Korea hands Pakistan World Cup sorrow
Pakistan hopes of qualifying for next year’s World Cup were shattered by a lively Korean side, whose 2-1 win in the semi-final of the Asia Cup meant that the Greenshirts will not be part of hockey’s...
View ArticlePolice say stray bullet hit Sheikh Rashid’s car
ISLAMABAD: Member of the National Assembly, Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's car was hit by a falling stray bullet late on Thursday night, said the police rejecting the MNA’s claim...
View ArticleAltaf urges CJ to probe ‘Muhajir Republican Army hoax’
KARACHI: Criticising the federal interior ministry for inciting hatred and bias, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain Friday appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan to order a probe...
View ArticleUndecided Obama says world cannot stand by on Syria
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama insisted Friday that war weariness cannot excuse world powers from their responsibility to prevent hundreds of Syrian women and children from being gassed to...
View ArticleBalochistan PA approves amendment
QUETTA: The Balochistan assembly has adopted an amendment to the local government bill paving the way for holding of local body elections on party basis in the province.Minister Abdur Rahim Ziaratwal...
View ArticleDG Rangers reveals facts behind Karachi weapons smuggling
KARACHI: The Director General of the Sindh Rangers Maj-Gen Rizwan Akhtar on Friday informed the Supreme Court that around 19,000 shipping containers containing weapons and vehicles had gone missing...
View ArticlePPP warns against attempts to derail democracy
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday warned against ‘systematic’ efforts being made to derail democracy in the country and called for unity among political parties to foil such...
View ArticleImran against military operation in Karachi
ISLAMABAD: Taking part in a discussion on the Right to Information Act, which will be introduced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said the law will make the...
View ArticleGen Qazi to be brought to book: Saad Rafique
ISLAMABAD: If a federal minister is to be believed he intends to send a retired army general and former railways minister behind bars for causing a severe haemorrhage of the institution.Painting a...
View ArticleAction against Syria to be limited, tailored: US
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama assured his nation on Friday that he was not leading them to yet another open-ended war in Syria as the Bush administration did in Afghanistan and Iraq.“We’re not...
View ArticleAccord to diversify ties with Russia
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia wrapped up their first strategic dialogue with a commitment to remaining engaged and maintaining the momentum in the relationship. “Both sides noted with satisfaction the...
View ArticleDNA test verified Osama’s identity, says report
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK: The US commando raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad was guided from space by a fleet of satellites, The Washington Post and Time magazine reported on Friday.The...
View ArticleNA briefed on ties with neighbours, US
ISLAMABAD: Making an opposition-sought appearance, the prime minister’s foreign affairs and national security adviser told the National Assembly on Friday of what he called new ‘warmth’ with Kabul...
View ArticleGovt in secret contact with Taliban: minister
ISLAMABAD: Backchannel talks between the ruling PML-N and Taliban are under way to work out a peace formula and end violence which has claimed thousands of lives in the country since the US-led...
View ArticleIndian army kills five near Kashmir border
SRINAGAR: The Indian army said Saturday it killed five suspected militants in northern Kashmir near the Line of Control (LoC), the heavily militarised de facto border dividing the disputed Himalayan...
View ArticleSuicide attack kills six in southern Afghanistan
KABUL: Up to six Afghans and 20 others were wounded in a suicide attack outside a bank in southern city of Kandahar, on Saturday. “The attack took place in the city of Kandahar near the New Kabul Bank...
View Article250kg heroin seized from Pakistani container in Colombo
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan customs agents claim to have seized 250 kilograms of heroin worth $19 million from a container sent from Pakistan, in what an official says was the largest-ever stock of heroin...
View ArticleTen militants killed in Turbat clashes: officials
QUETTA: Frontier Constabulary (FC) claim to have killed ten armed militants in Balochistan's volatile Kech (Turbat) district on Saturday morning. Security forces launched a search operation in the...
View ArticleUS drone kills four ‘foreign militants’ in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR/MIRANSHAH: A US drone targeted a vehicle in North Waziristan tribal agency on Saturday, killing four suspected militants said to be of Turkmen origin. According to local security officials and...
View ArticleQWP leader Razaullah gunned down in Lakki Marwat
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen killed Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) leader Razaullah and injured his driver in Lakki Marwat district of the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday evening, said police...
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