ISLAMABAD- Punjab Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja has said the government is taking comprehensive measures to ensure peace and maintain law and order situation during Ashura-e-Muharram. While addressing a meeting of the cabinet subcommittee on law and order situation in Dera Ghazi Khan through ...

KARBALA - At least 16 pilgrims killed on Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala as they marked the holy day of Ashura, the health ministry said. Another 75 people were injured at the shrine around 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, said spokesman Saif ...

ISLAMABAD: The cellular mobile phone services will remain suspended in parts of Islamabad on Monday (Muharram 9) as part of the measures taken to ensure security of the mourning processions. According to the details, mobile phone services will remain suspended tin G-6 sector and parts of G-7 ...

KARACHI - Mobile Phone service to stay suspended over Ashura in Karachi and parts of Sindh. The Sindh government has recommended the closure of mobile phone service on the 9th and 10th Muharram in the province in view of the law and order situation. Home Secretary Sindh Kabir Qazi has ...

KARACHI - Sindh government is considering shutting down cell service in Karachi during Ashura. According to sources, the government has finalized security arrangements for mourning processions on 8th, 9th, and 10th Muharram and blocking mobile networks on the route of the procession is one of the ...

Chairman of Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr. Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Shaikh has arrived in Islamabad on the invitation of Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani. Leader of the Opposition in Senate Raja Muhammad Zafar ul Haq alongwith Senators received the delegation at ...

*ISLAMABAD: **Saudi Arabia Shura council delegating arrives in Pakistan on an important visit.* *A delegation of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, headed by its Chairman Dr. Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Shaikh arrived in Pakistan on a three-day official visit on Tuesday.* Senator Raja ...

ISLAMABAD - In occupied Kashmir, the authorities have placed the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest in Srinagar. A spokesman for the forum in a statement said that Mirwaiz was scheduled to deliver a sermon on the occasion of Ashura and pay tributes to Hazrat ...

*ISLAMABAD - Cellular phone services would remain suspended in Karachi and other cities of Sindh on Youm-e-Ashura (Friday).* According to a notification issued by the Sindh home department, cellular phones services would remain inactive from 7:00am to 12:00pm in Karachi, Sukkru, Rohri, Khairpur ...

LAHORE – The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has saved Punjab from a big disaster. CTD has foiled a big terrorist plan on Ashura. Sources said that the CTD raided a hideout in Chakwal where terrorists were planning an attack on Ashura. The arrested terrorists namely Abdul Hameed and ...