Detailed report of Lahore honour killing presented in LHC
LAHORE: The Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Shafeeq Ahmed Gujjar on Thursday submitted a detailed report on the Farzana Parveen murder case before Lahore High Court (LHC), DawnNews...
View ArticleBlast kills four Afghan policemen: officials
GHAZNI: An explosion killed four Afghan police men including a district chief on Thursday as they attempted to defuse a roadside bomb in the restive south, officials said.Afghanistan has seen a...
View ArticleGrowers block highways in Balochistan
QUETTA: Incensed growers on Thursday blocked all national highways in Balochistan in protest against unannounced lengthy power outages and a significant cut in subsidy on power tariff.Balochistan...
View ArticlePeople can't be forced to convert, says Religious Affairs Minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf said Thursday that no one could be forced to convert their religion, DawnNews reported.Addressing a conference on interfaith...
View ArticleIHC orders registration of FIR against former CIA station chief
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday issued an order to register a First Information Report (FIR) against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) former station chief Jonathan Banks over deaths...
View ArticleParts of Karachi shutting down again
KARACHI: Commercial centres are being closed down in Karachi, hours after normalcy returned to the city following a shut down in the wake of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain's...
View ArticleLHC honour killing: ATC hands over accused on seven day remand
LAHORE: In another development in the Farzana Perveen murder case, the anti-terrorist court (ATC) in Lahore on Thursday handed over the ex-husband of the victim and two of her relatives to the police...
View ArticleNA committee calls for foolproof security of Parliament House
By Mateen HaiderISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has directed the Ministry of Interior to ensure foolproof security for Parliament House.Legislators observed that Islamabad police had failed to stop...
View ArticleGovt increases taxes without passing of budget
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday increased the General Sales Tax (GST) without the passing of the federal budget in the Parliament, DawnNews reported.In this regard, the Federal Board of Revenue...
View ArticleKey TTP commander gunned down in Mir Ali
PESHAWAR: Ashiqullah Mehsud, a key commander of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and a so-called expert of suicide bombings, was killed in a firing incident in North Waziristan tribal region,...
View ArticleDera Bugti operation: 30 alleged militants killed
QUETTA: Security forces’ personnel killed at least 30 alleged militants during a search operation on Thursday in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district.During a press conference, Provincial Home Minister...
View ArticleExplosion in Orangi Town leaves one person dead
KARACHI: A bomb carried on a rickshaw killed one person and wounded four others in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on Thursday, police said.The bomb exploded near a mosque in a densely populated...
View ArticleUK gives Pakistan access to Altaf Hussain
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/LONDON: The British government has allowed the Pakistani High Commission in London access to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, DawnNews reported.Imran Mirza, the...
View ArticleNadra has no record of ‘suicide bomber’ who killed two army colonels: police
RAWALPINDI: A police team investigating Wednesday’s suicide attack could not get any help from the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) regarding the identity of the attacker.The...
View ArticleSindh seeks biometric machines for LG polls
ISLAMABAD: In a move which may delay the electoral exercise beyond 2014, the Sindh government has conveyed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that it wants use of biometric machines in the...
View ArticleMuzaffargarh road accident kills four
MULTAN: At least four people were killed and 25 others injured on Friday when a trailer and a passenger bus collided in Muzaffargarh, DawnNews reported.The accident occurred apparently due to...
View Article9 sentenced to death in Xinjiang on terror charges
BEIJING: China has sentenced nine people to death on terrorism-related charges in its ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said on Thursday, as authorities crack down following...
View ArticleAdvani’s nameplate removed from parliament office
NEW DELHI: Even as members of India’s new Lok Sabha were sworn in on Thursday flaunting the nation’s impressive bouquet of languages – Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj took the oath in Sanskrit – the...
View ArticleGovt mulls scrapping procurement rules
ISLAMABAD: The government looks set to withdraw certain powers of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) in order to bypass competitive bidding for procurement of goods, services and...
View ArticleUlema council’s fatwa declares honour killing un-Islamic
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) has declared in unambiguous terms that murder of women or girls in the name of ‘honour’ is un-Islamic.The PUC issued a fatwa on Thursday which said such...
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