Toilets, funerals, rap: Kenya’s no-stone-unturned campaign

Nairobi, Aug 3 (AFP/APP): At funerals, in rap videos or even inside public toilets: Kenya’s election candidates are leaving no stone unturned in their fight for votes. In addition to traditional election convoys blasting slogans and giant posters plastered along roads, candidates have looked for […]

Solar electric tricycles give Zimbabwean women a lift

Domboshava, Zimbabwe, Aug 3 (AFP/APP): For years, selling eggs was a joyless business for Danai Bvochora, as most of the money she made went to cover minibus fares to the market in a rural area of Zimbabwe. That was until an earth-brown solar-powered electric tricycle […]

APHC calls for complete shutdown in IIOJK on Youm-e-Istehsal

ISLAMABAD, Aug 3 (APP): In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) while reiterating its call for a complete shutdown, civil curfew and large-scale protest demonstrations on August 5, the Youm-e-Istehsal, appealed to the people to offer special prayers […]

Hot,Humid weather likely to persist

ISLAMABAD, Aug 3 (APP): Hot and humid weather are expected in most parts of the country during the next 24 hours. However, more rains with thundershower is likely at isolated places in Kashmir, upper Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and northeast Balochistan. Rainfall was recorded […]

ECP verdict proved Imran Khan a ‘certified liar’: PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD, Aug 2 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said the verdict of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had yet again proved Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan as a ‘certified liar’ over submitting false affidavits. “The ECP verdict on PTI foreign funding case […]