Punjab

LAHORE: Police in Kasur claimed on Tuesday to have arrested the man responsible for the heinous rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab. Zainab was kidnapped from near her aunt’s house on January 4 in Kasur. Her body was recovered from a garbage heap five days later. The post-mortem of the...

Pir of Sial Khawaja Hameeduddin Sialvi on Saturday while giving the authorities seven-days deadline for the imposition of sharia law, threatened to shut down the entire Punjab. Addressing the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference in Lahore on Saturday, he asked the participants of protest to not let the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat movement die at any...

Fact finding report of child sexual abuse incident of Kasur A three-member team of Women In Struggle for Empowerment (NGO) visited the town of Hussain Khan Wala, Kasur district on 11 August 2015 to gather facts and assess the situation on ground regarding the child sex abuse scandal that has...

Punjab Police on Thursday submitted its report to Supreme Court over the Kasur tragedy in which seven-year-old Zainab was raped and murdered. Following the discovery of Zainab’s body violent protests erupted in Kasur in which two people were killed. On Wednesday, Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar took suo...

The brutal rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab in Kasur is not a one-off incident. As many as 11 cases of child sexual abuse are reported from across Pakistan every day, according to data collected by non-governmental organisation Sahil. Even in Kasur—which became the center of a massive child abuse...

KASUR: Protests erupted in the city on Wednesday after the reported rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab sparked nationwide public outrage. The minor girl, a resident of Road Kot area of Kasur, had gone missing on January 4 when she went to a tuition centre but never returned. At the...

Press Release : Traffic Plan for Tehreek e Labaik Ya Rasoolullah conference at Liaqaut Bagh, Rawalpindi 4th January 2018. Timing 8 am till ending of the conference. To keep the traffic in flow on alternate routes, IGP has designated 4 DSPs, 9 Inspectors and 116 warden officers including 16 junior...

ISLAMABAD: The government revised prices of petroleum products on Sunday increasing the price of petrol by Rs4.6 per litre. PM's advisor on finance, Miftah Ismail, announced revised rates of petroleum products. The new rate of petrol would be Rs81.53 per litre. The price of high-speed diesel has been increased by...

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has barred at least 314 political parties from contesting general elections 2018 under the provisions of Election Act 2017. The parties have been barred due to submission of incomplete details. Only 11 per cent of the filed parties got clearance to contest elections. Among the...

Technology giants such as Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft will mentor and support Pakistani entrepreneurs and startups at the 2018 edition of Momentum Pakistan, a mega event being held in Karachi on February 19 and 20 next year. “This event could be game-changer for Pakistani entrepreneurs,” said Shaheera Jafri Batool,...

Government of Punjab has made Justice Ali Baqir Najfi’s inquiry report of Model Town incident public on Tuesday after Lahore High Court (LHC) upheld its verdict over review petition filed by chief minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government. The report was compiled by Justice Ali Baqir Najfi commission after the incident was probed...

Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif will inaugurate Beijing Underpass today in Lahore . The underpass has been constructed on the Canal Bank Road. It is city’s longest and deepest underpass . The underpass was previously known as Chubacha Underpass , but renamed as Beijing Underpass to recognize China’s support in development projects in Punjab . Lahore Development Authority (LDA) had proposed three names for the underpass and Shehbaz Sharif finalized the...