Govt committed to deal with energy, economy, extremism: Dar
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance, Economic Affairs and Privatisation, Ishaq Dar has said that country's leadership was fully committed to deal with all three Es (Energy, Economy and Extremism) inherited...
View ArticleSC orders to apprehend more than 33,000 absconders in Karachi
KARACHI: Expressing annoyance over the inability and failure of police in arresting absconders involved in heinous crimes, Pakistan’s top court Friday ordered all responsible officials to apprehend...
View ArticleFederal cabinet approves amendments to anti-terrorism laws
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal cabinet on Friday approved a draft of amendments to anti-terrorism laws in an effort to further empowering law enforcement agencies for better handling of terror-related...
View ArticleBaloch lawmaker wails to a wanting house
ISLAMABAD: A Baloch nationalist lawmaker painted a dismal picture of his troubled province in the National Assembly on Friday as the house finished a wanting first week of its present session. But the...
View ArticlePolice claim breakthrough in rape case
LAHORE: Police claimed on Friday to have a ‘major breakthrough’ in the case pertaining to rape of a five-year-old girl in Lahore.A police team arrested the ‘prime suspect’ in a raid on a rented house...
View ArticleParacha meets two prisoners ‘on behalf of Taliban’
RAWALPINDI: As the government’s plans for holding talks with Taliban have come to a standstill after the recent Upper Dir incident, a former member of the National Assembly has met two condemned...
View ArticleMore than 100 killed in Mexico landslides, flooding: official
ACAPULCO: More than 100 people have been killed and scores are missing in landslides and flooding caused by heavy rain in Mexico, a senior government official said late Friday.Interior Minister Miguel...
View ArticleMQM’s Nabil Gabol named in Zafar Baloch murder case
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Nabil Gabol has been named in the murder case of proscribed People’s Amn Committee leader Zafar Baloch, drawing severe criticism from MQM, DawnNews...
View ArticlePTI tribal leader killed in attack
NOWSHERA: A tribal leader belonging to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf was killed and five others suffered injuries when gunmen on a motorcycle attacked a PTI office at the Jalozai camp here on Friday.Sources...
View ArticleSyria hands over chemical arms inventory to watchdog
DAMASCUS: Syria handed over the remaining details of its chemical arsenal on Saturday, meeting a deadline under a deal that headed off military strikes, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog...
View ArticleAround 20 killed in Nairobi shopping mall attack: Red Cross
NAIROBI: Some 20 people have been killed and about 50 wounded Saturday in an attack by gunmen on a shopping mall in Nairobi, the Kenya Red Cross said.“I can say the new toll is about 20 with about 50...
View Article‘Insider attack’ kills three Nato soldiers in Afghanistan
KABUL: A man wearing Afghan security forces uniform shot dead three Nato-led soldiers on Saturday in the eastern part of the war-torn country, the coalition said.So-called “insider attacks”, in which...
View ArticleNawaz nominates retired Justice Ejaz Chaudhry for NAB chairman
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has proposed the name of Justice retired Ejaz Chaudhry for the slot of Chairman National Accountability Bureau. He proposed the name in a meeting with Opposition...
View ArticleMaria Toor becomes first female Nash Cup champion
Pakistan’s squash player Maria Toorpakai Wazir put her name in the history books by winning the first ever women’s event in the Nash Cup in Canada by beating Milou van der Heijden of the Netherlands...
View ArticlePakistan frees top Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Baradar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official told AFP, in a move welcomed by Kabul who hope it will encourage peace talks with...
View ArticleThree Balochistan doctors released by Taliban
QUETTA: The Taliban militants have set free three doctors kidnapped in Balochistan's Killa Saifullah district more than three months back, family sources said on Saturday.Armed gunmen had picked up...
View ArticleNawaz unveils Rs 20bln youth uplift package
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday announced a development package worth Rs20 billion for the country's youth comprising six projects, aimed at providing them assistance mainly through...
View ArticleA surprise from Nisar: govt to prosecute Musharraf for treason
ISLAMABAD: On a day when the people of Rawalpindi were anxiously waiting for an official announcement about the state of curfew in their city, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan broke, out of...
View ArticlePTI postpones sit-in against Nato supply routes
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) and political parties in the coalition decided, on Sunday, to postpone a sit-in scheduled to take place on Nov 20, against Nato supply routes because of the...
View ArticleBoeing passenger jet crashes in Russia, killing 50: ministry
MOSCOW: A Boeing 737 belonging to a domestic Russian airline crashed Sunday while attempting to land at an airport in western Tatarstan, killing all 50 people on board, Russia's emergency situations...
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