Nisar hails TTP’s initiative of announcing negotiating team
ISLAMABAD: Hailing Pakistani Taliban militants for formally announcing its negotiating team to hold talks with the government, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday termed the...
View ArticleMQM leaders deplore ‘character assassination’ of Altaf Hussain
KARACHI: Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Sunday vowed to unearth ‘conspiracies’ being hatched for what they call character assassination of their chief Altaf Hussain, DawnNews...
View ArticleBlasts at Peshawar cinema house leave at least three dead
PESHAWAR: At least three people were killed and more than 30 others injured on Sunday night in two explosions at a cinema house in the capital of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan...
View ArticleTTP offers security to negotiators
PESHAWAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has offered to provide security and protection to members of the negotiating committees in areas under its control.In a statement issued to the...
View ArticleSenate takes up today issue of dual nationality of judges
ISLAMABAD: The Senate will take up the issue of judges’ dual nationality on Monday as all efforts of the government to obtain details about them from the superior judiciary have failed.Law Minister...
View ArticleJUI-F stresses importance of Jirga mechanism
FAISALABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has expressed reservations over the nomination of a committee by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for holding talks...
View ArticleThousands of Bugtis waiting to return home
QUETTA: Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), women and children among them, who had migrated to Sindh and Punjab because of a military operation in Dera Bugti nine years ago, are waiting...
View ArticleGas supply to Uch plant halted after damage to pipelines
DERA MURAD JAMALI: At least 550 megawatts of power supply was halted Monday, following damage to three gas pipelines supplying gas to the Uch power plant in Balochistan's Dera Murad Jamali area,...
View ArticleImran will not represent Taliban, says PTI
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan will not act as a representative for the five-member committee nominated by the Pakistani Taliban to further dialogue with government...
View ArticleFazl dissociates JUI-F from ‘ineffective’ TTP talks
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday dissociated him and his party member from ongoing dialogue process between government and Pakistani Taliban which...
View ArticleNawaz optimistic on peace talks with Taliban
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday expressed optimism about the outcome of peace talks with Taliban and showed confidence in Dr Baloch's Balochistan government to resolve outstanding issues...
View ArticleFour policemen shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI: Gunmen on motorcycles late Monday shot dead four policemen in Karachi, police said.The incident occurred in Ibrahim Hyderi area, a poor neighbourhood in the eastern part of the port city where...
View ArticleCJ vows to continue exercising judicial review powers
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani Monday said that courts would continue to exercise its judicial review powers whenever there would be transgression of authority by the...
View ArticleSharif, COAS discuss security situation
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif exchanged views here on Monday on the security situation and peace talks with militants.The meeting took place as the teams...
View ArticleTTP regrets decision of Imran, Kifayatullah
MIRAMSHAH: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan regretted on Monday the decision of PTI chief Imran Khan and JUI-F leader Mufti Kifayatullah to disassociate themselves from the five-member committee...
View ArticleECP directed to hold LG polls in Punjab without delay
LAHORE: The ouster clause under Section 10A of the Punjab Local Government Act 2013 cannot impose fetters on the constitutional jurisdiction of court or the constitutional role of the Election...
View ArticleSC seeks report on minorities’ security
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over terrorist attacks like last year’s suicide bomb explosion at a church in Peshawar, the Supreme Court ordered the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-faith harmony...
View ArticleKhuzdar mass graves: Balochistan govt's report in SC
ISLAMABAD: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Khuzdar Abdul Waheed Shah on Tuesday presented the Balochistan government's report on the discovery of mass graves in the region in the Supreme Court,...
View ArticlePanchayat rape order: SC directs IG to appear, present report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued summons for Inspector General Punjab Police to appear before it in the suo motu case relating to the gang-rape order issued by a panchayat in Muzaffargarh...
View ArticleScenario points towards operation, fears Sami
ISLAMABAD: Criticising the government’s negotiators for their failure to meet with representatives of the Taliban committee today, Maulana Samiul Haq alleged that the government was not serious about...
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