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ISLAMABAD: Just days before the general elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) clarified it has complete control over the electoral process and is receiving cooperation from other institutions. ECP Secretary Babar Yaqub, while addressing media outside their head office, said that there should be doubts and he would make it like to clarify that the commission has complete authority over the electoral process. He said the commission is ensuring the swift delivery of election material, and has sent the necessary…

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Tuesday reshuffled the federal bureaucracy as expected ahead of the upcoming general elections. According to details, Secretary Interior Arshad Mirza has been appointed as the new Secretary Information, replacing Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera, who has been posted as Secretary Education and Professional Training. Zahid Saeed has been posted as Secretary Health, Arif Nawaz Khan Secretary Anti-Narcotics Force, Maroof Afzal Secretary Industry and Production, and Muhammad Ayub Sheikh has been…

ISLAMABAD: Hours after a new caretaker prime minister was sworn in, the principal secretary to the prime minister Fawad Hasan Fawad was transferred from his position. Fawad has been appointed as Director General Civil Services Academy. He is being replaced by Sohail Amir, while Abu Atif has been appointed as Cabinet Secretary. Furthermore, nine new members of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) have also been appointed. A notification in this regard has been issued by President Mamnoon Hussain. A massive shuffle…

ISLAMABAD: The secretary of Karachi Port Qasim Authority passed away on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest during a session of the Senate standing committee on maritime affairs. Muhammad Saqib, aged 52, was attending the committee's session when he suffered serious chest pain and collapsed. He was recommended to be shifted to hospital by the senate's dispensary unit. However, there was no ambulance present in the parliament houses to take him to hospital. Afterwards, chairman Senate Raza Rabbani instructed to…

PESHAWAR: A former personal secretary of estranged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) parliamentarian Ayesha Gulalai, who filed a complaint in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against her, was on Sunday killed in Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Noor Zaman was shot by unknown motorcyclists as he was walking outside his house in Tajori area of Lakki Marwat. Rescue officials shifted him to a nearby hospital where he was passed away due to excessive blood loss. Police said that assailants fled after the incident…

ISLAMABAD: Interior secretaries of SAARC nations held a meeting to confirm commitment and develop recommendations ahead of the ministerial meeting tomorrow. 

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif visited the Pentagon at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter. 

ATTOCK/ISLAMABAD: A splinter group of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility of the suicide attack on Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada, which claimed 19 lives including the minister on Sunday, ARY News reported.

RIYADH : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Gulf Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh on Thursday to brief them on progress in the nuclear talks with Iran and offer reassurance that any deal would not damage their interests.