Shakoor Nizamani

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday decided to nominate Rafique Rajwana as the new Governor of Punjab, ARY News reported.

MUMBAI: Bombay High Court granted two days' interim bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan after he was convicted by sessions court and awarded five-year jail term in a hit and run case.

ISLAMABAD: Australia wants Pakistan and India to resolve the longstanding Kashmir dispute with bilateral talks, visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Wednesday.

KARACHI/BADIN: Justice Shaukat Ali Memon of Sindh High Court (SHC) excused him from hearing the contempt petition of former home minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza and the plea was sent back to the Chief Justice.

QUETTA: Most of the markets in Quetta were shuttered down on Wednesday on a strike call of Awami National Party (ANP) to protest against likely change in the route of Pak-China Economic Corridor (PCEC), ARY News reported on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: A Mumbai court on Wednesday awarded five years jail sentence to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan who found guilty of a hit and run case in 2002 in which a man was crushed to death under his car's wheels and another was injured, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the party stalwarts on Wednesday to discuss the election tribunal's decision of re-election in National Assembly constituency NA-125, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission inquiring into the rigging allegations in general elections 2013 met here on Tuesday to hear the witnesses, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has delayed the execution of Shafqat Hussain after hearing a petition seeking determination of his age by a competent judicial forum, ARY News reports.

KARACHI: The police in a raid in Kharadar area of Karachi arrested three suspects having affiliation with a gang in Lyari, ARY News reported on Tuesday.