Chief justice orders probe into Islamabad court attack
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the authorities to identify policemen who failed to respond to a gun and suicide bomb attack on a court complex in Islamabad which killed 11 people.Chief...
View Article‘Iranians not allowed to conduct operation inside Pakistan’
QUETTA: Home Secretary Balochistan Asad Rehman Gilani has said if Iran provided information about the whereabouts of its kidnapped soldiers in Pakistani territory, only then would Pakistan security...
View ArticlePutin calms war fears but defiant on keeping Crimea
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has calmed fears of an imminent war between Russia and Ukraine's new authorities but also made clear that Moscow has no intention of loosening its new grip on...
View ArticleNisar for full implementation of SC orders on court attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Tuesday directed for immediate implementation of the orders given by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court in the aftermath of the...
View ArticleGovt mulls major reshuffle in bureaucracy: sources
ISLAMABAD: The government is planning to make major changes in the federal bureaucracy, a senior official of the Establishment Division told Dawn.com on Tuesday.The official, who spoke on condition of...
View ArticleAfridi blitz sees Pakistan chase 327 against Bangladesh
DHAKA: Shahid Afridi smashed the second fastest one-day half-century and Ahmed Shehzad hit a hundred to give Pakistan a three wicket win over Bangladesh on Tuesday and a place in the Asia Cup final.The...
View ArticleNawaz directs govt negotiators to continue peace efforts
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that a durable and permanent peace was top priority of the government for which all out efforts would be continued.He stated this while speaking...
View ArticleNo clue to killers of Orangi project director, PTI leader
KARACHI: Police authorities have admitted that no clue has been found so far in the high-profile murder case of Perween Rehman and tagged investigation of another last year case as ‘pending’, dashing...
View ArticleLawyers boycott courts across KP
PESHAWAR: The lawyers boycotted court proceedings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday to protest the attack of terrorists on Islamabad District Courts.Amid the boycott of lawyers, Peshawar High Court...
View ArticleBHC judges to get bullet-proof vehicles
QUETTA: The Balochistan government decided in principle on Tuesday to provide bullet-proof vehicles to all judges of the Balochistan High Court.Informed sources told Dawn that the decision was taken...
View ArticleFriends, foes hit out at govt in Senate
ISLAMABAD: Senators from opposition as well as treasury benches on Tuesday criticised the government’s policy of holding talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and said it betrayed...
View ArticleFive missing persons produced in court
ISLAMABAD: Security officials produced five more missing persons in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, instead of the seven the court had asked for.Those who appeared in the court with their relatives were...
View ArticleEgypt court bans Hamas group
CAIRO: A Cairo court banned Tuesday the Palestinian Hamas movement from operating in Egypt, tightening the noose around the militant rulers of the blockaded Gaza Strip amid a crackdown on Islamists.The...
View ArticleAustralian ship rescues 13 shipwrecked Iranians off Pakistan
SYDNEY: An Australian warship has rescued 13 Iranians shipwrecked off Pakistan on its way to the Middle East to join an international force conducting counter-terrorist and anti-piracy operations,...
View ArticleBaghdad blasts targeting Shias, kill 12
BAGHDAD: Nine bombings mainly targeting Shia majority areas of Baghdad killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, officials said, as Iraq suffers its worst violence in years.The seven car bombs and two...
View ArticleKnife gang tried to leave China before attack: report
BEIJING: Attackers who launched a brutal mass knifing at a Chinese train station acted in desperation after a failed attempt to leave the country and become militants overseas, a Chinese official on...
View ArticleKhursheed Shah opposes army's role in negotiations
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said on Wednesday that the government should itself mediate the peace talks with militants and the army should not be...
View ArticleIndia to go to polls from April 7: election commission
NEW DELHI: India, the world's largest democracy, announced Wednesday it would stage a five-week election from April 7, a contest expected to bring Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi to power on a platform...
View ArticleForeign Office condemns blast in Bahrain
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemned the terrorist incident in Bahrain in which three police personnel and several people including one Pakistani, lost their lives, whereas many others were seriously...
View ArticleSaudi, Bahrain, UAE recall envoys to Qatar
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recalled their ambassadors from Doha on Wednesday in protest at Qatar's interference in their internal affairs, they announced in a joint...
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