Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said. The attack took place at Shagai area, 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Landi Kotal, the main town of the troubled ...

ISLAMABAD - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday promised to enhance the defence cooperation between China and Pakistan, besides reiterating the Chinese commitment to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relation and help in major energy and infrastructure projects. The incoming ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has said that former dictator General (r) Pervez Musharraf cannot be prosecuted unless the federation lodge a complaint against him for subverting the Constitution. A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on Tuesday heard six identical ...

LAHORE - Parliamentary Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Thursday formally named Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif as their candidate for the Punjab chief minister. It would be the third turn of Shahbaz as the Punjab chief minister while he would be 16th CM of the province. Shahbaz ...

ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan’s power crisis deepens, Minister for Water and Power Musadiq Malik has flatly accused the finance ministry of ‘reluctance’ in releasing the entire amount of funds approved by the prime minister to arrange fuel for power plants. “Timely payments by the Ministry of Finance ...