Pakistan campaigners say lift YouTube ban after US ruling
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Internet campaigners said Thursday there was no excuse for the government to maintain its ban on YouTube, after a US court ordered the removal of an anti-Islam film.The...
View ArticleReligious scholar shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI: A religious scholar was shot dead in Karachi's Nazimabad area on Thursday whereas three others were killed in separate incidents of violence in the city, DawnNews reported.At least four...
View ArticleGovt to announce crucial decisions, still prefers talks: Nisar
PESHAWAR: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said the government has made crucial decisions in relation to the country's security which it would be announcing soon, DawnNews...
View ArticleDelays increase costs of 627 development projects, PAC told
KARACHI: The secretary of the Planning Commission told the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday that the cost of 627 development projects have gone up due to delays in completion, DawnNews reported....
View ArticlePakistan denies plans to arm Syrian rebels
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday strongly denied it had any plans to send weapons to Syrian rebels, following reports that Saudi Arabia was holding talks with it about arming the opposition.Pakistani...
View ArticlePTI ends Nato supply blockade
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which has been staging sit-ins to block the Nato supply to Afghanistan in protest against covert US drone strikes in the country, on Thursday announced an...
View ArticleCJ for cultural transformation to fight terror
KARACHI: Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani has said that the war against terror cannot succeed unless there is cultural transformation and unless the people or the citizenry own it and extend...
View ArticleAfghan official shot dead in Chaman
QUETTA: An Afghan government official and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents in Balochistan on Thursday.Police sources said two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire on...
View ArticleNAB raids house in Mardan to arrest Hoti’s brother
PESHAWAR: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Thursday raided the house of former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti’s brother Ghazan Hoti in Mardan after the issuance...
View Article‘Militant hideouts’ pounded
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Several suspected militants were feared dead on Thursday morning when helicopter gunships attacked their hideouts in the mountainous area of FR Sherani bordering South Waziristan...
View ArticleThree suspected militants killed in Khyber Agency encounter
PESHAWAR: Police conducted an operation in several areas of Peshawar Friday and detained 25 suspects meanwhile three suspected militants were killed and three others were injured in an exchange of fire...
View ArticleGas pipeline blown up near Kandhkot
KANDHKOT: Gas supply to Karachi and other cities of Sindh was suspended Friday when unidentified assailants blew up an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline near Kandhkot, DawnNews reported. The pipeline was...
View ArticleChinese defence minister meets PM, Naval chief
ISLAMABAD: The Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan on Friday held meetings with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Asif Sandila, DawnNews reported. The Chinese...
View ArticlePakistan GDP growth exceeds expectations: SBP
ISLAMABAD: The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by five per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal year as compared to only 2.9 per cent in the corresponding quarter of the...
View ArticleNo military operation underway in tribal areas: Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday stated that no military operation was going on in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and only targeted action was being...
View ArticleExtortionists bigger threat to Karachi than Taliban: DG Rangers
KARACHI: DG Rangers Doctor Rizwan said on Friday that threat posed to Karachi from the Taliban was not as serious as the threat from land grabbers and extortionists, DawnNews reported. He added that a...
View Article'Voice of Baloch Missing Persons' caravan reaches Islamabad
RAWALPINDI: After 2,000 gruelling kilometres on the road, a band of families led by 72-year-old Mama Qadeer reached the end of their protest march over missing relatives in the Pakistani capital on...
View ArticlePetrol price reduced by Rs2.73
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday reduced the price of petrol by Rs2.73 per litre and kept the rates of all other petroleum products unchanged.The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting...
View ArticleUN readies help for displaced N. Waziristan people
UNITED NATIONS: About 20,000 people, mostly women and children, have been displaced during the army operation against the TTP in North Waziristan and the United Nations is ready to help them.UN...
View Article45 detained for involvement in Rs1.2bn TDAP scam
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested 45 men for their alleged involvement in what has been termed Rs1.27 billion scam of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan relating to...
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