The Supreme Court on Saturday issued a detailed verdict in a case pertaining to review petitions filed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa in the apex court against the verdict on presidential reference against him.

One police official was martyred and 13 were left injured after a blast took place near Balochistan University at Quetta's Saryab Road, the counter-terrorism department (CTD) said Monday.

Prominent religious scholar Maulana Adil Khan, along with a companion, were shot dead on Saturday in Karachi's Shah Faisal area, police said.

Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhry, while criticising the opposition, has said that the opposition parties should not interfere in the efforts to move Pakistan forward.

TIMERGARA - Ja­maat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Sat­urday said that the incumbent government had imposed censorship on freedom of speech and con­sequently many channels had been banned by the government.

ISLAMABAD - Paki­stani and Chinese lead­ers have agreed that Ba­lochistan was important to both the all-weather friends and the province was a key part of the Chi­na-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

ISLAMABAD - To mark the World Population Day, the Lower Dir Pop­ulation Welfare Department on Saturday organized free medical camps for women and children at far-flung ar­eas of Lower Dir district strictly observing the.

RAWALPINDI - The government has re­moved Superintendent Adiala Jail Saqib Na­zir Chaudhry along with many of his sub-ordi­nates on charges of cor­ruption and for not stop­ping sale of narcotics and gambling in the jail.

ISLAMABAD - The federal capital in the previous week recorded less than 100 novel coronavirus cases (COVID-19) with below 5 percent cases positivity ratio, The Nation learnt on Saturday.

Rawalpindi - A person died of novel coronavirus in the city here on Saturday.

Timergara - Al-Khidmat Foundation Dir Lower on Saturday inaugurated anti-bodies collection point at Al-Khidmat Hospital Zwal Baba which will provide facility of anti-bodies test to the people of Lower Dir district at a low-priced rate.

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the health department to resume polio eradication initiative from July 20 so that the crippling virus could be eradicated along with the ongoing drive to contain.

KARACHI - Sindh Governor Imran Ismail and Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Asad Umar discussed the issues of power loadshedding in Karachi in a high level meeting on K-Electric, on the.

KARACHI - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on Saturday visited the residence of late Minister Ghulam Murtaza Baloch and offered fateha.

SUKKUR - Vice Chancellor (VC), Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU), Khairpur Professor Dr Parveen Shah has said that population control is our collective responsibility.

BADIN - A large number of workers of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM)-Basheer Khan group from Sujawal district have announced to quit the party and vowed to live as patriotic Pakistanis in future.

KARACHI - Inspector General of Police Sindh Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar on Saturday directed SSP Korangi to submit a detailed report about the incident of firing on policeman in Korangi area of the city.

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) staged sit-in on Shahrah-e-Faisal near Nursery to castigate K-Electric’s unscheduled long hours load-shedding, issuance of inflated bills and proposed raise in power tariff on Saturday.

KARACHI - As many as 171 new cases of COVID-19 positive reported in last two days, around 2096 personnel and officers of Sindh Police have been infected with coronavirus so far, a spokesperson of Sindh Police said on.

ISLAMABAD-The government is likely to miss the tax collection target by around Rs1500 billion during ongoing fiscal year mainly due to inability of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and slowdown in economic activities due to coronavirus.

ISLAMABAD -The imports of plastic materials into the country witnessed decline of 7.

Riyadh -Top oil producers struggled to finalise production cuts during a virtual summit held by G20 energy ministers, despite US President Donald Trump’s mediation efforts to end a standoff with Mexico.

PCMEA wants committee formation to assess export industry situation LAHORE - The Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PCMEA) on Saturday called for constituting a committee comprising stakeholders and experts to assess export sector’s losses in the prevailing situation and formulate a policy accordingly for revival of the.

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LAHORE -Pakistan’s premier oil refining company, Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited (BPPL) has informed that it has resumed production.

ISLAMABAD-Petroleum Division (Ministry of Energy) has extended its unfailing support to government of Pakistan in the fight to curb COVID-19 pandemic in country.

LAHORE -According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) data, China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s biggest maker of telecoms equipment, has become the top corporate patent filer for the third consecutive year.

ISLAMABAD-Pakistan’s goods and services trade with Italy witnessed surplus of 15.

LOS ANGELES (Agencies): Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian, was hit and killed by a car in Los Angeles, authorities said.

The government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) is facing a lot of challenges due to the lack of expertise in governance, particularly those regarding basic necessities.

It has become a near regular occurrence; once or twice a year Maulana Abdul Aziz attempts to deliver sermons or forcefully occupy Lal Masjid, with the authorities managing to remove him shortly after.

Growing up in the Pakistan of 1980s, a time before Cartoon Network and HBO, one of my fondest childhood memories is Maa’a waking me up in the morning for school, just as Mustansar Hussain Tarar did the morning ‘Chacha gi’ show.

Ever since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution, which outlined the special status of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India has started adopting a drastically different approach towards that particular region.

A frontier region, then cramped between Safavids of Persia and Mughals of India, majority of the future Pakistan, along with present-day Afghanistan was often considered as an ideal buffer.

“Capitalism has suffered major ideological defeats and its best defence remains the lack of any plausible alternative.

It is fact that many young Baloch are jobless setting at home.

The Benazir income support programme that was started in 2008.

After the demise of Quaid e Azam, our politicians got sucked into an ugly struggle for power leading to conspiracies and backstabbing isolating them from public issues.

GUJRANWALA-Pakistan American Business Association (PABA), a business organization serving as an economic bridge between the United States of America and Pakistan since 1986, has announced that it will soon hold a Made in Pakistan exhibition in New York to promote the local products with special focus on products made in Gujranwala, Lahore and.

MULTAN-Punjab government has approved water supply scheme of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) worth Rs 1000 million while work on the project would be initiated soon.

FAISALABAD-Provincial Minister for Cooperative Mehr Muhammad Aslam Bharwana has said that reforms are being introduced in the cooperative department.

Pindi Bhattian-Four persons including two children have died in traffic mishap on Motorway M2 near Sukheki.

District admin serves notices to owners of 50 cattle pens MULTAN- The district administration Saturday issued notices to owners of 50 cattle pens to shift their animals outside urban area otherwise stringent action would be taken against them.

Toba Tek Singh-A teenager died when he got trapped in a spinning mills machine here at Nawan Lahore on Saturday.

MULTAN-Horticulture department of Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) was assigned the task to plant 100,000 shady trees in couple of month here across the districtAn official of the department informed that jurisdiction of horticulture was divided into four zones with each zone to plant about 12,500 trees every month to accomplish the target.

FAISALABAD-Police have arrested 14 person over one-wheeling, over speeding and road blocking in the city during last 24 hours.

FAISALABAD-Punjab Highways Patrolling Police Faisalabad region have set target of planting 100,000 saplings during a two weeks plantation campaign starting from February 15.

ATTOCK-Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Central Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that days of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government are numbered owing to its anti-people policies.

The announcement comes after Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benjamin ‘Benny’ Gantz.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA, Arif Alvi, said on Sunday that his party will rid Sindh province of thieves and plunderers.