ISLAMABAD : On Monday, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) suggested to the administration that legislatures be dissolved by August 8. Speaking in front of lawmakers, federal minister for commerce Naveed Qamar said that dissolving assemblies was within the purview of the federal government. Before the elections, the PPP desired electoralContinue Reading

Murtaza Wahab, the recently elected mayor of Karachi, and Salman Murad, his deputy, will take their oaths of office at the Gulshan Jinnah Polo Ground in Karachi tomorrow (Monday). The mayor and deputy mayor of Karachi will take the oath of office from Sindh Election Commissioner Ijaz Anwar Chauhan. MurtazaContinue Reading

KARACHI — The Rawalpindi-bound Green Line and the opposite-direction Fareed Express nearly avoided a collision when the former’s engine derailed at Ghotki, a town in northern Sindh that borders Punjab. According to sources, the Green Line’s engine derailed at the Ghotki Railway Station while passing the Freed Express on itsContinue Reading

KARACHI : Another Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) politician, Bilal Ghaffar, chose on Tuesday to quit the party and politics as the process of saying goodbye to the party continues. “After 12 years of active politics and working for the cause of a better country,” Mr. Ghaffar said on Twitter. I haveContinue Reading