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IGP visit Cantonment area, reviews security arrangement for peaceful observance of Muharram

  • PESHAWAR, Sept 30 (APP): Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salahuddin Khan Mehsood Saturday morning paid a surprise visits to check and ascertain security measures for the Central ‘Alm and Zuljinah’ procession. The procession was taken out from Imambargah Hussainia Hall in cantonment to pay tributes to Shaheed-e-Karbala for their matchless sacrifice for supremacy of […]

  • Seven people killed, 10 injured in accident

    FAISALABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Seven people including three women were killed while 10 others sustained multiple injuries in a road accident in the limits of Sammundri police, during wee hours here on Friday. A Police spokesman said that a speeding passengers van collided with a tractor-trolley near Jahangir Mor Kahna Bridge at Sammundri-Gojra road. As […]

  • FDE makes Qurnic education compulsory in schools

    ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) through a letter has directed the heads of 423 public sector schools of the federal capital and Area Education Officer (AEO’s) to ensure the implementation of Quran Education Bill 2017 recently passed by the Parliament. According to the sources in FDE here Friday, initially only “Noorani […]

  • Tourism in Pakistan begin to grow with annual arrivals: report

    ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Pakistan’s tourism industry is starting to thrive with annual arrivals more than tripling since 2013. A report aired by a private news channel, tourists are now returning to areas such as the Swat Valley, a northern region known as the Switzerland of Pakistan. As security improves, annual tourist arrivals to Pakistan […]

  • Indian police arrest Yasin Malik in Srinagar

    ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Indian police arrested the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, in Srinagar in Indian occupied Kashmir on Friday. A JKLF spokesman in a statement in Srinagar said that the police took into custody Muhammad Yasin Malik along with JKLF zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad after raiding the party […]

  • Peaceful solution, imperative for Afghan issue: Dr Maria Sultan

    LAHORE, Sept 29 (APP): Defence analyst and chairperson of South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) University Dr Maria Sultan has stressed for peaceful solution to the Afghan issue. Talking to APP in connection with President Donald Trump’s new US policy on South Asia and Afghanistan, Dr Maria said that if the US would impose more […]