Pakistan has won a seat alongside its regional rival India on the UN Security Council. It was contesting elections for five positions with two-year terms. Morocco, Guatemala and Togo have also been elected as new temporary members of the council. The Eastern European seat is still being contested. Pakistan’s win means both South Asian nuclear states will serve, but diplomats do not think regional... 

LAHORE: A prominent leader of Pakistani Sikhs is under threat from unidentified people who have been attacking his business in Lahore for almost six months now, The Express Tribune has learnt. Sardar Bishon Singh, who has served as the president of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, has always been vocal against the government’s ‘injustices’ with his community. He has been selling imported... 

JALANDHAR: A Sharjah court ordered the release of 17 Punjabi youth who were on death row for the murder of a Pakistani, Misri Khan. They were sentenced to two years imprisonment in bootlegging case which they had already served as they were in jail for the last three and half years. However, their release from the jail may take a few more days as the authorities would be checking from other places... 

Lahore, Aug 19 (PTI) The Sikh community in this eastern Pakistani city held a protest today against the alleged desecration of their holy book in the Indian state of Punjab. The demonstration, organised under the banner of the Inter-Religious Peace Council, was held outside the Press Club here. The incident had occurred on the night of August 13 when five copies of the Guru Granth Sahib were allegedly... 

Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), an apex religious body of Sikhs, would send Sikh priests and scholars to Pakistan to disseminate the message of Sikhism in various provinces including Sindh and Lahore. Akal Takht (top temporal seat of Sikhs) head Gurbachan Singh, during a meeting with Sikhs from Sindh province of Pakistan, said he would issue directions to SGPC to arrange different...