AJK premier fails to resolve issues in meeting with Sharif
MUZAFFARABAD: Efforts being made by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir government to replace the chief secretary and inspector general of police came to nought after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told AJK...
View ArticleFazl says no consensus for military operation
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that there is no political consensus for a military operation against Taliban.“There is a consensus among all mainstream political...
View ArticleBomb attack kills three FC soldiers in Balochistan
QUETTA: At least thirteen people including three security personnel were killed Saturday in two separate incidents in Balochistan's Kalat and Dera Bugti districts, an official said.Spokesman for the...
View ArticleGhazi murder case: Musharraf granted exemption from appearance
ISLAMABAD: An additional sessions court on Saturday in Abdul Rasheed Ghazi murder case granted exemption for today to former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and summoned him in its next...
View ArticleBlasts targeting polio team kill 11 in Khyber agency
PESHAWAR: At least 11 people were killed and 10 wounded Saturday in bomb attacks targetting security personnel guarding a polio vaccination team in Khyber tribal agency.The blasts in Lashoro area of...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban announce month-long ceasefire
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan militant organisation on Saturday announced a month-long ceasefire, a development likely to break a deadlock in peace talks with the...
View ArticleNA summons Jamshed Dasti on Monday
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Secretariat has served notice to Member of National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti to present evidence regarding allegations he has leveled against Parliamentarians of...
View ArticleCourt sentences two to death for reporter Wali Babar’s murder
SHIKARPUR: An anti-terrorism court in Shikapur on Saturday convicted six men of murdering young television reporter Wali Babar, handing out death sentences to two and life imprisonment to four others....
View ArticleIranian drug smugglers held, foreign hostages freed
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps recovered three foreigners kidnapped by a gang of drug traffickers and arrested eight Iranians who were holding them, after a raid on a house in Turbat on Saturday. “Two...
View ArticleSuspects held in Islamabad belong to militant group: police
ISLAMABAD: Seven suspects arrested in a locality of the capital late on Friday night after an encounter are members of a splinter group of Harkatul Mujahideen and involved in targeted killings,...
View ArticleCivil aviation billing scam unearthed
ISLAMABAD: A scam has been unearthed in the billing system of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), causing huge monetary loss to the organisation.Informed sources told Dawn that under a clandestine deal...
View ArticleTerrorists cornered in NWA: official
WASHINGTON: Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, who heads the Inter-Services Public Relations, told the NBC News that security forces had already cornered terrorist elements in North Waziristan and were now ready to...
View ArticleGunship helicopters kill five suspected militants in Khyber
KHYBER AGENCY: In response to the militant attack on a polio team in Jamrud which left at least 11 dead on Saturday, security forces’ personnel launched a massive assault Sunday morning on militant...
View ArticleSeven killed in bus-car collision in Chaman
CHAMAN: Seven people were killed Sunday in a bus-car collision near Hameed Cross Bridge in Chaman, DawnNews reported. According to Levies’ personnel, the incident occurred on the Quetta-Chaman Highway...
View ArticleRawalpindi operation: 20 suspects arrested
RAWALPINDI: Police in Rawalpindi conducted a search operation Sunday and arrested 20 suspects, DawnNews reported. The operation, headed by SP Rawal Town, Malik Karamat, was carried out within the remit...
View ArticleFive killed in Karachi violence
KARACHI: At least five people were killed in different incidents of violence in Karachi on Sunday, DawnNews reported. Two people were killed and two others were wounded during a clash between two...
View ArticlePakistan halts air strikes against Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday said it was halting air strikes against Taliban militants in response to a month-long ceasefire announced by the insurgents a day earlier, paving the way for the...
View ArticleGas supply disrupted as pipeline blown up in Balochistan
QUETTA: An 18-inch Sui gas pipeline was blown up in early hours of Monday by unknown miscreants in Dera Murad Jamali disrupting gas supply in various areas of the insurgency-hit Balochistan province,...
View ArticlePM approves plan for PIA’s revival
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved in principle a plan for revival of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), aimed at bringing the national flag-carrier, currently running in losses of...
View ArticleChinese firms to get army-backed security
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to provide army-backed security to Chinese companies with deep pockets coming into the country.The federal cabinet decided in principle last week to allay fears of...
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