Govt decision to privatise power plant irks SC
ISLAMABAD: A government decision to opt for the sale of an inefficient power plant has irked the Supreme Court bench seized with a dispute over the grant of 20-year lease of the 150MW coal-fired Lakhra...
View ArticleElectricity tariff cut by 30 paisa per unit
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) approved on Tuesday a reduction of 30 paisa per unit in tariff for all distribution companies of Wapda under monthly fuel adjustment....
View ArticleNew rains kill 21 more in flood-hit China: Xinhua
BEIJING: Heavy rains killed 21 construction workers as flooding spread to northwest China, state media said Wednesday, after severe weather in other parts of the country left more than 130 dead.Sudden...
View ArticleEgypt's Mubarak back in court, lawyer to seek his release
CAIRO: Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak will face a new court hearing on Wednesday during which his lawyer will seek his release from prison, judicial sources said.The hearing is the fourth and...
View Article‘Al Qaeda-linked’ exchange in Lahore unearthed
LAHORE: An illegal gateway exchange allegedly being operated by Al Qaeda network has been busted and six suspects, including four women, have been taken into custody, according to sources in an...
View Article16 people killed in Indonesia bus accident
CISARUA: Sixteen people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when a bus plunged into a river as it returned from a church outing on Indonesia's main island of Java, AFP reported.The bus was...
View ArticleWB has agreed to finance Diamer-Bhasha dam: Dar
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has claimed to have convinced the World Bank to finance the $14 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam. The willingness of a previously reluctant multilateral agency — the...
View ArticleKarachi violence: Two people killed and four bodies recovered
KARACHI: Two people were killed and four bodies were recovered from different parts of Karachi on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.Two men were shot dead in Korangi Industrial Area and Gulshan-e-Maymar...
View ArticleSyrian opposition chief demands UN meeting over 'massacre'
DUBAI: The head of the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors in Syria said on Wednesday reports of a nerve gas attack killing more than a 100 people near Damascus should be investigated.Swedish...
View ArticleRains claim 118 lives in a week
LAHORE: At least 118 people have died across the country and 812 others suffered injuries over the past one week as widespread rain and flood in rivers or their tributaries affected life, property and...
View ArticleLoC firing: Pakistan Army captain killed
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani army officer was killed and a soldier wounded after an exchange of fire across the de facto border with India, the Pakistani military said.According to the military sources, a...
View ArticleTwo missing Baloch men found dead in Karachi
KARACHI: Police recovered bodies of two Baloch men from the Surjani Town area in Karachi on Wednesday, DawnNews reported. The area police said 35-year-old Haji Razzak and 40-year-old Pathan were...
View ArticleBlast near railway station in Chaman kills two, injures 10
CHAMAN: A blast occurred near the railway station in Balochistan's Chaman town situated near the Pak-Afghan border on Wednesday killing at least two persons and injuring ten others, DawnNews...
View ArticleKayani doubted Taliban killed Benazir, recounts UN investigator
ISLAMABAD: Heraldo Munoz, the lead United Nations (UN) investigator in a probe into former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, doubts the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)...
View ArticleMillions to vote in country’s biggest by-polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is all set to facilitate around 8.5 million registered voters to cast their votes in 41 national and provincial assembly constituencies for the...
View ArticleFormer PPP nazim arrested in link to Quetta bomb factory
QUETTA: Security forces Wednesday night detained former Nazim Quetta, Mir Maqbool Ahmed Lehri of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in connection with seizure of more than 100 tons of explosives from a...
View ArticlePolio team fired at in Gadap, attacker held
KARACHI: It was a nightmare at noon for over 30 female vaccinators who were to inoculate children with booster drops against polio in a Gadap town locality when they were forced to run for their lives...
View ArticleNA gets 34 standing committees
ISLAMABAD: With a single vote on Wednesday, the National Assembly created its 34 standing committees, which came rather limpingly after more than six weeks of excused delay that the government blamed...
View ArticleSui Southern cancels tender for LNG import
ISLAMABAD: The Sui Southern Gas Company has cancelled a tender for import of 500 million cubic feet of Liquefied Natural Gas through its LPG-LNG retrofit facility because of deficiencies in the bidding...
View ArticleTalks on US-Afghan security deal may resume soon
KABUL: Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has lined up a high-profile negotiating team to thrash out a critical long-term security deal with the US, raising hopes that talks suspended in June might...
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