TTP negotiator rejects peace talks under constitution
ISLAMABAD: A member of the team of negotiators representing the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in peace talks with the Pakistani government has expressed his reservations over the dialogue, saying he won’t...
View ArticleKhanewal encounter kills 'terrorist,' injures two LEA personnel
KHANEWAL: A suspected terrorist was killed while another outlaw and two personnel of law enforcement agencies sustained injuries in a cross firing incident in Mianchannu, some 35 kilometres away from...
View Article‘If we followed Constitution war wouldn’t have been waged’
ISLAMABAD: Central spokesman of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Shahidullah Shahid on Friday said that Taliban wouldn’t be waging a war against the government if they followed a law or a...
View ArticlePPP questions legitimacy of talks
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and PPP Senator Rehman Malik has questioned the legal and constitutional status of peace talks with Taliban and asked the government to clarify its position on...
View ArticleKP local govt polls in three phases proposed
ISLAMABAD: After getting an order last month to delay the local government elections in Punjab and Sindh, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) again approached the Supreme Court on Friday,...
View ArticlePower sector circular debt surfaces again
ISLAMABAD: The power sector circular debt has resurfaced and reached an enormous level in the last six months, with the Ministry of Water and Power on Friday admitting that the debt, excluding that...
View ArticleSindh govt against privatisation of Lakhra power plant
KARACHI: The Sindh government has expressed its interest to run the Lakhra power plant either under its full control and command or with public-private partnership (PPP) rather than to support its...
View ArticleShutdown in Karachi on MQM’s call
KARACHI: A shutdown was being observed in Karachi on Saturday on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's 'appeal' to observe a day of mourning across Sindh against extra-judicial killings of party members,...
View ArticleAziz likely to continue in negotiating role: Yousuf Shah
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Yousuf Shah, who acts as contact person for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Saturday told DawnNews that chief negotiator for the outlawed group, Maulana Samiul Haq, had...
View ArticleComplete shutdown in Karachi on MQM’s call
KARACHI: A complete shutdown of the city was observed on Saturday due to a call for observing a ‘day of mourning’ across Sindh by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against extra-judicial killings of...
View ArticleNegotiators to meet TTP leadership in North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: Members of a team of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTTP) nominated negotiators are meeting with the militant group’s top leadership in North Waziristan on Saturday to update them on the...
View ArticleNawaz warns against using national issues for political mileage
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday stressed that Pakistan's grave issues of terrorism, law and order and economy must not be used for political mileage.He was addressing the 37th FPCCI...
View ArticleECC takes politically tough decisions
ISLAMABAD: An unannounced decision of the economic coordination committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet to end all subsidies for electricity consumers has paved the way for a successful end to the talks...
View ArticleGovt’s committee waiting for Taliban’s response
ISLAMABAD: The government negotiators holding talks with the Taliban are anxiously waiting for a reply from the leadership of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan to the conditions set by them.“We...
View ArticleDemand for Sharia should worry no one: JI chief
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan has said that nobody should be worried about the demand for enforcement of Sharia in the country because the 1973 Constitution already declares the holy...
View ArticleKhuzdar graves are of missing persons, concedes minister
ISLAMABAD: Expressing serious concern over the discovery of mass graves in Balochistan, provincial Health Minister Rahmat Saleh Baloch claimed on Saturday that all the decomposed and mutilated bodies...
View ArticlePolio drive hit by MQM ‘strike’
KARACHI: The unpublicised polio campaigns in some neighbourhoods of the city planned for Saturday could not be undertaken by the authorities because of the ‘strike’ called by the Muttahida Qaumi...
View ArticleCentre ignores Afghans’ voluntary return plan
PESHAWAR: The federal government has failed to evolve a mechanism for the implementation of the multi-year Solution Strategy for Afghan Refugees (SSAR), which was approved in 2012 to ensure ‘voluntary...
View ArticleBomb defused in Peshwar
PESHAWAR: The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Sunday defused a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) planted in Peshawar's Sirband area whereas at least three persons were killed in a clash...
View ArticleFour policemen suspended for allegedly torturing groom in Karachi
KARACHI: Four policemen were suspended on Sunday over the alleged custodial torture of a groom in Karachi, DawnNews report.The groom was shifted to a private hospital in Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of...
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