PHC seeks documents on YouTube ban
PESHAWAR: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Thursday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to produce all documents and details provided to the Lahore High Court in a...
View ArticleIndia diplomat in servant showdown indicted, leaving US
NEW YORK: An Indian diplomat whose arrest in New York sparked an intense row was leaving the United States Thursday as she was hit with federal charges over treatment of her servant, officials...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 23 recruits, wounds 36 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounded 36 in Baghdad on Thursday, officials said, in an attack on men volunteering to join the government's struggle to crush al...
View ArticleGovt to sell its shares in OGDCL & PPL
ISLAMABAD: Winding up its two-day meeting, board of the Privatisation Commission approved on Thursday the sale of government shares in the Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDCL), Pakistan...
View ArticleSC seeks final date of elections
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected — with a stern “no” — a request by the federal government to let 43 cantonment boards, which are without any public representation for the past 15...
View ArticleTaliban bombing kills senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam
KARACHI: A powerful explosion targeted a convoy of police vehicles in Karachi on Thursday killing senior police official Chaudhry Aslam Khan.Chaudhry Aslam, who had survived numerous assassination...
View ArticleNAB remand of KP’s ex-IGP extended for five days
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Friday extended physical remand for five days of the former Inspector General (IG) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police Malik Naveed to the National Accountability Bureau...
View ArticleSenate passes resolution to pay tributes to Aslam, Hussain
ISLAMABAD: During Friday's session of the Senate, a unanimous resolution was passed to pay tributes to Chaudhry Aslam and Aitezaz Hussain who were both killed in separate militant attacks, DawnNews...
View ArticleIndia asks US to withdraw Delhi embassy diplomat: official
NEW DELHI: The Indian government asked the United States Friday to withdraw a New Delhi embassy diplomat in a fresh escalation of a bitter diplomatic row just as it appeared to be cooling down, an...
View ArticleNearly 500 killed in Syria rebel-jihadist fighting: NGO
BEIRUT: Nearly 500 people, among them 85 civilians, have been killed in a week of fighting pitting Syrian rebels against the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a monitoring group said...
View ArticleNadra chairman Tariq Malik resigns
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Tariq Malik sent his resignation to the Interior Ministry on Friday, DawnNews reported. Malik said his resignation was...
View ArticleGunmen kill two workers at Sufi shrine in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Police say gunmen have shot to death two workers at a small Sufi Muslim shrine in northwest Pakistan. Local police official Iqbal Khan says the bodies of the men were found on Friday at the...
View ArticleUS withdraws diplomat after India expulsion demand
WASHINGTON: The State Department says a US diplomat will be leaving India after New Delhi called for the American official's expulsion in retaliation for the arrest and strip search of an Indian...
View ArticlePeace in country linked with peace in Fata: Baloch
QUETTA: Mainstream political parties have demanded of the federal government to restore peace in the volatile tribal belt of Pakistan and empower the tribesmen to decide their political...
View ArticleMilitary parade on March 23 canceled for 6th time in a row
ISLAMABAD: The joint military parade in the federal capital due for March 23, 2014 has been cancelled on 6th consecutive year due to security reason, sources in the ministry of defence told...
View ArticleEight mine workers abducted from Balochistan's Harnai released
QUETTA: Kidnappers freed eight coal miners, who had been abducted from Balochistan's resource-rich Harnai district last month, on Friday morning.Sajjad Gul Kakar, a levies official, told Dawn.com that...
View ArticlePakistan refutes Utah gun maker’s claim on rifles contract
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has refuted a claim made by a Utah gun maker, Desert Tech last week that the company had turned down a $15 million deal to sell precision rifles to Pakistan.In response to media...
View ArticleThree TTP militants killed in Karachi
KARACHI: Three militants, including Amanullah Mehsud who operated as chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban in Karachi's Quaidabad area, were killed in a police encounter in the city's Musharraf Colony on...
View ArticleSlain SP CID Chaudhry Aslam laid to rest
KARACHI: Slain police officer Chaudhry Aslam Khan and two police guards killed by a Taliban bombing were laid to rest in Karachi ON Friday in a funeral attended by relatives, politicians, high-ranking...
View ArticleSC seeks reply from premier in missing persons’ case
ISLAMABAD: Apparently unhappy over government’s non-compliance of its Dec 10 order to produce 35 missing persons, the Supreme Court ordered Secretary to the Prime Minister Javed Aslam on Friday to...
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