Pakistan

Web Desk — Chinese smartphone manufacturing companies have shown interest for launching cheap 5G-enabled smartphones in Pakistan. These companies have already done successful 5G tests in 2019. Realme and Oppo Mobile are ready to set up production units in Pakistan for the latest 5G-enabled phones at affordable prices. For Pakistan it is high time to introduce the 5G technology to …

Lahore: (Web Desk) The popular video-sharing application TikTok is once again open in Pakistan as The Sindh High Court has ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to unblock it. The court gave this order after the internet and telecommunication regulator assured the court to address the complaint of a petitioner by July 5. Justice Kauser Sultana of the Sindh High …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Sindh High Court (SHC) banned on Monday the video sharing app TIKTOK across Pakistan with immediate effect. The petitioner’s lawyer while presenting his arguments in the court, said Peshawar High Court had earlier banned TikTok as some videos uploaded on the platform are “immoral and against the teachings of Islam.” The lawyer said his client had approached …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Prime Minister Imran Khan once again reiterates Pakistan’s stance of not giving its military bases to United States for keeping an eye on Afghanistan. In an opinion piece in Washington Post, the premier offered US partnership for peace in Afghanistan but made it clear that Pakistan will not host US bases to avoid risking further conflict. According …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Inspector-General Punjab Police Inam Ghani says police will treat Aziz ur Rehman as a “test case” and that the investigations will be conducted on scientific bases to get the culprit convicted by the court. “We have been able to arrest this criminal. We will take it as a test case, interrogate him, conduct scientific professional investigation, prosecute …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Prime Minister Imran Khan while reacting to the rising incidents of sexual violence in Pakistan said women with few clothes will leave impact on men. In an interview with Axios’s Johnathan Swan Imran Khan spoke over increasing incidents of sexual assaults on women. Referring to the prime minister’s earlier remarks on vulgarity that triggered a backlash on …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) No Pakistani will be able to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj as the Saudi Haj ministry announced on Saturday that only 60,000 vaccinated residents of the kingdom will be allowed to perform Haj. According to the Haj ministry only saudi nationals and residents of the kingdom, limited to 60,000, will be allwed for this year’s …

Web Desk — National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has distanced himself from the “horse-trading” video that allegedly shows PTI MPAs receiving money to vote against their party in the senate elections 2018. The speaker took to Twitter to say that the video had not been shot at his official residence, rather the place that can be seen in it is …

Web Desk — PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz declared PTI foreign funding case the biggest fraud of Pakistan’s history and alleged that Prime Minister Imran Khan had received funding from Israel and India.  She was addressing a public gathering outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office in Islamabad under the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) banner to register protest against delayed proceedings …