Tue, 21-Oct-2025

PM directs to pace up Ehsaas Ration Programme

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to speed up the registration process for Ehsaas Ration Programme to benefit the maximum number of poor households. Chairing a meeting on Ehsaas Ration Programme, he also emphasised on involving district government authorities to raise awareness among Kiryana (small local shops) stores and the … Read more

Former Bagram prisoner lambastes maltreatment by US soldiers in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: “The authorities shifted me from Pul-e-Charkhi jail to Bagram prison which was in Afghan army control but virtually the Americans were the rulers of the prison and they beat me badly,” former detainee Abdul Qadir Hijran recalled. A resident of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, 29-year-old Hijran was captured in 2011 in Takht-a-Pul area … Read more