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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhary Fawad Hussain has strongly condemned the attack on Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz.
In a tweet on Sunday, he said there are reports that Shibli Faraz was attacked on his way back to Kohat near Darra Aadam Khel in which his driver got critically injured.
He said the driver has been shifted to hospital.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Polling for the first phase of local bodies elections in seventeen districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was held on Sunday.
The polling started at 08:00 in the morning and continued till 05:00 in the evening without any break.
According to details, more than nine-thousand polling stations and nearly twenty-nine thousand polling booths were set up for the elections.
Radio Pakistan’s Peshawar correspondent reports that tight security measures were taken to ensure peaceful holding of the polls.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Very cold and dry weather is expected in most upper and central parts of the country and north Balochistan during the next twelve hours.
Dense fog and dense smog are likely to prevail in plain areas of Punjab.
Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning:
Islamabad, Peshawar and Muzaffarabad zero degree centigrade, Lahore seven, Karachi eleven, Quetta and Murree minus one and Gilgit minus eight degree centigrade.
According to Met office forecast for Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir, very cold and partly cloudy weather is expected in the territory.
Temperature recorded this morning: Srinagar, Pulwama and Baramula minus four degree centigrade, Jammu two, Leh minus fourteen, Anantnag and Shopian minus three degree centigrade.
Source: Radio Pakistan
An anti-India protest rally on the sidelines of an extraordinary session of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Muzaffarabad on Sunday.
It was arranged by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir.
Participants of the rally while holding placards and banners marched from Burhan Muzaffar Wani Shaheed chowk towards Gharipan chowk.
They chanted pro-freedom, pro-OIC and anti-India slogans.
The banners inscribed with slogans asking OIC to help in just the solution of the longstanding Kashmir issue.
Addressing the participants, Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmad Ghazali and other speakers appealed to the OIC to play a decisive role in preventing India from committing war crimes in IIOJ&K.
They strongly condemned the deteriorating human rights situation in IIOJ&K, the detention of thousands of Kashmiris, and Indian state terrorism in which innocent youth are being killed on daily basis.
Source: Radio Pakistan