Militants torch Nato tankers in Balochistan
QUETTA: Armed militants torched two tankers carrying fuel for US and Nato troops in Balochistan's insurgency-hit Bolan district on Sunday evening, officials said.Muhammad Ayub, a levies official said...
View ArticleAam Aadmi dethrones Delhi’s three-tenure chief minister
NEW DELHI, Dec 8: Voters in key Indian states produced a verdict on Sunday that mocked the exit polls and pricked a rightwing hoopla surrounding the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra...
View ArticleImran asks Pakistan, India to cooperate in civil N-tech
LAHORE, Dec 8: Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan came up on Sunday with an unusual suggestion for improving Pakistan-India relations and said that as a confidence-building measure the neighbours...
View ArticleExecution order issued for BD Jamaat leader
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Sunday ordered prison authorities to hang an Islamist leader months after he was sentenced to death, raising fears of a new wave of clashes in the unrest-plagued nation.Abdul...
View ArticleMinistry sends gas load management plan to PM
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has sent to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for approval a summary which envisages suspension of supply of natural gas to all users, except...
View ArticleGovt to press five charges against Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: In the ‘high treason’ case against former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, the government plans to charge him with abrogating, subverting, suspending, holding in abeyance and...
View ArticleNisar wants poll rigging issue resolved
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan invited on Sunday parliamentary leaders of all political parties in the National Assembly to a meeting for resolving the controversy over...
View ArticleNawaz govt using NAB for political retribution: Wattoo
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party's Central Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo on Monday said the federal government was using the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for revenge purposes, adding...
View ArticleCourt to announce Dr Shakil Afridi's retrial verdict on Dec 18
PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) Tribunal hearing the case of Dr Shakil Afridi said on Monday that it would announce the verdict on the case on December 18.Both the sides,...
View ArticleCommuter train crashes into oil tanker killing ten in Indonesia
JAKARTA: A crowded commuter train crashed into a fuel tanker on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital on Monday, killing at least 10 people in a huge explosion and injuring scores.Investigations were...
View ArticleANP’s Zahid Khan lambasts PTI over KP LG polls, law and order
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party's central spokesman Zahid Khan on Monday said that despite promises of bringing change to the province, the party had failed to fulfill the promise of holding municipal...
View ArticleCar bomb blast kills eight in Iraq
BAGHDAD: A car bomb outside a cafe in a town north of Baghdad has killed at least eight people, Iraqi authorities said.Police officials said the explosion Monday in the town of Buhriz, about 60...
View ArticleIranian border forces fire rockets in Pakistani territory
QUETTA: Iranian border forces fired five rockets in Pakistan's bordering town of Panjgoor on Monday, officials said.An official of the provincial home and tribal affairs department who requested...
View ArticleSyria urges UN to stop 'Saudi support for extremists'
DAMASCUS: Syria's government has called on the United Nations to make efforts to stop what it says is Saudi Arabia's support for extremist groups fighting to topple the regime.“We call on the UN...
View ArticleMissing persons’ case not to finish with my retirement: CJP
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry said on Monday that no one should think that the issue of missing persons will cease to exist after his retirement, DawnNews reported.The...
View ArticleThai government says elections on Feb 2
BANGKOK: Thailand's government said Monday it has proposed new elections be held Feb 2, hours after the prime minister dissolved the lower house of parliament in a bid to calm the country's deepening...
View ArticleCourt summons Zardari, witnesses in NAB cases
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad issued summons to the witnesses in three of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references filed against former president Asif Ali Zardari, DawnNews...
View ArticleHagel warns Pakistan leaders over border protests
ISLAMABAD: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Pakistani leaders on Monday that if they don't resolve protests stalling some military shipments across the border with Afghanistan, it could be...
View ArticleNAB decides to take action against Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The National Accountability Bureau has decided to take action against former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani after he failed to appear on Wednesday before its investigators in...
View ArticlePower sector’s ‘circular debt’ piles up again
LAHORE, Dec 11: The unpaid bills of power companies have again piled up to a precarious level of Rs216 billion in less than six months after the Nawaz Sharif government had settled the previous...
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