Lawyer, his driver killed in Karachi firing
KARACHI: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a vehicle on Saturday killing a lawyer and his driver in Karachi's Orangi Town area, DawnNews reported.Police said the armed men had come to attack the...
View ArticleSindh Rangers tasks special unit to probe MQM allegations
KARACHI: Taking the allegations levelled by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement into account, the Sindh Rangers has tasked a special unit to probe the party's claims that personnel from the paramilitary force...
View ArticleBlast targets FC vehicle in Bolan; one killed
QUETTA: One Frontier Corps (FC) man was killed and another was injured in a bomb explosion in Balochistan province’s Bolan district on Saturday, a security official said.Khan Wasey, a spokesman for the...
View ArticlePress Freedom Day: Protesters demand end to journalists’ killing
QUETTA: To mark the World Press Freedom Day, journalists marched on the roads of Quetta to mourn the killings of colleagues and voice for freedom of speech and expression on Saturday.The members of...
View Article‘PM vowed to reopen journalist Saleem Shehzad murder case’
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in March had vowed to reopen the murder case of journalist Saleem Shehzad who was found dead after being...
View ArticlePakistan summons Middle East envoys to discuss Syria
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has summoned its envoys from key Middle Eastern countries to meet in Islamabad on May 4 for urgent consultations over situation in Syria in particular and Middle East in...
View ArticleImran trying to stop foreign investment: minister
FAISALABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has been trying to stop foreign investment in Pakistan, fearing if Nawaz Sharif delivered people would forget him (Mr Khan).State Minister for...
View ArticleMQM unlikely to join combined opposition
ISLAMABAD: Although the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has joined hands with the PPP in the Sindh government, it is not ready to become a part of the combined opposition at the centre.The PPP believes...
View ArticleParliament panel moves to regain say in judges’ selection
ISLAMABAD: After being little more than a ‘rubber stamp’ body for over three years since the Supreme Court gave the upper hand to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), the Parliamentary Committee...
View ArticleGovt flouting court rulings in making key appointments
ISLAMABAD: The government seems to be ignoring the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) while also disregarding a key Supreme Court (SC) judgement, by continuing to retain the services of officials...
View ArticleMusharraf seeks acquittal in Ghazi murder case
ISLAMABAD: Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday moved a local court, seeking acquittal in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.Advocate Akhtar Shah, the...
View ArticleProtesters torch D.I. Khan sugar mills
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Protesting against the death of their relatives in a drain of toxic effluent, enraged villagers ransacked a sugar mills and set its building on fire in the Ramak area of Dera Ismail...
View ArticlePakistan most dangerous country for journalists: UN
UNITED NATIONS: “An open and pluralistic media” must work in a safe environment without fear of reprisal, the United Nations said on Saturday in observance of the World Press Freedom Day.The world body...
View ArticleJI team to join PTI sit-in
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has decided to take part in the sit-in to be staged by its ally, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), in Islamabad on May 11 on the issue of alleged rigging in last...
View Article13 ‘non-combatant’ Taliban may be released
MULTAN: Taliban Committee member Maulana Yousaf Shah says a list of 765 non-combatant Taliban prisoners has been handed over to the government out of which 13 inmates will be release in a couple of...
View ArticleTroops kill two key TTP men
LADHA: Two leaders of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in clashes with security forces in the Bober area of South Waziristan, officials said on Saturday.Irfan Mehsud, son of...
View ArticleSethi’s efforts to mend fences between Moin, Waqar bearing fruit
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi has played a key role in bringing his newly appointed chief selector-cum-manager Moin Khan and leading candidate for head coach Waqar Younis...
View ArticleWarid set to launch 4G LTE services, with PTA approval
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) accepted Warid Telecom’s plea to permit it to launch 4G services in the country.The PTA had held auctions for 3G and 4G network licences on...
View ArticleArmy kills 37 Qaeda suspects in south Yemen: ministry
ADEN: Yemen's army killed 37 Al Qaeda suspects and wounded dozens on Sunday on day six of a major offensive in the south of the country, the defence ministry said.The “terrorists” were killed in the...
View ArticlePakistani security man killed near Afghan border area: ISPR
PESHAWAR: Firing from Afghanistan killed one Pakistani security person on Sunday at the Pak-Afghan border area near Bajaur tribal region, according to a statement issued by the Inter Services Public...
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