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By Our Staff ReporterIslamabad: Authorities removed the names of more than 5,000 people from the travel blacklist after the government took note of the problems faced by citizens whose names have been blacklisted for a long time, according to a Sunday media report. At a recent meeting, Interior Minister Ijaz Shah instructed the review committee of the Directorate-General for Immigration and Passport to meet on a biannual basis to review cases of blacklisted individuals. The meeting was held after a gap of almost four years. The previous meeting was held in December 2016. Taking note of problems faced by the…

By Special CorrespondentIslamabad: Police “arrested” Safdar Awan, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader’s husband, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, from a hotel in Karachi, hours after the PML-N vice-president lashed out to Prime Minister Imran Khan and the PTI government at the Second Power Show of the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) 11-party opposition alliance attended by thousands of people. “Police broke my room door at the hotel where I stayed in Karachi and arrested Capt Safdar,” Maryam tweeted early on Monday. So far no official announcement has been made regarding the arrest by the police. This is also not clear whether the…

By Haneen AbbasSakardu: A huge boulder rolled off a mountainside at Gilgit-Baltistan National Highway and smashed into a passenger bus killing 16 people people at the spot, the authorities said on Sunday.The boulder, which the authorities said weighed several tons and measured 17 feet across and 6 feet high, struck the bus just before 11 A.M. Sixteen people were killed after a bus was crushed by a boulder on Skardu Road in Gilgit-Baltistan, Rondu Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Mohammad Hassan said on Sunday.Rondu Assistant Commissioner Miraj Alam told Islamabad Telegraph that 18 people were travelling in the bus coming from…

By Our Staff ReporterIslamabad: Pakistan’s former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, accused country’s power military and the intelligence service of being behind his ouster as prime minister and of setting up their “puppet government” by bringing Imran Khan to power. Sharif addressed the first show of power of the alliance of 11 opposition parties-Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)-in Gujranwala, some 80 km from Lahore, late Friday night via video connection from London. On 20 September, the opposition parties declared the establishment of the PDM and the launch of a three-phase anti-government movement under the “Action Plan” beginning with national public meetings, protest…

By Special Correspondent Pakistan’s opposition leaders, along with the “ocean” of people, made their way to Gujranwala for the first demonstration of the power of their anti-government movement.  PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, who left for the rally from her residence in Jati Umra, Lahore earlier in the day, said that it took her motorcade six hours to leave Lahore. “There’s an ocean of people on the front, back, right, and left. It’s unprecedented,” she wrote earlier, posting photographs and videos of supporters following her convoy.  Meanwhile, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Leader Fazlur Rehman is still a few hours away from the…

By Our Staff ReporterIslamabad: Terrorists ambushed a convoy of oil and gas workers escorted by paramilitary forces in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, killing 14 people, including 7 soldiers. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, reported that the terrorists had also suffered significant fire-fighting casualties and that seven Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers and seven private security guards had been martyred in the attack. “The terrorists attacked a convoy from the mountains near Ormara on the Balochistan-Hub-Karachi coastal highway and a heavy exchange of fire took place. The convoy was returning from Gwadar to…

By Our Staff Reporter The leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e – Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Pakistan Democratic Movement, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, warned the ruling Imran-Khan government not to “see December” before the first combined rally of the opposition parties in Pakistan. “A sea of people will rise in Gujranwala on October 16,” The News quoted Fazl during a rally in Charsadda on Wednesday. “A sea of people will rise in Karachi on October 18. A sea of people will rise in Quetta on October 25 and on November 22, the largest gathering in the history of Pakistan will be seen…

By Special Correspondent In a rare public appearance, on 18 October, Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), will address a grand anti-government rally organized here by an alliance established by opposition parties to overthrow Imran Khan’s government. On 20 September, leaders of 11 major opposition parties proposed the introduction of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and the launch of a three-phase anti-government movement in the context of an action plan beginning with national public meetings, protest demonstrations, and rallies before the decisive long march to Islamabad in January 2021. The first anti-government rally is scheduled for…

By Special Correspondent In an unprecedented move, Congress MP Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to resume trade between India and Pakistan and other Central Asian countries and to bring about a new trade policy that is more appropriate to the post-COVID pandemic world. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Aujla said that bilateral trade between India and Pakistan is sluggish at around USD 2.5 billion annually, while the World Bank’s potential is USD 37 billion. “Therefore, in order to give a fresh start to the agriculture and economic rejuvenation of the region, I…

Our Staff ReporterIslamabad: At least six pilgrims have been abducted by unidentified armed assailants near the Pakistan-Iran border, the media reported. The incident took place on Sunday in the Panjgur district of Balochistan, when Shia pilgrims from Karachi arrived from Iran, reports The Express Tribune. Media reports quoted sources that the pilgrims had spent about 50 days in the Iranian city of Mashhad and were on their way back to Karachi. The kidnappers left two women and took away with them six male pilgrims. Every year, a large number of Shia pilgrims from different parts of the country enter Iran…