Court calls for laws before troop pullout
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court directed the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments on Tuesday to make laws before withdrawal of troops from Malakand division so that different issues, including...
View ArticleUS lauds Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace process
WASHINGTON: The new Pakistani government and the United States are both anxious to work with each other on security and economic agendas, says a senior US official. James Dobbins, Washington’s special...
View ArticleAbbott sworn in as Australia's new PM
CANBERRA: Tony Abbott was sworn in as Australia's new prime minister on Wednesday and immediately ordered the scrapping of the nation's carbon tax and the halting of asylum-seeker boats.The 55-year-old...
View ArticleMQM’s Nadeem Hashmi freed from Karachi police custody
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and former Sindh lawmaker Nadeem Hashmi has been freed from police custody and acquitted Tuesday from all charges including killing of two policemen in...
View ArticleNigerian army claims raid killed 150 insurgents
LAGOS: A military strike on a Boko Haram camp in Nigeria's restive northeast last week killed 150 Islamists and 16 soldiers, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.“It was a highly fortified insurgent...
View ArticleBangladesh opposition protests war crimes verdict
DHAKA: Supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party clashed with police Wednesday amid a nationwide strike called to protest a court's ruling that one of the opposition party's leaders should be...
View ArticlePolls close in NA-25 by-election
TANK: Polling was has closed in the NA-25 Dera Ismail Khan-cum-Tank constituency in the by-election here on Wednesday. The by-poll was first scheduled to be held on Aug 22 but was postponed due to...
View ArticleKarachi operation: three suspected terrorists killed, 29 suspects arrested
KARACHI: Rangers and police personnel on Wednesday arrested 29 suspects and killed three alleged terrorists during targeted operation conducted in different parts of Karachi, DawnNews reported. Police...
View ArticleTaliban gunmen kill Afghan provincial election chief
KUNDUZ: Taliban gunmen riding motorbikes gunned down a senior election official in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, raising fears the presidential vote due in April may trigger a surge in...
View ArticleSecurity forces repulse attack on checkpost in North Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH: At least two militants were killed as security forces repulsed an attack on a checkpost in Dattakhel Tehsil of North Waziristan tribal region whereas one solider was also wounded in the...
View ArticleDamning figures in HRCP report on violence against women
LAHORE: Alarming figures of increasing cases of violence against women were presented in a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) report issued recently.Violation against women is widespread in...
View ArticleIranian rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh freed: agency
TEHRAN: Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, imprisoned for her human rights work since 2010, has been pardoned and freed from prison, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.It said other people...
View ArticlePM woos Turkish entrepreneurs to invest in Pakistan
ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday invited Turkish businessmen and entrepreneurs to tap and explore vast investment opportunities that existed in Pakistan, particularly in the areas of...
View ArticleSC irked by failure of Balochistan government to restore peace
QUETTA: The Balochistan government submitted another progress report on Wednesday which failed to satisfy the Supreme Court yet again over the steps taken by the provincial administration to restore...
View ArticleAfghan firing kills five Pakistanis in border area
QUETTA: At least five Pakistani citizens were killed when Afghan border security personnel opened fire in an area close to the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan, officials said. At least three people...
View ArticleCII reviews ruling on DNA admissibility in rape cases
ISLAMABAD: Under pressure after severe criticism over its controversial ruling in May this year which discarded DNA as primary evidence in rape cases, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) began...
View ArticleAman Committee leader Zafar Baloch killed
KARACHI: Zafar Baloch, a prominent member of the banned Peoples' Aman Committee (PAC), has been shot dead by unknown assailents on motorcycles in Lyari.He was shot along with his security guard in...
View ArticlePakistan, India urged to resume dialogue process
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians of Pakistan and India have called upon the two governments to resume dialogue process for sustainable peace in the region. The call was made in a joint communiqué, issued at...
View ArticleSyria submits chemical details to watchdog
DAMASCUS: Syria has begun supplying details of its chemical arsenal, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday, as rebels agreed a truce with militants in a key border town.A senior official...
View ArticlePakistan pilot admits being drunk after UK plane arrest
LONDON: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot pleaded guilty on Friday to being drunk just before he was due to fly to Pakistan, court officials and media said.Irfan Faiz, 54, was more than...
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