• CDA board approves dumping site for rural area of Islamabad • Apartment scheme to be launched for overseas PakistanisISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) board on Thursday named the newly-constructed PWD interchange after nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan...
It also approved a dumping site for the rural area of Islamabad and a new apartment scheme for overseas Pakistanis...
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday sought details of the ministers and parliamentarians who availed accommodation in the Federal Lodges but did not pay rent and other service charges which cost the national exchequer Rs4...
As per audit objection, the Public Works Department (PWD) failed to recover dues from various occupants of the lodges...
PESHAWAR: A local accountability court on Monday acquitted an assistant executive engineer of Pak-PWD arrested by the National accountability Bureau on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income...
SENT TO JUDICIAL LOCK-UP: The judge of another accountability court, Asim Imam, on Monday sent to judicial lock-up four other Pak-PWD officials arrested last month on the charge of embezzling Rs190 million...
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has arrested a former executive engineer of Pak PWD (Public Works Department), Pervez Khan, on the charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income...
He is presently posted as director technical in the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation, Islamabad...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit called upon Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Wednesday for a briefing on the state of Pakistan-India relations...
The High Commissioner to India also briefed Foreign Office officials about the future of Pak-India relations in light of recent developments between the two countries...
Pakistan security forces on Friday destroyed a radio tower near the Pak-Afghan border, security sources said...
"The Umar FM Radio Tower was destroyed along the Pak-Afghan border by security forces," sources told DawnNews...
Foreign Office (FO) Spokesman Nafees Zakaria on Thursday said that Pakistan 'welcomed' the US president-elect Donald Trump's offer to mediate between Pakistan and India on the Kashmir dispute, Radio Pakistan reported...
Read more: Trump offers to help reduce India-Pakistan tensionsDuring a weekly press briefing in Islamabad, while responding to queries about the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential elections,...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday lodged a "strong protest" with Bangladesh authorities following a burglary in the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka...
The matter was reported to the authorities and a first information report was registered with police, the statement said, adding that the high commission had also requested the Bangladesh Foreign Office to heighten security around its building...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Afghan delegations met on Monday in the first senior-level talks aimed at reducing tensions at the Torkham border crossing along the Pak-Afghan border...
"A six-member Afghan delegation is being led by Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai," Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said, adding that the Pakistani side was being led by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry...
ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reaching here on Wednesday to meet officials of the new government in Pakistan, but his brief stay in the capital, analysts fear, could be tense...
It would be the first high-level visit from Washington since the new government assumed office...
Pakistan categorically rejected on Thursday the "unwarranted and preposterous" comments by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on the joint statement issued by Islamabad and Beijing following Prime Minister Imran Khan's recent visit to China...
The Foreign Office (FO) in Islamabad issued a statement today, rejecting Bagchi's remarks, terming New Delhi's claim over occupied Kashmir "baseless" and highlighting that there was...
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade on the Islamabad office of local television channel, ARY News, on Wednesday evening, injuring a channel staffer...
According to ARY News, the attackers also opened fire at the office, injuring a non-linear editor working for the news channel...
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children said that the government of Pakistan has allowed it to reopen its office on Wednesday...
Saeed Ahmed, the group's spokesman in Pakistan, said authorities removed a lock on the gate to the group's main office in Islamabad...
A joint investigation team (JIT) report on the Islamabad police chief's transfer has concluded that Federal Minister for Science and Technology Senator Azam Swati misused his office and was given special treatment by authorities...
Swati, a member of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), was accused of playing a role in the transfer of former Islamabad Inspector General of Police Jan Mohammad — an allegation over which the SC had...
KARACHI: In what appears to be a vague attempt to allay concerns about the likely shifting of the head office of the national flag carrier from Karachi, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said on Monday that the transfer of its employees to Islamabad did not “by any way [means] transferring the airline’s head office”...
Pilots, cabin crews, engineers and dozens of other staffs working at the PIA head office and settled in the...