Nawaz arrives in Turkey to attend trilateral summit
ANKARA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit to Turkey to represent Pakistan at the 8th Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Trilateral Summit.He was warmly welcomed...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban threaten Kalash tribe, Ismailis in Chitral
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban have announced an “armed struggle” against an indigenous tribe and Ismaili Muslims in the picturesque northern Chitral Valley, calling on Sunnis to support their cause...
View ArticleQaim vows to continue Karachi operation
KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday said the ongoing target operation in the city against terrorists and criminals will continue till elimination of the last criminal.The...
View ArticleSenate passes resolution to protect women rights in TTP talks
ISLAMABAD: The upper house of the Parliament Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the government to not compromise on the rights of women and minorities in the negotiations with...
View ArticleMQM to hold countrywide protests over missing workers
KARACHI: Following the lapse of a 24-hour ultimatum on Wednesday night, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced to hold countrywide strikes to protest against ‘missing party workers,’ starting the...
View ArticleNawaz satisfied with progress on Taliban peace talks
ANKARA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over progress of the government committee holding talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to bring an end to the acts of...
View ArticleMinistry told to trace applicant seeking FIR against CIA official
ISLAMABAD: Justice Shahzad Ahmed Khan of the Lahore High Court directed the ministry of interior on Wednesday to trace Karim Khan who went missing on Feb 5 from Rawalpindi just days before he was due...
View ArticleUS opposes independent Balochistan
WASHINGTON: The United States has made it clear that it does not support the idea of an independent Balochistan and respects Pakistan’s territorial integrity.The question of the alleged US involvement...
View ArticleMissing person: police report points finger at ISI
ISLAMABAD: Punjab police investigating the whereabouts of Khawar Mehmood have pointed finger at the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for the enforced disappearance. A report submitted to the Supreme...
View ArticleFour IHC officers suspended for leaking damaging report
ISLAMABAD: The administration of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suspended its four officers for insubordination and leaking an audit report to the media that said, “not a single appointment (in the...
View ArticleAll but one of 76 stranded truck drivers freed
MUZAFFARABAD: All but one of the 76 truck drivers who had been stuck on opposite sides of the Line of Control (LoC) since Jan 17 following a row over alleged drug trafficking from Azad Kashmir returned...
View ArticleDoctors receiving extortion emails: PMA
KARACHI: At least 40 medical practitioners of Karachi have received threatening emails from certain extortion mafias demanding hefty protection money, claimed a senior official of the Pakistan Medical...
View ArticleFive policemen sentenced to death for killing four traders
KARACHI: Five policemen belonging to the Anti-Car-Lifting Cell (ACLC) were sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court on Wednesday for killing four Baloch traders in a staged encounter.The then...
View ArticleMusharraf’s attorney offers himself for punishment
ISLAMABAD: The proceedings of treason trial took a dramatic turn on Wednesday when an attorney of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf offered himself for punishment in place of the former president even...
View ArticleArmed activities are against Sharia: Fazl
ISLAMABAD: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Wednesday that the key to negotiations with the Taliban was with the army headquarters. Talking in a TV programme, he said armed anti-sate...
View Article'Suicide' bomber targets police bus in Karachi, 13 killed
KARACHI: At least 13 persons were killed and 47 others, including civilians, were wounded Thursday morning in an explosion targeting a police bus near Razzaqabad police training college in Karachi's...
View ArticleBlast outside Aaj TV office injures guard in Karachi
KARACHI: A private security guard stationed at main entrance of a local television channel, Aaj TV’s office was injured in a hand grenade blast in Karachi, DawnNews reported.Initial reports suggest the...
View ArticleFormer Afghan Taliban minister shot dead in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: A former minister of the Afghan Taliban who was in favour of peace talks with the Kabul government was gunned down in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Monday, Afghan Taliban sources...
View ArticleCJ vows to decide delimitation of Sindh constituencies on merit
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Monday remarked that the Supreme Court would decide the case of delimitation of constituencies in Sindh for the local government polls, in...
View ArticlePakistan, Saudi Arabia pledge to further expand ties
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Monday called for taking advantage of the opportunities available in the two countries for expanding and improving investment, trade, energy, infrastructure...
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