SLAMABAD (Channel News) – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) resumed direct flights to Iran on Thursday after a five-year hiatus in order to foster people-to-people interactions and improve the tourist business. According to PIA spokesperson Abdullah Khan, the first PIA flight from Lahore to Mashhad took off on Wednesday night, andContinue Reading

SLAMABAD – In response to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) stringent requirements, Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a meeting of the federal cabinet on Thursday (tomorrow) to finalise the mini-budget. Tomorrow at 12 p.m., Prime Minister Imran Khan will preside over a meeting to adopt the Finance (Supplemental) BillContinue Reading

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is also the chairman of the governing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), announced the new party structure a day after dissolving all PTI bodies following a defeat in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local body elections. Fawad Chaudhry had stated a day earlier that the prime minister hadContinue Reading

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Friday that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to dissolve its organisational structure after suffering a massive defeat in the first phase of the recently held local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The information minister stated at a newsContinue Reading

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Shaukat Tarin, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance and Revenue, took his oath as a senator on Friday. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani gave the oath to the newly-elected senator, according to reports. Last month, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Muhammad Ayub Afridi resigned as a member of theContinue Reading

Fort Abbas : Abdul Razzaq had divorced his first wife and married Cross’s sister, according to a police spokesperson. Her three brothers assassinated her sister and brother-in-law. The event occurred within the confines of Fort Abbas’ Marot police station. Police opened an investigation and detained one of the three suspects,Continue Reading

ISLAMABAD: Fawad Chaudhry, the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, claimed on Thursday that political parties like the PML-N and the PPP were “only alive because of media attention.” Speaking to media with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill, Chaudhry poked fun at the PML-NContinue Reading

LAHORE: PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif predicted Pakistan’s demise on Thursday if the PTI-led government is not deposed. “God forbid, if this administration is not deposed, we could see Pakistan’s khuda hafiz — so brace yourselves,” the PML-N president remarked during a party meeting in Lahore. According to the PML-N president,Continue Reading