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Pakistan to develop 'world-class' messaging app: IT minister

Pakistan has decided to develop a world-class social networking app with state-of-the-art security features, which will include all modern communication features including messages, voice calls and videos

Broadsheet’s claim about offer by Sharifs stirs controversy

Broadsheet LLC owner Kaveh Moussavi’s allegations that the Sharif family approached him with a bribe has made a splash in the media, as the state-owned news agency Associated Press of Pakistan ran a headline based on the lawyer’s claim in a video interview this week

Will offer them tea: Pakistan Army on opposition rally in Rawalpindi

Pakistan Army said on Monday that they will offer tea and snacks to opposition leaders if they come to Rawalpindi for their protest march, Dawn reported

'Covid second wave on decline in Pakistan due to government’s timely decisions'

Giving credit to the government's timely decisions, Pakistan's Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Monday that cases and mortality rate in the second wave of Covid-19 had started to decline in the country

Pakistan PM Imran Khan visits Quetta, meets families of slain coal miners

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Quetta where he met the families of the 11 coal miners who were killed by armed men in Balochistan's Machh area on January 3, the media reported on Sunday

Pakistan's COVID-19 cases exceed 500,000 mark

A total of 2,899 people have tested positive of COVID-19 in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, taking the overall infection tally to 502,416, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Sunday

Power distribution system breakdown plunges Pakistan into darkness

Hundreds of millions of Pakistanis were left without power due to a technical fault in the country's power distribution system, government officials said on Sunday

Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrives in Quetta after Hazara miners laid to rest

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan reached Quetta on Saturday, hours after coal miners from the Hazara community — brutally killed in an attack on January 3 — were laid to rest at the city's Hazara Town cemetery. He is expected to meet the families of the miners

Pakistani Punjab again sees highest number of deaths in 24 hours: NCOC

Pakistan's National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday once again reported that the most coronavirus related deaths in the last 24 hours occurred in Punjab

“Don’t blackmail,” Pakistan PM Imran Khan to Hazara protesters

As the Hazara protesters continued their protest for the fifth day in Quetta,  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday told them not to “blackmail the prime minister” like this, Dawn reported

Bilawal Bhutto re-elected as PPP chairman

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has been re-elected unopposed as chairman of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for another four years, the media reported on Friday

Lahore ATC sentences LeT's Lakhvi to five years imprisonment for terror financing

A Lahore Anti-Terrorism (ATC) on Friday sentenced Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, leader of proscribed organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs300,000 in a terrorism financing case

Islamabad ATC sentences three to death for sharing blasphemous content on social media

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday sentenced three men to death for sharing blasphemous content on social media

Pakistan-US hold consultations over strategic defence dialogue

A US delegation visited the General Headquarters (GHQ) on Thursday to hold formal consultations on Pakistan-US Strategic Level Defence Dialogue, said a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)

Pakistan, Bahrain pledge to keep working for better relations

Pakistan and Bahrain pledged to keep working for better relations between the two brotherly countries, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) on Friday stated