MQM confirms Mustafa Kamal was asked to quit Senate
KARACHI, Dec 1: The unexplained absence of Syed Mustafa Kamal from the country and the MQM headquarters in Karachi has prompted his party to ask him to quit his Senate seat, it emerged here on Sunday....
View ArticleMove to review 18th Amendment
LAHORE, Dec 1: Not satisfied with some provisions of the 18th Amendment, the government and opposition parties are getting in touch to revive the parliamentary committee which had worked out proposals...
View ArticleIran seeks to allay Gulf states’ fears over N-deal
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 1: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured Gulf Arab states on Sunday his country’s nuclear deal with the West is in their interest and also announced plans to visit...
View ArticleNAB launches probe into land scam
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched an investigation into a Rs6 billion land scam in the National Police Foundation’s (NPF) housing scheme in Islamabad on the...
View ArticleKarzai accuses US of cutting Afghan military supplies
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused his US ally on Sunday of withholding military supplies to press him to sign a bilateral security deal that will shape the US military presence after most...
View ArticleFighting kills 10 in Lebanon's Tripoli
TRIPOLI: At least ten people, including a woman and an off-duty soldier, have been killed in two days of sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon linked to the war in neighbouring Syria, a security source...
View ArticleTrain crash kills four, injures at least 67 in New York
NEW YORK: A train hurtled off the tracks in a New York suburb Sunday, killing at least four people, injuring 67 and coming perilously close to plunging into a freezing river.New York emergency services...
View ArticleDPC leaders demand end to drone attacks in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Sunday in protest at continued US drone strikes in the country's troubled northwestern tribal agencies and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
View ArticleAfghan president suggests delay in April polls
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suggested delaying April elections to avoid heavy snow, organisers said, an idea that will rattle the United States and critics who fear he may be trying to...
View ArticleSuspected militants kill police officer near Srinagar
SRINAGAR: Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir say suspected militants shot dead a police officer and wounded two of his colleagues on Monday outside the main city of Srinagar.Unknown gunmen opened...
View ArticleBus plunges into ravine killing 10 in Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD: At least 10 people were killed on Monday when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) region, close to the disputed border with India.The bus travelling...
View ArticleFormer Bagram prisoners allowed to meet family in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Six Pakistanis, earlier released from Bagram jail by US authorities and currently imprisoned in Peshawar, were allowed to meet their family members on Monday on the directives of the Lahore...
View ArticleFC man killed in attack on checkpost in Sibi
SIBI: One Frontier Corps personnel was killed and another sustained serious wounds in Sibi district of Balochistanin an attack on Monday by armed militats, an official said.Khan Wasey, the Spokesman...
View ArticleOutgoing Pakistani envoy sees 'light at end of tunnel' with India
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's outgoing envoy to New Delhi said Monday he saw “light at the end of the tunnel” in diplomatic relations and predicted the improvement would survive next year’s Indian...
View ArticleGovt believes in transparent appointment of judges: Zafarul Haq
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the House in Senate Raja Zafarul Haq on Monday said the government believed in a transparent procedure for judges’ appointment, “so that nobody could point fingers at the selection...
View ArticleECP to issue Punjab, Sindh LG polls schedule on Dec 7
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will issue the schedule for holding local government elections in Punjab and Sindh on December 7, DawnNews reported on Monday.Speaking informally...
View ArticleAttack on ExpressNews office injures three in Karachi
KARACHI: At least three people, including a private guard, were injured in an attack by unidentified miscreants on building of Express media group in Karachi on Monday night, private TV channels...
View ArticleTwo missing internees died in custody
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: In a startling disclosure, the acting Defence Secretary, retired Maj Gen Raja Arif Nazir, informed the country’s highest court on Monday about the death of two of the 35 detainees the...
View ArticleKhurram Dastagir gets portfolio of commerce
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has changed the portfolio of Minister of State Khurram Dastagir Khan from privatisation to commerce. According to a notification, he has been appointed...
View ArticleFlour prices be made ‘affordable’, orders SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The Supreme Court ordered the federal and provincial governments on Monday to take immediate measures to ensure the availability of flour and other foodstuff at affordable prices.A...
View Article