ISLAMABAD: Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to be elected unopposed as senator as both the major opposition parties – PPP and PTI – backed out of earlier announcements that they would not leave the field open for the ruling party...
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), no one except Sardar Yaqoob Nasar filed the nomination papers for election to the vacant seat of...
Senator Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar was appointed interim chairman of the PML-N in a meeting of the party's central working committee in Islamabad on Thursday, credible sources within the party told DawnNews...
According to a source, Senator Nasar's name had been approved a day earlier by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif after the proposal did not meet much resistance from party leaders...
KARACHI: Siemens (Pak) Engineering Co has announced the plan to spin-off “Healthcare business”, the company said in a stock filing on Friday...
The spin-off plan was “due to the overall Siemens AG’s global strategy of reorganising the Healthcare Business in order to meet customer and industry needs”, it added...
LONDON: Reinventing Siemens is getting to be like restoring Cologne Cathedral: a project that never seems to be finished...
Siemens’ response has an air of stale familiarity about it too...
FRANKFURT: Siemens has signed deals to work on Iran’s railway infrastructure as it anticipates the lifting of Western economic sanctions against Tehran following a nuclear deal reached last year...
“After the sanctions are lifted, Siemens and Iran intend to engage in talks on improving infrastructure in the rail sector,” a Siemens spokesman said, declining to give further details about a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which was...
From a pool of 800 submissions from 86 countries, SABAQ is the only Pakistani startup to be among the 11 finalists for the empowering people Award (epAward) 2019 by the Siemens Foundation...
“SABAQ is extremely honoured to represent Pakistan on this prestigious international platform...
MUNICH: Under fire from climate protesters over his company’s part in a massive coal mine project, Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser hammered home the group’s green credentials at its annual general meeting Wednesday...
Siemens “did not see the whole picture correctly and in time” when agreeing to supply rail signalling equipment to the planned Carmichael mine in Australia, Kaeser told shareholders in Munich, as the chants of...
GUJRAT: Samia Shahid — a British citizen of Pakistani origin suspected of being a victim of honour killing — did not die of natural causes, according to a forensic report...
Samia Shahid, a dual national, died in July during a visit to her family village in Punjab...
"The abetment of Samia's mother and sister in the crime has also been proved but they have fled to the UK...
GUJRAT: The British national of Pakistani origin, Samia Shahid, who became the victim of honour killing, was raped by her former husband before being killed...
Chief of the investigation team DIG Abu Bakar Khuda Bakhsh has confirmed to Dawn that Samia had been raped by main suspect Chaudhry Shakil before being murdered by him which was revealed in the forensic report of the body...
GUJRAT: Jhelum police have reportedly sought extradition from UK, of the mother and sister of Samia Shahid, a British national of Pakistani origin who allegedly became a victim of honour killing here...
The sources say the police have also not been provided the travel history of the suspects -- Imtiaz Bibi and Madiha Shahid -- who as per the family’s claim and initial findings of Mangla police, arrived in Pakistan after death of Ms...
GUJRAT: The Jhelum Civil Lines police have arrested a maternal uncle of Samia Shahid, a British national of Pakistani origin who was slain for honour by her family, under forgery charges for getting her death certificate from a local union council...
Police said Nawaz had done so to save Shakil from charges of rape that had already been proved in the forensic report of Samia’s dead body and the DNA test of Shakil...
JHELUM: The former husband of Samia Shahid, a British Pakistani woman who died of ‘unnatural causes’ while visiting family here last month, has confessed to killing his ex-wife, sources in Punjab Police revealed to DawnNews on Saturday...
A police officer part of the investigation team, seeking anonymity, told DawnNews that Shakeel had confessed to strangling Samia to death after drugging her...
”Samia Shahid, a dual national, was murdered in July during a visit to her family village in Punjab province...
“There was a hearing into the bail application by Samia Shahid's father, but the court rejected it,” defence lawyer Mian Arif told AFP...
GUJRAT: The autopsy report of Samia Shahid, a British national of Pakistani origin who was allegedly murdered for ‘honour’ near Mangla on July 20, says there was a bruise mark on the neck and blood-stained froth was leaking from her mouth...