Journalist Hamid Mir injured in gun attack in Karachi
KARACHI: Unknown gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on Hamid Mir in Karachi on Saturday, injuring the senior reporter and television anchorperson.Reports said the incident took place on Sharae Faisal...
View ArticleThree militants killed in Balochistan violence
QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) claimed to have killed three militants in Balochistan's troubled Panjgoor district on Saturday evening, an official said.Khan Wasey, the Spokesman for FC, said miscreants...
View ArticleMusharraf lands in Karachi amid tight security
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf's special chartered plane has arrived in Karachi on late Saturday night, after departing from Islamabad.The port city has been on high alert with...
View ArticleZardari for revisiting blasphemy law
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over growing misuse of blasphemy law in the country, former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari has called for revisiting the Zia-era legislation.In a message...
View ArticleKP still unwilling to allow launch of Malala’s book
PESHAWAR: The Taliban militants’ fear continues to hinder the launch of girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai’s book in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The government had stopped the launch of ‘I am Malala’...
View ArticleMeeting with TTP committee cancelled
ISLAMABAD: Mystery surrounded the last-minute cancellation of a meeting between Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Taliban negotiators on Saturday.The interior ministry had announced the...
View ArticleMalik not satisfied with anti-insurgency organisation
TURBAT: An organisation which was set up to counter the insurgency in Balochistan has become the reason for increasing disorder in the province, Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch said in an...
View ArticlePunjab govt accused of being soft on militants
ISLAMABAD: Although the law-enforcement agencies in Lahore busted a sectarian group this week, it is still not clear if this indicates a change of strategy on the part of Punjab government, which until...
View ArticlePM summons meeting after attack on Hamid Mir
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of political and government aides on Sunday to discuss the situation that has arisen after the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir that...
View ArticleSlain ANP leader’s house attacked
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen attacked a hujra in the Badbher area on the outskirts of Peshawar and abducted three people.The hujra situated in the Mashokhel area of Badbher belongs to the slain Awami...
View Article3G, 4G may triple internet cost for users
ISLAMABAD: While debate on the introduction of next generation mobile phone technology is centred on what the government stands to gain from the auction of licences, few realise what the advent of 3G...
View ArticleDoctors advise angiography for Musharraf
KARACHI: A three-member team of doctors studied the medical reports of the former president and advised him to undergo an angiography soon, DawnNews reported.Special arrangements, including the setting...
View ArticleUN officials confirm staff members go missing in Pakistan
KARACHI: Two local employees working for the United Nations Children's Fund Unicef have gone missing in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi and police said Sunday they are thought to have been...
View ArticleGas balloons explode burning 17 people in Lahore
LAHORE: Gas balloons released during Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's inauguration of an overhead bridge near Walton Road exploded after landing in the area near Kamaha road on Sunday, resulting...
View ArticleRoad accident kills 41 in Sukkur
SUKKUR: At least 41 people were killed and several others were injured Sunday morning in a bus-trailer collision on the National Highway in Sindh's Sukkur district, DawnNews reported.The accident took...
View ArticleAbdullah ahead in partial Afghan vote results
KABUL: New partial results in Afghanistan's presidential election released Sunday show candidate Abdullah Abdullah is still the front-runner, though a runoff election looks likely.The winner will...
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PM orders judicial probe into attack on Hamid Mir
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday decided to constitute a three-member judicial commission to probe into the murder attempt on leading journalist Hamid Mir.A formal request in this...
View ArticleSacked Pemra chief to challenge his dismissal
ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Rashid, who was recently dismissed as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), has decided to challenge his removal in the Islamabad High Court...
View ArticleOpposition parties meet today to devise joint plan to block Protection of...
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the Senate will be meeting on Monday to devise a joint strategy to block the government’s move to get the Protection of Pakistan bill passed from the upper house.The...
View ArticleIT ministry can’t afford IT experts
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) cannot afford to keep IT professionals on its payroll and has taken on schoolteachers and forest officials to manage its affairs. The ministry...
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