Arrest warrant issued for Umar Akmal
LAHORE: A local sessions court on Thursday issued the arrest warrant for Pakistan cricketer Umar Akmal for violating traffic rules and scuffling with a traffic warden, DawnNews reported. Also today,...
View ArticleIndia court blocks release of more Rajiv Gandhi killers
NEW DELHI: India's top court halted the freeing of four more killers of former premier Rajiv Gandhi on Thursday after a political uproar over a state government's plan to release all seven.The Supreme...
View ArticleDelays increase costs of 627 development projects, PAC told
KARACHI: The secretary of the Planning Commission told the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday that the cost of 627 development projects have gone up due to delays in completion, DawnNews reported....
View ArticleAkmal's hundred helps Pakistan down Afghanistan
DHAKA: Umar Akmal hit a fighting hundred to help Pakistan overcome early wobbles against Afghanistan to win their crucial Asia Cup match by 72 runs in Dhaka on Thursday.Pakistan owed their recovery to...
View ArticleSuicide car bomber kills at least 10 in Somali capital
MOGADISHU: At least 10 people were killed in an explosion when a suicide bomber drove his car into a teashop near the national security headquarters in Somalia's capital, a senior police officer said...
View ArticlePakistan campaigners say lift YouTube ban after US ruling
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Internet campaigners said Thursday there was no excuse for the government to maintain its ban on YouTube, after a US court ordered the removal of an anti-Islam film.The...
View ArticleSoldier shoots dead five colleagues, self in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: A soldier in Indian-administered Kashmir shot dead five of his colleagues in a military camp before turning the gun on himself, an army spokesman told AFP on Thursday.“The soldier ran amok,...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban not serious about peace talks: Sartaj Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Speaking to media representatives in Islamabad, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz on Thursday said the targeted action in Waziristan was beneficial in the...
View ArticlePakistanis jailed in Spain for terror protest innocence
ISLAMABAD: A group of Pakistanis jailed in Spain in 2009 over a plot to bomb the Barcelona metro protested their innocence Thursday, claiming they were framed by a corrupt witness.Jan Khan, the legal...
View ArticleReligious scholar shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI: A religious scholar was shot dead in Karachi's Nazimabad area on Thursday whereas three others were killed in separate incidents of violence in the city, DawnNews reported.At least four...
View ArticlePakistan denies plans to arm Syrian rebels
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday strongly denied it had any plans to send weapons to Syrian rebels, following reports that Saudi Arabia was holding talks with it about arming the opposition.Pakistani...
View ArticleGovt to announce crucial decisions, still prefers talks: Nisar
PESHAWAR: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said the government has made crucial decisions in relation to the country's security which it would be announcing soon, DawnNews...
View ArticlePTI ends Nato supply blockade
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which has been staging sit-ins to block the Nato supply to Afghanistan in protest against covert US drone strikes in the country, on Thursday announced an...
View ArticleNAB raids house in Mardan to arrest Hoti’s brother
PESHAWAR: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Thursday raided the house of former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti’s brother Ghazan Hoti in Mardan after the issuance...
View ArticleRajmohan Gandhi is AAP candidate for Delhi
NEW DELHI: India's Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released its second list of 30 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, which includes Pakistan-friendly Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban shot at downed US helicopter 'head-on'
WASHINGTON: Taliban fighters shot at a US helicopter head-on from nearly point-blank range, US lawmakers heard Thursday, in what was the single deadliest incident for US and Nato forces in the Afghan...
View ArticleChildren among 15 dead in Thai school bus crash
BANGKOK: At least 15 people, including 13 children, were killed when a bus carrying students on a trip to the seaside collided with a lorry in eastern Thailand Friday, police said.More than 30 others...
View ArticleAfghan official shot dead in Chaman
QUETTA: An Afghan government official and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents in Balochistan on Thursday.Police sources said two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire on...
View ArticleAl Qaeda plots comeback in Afghanistan: officials
WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda's Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organisation once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have...
View ArticleGas pipeline blown up near Kandhkot
KANDHKOT: Gas supply to Karachi and other cities of Sindh was suspended Friday when unidentified assailants blew up an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline near Kandhkot, DawnNews reported. The pipeline was...
View Article