At a meeting in Islamabad, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved four road infrastructure projects worth 130 billion rupees for Punjab. Asad Umar, Minister for Planning and Development, said in a tweet on Monday that the road projects include Kamalia-Shorkot-Chowk Azam-Layyah, Hasilpur-Bahawalnagar, Vehari-Pakpattan-Debalpur, and Shorkot-Jhang. TheRead More →

BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP) — According to a Kurdish official, US-backed Kurdish-led troops searched near a Syrian prison on Friday for Islamic State militants and issued an ultimatum to dozens of armed extremists holed up in a tiny section of the facility to surrender or face an all-out attack. According toRead More →