Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday stressed the urgent need to transform Pakistan’s higher education system into a driver of national development, innovation and economic growth, asking that universities must move beyond paper-based research to produce solutions with real-world impact. In his opening remarks at the National Leadership Dialogue […]
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has officially announced the schedule for winter vacations for judges, court staff and educational institutions. According to the notification, judges of the high court and subordinate courts will observe their winter break from December 29 to January 11, while court staff will be on leave from December 29 to January […]
The Sindh Police has launched a province-wide online application to record tenant information, officials said. The digitisation process is ongoing across several departments of the Sindh Police. The new system, named “Tenant Registration For Urban Security & Tracking”, is available on the Sindh Police’s official website, enabling property owners to easily register tenant information online. Under […]
Punjab Senior Minister Maryam Aurangzeb on Thursday announced the end of the nationwide transport strike after negotiations with transporters, stating that four joint committees would address the sector’s concerns. Transporters withdrew the strike after concluding negotiations with the Punjab government, following talks between representatives of the All Pakistan Transporters and Senior Minister Maryam Aurangzeb. The […]
The Pakistan-India May 2025 war is referenced in the November 2025 report produced by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission for the US Congress. This congressional commission monitors and reports on US-China relations and their national security impacts. In the report, the focus is maintained on Chinese-produced weaponry, emphasising that Pakistan’s success in the […]
The United Nations and aid groups warned on Wednesday that humanitarian operations in the Palestinian territories, particularly Gaza, were at risk of collapse if Israel does not lift impediments that include a “vague, arbitrary, and highly politicised” registration process. Dozens of international aid groups face de-registration by December 31, which then means they have to […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, while inaugurating the Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme 2025 distribution in Khyber-Pakhtunnkhwa, termed his initiative not only conferring laptops to students but rather, creating an ecosystem where the youth can unlock their potential and much deserved gain excellence. The prime minister inaugurated the much-anticipated Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme at a […]
Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri has accused Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar of committing misconduct by saying that he was facing “immense pressure” for expeditious disposal of quo warranto petition against him. Justice Jahangiri had moved an application in the Islamabad High Court through lawyer Akram Sheikh, requesting to refer the case […]
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has revealed before a parliamentary panel that it off-loaded 66,154 passengers this year to curb organised gangs of beggars and illegal immigrants from travelling abroad. “The spike in off-loadings is multi-faceted,” the FIA director general Riffat Mukhtar told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, […]
After dispersing a sit-in protest by the PTI outside Adiala Jail in the wee hours of Wednesday, authorities in Rawalpindi booked hundreds of people, including former prime minister Imran Khan’s septuagenarian sisters, under the country’s anti-terrorism law. Imran’s sisters — Aleema Khan, Noreen Khan and Dr Uzma Khan — along with senior party leaders came […]