Author: INP - Independent News Pakistan (INP - Independent News Pakistan)

LAHORE: A woman died and five children injured when roof of a house collapse due to heavy rain here on Tuesday. Rescue sources said that roof of a dilapidated house located in Sabzazar area of the provincial capital Lahore suddenly came down as the area received heavy rain previous night. Six family members including a...

MINA: As the night wore on Monday, pilgrims started filling into the tent city of Mina. They came in ones and twos, some on foot, some in wheelchairs, many in buses and SUVs arranged by the pilgrim establishments. All roads and highways from Jeddah,Makkah, Madinah, Riyadh, Dammam, Abha, Jazan and Taif were leading into Mina....

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar left Islamabad Tuesday for New York to attend the road shows being organized in connection with launching of Pak Euro Bond.

ISLAMABAD: A large number of eminent writers, actors and performers are ready to be the part of Capital’s much awaited Children Literature Festival on October 1-3 this year. “After the success of earlier children festivals in federal capital and across the country Idara-E-Taleem-o-Aagahi and Oxford University Press (OUP) in collaboration with Open Society Foundations and...

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Tuesday said that Pakistan is making sincere efforts to weed out extremism and restore peace in the region. He expressed these views in a meeting with British High Commissioner Philip Barton and foreign office minister Tobias Ellwood in the federal capital. Nisar urged the foreign powers to stop considering...

KARACHI: Three Eid special trains on Tuesday left from Karachi for upcountry while carrying passengers for celebrate Eid in their family. The first train departed at 11am from Karachi Cantt Railway Station, second train departed for Rawalpindi at 2 pm while the third one left in the evening. According to local administration, each train has...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued directions Tuesday to the concerned authorities for initiation and timely completion of projects announced during his visit to Bagh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir on 2nd September 2015.   These development projects include construction of expressway from Kotli Satian to Kalyari (upto Dhalkot Bridge), Construction of Modern Cardiac Hospital at...

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced a convict to 21 years in jail in terrorism case and also sent an extortionist to prison for 5 years. Convict Sajid, belonging to banned outfit, was sentenced to 21 year in jail in several terrorism cases especially for keeping explosives. Separately, ATC has also sentenced an...

ISLAMABAD: A prison official on Tuesday said that the authorities have postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic convict on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged. Prison official Mohammad Safdar said that a magistrate made the decision after talking to Abdul Basit, 43, who was to be hanged before...