Zia Ur Rehman, based in Karachi, is Senior Reporter of The News International. He mainly covers political parties, security, religion and human rights.
Transportation options are limited for Pashto’s poor residents, who often choose walking over hiring 4x4 jeeps to reach destinations
Imran Khan will address an electoral rally in Hyderabad on Thursday and two rallies in Karachi on Friday
Talks failed after MQM-P’s coordination committee refused to accept Farooq Sattar’s condition to accommodate his panel in upcoming LG elections
KARACHI: The top brass of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has asked its provincial organisation to ramp up its campaign for the local government polls in...
MQM-P rejects Farooq Sattar's conditions for adjustment in by-polls
KARACHI: The TLP factor has forced the divided factions of Muttahida Qaumi Movement to field the party’s old guard -Dr Farooq Sattar - as a joint...
ECP to hold LG polls today in 14 districts of Sindh including Larkana, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur,...
After boycotting the NA-240 by-poll in Karachi’s District Korangi held on Thursday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has announced that it will take...
The MQM-P managed to retain its NA-240 seat of Karachi’s District Korangi in the byelection on Thursday marred by violence
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman says that the JI would fully participate in the upcoming local government elections
TLP has fielded Shahzada Shahbaz for the by-poll while PTI has boycotted the election
A group of transgender community leaders announces to join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf during a meeting with the party’s leaders. After getting one...
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan delegation on Monday met Pakistan People’s Party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari to express their...
Launching its campaign for the upcoming local government elections in Karachi that will be held in July, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has...
Speakers at an event on Saturday paid rich tributes to the families of political activists who were imprisoned during the Movement of the...
Minorities’ leaders and civil society activists at a consultative meeting on Monday strongly opposed any proposals for representation of faith...
MQM-P has won the National Asssembly seat in three consecustive general elections
As part of its efforts to bring back its disgruntled leaders, mainly those who had joined the Pak Sarzameen Party after its formation in 2016,...
KARACHI: Lashing out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led previous government for its ‘incompetence’ and ‘corruption’, Jamiat Ulema...
KARACHI: Criticising Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari for his remarks regarding a top military official that he has been...
Kicking off its preparations for the upcoming local government polls, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal has asked its union-committee-level leadership...
Worried over differences in the party’s ranks that surfaced over recent appointments of office-bearers at the town level in Karachi ahead of the...
The Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chapter on Sunday stated that it was considering the option of besieging the Sindh Chief Minister House to pressure the...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the Grand Democratic Alliance , two major opposition parties in Sindh, on Saturday rejected the provincial...
KARACHI: Frustrated over delay in getting justice in the case of the murder of her husband Nazim Jokhio, who was murdered on November 3 for...
Jamaat-e-Islami and PSP have disapproved of the agreement, terming it disastrous for the city
Highlighting the psychological and socioeconomic impact of hate speech on religious and sectarian minorities in Sindh, a study published recently...
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Convener, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, on Friday said that his party has not reached an agreement with...
ISLAMABAD: The government ally parties are no more part of the coalition government while Prime Minister Imran Khan has lost the confidence of...
The Sindh Assembly members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Monday organised a protest outside the Central Police Office against the arrest of...
MQM-P only wanted to save the democracy in the country, says MQM-P leader
Karachi: As part of its efforts to woo its disgruntled lawmakers before the voting on the no-confidence move against the prime minister, the...
Government in the center exists today mainly because the MQM-P is part of it, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
Akbar Ali, a 12-year-old Afghan refugee in Karachi’s Johenjar Goth, has dreamt of becoming a doctor. But as things stand, he stands no chance of...
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan ’s senior deputy Convener, Aamir Khan, on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Tuesday announced not to take part in the election on a vacant...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s vice-chairman and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said that people of Sindh are suffering...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Thursday has nominated Agha Arsalan Khan, the party’s provincial vice-president, for the Senate seat that...
Rejecting the provincial cabinet’s proposed amendments in the Sindh Local Government Act 2013, leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh President and Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi has announced the schedule of PTI’s...
KARACHI: A team of Edhi foundation’s volunteers on Friday reached Kabul to start relief activities in Afghanistan. The country has been...
KARACHI: A team of Edhi foundation’s volunteers on Friday reached Kabul to start relief activities in Afghanistan. The country has been...
PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh. -The News/FileHours after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s central leadership announced the appointments of new...
KARACHI: A fact-finding committee comprising rights activists urged the Sindh government to bring to justice the perpetrators involved in the...
After the provincial assembly speaker did not allow the opposition to table a resolution against the rising incidents of abuse and violence against...
KARACHI: As part of its strategy to counter the Pakistan Peoples Party’s planned long march from Karachi to Islamabad against the federal...
Provincial assembly opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh on Thursday met parliamentary party leaders of different opposition parties to devise a...
