ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on the security situation here on Friday. The meeting was attended by the country’s top military and civilian brass including Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, DG ISI Lt. … read more
ISLAMABAD: Talks between the national flag carrier and its’ association of pilots (PALPA) appeared to have hit a snag on Friday with the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) chairman absent from a Senate Standing committee session called to broker a truce … read more
SHEIKHUPURA: Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif on Friday has inaugurated 1180MW Bhikki Power Plant in Sheikhupura. While addressing a gathering he said that he stood by the promise of ending load-shedding by 2018. He said that the previous governments took … read more
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Friday named a 15-man squad for the two-test series against the West Indies starting in Galle on October 14: Sri Lanka’s Test squad: Angelo Mathews (capt), Lahiru Thirimanne, Kaushal Silva, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dinesh Chandimal, Kusal Perera, … read more
ZURICH: The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of civil society organisations, has won the 2015 Nobel peace prize. Announcing the prize, the chairman of the Nobel committee said the group had made a “decisive contribution to the building of … read more