Worsening power situation angers Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Power shortfall is turning out to be political albatross for the PML-N government. Perhaps realising this, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif went into a huddle again on Wednesday to look for ways...
View ArticleCourt orders provision of FIA report to Musharraf's lawyers
ISLAMABAD: The special court on Thursday while accepting the application related to provision of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) report to the defence lawyers ordered that the report should be...
View ArticlePakistan asks WHO for 15-day grace period
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of the federal and provincial governments held an emergency consultation meeting on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) travel advisory...
View ArticleMohsin to lodge protest over Waqar’s appointment
KARACHI: Former Pakistan Test batsman and ex-chairman of the national selection committee Mohsin Khan will hold media conference here on Thursday to lodge his protest at the Pakistan Cricket Board...
View ArticlePTI yet to get NOC for May 11 rally
ISLAMABAD: Before issuing the NOC (no objection certificate) for holding protest rally at Jinnah Avenue on May 11, the district administration has asked the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) to first...
View ArticleVan falls into ravine near Muzaffarabad killing eight persons
MUZAFFARABAD: At least eight people were killed and 15 others were wounded when a passenger van fell into a ravine on Pir Chinasi road in Muzaffarabad area on Thursday, DawnNews reported.Witnesses said...
View ArticleECP given 15 days to respond to PTI’s poll rigging case
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has given the Election Commission 15 days to submit a response to a petition filed by the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) over alleged electoral rigging in the May 2013...
View ArticleSyrian rebels blow up Aleppo hotel turned army base
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels blew up a luxury hotel turned army base in the historic heart of Aleppo on Thursday after tunneling under the front line that divides the main northern city.State television gave...
View ArticleIED blast kills 12 security personnel in N.Waziristan
PESHAWAR: A remote-controlled bomb exploded on Thursday killing at least 12 Frontier Corps personnel and injuring several others in Ghulam Khan Tehsil of North Waziristan tribal region.However, a...
View ArticleGovt rejects PTI's poll rigging allegations in National Assembly
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N)-led-government on Thursday challenged the allegations of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the National Assembly regarding the rigging in the...
View ArticleLawyers strike to mourn HRCP lawyer
MULTAN: Lawyers in Pakistan went on strike Thursday to mourn a colleague shot dead for defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, the latest killing linked to the controversial law.Gunmen...
View ArticleAjmal Kasab is alive, teacher tells court in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: The head master of the school, where Ajmal Kasab had allegedly studied, appeared before an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi where he presented educational records and stated that the...
View ArticlePakistan conducts training launch of short-range missile
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan conducted the successful training launch of short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi), capable of delivering nuclear and conventional warheads up to a...
View ArticleCourt grants bail to FBI agent arrested from Karachi airport
KARACHI: A court in Karachi on Thursday granted bail to a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent arrested for trying to board a domestic civilian flight with bullets and a knife in his...
View ArticleBlast in Quetta kills at least two
QUETTA: A powerful blast on Thursday killed two persons and injured over a dozen others in Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province, police said.Superintendent of Police Imran Qureshi said...
View ArticleNisar gives conditional nod to PTI’s May 11 rally
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to conditionally allow the May 11 rally announced by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to protest against alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections,...
View ArticleIslamic officials condemn kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls
DUBAI: Islamic scholars and human rights officials of the world's largest Muslim organisation on Thursday denounced the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram as “a...
View ArticleArmy chief briefs PM about security situation
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the PM House on Thursday and briefed him about the security situation in Karachi, Balochistan, Khyber...
View ArticleMQM holds protest, rejects Amnesty report
KARACHI: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) staged a protest demonstration in front of Karachi Press Club on Thursday to condemn a report of Amnesty International which cited the party as a threat to...
View ArticleAbu Hamza lost hands in Pakistan army experiment
NEW YORK: British hate preacher Abu Hamza told his US terror trial Thursday that his hands were blown off during a Pakistan army explosives experiment in Lahore in 1993.The device was prepared by an...
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