Ex-Pemra chief Jabbar arrested for illegal appointments: sources
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested former chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Dr Abdul Jabbar along with three other officers over illegal...
View ArticlePak Army to donate a day’s ration to drought-hit people
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has decided to donate a day’s food ration to the drought-hit people of Thar desert in Sindh as the relief activities intensified on the directives of Prime Minister Nawaz...
View ArticlePakistani laws prohibiting underage marriage un-Islamic: CII
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded its 191th meeting, here Tuesday with the ruling that the laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age...
View ArticleRupee continues to rise against dollar
KARACHI: The rupee continued to appreciate on Tuesday as the value of the US dollar fell to below Rs100.According to the forex.pk website, the open market rates for the greenback were Rs99.90 in buying...
View ArticleTTP’s Mohmand chapter vows to abide by ceasefire
PESHAWAR: Chief of Pakistani Taliban’s Mohmand Agency chapter Umar Khalid Khurasani Tuesday vowed to abide by the ceasefire negotiated between the government and Taliban despite the outfit’s claim of...
View ArticleSindh’s senior official removed
KARACHI: The government of Sindh made several administrative changes on Tuesday night in the wake of reports of death of over 100 children in drought-hit Thar and criticism of the government’s...
View ArticleSC again refrains from action against PM, CM
ISLAMABAD: Exercising extreme restraint, the Supreme Court on Tuesday again came short of invoking constitutional provisions against the chief executives of federal and provincial governments for their...
View ArticleLooming power shortage perturbs ECC
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has expressed serious concern over fears of serious shortage of power supply and increase in loadshedding in the coming summer and...
View ArticleLibya PM ousted after tanker escapes to sea with rebel oil
TRIPOLI: Libya's premier was ousted by parliament Tuesday after a tanker laden with crude oil from a rebel-held terminal broke through a naval blockade and escaped to sea, underscoring the weakness of...
View ArticleUkraine won't intervene in Crimea, president says
KIEV: Ukraine's acting president has said the country will not use its army to stop Crimea from seceding, the latest sign that a Russian annexation of the strategic peninsula may be imminent.Oleksander...
View ArticleTwo, including FC man, killed in Bannu firing
BANNU: Two people, including a Frontier Corps (FC) man were killed Wednesday as a result of firing by unknown motorcyclists in Bannu, DawnNews reported.According to police, the two persons, who were...
View ArticleNato flying surveillance planes to Ukraine border
BERLIN: Nato says it has dispatched two surveillance planes to fly over Poland and Romania to monitor the crisis unfolding in neighboring Ukraine.The military alliance says two AWAC, or Airborne...
View ArticleThree insurgents killed in shootout in Afghanistan:police
KANDAHAR: Afghan police officials say three insurgents tried to storm the former intelligence service headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar, prompting a fierce gun battle with security forces...
View ArticleTreason case: Court summons head of govt dept on security alert
ISLAMABAD: During Wednesday's hearing of the treason case against former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the special court summoned the head of the government department that issued the...
View ArticleImran wants govt committee to address polio in talks with TTP
PESHAWAR: Appealing that the government committee should hold talks with the Taliban regarding the polio issue, chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Imran Khan said on Wednesday that the matter had become...
View ArticleGang leader’s brother killed in Lyari
KARACHI: At least 12 people, including four women and two children, were killed and 39 others including two policemen wounded in a violent clash between rival gangs in Karachi's Lyari area that...
View ArticleSplinter group claims Swedish journalist’s murder in Kabul
KABUL: A little-known Islamist militant group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for gunning down a Swedish journalist in Kabul, but officials said the murder remained unexplained and that they were...
View ArticleWorld powers warn Russia against Crimea 'annexation'
KIEV: Leading world powers in the Group of Seven warned Wednesday against Russia's “annexation” of Crimea as the Ukrainian premier prepared to seek US President Barack Obama's help against the...
View ArticleAvalanches, heavy snow kill 14 across Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Unusually heavy snowfall has unleashed avalanches and collapsed homes in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing at least 14 people on both sides of the de-facto border between India and...
View ArticleGunmen kill four in Miramshah
PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot dead four people, including three militants, in a restive Pakistani tribal district near the Afghan border on Wednesday, officials said.The attack took place in Miramshah, the...
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