37 held in Diamer search operation
GILGIT: Troops carried out a search operation on Monday, along with personnel of the Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts, Frontier Constabulary and police, in the area where 10 foreign mountaineers had been killed...
View ArticleGovt submits a vague statement in SC
ISLAMABAD: Though Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s announcement in the parliament about going ahead with retired General Pervez Musharraf’s trial took the country by storm on Monday morning, the...
View ArticleSC irked by hike in airport construction cost
ISLAMABAD: The cost escalation from Rs35 billion to Rs73bn, which is expected to further surge to Rs90bn owing to delay in the construction of the new Islamabad international airport, irked the Supreme...
View ArticleBalochistan budget debate: Call for improving govt schools
QUETTA: Members of the Balochistan Assembly from treasury benches said on Monday that huge funds allocated in the provincial budget for health and education sectors would bring improvement in people’s...
View ArticleNo Musharraf role in judges’ detention: IHC
ISLAMABAD: Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf had no role in the detention of over 60 judges of the superior courts in 2007, according to the Islamabad High Court.A division bench of the...
View ArticleJudiciary has weaknesses: judge
HYDERABAD: Justice Mushir Alam, Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, has said the time had come to speak the truth and admit that the “judiciary does have some weaknesses”.However, the judiciary was...
View ArticleTalks held with China
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China held extensive talks in Beijing on Monday on modalities to implement the vision of the leadership of the two countries for enhancing and reinforcing strategic ties to a...
View ArticleTwo girls, mother killed over family video
GILGIT: A family video showing two teenage girls enjoying rain in their house led to their murder in Chilas on Sunday night. Their mother was also gunned down allegedly by her stepson and his four...
View ArticleBenazir murder case: Challan submitted against Musharraf
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) on Tuesday listed former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf as the main accused in the Benazir Bhutto murder case and submitted a challan...
View Article‘Musharraf’s trial not to open Pandora’s box’
ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf may face trial in the ‘high treason’ case for imposing the November 3, 2007 emergency, but legal experts believe that his trial will not open any ‘Pandora’s...
View ArticleBolan Medical Complex Hospital reopens
QUETTA: Balochistan's largest government-run hospital has been opened after deadly bombing on June, 15. Bolan Medical Complex Hospital was shut down in the aftermath of a suicide attack and an exchange...
View ArticleTTP supports US-Afghan Taliban talks in Qatar
PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban said on Tuesday that it supports peace negotiations between the US and the Afghan Taliban, a week after the Afghan insurgent leaders opened a political office in...
View ArticleEdhi suffering from kidney failure, needs daily dialysis: doctor
KARACHI: Renowned philanthropist, Abdul Sattar Edhi, is suffering from kidney failure, Dr Adib Rizvi said at a press conference on Tuesday.Speaking at a press conference at the Sindh Institute of...
View ArticleAround the corner from the GHQ, a market for stolen NATO goods
ISLAMABAD: Just a few kilometres from the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters is the Kabari Bazaar – but unlike most bazaars where you find local goods, this particular market is filled with smuggled...
View ArticleUS envoy Dobbins meets with PM Nawaz Sharif
WASHINGTON: US Special Representative Ambassador James Dobbins met with Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday and discussed bilateral cooperation, withdrawal of US forces from...
View ArticleTaliban suspect involved in PTI MPA murder arrested: police
ISLAMABAD: Police in the federal capital have arrested two alleged Taliban terrorists, claiming one of them to be the primary suspect in the murder of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial lawmaker Fareed...
View ArticleSecurity forces in Balochistan should operate within the law: HRCP
QUETTA: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has urged security forces and intelligence agencies in Balochistan to “operate within the Constitution and law”.Addressing a press conference after her...
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Herald exclusive: Running on reserve
On May 15, four days after the people of Pakistan voted in a general election for about 800 new federal and provincial parliamentarians, the Lahore High Court issued a notice to the Election Commission...
View ArticleSethi’s appointment as PCB chief unconstitutional: Transparency
ISLAMABAD: Najam Sethi’s appointment as acting chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board was unconstitutional, a top official of Transparency International Pakistan said on Tuesday.Sethi’s appointment by...
View ArticleCall for steps to counter US surveillance
ISLAMABAD: Latest disclosures about surveillance of electronic communications worldwide by the US secret agencies demand that Pakistan should take counter measures to check the online espionage, said...
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