Commissioner Dr Hassan Waqar Cheema while presiding over the meeting to chalk out...
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PakistanForeign tourists to Pakistan more than triple since 2013
Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) data showed that international tourists have more than tripled since 2013 to 1...
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WorldJapanese reporter died in 2013 after 159 hours of overtime
NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her mobile phone...
Sato covered Tokyo assembly elections for the broadcaster in June 2013 and an upper-house vote for the national parliament the following month...
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PakistanECP rejects PTI claim of manipulation of 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan rejected on Wednesday Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s claim that the 2013 general elections were systematically manipulated or influenced by design...
Fafen also accepted its mistake and issued a clarification on May 14, 2013, and never repeated the claim in its final report on the general elections...
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PakistanECP asked to provide details of ballot papers printed for 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ombudsman’s Secretariat has taken notice of the refusal by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide record pertaining to ballot papers printed for 2013 general elections to an applicant, observing that it was not justified and amounted to a violation of spirit of the Freedom of Information Ordinance (FIO) 2002...
2013 by the federal Ombudsman’s institutional reforms act, 2013,” the communiqué sent to...
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ArchiveTurkey acquits all 26 leaders of 2013 protests
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Wednesday acquitted more than two dozen activists who helped launch mass protests in 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights campaigners...
The 26 suspects are all leaders of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group of civil society, union and political groups at the forefront of the May-June 2013 demonstrations that marked the biggest challenge yet to the dominance of the...
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PakistanECP rejects ex-official’s allegations of rigging in 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed allegations levelled by its former additional secretary Mohammad Afzal Khan that the 2013 general elections were massively rigged and said that no proof exists to substantiate his claims...
Afzal Khan claimed in a television interview that people’s mandate was stolen in the 2013 elections and he accused former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of being involved...
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ArchivePundits predict repeat of voting patterns from 2013 election
RAWALPINDI: The results of the cantonment board elections are likely to be a reflection of the results of the 2013 elections with Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N and Imran Khan’s PTI emerging as the two strongest parties...
In the 2013 general elections, PML-N won NA-52, where Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was the successful candidate, and NA-54 where Malik Abrar was victorious...
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BlogsI'm a Pakistani inmate at Guantanamo and here's why I'm on hunger strike since 2013
I began my hunger strike on May 9, 2013 which means that I have now been on strike for four years and four months...
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PakistanMost voters stay loyal to their 2013 favourites
LAHORE: Despite being witness to so many tumultuous political happenings since the last time the nation went to polls, a good number of voters in NA-120 still side with the party on the polling day they had voted for in 2013...
Ali Sufian of Mozang Adda said he voted for the PTI candidate in 2013 and did so again on Sunday...
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PakistanGen Kayani influenced 2013 election, says PTI's Naeemul Haque
On the show, Haque said a "grand scheme" had been hatched between Pakistan, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Kayani to make Nawaz Sharif win the 2013 election...
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PakistanCall to probe release of Rs480bn for clearing circular debt in 2013
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Monday adopted a special report by a house committee recommending a probe by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) into the dubious release of Rs480 billion to independent power producers (IPPs) to clear the circular debt in 2013...
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