Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved initiating a major crackdown against the sugar mafia including smugglers, hoarders, and profiteers. While chairing a high-level meeting here on Sunday, he expressed displeasure at the reports of illegal profiteering and smuggling of sugar. Punjab Chief ...

LAHORE – Punjab government has mounted containers in several parts of the city, apparently to stop leaders and workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf from joining the party’s much-touted power show in the provincial capital. Besides closing several arteries in country’s second-largest city ...

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah link said on Thursday the government decided to take strict action against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Taking to Twitter, Mr Sanaullah said, "The PTI criminal mindsets will be dealt with with iron hands. The premier has issued advice in this regard. ...

As the death toll of Italy migrant boat crash climbed up to 62, senior Pakistani embassy officials in Italy met with 16 Pakistani survivors. Pakistani survivors said 20 Pakistanis in total were on the ship and four remained missing. Majority of the victims are feared to be Pakistanis. Italian ...

Caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir Saturday announced that all the members of the caretaker cabinet including the Chief Minister Punjab Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi will, voluntarily, not take salaries. Amir Mir, while briefing about the cabinet’s first meeting, said the cabinet agreed to take ...

The Federal Investiga­tion Agency (FIA) has launched a massive crackdown on currency smugglers on the directives of FIA director general. The FIA Corporate Crime Circle Lahore under the supervision of Director FIA Lahore Zone launched a major crackdown against illegal currency business, hoarding ...

GENEVA – Despite Tehran's opposition, the UN on Tuesday named a panel of three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s violent crackdown on women-led protests, which have rocked the Islamic republic for more than three months now. Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, ...

More than 30 Pakistan Taliban militants were holding several officers hostage on Monday after breaking free from custody and seizing a police station, officials said. Members of the Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group -- separate from the Afghan Taliban but with a similar hardline Islamist ...

The Cybercrime Wing of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Tuesday initiated investigations against the loan-giving mobile applications that allegedly blackmailed the cell phone users into returning the loans at high markup under the threat of leaking their personal data. Applications including ...

Indonesia's parliament approved Tuesday legislation that would outlaw pre-marital sex while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code -- a move critics deemed as a setback to the country's freedoms. After the controversial new criminal code received the majority of votes from lawmakers ...