Showing posts from June, 2024
Police personnel stand guard in this undated photo. — KP Police/filePESHAWAR: A policeman was wounded when armed rivals opened fire on an accused who was being taken to a local court.An official said constable Iqbal Hussain was hit on his head with a …
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-30/l_1205112_111600_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The entrance of the HEC building in Islamabad. — HEC websiteThe Higher Education Commission has announced that it will not validate degrees obtained…
The Peshawar High Court building. — PHC website/FilePESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Saturday disposed of the review petition of federal government to place the names of the wife and children of Dr Shakil Afridi on the Exit Control List .A two-mem…
Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur presides over a meeting at Chief Minister’s House on April 6, 2024. — Facebook/Ali Amin Khan GandapurPESHAWAR: The provincial government on Saturday took an unprecedented step and approved the establishment of a separa…
Participants pose for a group photo after a seminar organised by National Think-Tank and Good Governance Forum, in collaboration with the Institute of Management Sciences on June 29, 2024. — Instagram/imsciencesofficialPESHAWAR: National Think-Tank an…
An image of a Pakistan International Airlines plane. — APP/FileCHITRAL: After a year of hiatus, the national flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines resumed flight to Chitral from Islamabad on Saturday.There was a great euphoria among the people …
Representational image of a gun shot. — APP FilePESHAWAR: Hundreds of people are killed in blood feuds across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa every year as gun culture has recorded an increase while society is losing tolerance to settle issues at relevant forums.I…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-28/l_1204517_105216_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PTI leaders in National Assembly address media outside legislative on June 28, 2024. — Screengrab/Geo NewsThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has demanded …
A representational image showing flowers placed on coffins at a funeral. — AFP/FilePESHAWAR: Humayun Khan, the elder brother of senior Peshawar-based journalist Ehtesham Toru, passed away on Thursday.The funeral prayer was offered at Toru Adda Nawab S…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-27/l_1204190_112904_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Pakistani musician and social activist Shehzad Roy gestures for a photograph. — Facebook/Shehzad Roy/FilePakistani singer and social activist Shehza…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-27/l_1204187_105002_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PTI leader Omar Ayub Khan. — AFP/FileIn a surprise development, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Secretary-General has stepped down from his post to focus o…
Representational image of a police tape restricting a crime scene. — Reuters/FileBANNU: A police mobile van escorting provincial Minister Pakhtunyar Khan was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb at Kalakhel Masti Khan point on Dera Ismail Khan Road …
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-26/l_1203886_103720_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} A collage of PTI leader Arif Alvi and Defence Minister Khawaja Asif. — AFP/ X/@FarhatJaved/FileThe US House of Representatives' resolution seeki…
This screengrab taken on June 25, 2024, shows factions clashing violently at the Session Court of Sarai Alamgir. — Facebook/PTI Tiger ForceLALAMUSA: The usually solemn grounds of the Session Court of Sarai Alamgir turned into a chaotic battleground on…
The author of the book “Zooq-e-Perwaz” senior police officer Dr Fasihuddin poses for a photo on June 10, 2024. — Facebook/Fasihuddin PESHAWAR: The travelogue by senior police officer Dr Fasihuddin has been published.A press release said brought out by…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-24/l_1203145_105021_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose for a picture after meeting at the PM's Ho…
Jamaat-e-Islami North Punjab ameer Dr Tariq Saleem addresses ab event on June 22, 2024. — Screengrab via Facebook/Dr Tariq saleemLALAMUSA: Jamaat-e-Islami North Punjab ameer Dr Tariq Saleem has criticised the government for recent increase in electric…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-23/l_1202831_115713_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Representational image of a crime scene restricted with a police tape. — ReutersKARACHI: At least 10 mysterious deaths were reported in Karachi afte…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-23/l_1202830_110720_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PML-N's Javed Latif addressing a press conference in this undated photo. — APPPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz stalwart Javed Latif on Sunday claime…
A representational image of protesters holding a street demonstration. — X/@NDM_Official/FileMANSEHRA: People from different segments of society on Saturday announced to launch street agitation against issues including education, health, electricity a…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-22/l_1202544_114845_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan and former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Muhammad Zubair . —AFP/YouTube/Geo…
In this representational image, Agriculture Minister Ashiq Hussain Kirmani chairs a meeting, Punjab Agriculture Secretary Iftikhar Ali Sahoo is also present on March 20, 2024. — Facebook/Agriculture Department PunjabLAHORE: Punjab Minister of Agricult…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-21/l_1202194_112431_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Security personnel patrol with vehicles on a street in Quetta on March 25, 2020. — AFPTerrorists targeted a security forces’ vehicle in the Sadda ar…
PML-N central vice- president and MNA Sardar Mohammad Yousuf speaks during a gathering on November 30, 2023. — Facebook/Sardar Muhammad YousafMANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central vice- president and MNA Sardar Mohammad Yousuf on Thursday sai…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-21/l_1201877_120708_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Former finance minister Miftah Ismail and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. — Reuters/APPFormer Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Miftah…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-20/l_1201771_120609_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Federal Minister for Interior, Mohsin Naqvi and Energy Minister Awais Leghari exchange views with KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur during a meeting held in I…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-20/l_1201767_112337_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch addresses a weekly press briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, on November 17, 2…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-19/l_1201520_112348_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} A Richter scale measuring earthquake. — Twitter/@AFPAn earthquake struck the coastal city of Karachi and its surrounding areas in the southern provi…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-19/l_1201443_032542_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The picture shows II Chundrigar Road in Karachi on April 14, 2024. — Geo.tvKARACHI: Southern parts of Sindh, including Karachi, area expected to rec…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-19/l_1201437_012339_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Senior journalist Khalil Jibran in this undated photo. — SuppliedUnidentified miscreants killed a senior journalist Khalil Jibran near his residence…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-18/l_1201424_113112_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} This handout photo from the Italian Coast Guard shows a sailboat off the coast of Calabria, Italy on June 17. — AFPTwo separate boat capsizing incid…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-18/l_1201395_023955_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb addressing media persons in Kamalia on June 18, 2024. —Screengrab/YouTube/Geo News KAMALIA: As Pakistanis strugg…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-18/l_1201383_114250_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} US President Joe Biden talks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the opening of the G-20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort is…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-18/l_1201376_094709_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The motorcycle involved in the accident can be seen damaged at the accident site in Lahore on June 18, 2024. —ReporterSHEIKHUPURA: At least five mem…
This representational image shows a journalist writing in a notebook. — Unsplash/FilePESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar have urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to take steps to protect the journalist community.They made the call while addressing the…
A representational image showing a protest. — AFP/FilePARACHINAR: A large number of people holding white flags on Saturday participated in a protest calling for the restoration of peace in Kurram tribal district.The participants carrying white flags m…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-14/l_1200443_113311_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PkMAP chief and PTI-SIC candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai addresses the press conference after presidential election on March 9, 2024. — Screengrab/Ge…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-14/l_1200433_105107_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad. — Instagram/@ahmad.farhad.officialMUZAFFARABAD: Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad walked free following release from prison on …
This representational image of a forest fire. — AFP/File SWABI. Precious trees were gutted when a wildfire broke out in the Mangalchai jungle, a mountainous region of Gadoon Amazai, on Wednesday night, Rescue 1122 officials said on Thursday.They said …
The Peshawar High Court building. — PHC website/FilePESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court ordered the admission of an under-trial prisoner to the Master of Law programme at the University of Peshawar on Thursday.A division bench of the PHC, comprising Jus…
Badgoi Top Pass connects Kumrat Valley, Upper DIR District with Utrot Valley Swat. — Facebook/offroadadventures1DIR: The Badgoi Top Road, a tourist spot and the shortest route between Upper Dir and Swat, has been reopened for traffic after five months…
This representational image shows an open manhole. — Unsplash/FileSUKKUR: The dead body of a missing child was recovered from a manhole in District Nawabshah. The five-year-old child Suleman went missing from his grandfather’s house in Azeem Colony of…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-11/l_1199435_114047_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. — Facebook/@ppppbalochistanAs the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz all set to …
Representational image of lawyers holding protests. — Geo tv/FilePESHAWAR: The lawyers here on Monday boycotted judicial proceedings in protest against the attack on a lawyer, Ali Zaman, and did not appear in courts.They observed the strike on the cal…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-11/l_1199100_011152_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs meeting of the National Economic Council on June 10, 2024. — PIDThe National Economic Council meeting has given…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-10/l_1199057_114710_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Federal Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif. — AFP/FileDefence Minister Khawaja Asif clarified on Monday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s congratu…
A representational image showing ambulances parked at an incident site. — Facebook/Rescue 1122 Punjab/FileDIR: Three persons were killed and one injured when a car plunged into the river in Sheringal area in Upper Dir on Sunday.Police and rescue offic…
Qaumi Watan Party provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao speaks during a press conference. — APP/File CHARSADDA: Qaumi Watan Party provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao on Saturday warned the government against undoing the 18th Cons…
KP police personnel during a search operation in KP on January 2, 2024. — Facebook/KPK PoliceNOWSHERA: The registered a case and started conducting raid to arrest the accused involved giving a bogus cheque for transaction of land of Pakistan People’s …
MPA Sher Ali Afridi can be seen in this. — Provincial Assembly of KP Website/FilePESHAWAR: Two traffic police officials have been suspended after they issued a traffic violation ticket to a member of the provincial assembly .The incident, involving MP…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-08/l_1198360_113743_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} People hold a protest rally against the killing of Journalist Nasarullah Gadani in Hyderabad on May 26, 2024. — INPGHOTKI: The "prime suspect&q…
Former deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Suri. — PID FileISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered to issue an advertisement to summon former deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Suri after he once again failed to appear before the court i…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-07/l_1197955_112025_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Pakistan´s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi at the Lahore High Court in Lahore on July 17, 2023. — AFPISLAMABAD: After idd…
The Khyber Institute of Child Health Peshawar entrance seen in this image. — KICH Website/File PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Paediatric Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has expressed concern over the halting of funds for the under-construction children’s hospi…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-06/l_1197334_012430_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The United Nations headquarters building is seen from inside the General Assembly Hall in New York, US on September 21, 2021. UNITED NATIONS: The UN…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-05/l_1197223_110448_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong on June 5, 2024. — X/@CMShehbazPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif accompani…
MNA Sahibada Sabghatullah , MPA Anwar Khan and Deputy Commissioner Irfan Ali clapping during a six-day inter-departmental sports festival at the Dir Sports Complex, this image released on June 4, 2024. — Facebook/Sahibzada Sibghatullah DIR: A six-day …
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-05/l_1196991_024448_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The factory can be seen on fire. — Screengrab of Geo NewsA fire erupted late at night at a paint factory near Karol Ghati in Lahore, causing a serie…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-04/l_1196861_111839_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} The Islamabad High Court building in Islamabad. — APP/FileISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday halted the implementation of the death sent…
Students are leaving after school timing. — Online/File PESHAWAR: Office-bearers of Hub of Private Education , a body of private education institutions’ owners, rejected the taxes on private educational institutions here on Monday.Speaking at a press …
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-04/l_1196613_023907_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Dr Aafia, a Pakistani neuroscientist imprisoned in a Texas jail. — Geo News FileDr Aafia Siddiqui's attorney in US, Clive Stafford Smith, said t…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-03/l_1196486_104557_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} PTI founder Imran Khan and party's vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, — AFP/FileIn a major boost to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , the Islamaba…
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/updates/2024-06-03/l_1196484_102258_updates.jpg{FeedTitle}} Donkeys stand at the entrance of a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah, Punjab province, May 5, 2014. — ReutersQUETTA: At least 11 coalminers suffocated t…
This representational image shows a person drowning. — Unsplash/FileNOWSHERA: A young man, who was filming a TikTok video on the bank of River Kabul, accidently fell into the river at Jahangira and drowned.The victim, identified as Khalid Haider, son …
The Peshawar High Court building. — PHC Website/FilePESHAWAR: A division bench of the Peshawar High Court has restrained the provincial government from notifying the land settlement process in Upper and Lower Chitral districts.A bench consisting of Ju…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Parliamentarians Chairman Mahmood Khan exchange of views with Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on May 31, 2024. — Facebook/Mahmood KhanNOWSHERA: Governor Faisal Karim Kundi and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Parliamentarians Chairman Mah…
