ASWJ's Islamabad general secretary shot dead in capital
ISLAMABAD: General Secretary of Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat's (ASWJ) Islamabad chapter, Mufti Muneer Muawiya, and an office-bearer of the Sunni Muslim group, Qari Asad Mahmood, were shot dead in...
View ArticleAltaf threatens separate province for Urdu speaking Sindhis
KARACHI: In a no holds barred attack on his party’s former coalition partners, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Friday evening said if their demands are unacceptable to the ruling...
View Article11 killed in Brotherhood clashes with police
CAIRO: Eleven people were shot dead as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with police across Egypt on Friday, defying an ever-widening state crackdown on the movement that ruled the country...
View ArticleMusharraf trial an internal matter, says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Friday that former president Pervez Musharraf’s trial on treason charges was an internal matter that would not concern the international community.“It is a...
View ArticleSBP autonomy to be strengthened
ISLAMABAD: The government has given an undertaking to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to give complete independence to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) by amending the relevant laws and also to...
View ArticleAt least three gunned down in Karachi violence
KARACHI: In an incident of firing by unknown armed assailants early on Saturday, at least three people were killed and four injured near Maskan Chowrangi, DawnNews reported. In the Gulshan-i-Iqbal area...
View ArticleJillani for stable ties with neighbours
WASHINGTON: Pakistan believes that there can be no economic development without a peaceful neighbourhood, says the country’s new ambassador to the United States.The Pakistani government also believed...
View ArticleParliamentarians’ role in appointment of judges to be strengthened
ISLAMABAD: A perception that they are becoming virtually redundant in the process of appointment of superior court judges has led parliamentarians to put their heads together and suggest what they call...
View ArticleIHC rejects petition to restrain Musharraf's exit from country
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday rejected a petition seeking to restrain former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf from travelling abroad to receive medical treatment,...
View ArticleGerman chancellor Merkel injured in skiing accident
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident and is walking with the help of crutches, forcing her to call off some foreign visits and official...
View ArticleBangladesh ruling party wins polls hit by violence, boycott
DHAKA: Bangladesh's ruling Awami League won a violence-plagued parliamentary election whose outcome was never in doubt after a boycott by the main opposition party.With fewer than half of the 300 seats...
View ArticlePoliceman injured in grenade attack on Quetta police station
QUETTA: A policeman was injured Monday when assailants launched a grenade attack on a police station in Quetta. According to the police, unknown gunmen attacked Satellite Town police station with a...
View ArticleSuicide blast at school kills student in Hangu
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government school in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing a teenage student and injuring two others whereas two cops were killed and another...
View ArticleJudicial commission proposes CJ PHC as SC judge
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on Monday made recommendations for the appointment of Chief Justice Peshawar High Court (PHC) Dost Muhammad Khan as a Supreme Court judge in the...
View ArticleAll parliamentarians regularly paying tax: Dar
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance and Revenue Ishaq Dar on Monday clarified that tax was regularly being deducted from the salaries of all parliamentarians of National Assembly, Senate and all four...
View ArticleSenators call for parliament’s sway on foreign policy
ISLAMABAD: Senators on Monday called for more parliamentary sway over framing of foreign as well as security policies of Pakistan.Speaking on a motion regarding political and security situation in the...
View ArticleTreason case: Musharraf granted exemption from appearance
ISLAMABAD: The special court, hearing the treason trial against Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, granted exemption to the former military ruler from attending today's hearing of the case while adjourning the...
View ArticleTreason case to close doors for dictatorship: Mushahidullah
ISLAMABAD: Central Information Secretary for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Senator Mushahidullah Khan said on Monday that treason case against former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf...
View ArticleMinister rules out presence of Afghan Taliban in Balochistan
QUETTA: Terming reports about presence of Afghan Taliban as baseless and far from reality, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti on Monday said that there is no Taliban Shura in Quetta.“No sign...
View ArticleImran calls demand for separate province a 'fixed match'
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said Monday that Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) demand for a separate province for the urban people of Sindh was a "fixed match" with the...
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