KAKUL: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reviewed the 129th PMA long course passing-out impressive parade at the military academy on Saturday here, Geo News reported. Earlier, the chief guest of the ceremony, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his arrival at the Kakul Military Academy was given a warm welcome and presented an impressive guard of honour….

PESHAWAR: A series of explosions took place early Friday in the weapons depot of the Frontier Corps’ Khyber Rifles in the Khyber tribal region. The depot is located in a fort in Khyber’s Landi Kotal area and the explosions took place there at about 1 am and later at 4 am. Area residents heard the…

DERA GHAZI KHAN: A bus ran over 24 people standing by Indus Highway at Notak Adda on Thursday. Of them 14 died at the crash scene while 10 sustained injuries, Kot Chhutta police said. The people who died under the Dera Ghazi Khan-to-Karachi bus included four women and 11 men. The deceased were identified as…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) firebrand leader Faisal Raza Abidi on Thursday resigned from Senate membership. He handed over his resignation to Deputy Chairman Sabir Baloch after criticizing the upper house of the parliament for not providing him ‘justice’. Mr Baloch asked him to hold a press conference he wanted to make a political speech….

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has enlisted the assistance of keen legal minds as it seeks to answer key questions about the rights and modalities of adoption for parentless or deserted children in Islam. “The answers to these questions could have far-reaching consequences and it is necessary to seek assistance before an order is passed,” Chief…

Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on Thursday said the constitution is supreme and parliament has no authority to legislate against it. He gave these remarks while presiding over a three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) during the course of hearing of 3-G case. He also observed, “This is case of 10.3 trillions. State is protector…

ISLAMABAD: The auction of next generation 3G and 4G licences is expected to fetch the national exchequer $1.3 billion and create employment opportunities for about 100,000 people, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday. “We are satisfied by the response from cellular service providers,” the finance minister said a press briefing convened to discuss his…

Karachi – 16 April, 2014: As the number of polio cases in Pakistan reached 49 so far this year more partners come forward to protect the children and rid Pakistan and the world of the menace of the this debilitating disease. To create an enabling environment for polio eradication in Pakistan, ZonG and UNICEF signed today…

Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to a new extreme today. It’s starting to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android, and will instead have to download Facebook Messenger to chat on mobile. Facebook-Messenger Facebook’s main apps have always included a full-featured…

  Lahore, April 14, 2014:  Ufone once again announced the launch of ShahCar Offer 2014. With this mega offer, 20 lucky Ufone customers will get a chance to win 20 brand new Toyota Corolla (via lucky draw). Keeping its tradition, Ufone always takes pride to lead and introduce the first of its kind and the most…

Telenor, Mobilink, Ufone and Zong are submitting their sealed bids for 3G and 4G licenses today to leave behind Warid, the only operator in the market to have not participated in the bidding process. Market sources confirmed ProPakistani that four operators are submitting their sealed bids today in order to qualify for the final bidding…

LOS ANGELES: A lawyer for “X-Men” director Bryan Singer dismissed as “fabricated” and absurd claims Thursday that the filmmaker sexually assaulted a former child model and aspiring teenage actor. The lawyer also pledged to counter-sue the 31-year-old alleged victim, who gave details of his allegations dating from 15 years ago at a Beverly Hills press…

TOKYO: Hatsune Miku, a computer-generated Japanese pop star who performs as a hologram, is to support some of Lady Gaga´s tour of North America next month, the US songstress has announced on Twitter. The pixel-perfect pop princess, whose voice is also the product of digital code, will perform in 3D alongside a band made of…

LAHORE: A sessions court on Monday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to file a case against film actress Meera and Capt Naveed over uploading on social media a ‘controversial video clip’, DawnNews reported. During the hearing, police said that the right to register a case against Meera and Naveed was within the jurisdiction of…

In these days it is a great news for Cricketer’s Fans Club that Right-Handed batsman and Wicket Keeper ‘Umar Akmal’ has got married to ‘Noor Amna’ who is daughter of former leg spinner ‘Abdul Qadir’. Umar Akmal wedding news revolved on social media on 12th April and now Umar Akmal wedding pictures have revealed. Wicket…

Rizwan Beyg proved to be a fitting opening act on the last and final day of the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week 2014 with accessory pieces from his truck art collection shown earlier after converting it to fabric digital print called Digitruck by playing around with the base design and no doubt product longevity issues. It…

ATTINGAL: ”I have a surprise for you. Please wait till evening,” reads a message sent by Nino Mathew to his lover Anu Santhi, after calling her before setting out to commit the murders. His target was actually Lijeesh, her husband. However, he killed Omana and Swastika before Lijeesh came home as he wanted to eliminate…

Ask any Pakistani woman, and she’ll tell you it doesn’t take much to cross the line between banter and lewdness: an inappropriate touch, an unwanted remark, or even indecent flirtation. With women often advised to stay mum in the face of abuse, sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions in Pakistan. Crouched on the edge of…

I’m motivated to write this blog because of a death threat that was bought to my attention, posted on to a news update on the teenage activist, Malala Yousafzai. Since web 2.0 sites have become popular with middle class Pakistanis over the last four years, the criminal Pakistani trend of making death threats has migrated…

Rare diseases are known to affect every one in 10 people, so it is safe to assume we all know at least one person who has a condition that has no treatment, cure or support available, locally or globally. Millions suffer from thousands of rare and genetic diseases and due to a lack of awareness…

A recent survey conducted by Pew Research has stirred the dreaded old debate on whether internet users in Pakistan care much about internet censorship. The result from the survey reportedly reveals that people surveyed in Pakistan were least supportive of an open internet. The media reporting of the survey has largely focused on how “Pakistanis…