Election-related violence in India's Chhattisgarh kills 13
BHUBANESWAR: Suspected Maoist rebels set off two bombs in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing 13 people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and officials charged with holding...
View ArticleChinese investors threaten to move capital from KP to Balochistan
PESHAWAR: Expressing lack of confidence in the KP provincial government, a representative of a group of Chinese investors threatened to shift their mining projects from KP to Balochistan.The...
View ArticleTTP decides not to extend ceasefire
PESHAWAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced on Wednesday its decision to not extending the ceasefire and said that the government had failed to respond positively to the militant...
View ArticleModi rules out BJP’s will to revise ‘no-first-use of nukes’ policy
NEW DELHI: Indian prime ministerial frontrunner Narendra Modi ruled out the first use of nuclear weapons on Wednesday, seeking to calm concerns after his Hindu nationalist party vowed to revise arms...
View Article16 MoUs signed at business meeting
ISLAMABAD: Sixteen Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed at the end of a three-day Central Asian Business Opportunities Conference here on Wednesday with participants making a commitment to...
View Article3G and 4G auction to yield $1.3bn, says Dar
ISLAMABAD: The auction of next generation 3G and 4G licences is expected to fetch the national exchequer $1.3 billion and create employment opportunities for about 100,000 people, Finance Minister...
View ArticleMain accused will be court-martialled, govt tells SC
ISLAMABAD: The case of 35 persons, who went missing from an army detention facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reared its head again in the Supreme Court on Wednesday when the federal government submitted...
View ArticleFears grow for hundreds missing in S. Korea ferry capsize
JINDO: The frantic search for nearly 300 people, most of them schoolchildren, missing after a South Korean ferry capsized extended into a second day Thursday, as distraught relatives maintained an...
View ArticleMedia reports won’t deter bidders, hopes SC
ISLAMABAD: A controversy surrounding bidders’ response in the sale of next-generation telecommunication spectrum surfaced on Wednesday in the Supreme Court which expressed confidence that media...
View ArticlePPO to be softened, PM assures Zardari
ISLAMABAD: With an important Senate session under way, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met former president Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday and agreed to review the controversial Protection of Pakistan...
View ArticleAt least six children injured in Khanpur road accident
KHANPUR: At least six children were injured on Thursday when a school bus they were travelling in plunged into a trench in Khanpur, DawnNews reported.The school van was carrying over 20 children when...
View ArticleMQM protests in Senate against ‘victimisation’
ISLAMABAD: Members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) staged a walkout from the Senate on Wednesday in protest against the alleged victimisation of party workers by law-enforcement agencies in...
View ArticleIndia goes to polls in biggest voting day
NEW DELHI: India hosted its biggest day of voting Thursday in its marathon election, with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty battling to save the ruling Congress party from defeat to opposition Hindu nationalist...
View ArticleInjustice in the name of religion denounced
KARACHI: An Ulema and Mashaikh convention organised by the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) on Wednesday denounced all forms of terrorism and violence against Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of...
View ArticleBalochistan situation has deteriorated, says BNP-M
QUETTA: The chairman of the organising committee of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini, has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has failed to honour his commitment...
View ArticlePTI dissidents form pressure group in KP Assembly
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Wednesday split into two groups in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly after 14 dissident MPAs of the ruling party formed what they called a pressure group.When...
View ArticleNegotiators will try to convince TTP to extend ceasefire: Ibrahim
ISLAMABAD: Negotiator for the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat-i-Islami leader Professor Ibrahim on Thursday said that the TTP negotiating committee would continue to work for the cause of...
View ArticleAnalysis: Message in a meeting
The meeting and its agenda may have been set before the latest civ-mil storm erupted and both sides tried their best on Wednesday to stick to the original script, but context is everything in politics...
View ArticleFour mobile operators qualify for 3G, 4G auction
ISLAMABAD: The bids of four mobile operators of Pakistan qualified for the auction of 3G and 4G licenses, Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Ismail Shah, told Dawn on Thursday.Shah said...
View ArticlePeace talks to gradually continue despite end of TTP ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on National Security (CCNS) at the Prime Minister House on Thursday during it was decided that the peace talks process...
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