PTI workers attack Geo News’ DSNG van in Swabi

SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers attacked Geo News’ DSNG van in Swabi early Tuesday morning. The charged workers broke the van’s window glass and attempted to set it on fire. They also roughed up the Geo News cameraman stationed at the van. Last week a PTI worker had slapped a cameraman from another TV channel to watch the video click the link below .https://www.geo.tv/latest/119378-PTI-workers-attack-Geo-News-DSNG-van-in-Swabi  ...

Read More

Four officers likely to be called back from India

Mehmood Akhtar ISLAMABAD: The government is considering pulling out from India four of its officers posted in Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, days after Indian authorities declared one official persona non grata. “This is under consideration. A final decision would be taken shortly,” a source at the Foreign Office said on Monday. The names of the officers...

Read More

Deadline for tax filing extended to Nov 15

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended the deadline for filing of tax returns to Nov 15 amid poor compliance from taxpayers. This is the fourth extension as the original deadline was set for Aug 31, which was later extended to Sept 30 and then to Oct 31. The last dates for filing of returns of total income or statement of final taxation, and of income...

Read More

BELIEVING YOU CAN BE SMARTER ACTUALLY MAKES YOU SMARTER

It’s no surprise that self confidence plays an important role in our performance, but findings published by the American Psychological Association suggest all it takes to boost your smarts is believing that you can be smarter. Despite a lot of evidence to the contrary, many people believe that intelligence is fixed, and, moreover, that some racial and social groups are...

Read More

PIA to have fleet of 60 aircraft by 2020, says CEO Hildenbrand

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chief Executive Officer Bernd Hildenbrand on Monday indicated that the national carrier is targeting to have a fleet of 60 aircraft by 2020. Speaking at the event of Rotari Club Karachi, he said: "In addition to increasing domestic flights, the PIA is planning to increase its flights to Paris, New York, Kuala Lumpur, Jeddah, Beijing...

Read More

China assembles first indigenously designed aircraft carrier

China has completed design work on its first indigenously designed aircraft carrier, media reports quoted a spokesperson for the country’s ministry of defence on Thursday. According to the reports, equipment was being installed to country’s first domestically-built warship at a shipyard after the assembling of the hull was completed Chinese experts. Chinese navy is successfully...

Read More

Zimbabwe rally after collapse

HARARE: Half-centuries from Zimbabwe batsmen Peter Moor and Graeme Cremer kept Sri Lanka at bay, but the hosts were nevertheless on track for a significant first-innings lead on day three of the first Test at Harare Sports Club on Monday. Having seen Zimbabwe lose five wickets for 47 runs on the third morning as they replied to Sri Lanka´s 537 all out, Moor and Cremer...

Read More

West Indies at 244-6 following Pakistan's 281

West Indies were 244-6 at close on the second day of the third and final Test against Pakistan in Sharjah on Monday. Kraigg Brathwaite (95) and Jason Holder (six) were at the crease as West Indies still trail Pakistan's first innings total of 281 by just 37 runs with four wickets intact. Brathwaite anchored the West Indian innings with 95 runs not out after they were...

Read More

Maryam Nawaz sends Rs1 billion defamation notice to PTI's Naeemul Haq

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz on Monday sent a Rs1 billion defamation notice to notice to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Spokesman Naeemul Haq, it has been learnt. The notice was sent after Naeemul Haq accused Maryam Nawaz of being responsible for the security leaks regarding the high-level national security meeting. “The accusation/statement against...

Read More

Clashes, blockades and teargas bar PTI supporters from travelling to Islamabad

Police and Frontier Constabulary personnel used tear gas shells to disperse thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) protesters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swabi en route to Islamabad on Monday to join the party's planned Nov 2 'lockdown' of the capital. Around 5,000 stick-wielding party workers are trying to remove barricades put in place by police using cranes near the...

Read More

Pemra suspends licence of Nickelodeon channel for airing Indian content

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday suspended the licence of Nickelodeon channel for airing cartoons dubbed in Hindi language. The electronic media watchdog announced that the licence was suspended over violation of Pemra directives, following the October 19 decision taken by the authority.  Follow Report PEMRA  ✔@reportpemra PEMRA...

Read More

World's Best Airlines

The World's Top 100 Airlines - 2016 2015 Rating 1Emirates5 2Qatar Airways1 3Singapore Airlines2 4Cathay Pacific3 5ANAs7 6Etihad Airways6 7Turkish Airlines4 8EVA Air9 9Qantas Airways10 10Lufthansa12 11Garuda Indonesia8 12Hainan Airlines22 13Thai Airways19 14Air France15 15Swiss Int'l Air Lines14 16Asiana Airlines11 17Air New Zealand17 18Virgin Australia16 19Austrian13 20Bangkok...

Read More