ASWJ leader survives gun attack in Karachi's Landhi
KARACHI: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday attacked Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) leader Maulana Zarin in Karachi's Landhi area, DawnNews reported. The ASWJ leader was in Landhi's Labour Colony when...
View ArticleJets pound suspected militant hideouts in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Pakistan military's fighter jets pounded several suspected militant hideouts in Mir Ali area of the North Waziristan tribal region, killing at least 24 people and wounding 15 others, DawnNews...
View ArticleThree dead in attack on polio team in Karachi's Qayyumabad
KARACHI: Three people, including two women, were killed and another wounded when a polio team was attacked on Tuesday in Karachi's Qayyumabad area, DawnNews reported. The police said that killing of...
View ArticleThree killed in attack on polio team in Karachi
KARACHI: Gunmen killed three health workers taking part in a polio vaccination drive in Karachi on Tuesday, police said, in the latest blow to efforts to stamp out the disease in Pakistan.After the...
View ArticleBlast on bus kills 22 Shia pilgrims in Mastung
QUETTA: At least 22 people were killed and dozens injured Tuesday when a powerful explosion ripped through a bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Balochistan's militancy-hit Mastung district.The bus was...
View ArticlePM, COAS visit CMH to meet people injured in suicide attack
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accompanied by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif, visited the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here on Tuesday and...
View ArticlePower tariff for Karachi cut by 7 paisa
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority reduced on Tuesday tariff for customers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (now renamed as K-Electric) by seven paisa per unit under...
View ArticleNA committee approves anti-terror bill with majority vote
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Interior approved on Tuesday the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) bill. A meeting of the committee, presided over by its chairman Rana...
View ArticleSpecial court to study probe report
ISLAMABAD: A special court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf sought on Tuesday the investigation report of the high treason case to examine allegations that the retired army chief was being...
View ArticleAir strike on Syria's Aleppo kills 10: NGO
BEIRUT: A government air strike killed 10 people in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria's main northern city Aleppo on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also...
View ArticleIndia summons envoy over stalled bus service
NEW DELHI: India summoned Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner on Tuesday in connection with the suspension of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot-Poonch bus services by Pakistan, which has demanded...
View ArticleOne dead in Purdue University shooting; student in custody
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana: A Purdue University engineering student opened fire inside a basement classroom Tuesday, killing a teaching assistant and prompting officials to put the campus on lockdown,...
View ArticlePolice disperse Kiev protest, activists say one shot dead
KIEV: Ukrainian police on Wednesday broke through the barricades built by protesters at the scene of clashes in Kiev as activists said that one person had been shot dead by police.Police stormed the...
View ArticleSyria peace conference opens in Switzerland
MONTREUX, Switzerland: Syria's government and its enemies came face to face on Wednesday for the first time as a peace conference began in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a...
View ArticleBritish Library acquires Hanif Kureishi archive
LONDON: Screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi, who has charted ructions in British society from punk rock to radical Islam, has sold his personal archive to the British Library.The library said...
View ArticleSeven Levies men killed, Spaniard wounded in Mastung clash
QUETTA: At least seven Levies personnel were killed and ten others, including a Spanish tourist, wounded as a militant kidnapping bid was foiled in Koshak area of Balochistan, DawnNews reported.Asad ur...
View ArticleImran says would stand by army in case of military operation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chiarman Imran Khan on Wednesday said his party would stand by the army in case a military operation is to be launched to counter the terrorist threat, DawnNews...
View ArticleNorth Waziristan strikes killed 33 Uzbeks, three Germans: sources
PESHAWAR: At least 36 of the 40 killed during the air strikes in the North Waziristan tribal region on Monday night and Tuesday were foreign fighters, security sources told Dawn.com on Wednesday....
View ArticleNato tanker burnt, polio team attacked in Balochistan
QUETTA: Armed militants on Wednesday torched a container carrying Nato equipment in the Western Bypass area of Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province, police said.A police official who...
View ArticleMaulana Samiul Haq distances himself from Taliban talks
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Samiul Haq, a Pakistani cleric with close ties to the Taliban said Wednesday he would no longer act as a government-backed peace broker with the militants after airstrikes killed 40...
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