19 FC men injured in attack by militants
QUETTA: At least 19 Frontier Corps personnel were injured, three of them seriously, when a bomb placed by militants near Sibi exploded when three FC vehicles were passing through the area.The outlawed...
View ArticleMQM stages walkout from PA over torture of its activist
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday staged a walkout from the Sindh Assembly session to protest against the arrest and torture of its activist Fahad Aziz, who was picked up when he was...
View ArticleAnti-drone campaigner kidnapped from Rawalpindi: lawyer
ISLAMABAD: An anti-drone campaigner, from North Waziristan, has “disappeared” from the city of Rawalpindi days before he was due to testify before European parliamentarians, his lawyer said Monday,...
View ArticleSHC issues instructions against harassment of MQM activist
KARACHI: The Sindh HIgh Court on Tuesday issued instructions against harassment of the Muttahida Qaumi Moverment (MQM) activist who was picked up when he was escorting home his bride from the wedding...
View ArticleHearing of treason case resumes
ISLAMABAD: The special court resumed on Tuesday the hearing of the treason case against former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, DawnNews reported. The three-judge court headed by Justice...
View ArticlePolio team attacked in D I Khan; policeman killed
PESHAWAR: A policeman was killed and another was injured when a polio immunisation team was attacked in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday.The two policemen were assigned to...
View ArticleKey militant commander arrested in Swat
PESHAWAR: Security forces arrested key local militant commander Umarzada alias Dildar from the Galiga area of Swat’s Matta tehsil. In a statement, the office of Khyber Paktunkhawa Inspector General of...
View ArticleThree explosions hit Peshawar cinema; 13 killed
PESHAWAR: Three back-to-back explosions occurred inside Peshawar’s Shama Cinema on Tuesday, killing 13 people and leaving at least 19 others injured. According to DawnNews, multiple explosions occurred...
View ArticleGovernment, TTP committees hold informal meeting
ISLAMABAD: The committees, formed by the government and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to broker a peace pact between the two sides, held an informal meeting at an undisclosed location in...
View ArticleNawaz to visit Turkey for Afghanistan summit
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will leave for a three-day visit to Turkey from February 12 to 14 to attend the 8th trilateral summit being held in Ankara over issues related to Afghanistan.A...
View ArticleSC issues notice to AG in Imran Khan poll rigging case
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday issued notice to Attorney General Suleman Aslam Butt in a case filed by Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan regarding alleged rigging in four...
View ArticleIndian minister to skip Lahore trade show
ISLAMABAD: Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is unlikely to come to inaugurate an exhibition in Lahore on Friday because mistrust between the two countries over normalising bilateral trade has...
View ArticleUS releases $352m under CSF; urged to clear dues
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received $352 million from the United States under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for the January-March quarter of 2013. During a meeting with US Ambassador Richard Olson here...
View ArticleFIR over drone strike: IHC refers case to lower court
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) referred to the district and sessions judge of Islamabad on Tuesday a case relating to registration of a first information report (FIR) against CIA station...
View ArticleAccord today for $900m ADB assistance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the Asian Development Bank will sign an agreement for $900 million ADB assistance for Jamshoro power generation project here on Wednesday. An ADB delegation, led by Vice...
View ArticleNine killed in Peshawar attack
PESHAWAR: At least nine people were killed on Wednesday after unidentified armed men attacked a house located on the outskirts of Peshawar, DawnNews reported. In the Budhbher area of the city, unknown...
View ArticleMQM petition in SHC over worker’s killing
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has filed a petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) against what it called the abduction and murder of one of its workers Mohammad Salman, DawnNews...
View ArticleLHC orders govt to produce anti-drone activist on Feb 20
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday ordered the government to produce an anti-drone activist — who was apparently detained by the country's intelligence agencies — at a hearing on Feb 20, his...
View ArticleFive killed in Karachi violence; 41 suspects arrested in raids
KARACHI: Five people, including two gang war suspects, were killed in different incidents of violence in Karachi Wednesday whereas 41 suspects were arrested by Rangers' personnel during a targeted...
View ArticleKP govt orders security plan for cinema houses
PESHAWAR: Taking notice of the grenade attack on Shama Cinema in Peshawar on Feb 11, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Department has ordered a special security plan for cinema houses. Cinema owners have...
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