Toy bomb kills boy, injures four children in Nowshera
PESHAWAR: A 10-year-old boy was killed and four others were wounded when an explosive apparently hidden inside a toy they were playing with detonated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera town on Thursday,...
View ArticleHafeez resigns from T20 captaincy
LAHORE: Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez stepped down as Twenty20 captain on Thursday after the team's failure to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.Pakistan went out from the...
View ArticleDiscrepancies in Nepra tariff determination: official
ISLAMABAD: The federal government declined on Thursday to pass on up to 79 paisa per unit reduction in the electricity tariff for consumers from lower middle class in Karachi and moved a case for its...
View ArticleSC restores NA membership of PTI lawmaker
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court restored on Thursday the National Assembly’s membership of a PTI lawmaker after vacating its earlier order. Ghulam Sarwar Khan was elected from NA-53 Rawalpindi-IV, but the...
View ArticleFazl demands fresh polls for Sindh Assembly
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has claimed that the Sindh Assembly stands dissolved after it passed a resolution against the Council of Islamic Ideology...
View ArticleTrial of Mumbai attacks case suspects stalled
ISLAMABAD: The proceeding in the Mumbai attacks case has come to a standstill as the special judge of the anti-terrorism court (ATC) has expressed his inability to conduct the trial of seven Pakistani...
View ArticleAll abducted guards alive, says Iran
DUBAI: Iran has said five border guards kidnapped by Sunni militants are in good health, disputing a report that one of them had been killed.The guards were seized while patrolling the frontier with...
View ArticlePPP asks govt to take political parties into confidence over TTP talks
NAUDERO: The Pakistan Peoples Party has asked the government to take political parties and parliament into confidence over the talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.A meeting of the PPP...
View Article19 Taliban freed as ‘goodwill gesture’
ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Thursday that it had released 19 non-combatant Taliban as a goodwill gesture for bolstering the peace process with the outlawed TTP.But surprisingly, the claim...
View ArticleIndia court orders first death sentences for multiple rapes
MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday ordered three men to hang after they were convicted of two gang-rapes, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened...
View ArticleAAP chief punched during South Delhi roadshow
NEW DELHI: The chief of the Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, was attacked by an unidentified person Friday during a roadshow in Dakshinpuri area of South Delhi, Indian media reported.According to the...
View ArticlePoliceman suspended for accusing baby of attempted murder
LAHORE: A policeman has been suspended for bringing a case of attempted murder against a nine-month old boy and forcing the crying infant to appear in court, officials said Friday.Baby Mohammad Musa,...
View ArticleMusharraf not asked to apologise, says Saad Rafique
LAHORE: Federal Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Friday that no one had demanded an apology from former military dictator General (r) Pervez Musharraf and neither did the government have...
View ArticleGerman AP photographer shot dead in Afghanistan
KHOST: An Afghan police commander on Friday shot dead a female German photographer working for the Associated Press on the eve of presidential elections, in an attack that also left a Canadian...
View ArticlePIA fires 300 employees for having fake degrees
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has taken action against the fake degree holders according to the corporation’s rules and regulations and terminated services of 300 employees in this...
View ArticleMilitant group claims freeing captured Iranian guards
TEHRAN: Iranian soldiers captured by a militant group Jaish al-Adl near the Pakistani border in February have been freed, the rebel group and an Iranian official announced Friday.However, there was no...
View ArticleTTP extends ceasefire until April 10
PESHAWAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has extended the ceasefire until April 10, the group's spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement, adding that the Taliban shura would be...
View ArticleBilawal assails govt for pushing nation into dark ages
KARACHI: Reaffirming his determination to fight Taliban militancy in Pakistan, Patron-in-Chief of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday assailed the PML-N government for pushing...
View ArticleIndia knock out South Africa for World Twenty20 final
DHAKA: Former champions India upstaged South Africa by six wickets in the second semi-final in Dhaka on Friday to cruise into the final of World Twenty20.Chasing 173 to win, India were led by a...
View ArticleRefugees allowed to vote in Afghan town
QUETTA: The government of Afghanistan has allowed Afghan refugees living in Chaman and adjacent border areas to cast votes in the presidential election being held on Saturday (today).The Election...
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