Victim's mother identifies DHA shootout suspects
KARACHI: The mother and elder brother of the deceased Suleman Lashari in the DHA shootout case on Monday identified the suspected killers during an identification parade carried out in a sessions...
View ArticleBoko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
LAGOS: Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners...
View ArticleANA official arrested after crossing into Pakistan
PESHAWAR: An Afghan National Army official was arrested near the Pak-Afghan Torkham border after he crossed into Pakistan without any valid documentation whereas one security person was killed in a...
View ArticleCommittee terms Dasti's allegations baseless
ISLAMABAD: The special committee constituted to probe Jamshed Dasti's accusations of parliamentarians' involvement in “immoral activities” at the Parliament Lodges termed his allegations baseless on...
View ArticleGunmen kill Pakistan Navy cook in Karachi
KARACHI: Unknown gunmen attacked a Pakistan Navy officer near Karasaz area on Karachi's Shahrae Faisal on Monday, DawnNews reported.Ghulam Akbar belonged to Punjab's Jhang district and was a working as...
View ArticleNawaz Sharif meets Ayatollah Khamenei
TEHRAN: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday met the Supreme Leader of Iran Syed Ali Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran. The meeting was also attended by delegation accompanying the Prime Minister. Prime...
View ArticleGovt, opposition walk out of Senate against May 12 carnage
ISLAMABAD: In a rare show of unison, legislators from both the government and opposition walked out of the Senate on Monday in protest of the May 12, 2007 carnage in Karachi that left dozens...
View ArticleGovt offers to set up all-party electoral reforms committee
ISLAMABAD: A day after a big protest in Islamabad by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) over alleged rigging in last year’s general elections, the government offered an all-party committee...
View ArticleTwo new polio cases detected
KARACHI / MIRAMSHAH: Two new polio cases have been detected in the country.An 18-month-old girl of a family which had shifted to Karachi from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in recent months is...
View ArticleKhalid acting emir of SWA Taliban
MIRAMSHAH/LADHA: The infighting between two factions of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has prompted intervention by the TTP shura which is reported to have appointed Sheikh Khalid Haqqani as...
View ArticleBlasphemy case against lawyers
JHANG: The Kotwali police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) under Section 295/A of the Pakistan Penal Code (blasphemy law) against eight nominated and 60 unknown members of the District...
View ArticleTwo school teachers killed in Hangu firing
HANGU: In an incident of firing in the early hours of Tuesday unknown armed men killed two teachers near the Government High School in Chasma Jaat area of the Hangu district, DawnNews...
View ArticleRemittances rise 11.45pc in July-April
KARACHI: Overseas Pakistani workers remitted $12.9 billion in the first 10 months (July-April) of this fiscal year, a growth of 11.45 per cent compared with $11.57bn received during the same period of...
View ArticleLocal ANP leader killed in Peshawar firing
PESHAWAR: A local Awami National Party (ANP) leader was killed by unknown persons in Peshawar's Kohati area on Tuesday, DawnNnews reportedAccording to the police, former Union counsellor Anwarul Haq...
View ArticleBDS defuse 25kg bomb in Karachi's Saeedabad area
KARACHI: Police defused a 25-kilogram bomb from a bus-stop in Karachi’s Saeedabad area on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.On receiving a tip-off about a suspicious bag, police summoned the Bomb Disposal...
View ArticleSHC takes notice of mysterious disease in Thatta and Sujawal
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday taking notice of the reported deaths of 48 children in the provinces Thatta and Sujawal areas due to a mysterious disease and sought answers from the provincial...
View ArticleMushtaq’s appointment risky, signals double standards
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s choice of hiring Mushtaq Ahmed as the spin bowling coach will raise quite a few eyebrows given his chequered record in his earlier stints with national...
View ArticleRecords of MQM chief's NIC application available: Shamsul Hasan
Pakistan's former high commissioner of to the United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, has said that his granting of permission to a National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) team from the...
View ArticleUS presence in Afghanistan to remain significant: envoy
TOKYO: The US-led military presence in Afghanistan will remain “significant” despite this year's drawdown, Washington's special envoy for the country said Tuesday, as he predicted that outgoing...
View ArticleFive foreign nationals recovered in Balochistan
QUETTA: Police have recovered five foreign nationals during a search operation in Balochistan's troubled Kech District on Tuesday, said an official.Bashir Brohi, the District Police Officer (DPO) told...
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