TTP threat panics Kalash people
CHITRAL: The Tehreek-i-Taliban threat of attacks has frightened the Kalash tribe living in three segregated valleys of southern Chitral.Luke Rahmat, a Kalash tribesman holding a master’s degree, told...
View ArticleRaja faces two more RPP scam references
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) approved on Friday two more references against former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the rental power projects (RPP) corruption case. Mr Ashraf...
View ArticleSethi sends notice to Imran over poll fraud allegation
ISLAMABAD: Former caretaker chief minister of Punjab Najam Sethi has decided to take Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan to court over the allegation that the former had committed election...
View ArticleAAG to seek details of bounty prisoners, SC told
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that the information used by former president Pervez Musharraf in his book ‘In the Line of Fire’ about handing over some Al Qaeda members to the US...
View ArticleHelicopter shelling kills six militants in Hangu
HANGU: Six militants were killed on Saturday after gunship helicopters pounded their hideouts in Hangu’s Tal tehsil, DawnNews reported. According to sources, gunship helicopters shelled suspected...
View ArticleNine killed as gunships strike militant hideouts in Hangu
HANGU: At least nine suspected militants were killed on Saturday when gunship helicopters pounded insurgent hideouts in Thall village in Hangu district, security officials said.“Gunship helicopters...
View ArticleMQM to hold anti-terror rally tomorrow
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will stage a rally in the port city of Karachi tomorrow to show its solidarity with the Pakistan Army, Rangers and other law enforcement personnel fighting...
View ArticleQWP leader among three killed in Buner explosion
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb targeting a local leader of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) in Buner area killed three people and wounded two others Saturday, police said.According to police, local leader Adalat...
View ArticleArmy denies TTP allegation, says no women and children in custody
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has categorically rejected allegations levelled by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) that women and children from their families were in the custody of security forces'...
View ArticlePakistan demands release of its prisoners from India
ISLAMABAD: Following the death of a Pakistani prisoner in a prison in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has demanded of India to release on humanitarian grounds all such prisoners who have completed...
View ArticleNisar directs FIA to set up cell for overseas Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to set up a special cell for addressing problems being faced by the overseas Pakistanis...
View ArticleJoint political alliance on education urged in Balochistan
QUETTA: Political parties have underlined the need for a joint political alliance to promote education in Balochistan, Pakistan's least developed and resource-rich province.Baloch and Pashtoon...
View ArticleKarzai, Dar for working together to face common enemies
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Friday agreed that the both neighbouring countries faced common challenges and enemies, and there was a need to work...
View ArticleSamiul Haq appeals for immediate ceasefire
NOWSHERA/PESHAWAR: Chief of Taliban negotiation committee Maulana Samiul Haq has appealed to both the government and Taliban to announce ceasefire immediately. “It is the duty of the government not to...
View ArticleCentre, provinces at loggerheads over resource share
ISLAMABAD: Confrontation is emerging on the new resource distribution formula as provinces are lobbying for an increase in funds given by the centre while the federal government wants them to share in...
View ArticleLandmine blast kills woman in Dera Bugti, wounds seven
QUETTA: A landmine blast killed one woman and injured seven others in Balochistan's volatile Dera Bugti district on Sunday morning, officials said.A levies official who requested anonymity, as he was...
View ArticlePakistani jets kill 18 suspected militants in Tirah air raids
PESHAWAR: Pakistani fighter jets carried out air strikes early Sunday on suspected insurgent hideouts killing 18 suspected militants and injured many others in Tirah valley area of Pakistan’s restive...
View ArticleExplosion in Kohat kills three, wounds several
KOHAT: An explosion near Police Lines area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kohat district on Sunday killed three people and injured several others, DawnNews reported.Security and rescue teams rushed to the...
View ArticleAltaf rejects dialogue option with Taliban
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain rejected “dialogue” option with the Taliban in his telephonic address to participants of a large rally in the metropolis on Sunday.The...
View Article'Journalists to lay siege of assemblies if lives not protected'
QUETTA: Journalists have threatened to lay siege of the National Assembly and all provincial assemblies, if political parties failed to put forward legislation protecting the lives and jobs of media...
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