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On April 16 2015, the National Assembly IT Standing Committee passed Version 4 of the draft of the Pakistan Electronic Cybercrime Bill Pakistan. The current revision of the bill, now known as the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill Pakistan , is linked below. Post-2014, the consultation process was undertaken behind...

Good News for Pakistanis - The Pakistan government has decided to reduce the price of Compressed Natural gas (CNG) in the country. According to details, the decision has been made by the government to reduce the prices in all four provinces. The government reduced the prices of CNG up to...

Sim verification process is over by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday announced that more than 80 million SIMs have been verified through biometric process. PTA announced that the biometric verification process of SIMs was completed on last date today (April 12). Authorities said over 25 million unverified SIMs will...

I have seen many media comments in Pakistan and abroad on the Yemen crisis, particularly after the Resolution passed by the Parliament on 10th April. I think it is necessary to clarify Pakistan’s position on different dimensions of the crisis. From the very start, Pakistan’s policy was based on the...

Rangers on Monday arrested a key suspect in Dr Imran Farooq murder case. Moazzam Ali Khan, nabbed from Karachi, is said to be a ‘facilitator’ of the two alleged killers of MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq, who was murdered in London. Speaking in Islamabad after this significant development, Interior Minister...

NA-246 Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has again invited Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold their rally in Azizabad’s Jinnah ground to boost their election campaign. Expressing his views on different TV channels, MQM chief also offered unconditional support to PTI if they hold thier electoral rally on Shahrah-e-Pakistan....

Election Commission Of Pakistan ( ECP ) decided to deploy rangers during NA-246 by election in Karachi. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to deploy Rangers both inside and outside the polling booths during by-election in NA-246 Karachi. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had repeatedly called for deploying military and Rangers...

DHA Sunday bazaar, one of the most popular weekly markets of the city, was closed by authorities on Tuesday who said that the facility had been set up on private property and their agreement with the market organisers finally came to an end last year. The spokesman for the Defence...

A meeting at Bannu Press club with Selab Mehsud (Founder of Tribal Union Journalist) in chair and well attend by South,North Waziristan, FR Tank and Bannu Journalists held here on Monday. The meeting was convened regarding the arrest of  Nasru Minallah, an Express media Group Reporter from FATA North Waziristan...

Pakistan Naval Ship ( PNS ) ‘Aslat’ carrying 146 Pakistani citizens and 36 foreigners has reached Karachi today after their evacuation from Al-Mukalla. The foreigners rescued by PNS Aslat from Al-Mukalla in Yemen includes eleven Indians, eight Chinese, five from Philippines, four from Britain, two from Syria, two Indonesians and...

ISLAMABAD: As many as 143,368 people will go to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year and applications for the purpose would be received from April 15 to 23, according to the Hajj Policy 2015. Officials from Ministry of Religious Affairs told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Religious Affairs...

SANAA: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) airplane departed from Sana’a on Sunday, evacuating 133 Pakistani nationals stranded in the war-torn Yemeni city. "We are very happy that we are finally returning home safely," Neelma Abbas, one of the Pakistani nationals, told Geo news via telephone from Sana'a airport shortly before...