Saudi Arabia lists Muslim Brotherhood among 'terror' groups
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Friday listed the Muslim Brotherhood and two Syrian groups as terrorist organisations and ordered citizens fighting abroad to return within 15 days or face imprisonment, state...
View ArticleCorps commanders say airstrikes may continue: sources
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the corps commanders, chaired by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, on Friday decided that airstrikes on militant hideouts would continue in the event of future...
View ArticleKashmiris protest against students’ expulsion for cheering Pakistan
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of people protested in the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday over the expulsion of dozens of Kashmiri college students because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket...
View ArticleSindh govt orders probe after 41 children die in Thar desert
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Friday ordered a probe into the death of 41 children who reportedly died of pneumonia and malnutrition in a stretch of the Thar desert.Officials were alarmed by media...
View ArticleSectarian violence killed 1,710 since 2008, Senate told
KARACHI: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday told a session of the Senate that 1,710 people have been killed since 2008 in incidents of sectarian violence across Pakistan, DawnNews...
View ArticleMunawar Hasan welcomes govt’s direct talks with Taliban
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan has welcomed the government’s decision to hold direct talks with the Taliban saying this is the right way to ensure success of the peace process.He...
View ArticleReady to launch operation if Taliban talks fail: Khawaja Asif
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan could launch a full-scale military operation against Pakistani Taliban insurgents in the tribal areas near the Afghan border as early as this month, the defence minister said,...
View ArticleSC asks Balochistan govt to inform it of FC officials’ trial
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed the Balochistan government on Friday to submit a reply with explanation about prosecution and trial of arrested Frontier Corps (FC) officials in a civil or a...
View ArticleBill paves way for appointment of Bhagwandas as CEC
ISLAMABAD: After a pitiably nerve-testing failure for nine months to find a consensus chief election commissioner (CEC), political rivals quickly amended a law in the National Assembly on Friday so...
View ArticleAnother twist to district courts attack case
ISLAMABAD: The district courts attack case took another twist on Friday when the gunman of the slain additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) denied allegations of shooting him.ADSJ Rafaqat Ahmed...
View ArticleTwo brothers among four killed in Lyari
KARACHI: Four people, two of them brothers, were shot dead in Lyari area of Karachi on Friday night, according to police and hospital officials.The killings triggered intense firing, sowing fear in...
View ArticleSami criticises Asif for operation remarks
ISLAMABAD: Opposition leaders and a representative of the Taliban negotiating committee have expressed displeasure over the remarks of Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif that a military operation...
View ArticleMalaysia's Anwar convicted of sodomy, political future in doubt
PUTRAJAYA: A Malaysian court convicted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy and sentenced him to five years in prison on Friday, shattering his plan to take control of the country's richest state...
View ArticleArmy may keep out of dialogue committee
ISLAMABAD: The army quashed on Friday the talk of its involvement in peace talks with militants as its top brass reportedly observed that holding the dialogue was a government initiative.The 170th...
View ArticleMagnetic bomb kills district governor in eastern Afghanistan
JALALABAD: A magnetic bomb attached to a district governor's vehicle exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing the governor and his bodyguard, provincial authorities said.The attack in...
View ArticleRangers arrest 11 suspects in targeted operation
KARACHI: Rangers’ personnel conducted a targeted operation in the Gulshan-e-Mazdoor area of Karachi’s Baldia Town on Saturday and arrested 11 suspects, DawnNews reported.On receiving a tip-off about...
View ArticleRussia open to 'equal' dialogue with West on Ukraine: Lavrov
MOSCOW: Russia is open to having an “honest, equal” dialogue with foreign states on the crisis in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.“We are open to an honest, equal and objective...
View ArticleBB murder: ATC adjourns hearing as prosecutor fails to appear
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi anti-terrorist court on Saturday adjourned the Benazir Bhutto murder case to March 22 after Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) special prosecutor Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry...
View ArticleMissing Malaysia Airlines plane triggers Southeast Asia search
KUALA LUMPUR: Several nations searched waters off Southeast Asia on Saturday after a Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 239 passengers disappeared and was presumed crashed, leaving stunned relatives...
View ArticleEight injured in Chaman road mishap
CHAMAN: At least eight people were injured in a collision between two vehicles at Bypass Road area in Chaman town of Balochistan’s Qila Abdullah district on Saturday.According to Levies, two cars...
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