ECP keeps lists for reserved seats secret
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) continues to keep secret documents it is supposed to make public forthwith under the law.The documents are the lists submitted by political...
View ArticleRs152bn mini-budget: PPP turns its guns on caretakers
LAHORE, May 23: While President Asif Ali Zardari is yet to sign an ordinance introducing a Rs152 billion ‘mini-budget’, the PPP has turned its guns on the caretaker government for taking what it calls...
View ArticleChina praises Pak strategy against terror
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang wrapped up on Thursday his two-day official visit to Pakistan after promising a deeper and more comprehensive strategic engagement and a closer coordination for...
View ArticleNawaz seeks Li’s help to resolve energy crisis
ISLAMABAD: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said strengthening ties with China will be his government’s top foreign policy priority and sought Beijing’s help for dealing with economic challenges and energy...
View Article19-hour outages as funds delayed
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Water and Power conceded on Thursday that up to 19 hours of loadshedding was being carried out even in industrial cities like Faisalabad and blamed the finance ministry for...
View ArticleNAB summons Gilani, Ashraf in Tauqeer Sadiq case
ISLAMABAD, May 23: PPP’s two former prime ministers, Yousuf Raza Gilnai and Raja Pervez Ashraf, have been summoned by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for questioning over the alleged illegal...
View ArticleOwner of CD shop killed in Quetta hand grenade attack
QUETTA: Unknown assailants lobbed a hand grenade at a shop on Quetta’s Sariab Road on Friday killing its owner, DawnNews reported.The shop which dealt in CDs was located near the Awami petrol pump on...
View ArticleCars, schools torched in fifth night of Stockholm riots
STOCKHOLM: At least nine cars were torched and two schools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night,...
View ArticleSuspected Kashmiri militants kill three Indian soldiers
SRINAGAR: An official said suspected militants had ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir.Lt. Col. Ankur Vashist, an army spokesman, said the soldiers were...
View ArticleViolence in Karachi claims six lives
KARACHI: At least six persons, including a woman, were killed and two others were killed in various firing incidents in the city whereas three children were injured in a grenade attack on a school in...
View ArticleSuicide attack in Peshawar leaves two dead
PESHAWAR: The vehicle of the chief of an Afghan religious outfit, Jamatul Dawa Alquran and Sunnah came under a suicide bomb attack near a seminary on Pajaggi Road in the suburb's of Peshwawar killing...
View ArticleWorkers will ‘lose me forever’ if they don’t change, says Altaf
LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Friday said if his party workers did not amend themselves, they would lose their leader forever, DawnNews reported.In a telephonic...
View ArticleTaliban launch attack in downtown Kabul
KABUL: Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched an attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign...
View ArticleGunmen kill three in Kharan over tribal dispute
QUETTA: At least three persons were killed in a firing incident in Quetta's Kharan region on Friday, DawnNews reported.The Deputy Commissioner of Kharan, Fateh Khan Khajjak, told Dawn.com that armed...
View ArticlePakistan remains opposed to drones after Obama speech
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their use.The US president...
View ArticleBritain scrambles fighter jets to escort PIA passenger plane
LONDON: British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of...
View ArticleTTP terror network busted in Chamkani
PESHAWAR: Police claim to have busted a Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) terrorist network which was assigned the task of targeting politicians during the 2013 elections.They have arrested six suspected...
View ArticleSix killed, DPO Kohat injured after militants launch attack in Mattani
****PESHAWAR: Four police personnel have been killed while the District Police Officer (DPO) Kohat Dilawar Bangash has been injured, along with his guards, after militants launched a rocket attack in...
View ArticleImran urges CJP, CEC to probe poll rigging allegations
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to probe allegations of vote fraud during the...
View ArticlePML-F accepts N’s invitation to join govt
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday held a meeting with Pir Pagara, chief of the Pakistan Muslim League – Functional (PML-F), in Karachi and formally...
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