Nepal parliament elects Sushil Koirala as new PM
KATHMANDU: Nepal's parliament elected Sushil Koirala as prime minister on Monday, raising hopes of ending a prolonged political crisis and finally restoring stability to the war-torn Himalayan...
View ArticlePakistani stocks shed 427 points
KARACHI: Pakistan's main stock exchange closed lower on Monday with the benchmark 100-share index of the Karachi Stock Exchange falling 1.60 per cent, or 426.57 points, to 26,255.21.Led by aggressive...
View ArticleSuicide blast kills four women in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: A suicide blast near a house in Peshawar's Essa Khel Garhi area on Monday killed four women and wounded three others, police said.SSP Najeeb, who oversees police operations in Peshawar, said...
View ArticleCorps commanders meet
RAWALPINDI: The 169th Corps Commanders' Conference was held at General Headquarters on Monday. The conference undertook a comprehensive review of the prevalent security situation in the country.Chief...
View ArticleFormer US consulate employee shot dead in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead a former US consulate employee in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said.Two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at Faisal Saeed, outside his...
View ArticleProbe implicates BCCI chief's relative in betting scandal: report
NEW DELHI: The newly-elected boss of world cricket N. Srinivasan suffered a blow on Monday when an Indian Supreme Court panel probing a match-fixing scandal said his son-in-law was guilty of illegal...
View Article19 FC men injured in attack by militants
QUETTA: At least 19 Frontier Corps personnel were injured, three of them seriously, when a bomb placed by militants near Sibi exploded when three FC vehicles were passing through the area.The outlawed...
View ArticleZaka axed, Sethi back as PCB chairman
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday removed Zaka Ashraf as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, appointing an 11-member committee, headed by former interim PCB chief Najam Sethi, to run...
View ArticleGovt team briefs PM on TTP talks
ISLAMABAD: Government negotiators briefed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday on their meeting with the Taliban committee held last Thursday and about their upcoming interaction between the two...
View ArticleCar bomb in Afghan capital kills two foreign contractors
KABUL: A suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital and killed two foreign civilian contractors, authorities said Monday, while a coalition soldier was killed in a...
View ArticleUS House votes in support of Ukraine's people
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Monday passed a resolution in support of the people of Ukraine, urging all parties in the former Soviet state to work for peace.The text, adopted in a...
View ArticleSixteen die as truck collides with jeeps on Indian road
KOLKATA: Police say all 16 occupants of two jeeps returning from a wedding were killed in a head-on collision with a speeding truck on a highway in eastern India. Police officer Kalyan Mukhopadhyay...
View ArticleAnti-drone campaigner kidnapped from Rawalpindi: lawyer
ISLAMABAD: An anti-drone campaigner, from North Waziristan, has “disappeared” from the city of Rawalpindi days before he was due to testify before European parliamentarians, his lawyer said Monday,...
View ArticleHearing of treason case resumes
ISLAMABAD: The special court resumed on Tuesday the hearing of the treason case against former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, DawnNews reported. The three-judge court headed by Justice...
View ArticleUS considers waiting on Afghan security deal until Karzai leaves
WASHINGTON: Frustrated about prospects of getting Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a long-term security deal, the United States is considering waiting until he leaves office before completing the...
View ArticlePM seeks provinces’ support for privatisation
ISLAMABAD: The government received on Monday approval from the four chief ministers to go ahead with privatisation of the power sector. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired the 25th meeting of the...
View ArticleSHC issues instructions against harassment of MQM activist
KARACHI: The Sindh HIgh Court on Tuesday issued instructions against harassment of the Muttahida Qaumi Moverment (MQM) activist who was picked up when he was escorting home his bride from the wedding...
View ArticlePolio team attacked in D I Khan; policeman killed
PESHAWAR: A policeman was killed and another was injured when a polio immunisation team was attacked in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday.The two policemen were assigned to...
View ArticleChina and Taiwan hold historic talks
NANJING: China and Taiwan on Tuesday held their first government-to-government talks since they split 65 years ago after a brutal civil war, a symbolic yet historic move between the former bitter...
View ArticleLone survivor found as scores killed in Algeria plane crash
ALGIERS: A military aircraft carrying 103 people crashed in Algeria's mountainous northeast Tuesday, with a sole survivor found from one of the country's deadliest air disasters, security and emergency...
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