Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif will pay an official visit to China from 4 – 8 July, at the invitation of the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, an official announcement said Friday. The Prime Minister will be accompanied by a high-level delegation for his first official visit abroad after assuming his office, the Foreign Ministry said. […]
The National Assembly Thursday passed “The Finance Bill‚ 2013” giving legal effect to the budgetary proposals for the next fiscal year. Finance Minister proposed amendments for incorporation in the Finance Bill including the one relating to collection and Levy of Sales Tax and Excise Duty as well as Income tax slabs. Amendments in the […]
Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif will undertake an official visit to China in the first week of next month, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said at his weekly briefing in Islamabad that this would be the first foreign trip of the Prime Minister since the new […]
Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan has said that the federal government has constituted an inquiry committee to probe emergency promulgated by former President Pervez Musharraf on 3 November 2007. Speaking in the National Assembly Thursday‚ he said the four-member committee will comprise of the FIA officers. These are Muhammad Khalid Qureshi‚ Muhammad Azam […]
The Foreign Ministry has authorized courier companies to receive documents for attestation (except Power of Attorney) from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all its Camp Offices located at four provincial headquarters. These are TCS, Gerry’s, OCS, UPS, Leopards. A statement said the Foreign Ministry will receive documents in respect of Rawalpindi / Islamabad and its […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved verdict about the beginning of high treason case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Earlier Attorney General Munir A. Malik informed the Supreme Court that an investigation team will be constituted shortly to probe emergency promulgated by former President Pervez Musharraf on 3 November 2007. He made […]
The government on Wednesday submitted a reply in the Supreme Court for the trial of former President Pervez Musharraf, saying that it will form a committee including members of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to collect evidence against the accused. Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, announced this week his government will pursue high treason case against […]
Pakistani Taliban Wednesday claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Sindh High Court Justice Baqar Maqbool’s convoy in Karachi which killed eight security men and injured the judge. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that the Taliban also carried out attacks on the local peace council chief in Bannu and a police […]
The chief of a local peace committee was killed in a bomb blast along with his son and nephew in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, police said. The vehicle carrying peace committee chief Malik Hashim Khan was targeted in the Zindi Falak Sher area of Bannu and was completely destroyed in the attack. The […]
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is due to undertake a three day visit to Sri Lanka starting from 27th of this month. This will be his second visit as he previously visited Sri Lanka in January 2011. During his stay in Sri Lanka, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will meet the […]
A bomb attack, targeting a senior judge, killed six police guards and a paramilitary soldier in Karachi on Wednesday, a minister said. Senior Judge of Sindh High Court Justice Maqbool Baqar was also injured in the blast, a police officer said. He was shifted to a private hospital. Doctors avoided sharing information with […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Tuesday assured the visiting US special envoy his government’s full commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, the PM office said. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador James Dobbins Ambassador met the Prime Minister after he arrived on a two-day visit to Islamabad as part his […]