Chief justice orders probe into Islamabad court attack
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the authorities to identify policemen who failed to respond to a gun and suicide bomb attack on a court complex in Islamabad which killed 11 people.Chief...
View ArticleNawaz directs govt negotiators to continue peace efforts
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that a durable and permanent peace was top priority of the government for which all out efforts would be continued.He stated this while speaking...
View ArticleQuestion mark over capital security after attack: Khursheed Shah
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said Tuesday that Monday's attack in Islamabad had put a question mark on the capital city’s security, DawnNews...
View ArticleTwo killed as gunmen attack Nato trucks in Jamrud
PESHAWAR: Gunmen attacked four vehicles carrying NATO supplies for Afghanistan in northwestern Khyber tribal agency on Tuesday, killing two people, officials said.The vehicles came under fire in the...
View ArticleGovt soon to present new defence, foreign policies in NA: Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign policy chief, Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said that the government is preparing foreign and defence policies which will soon be presented in the National Assembly.“We are...
View Article‘Iranians not allowed to conduct operation inside Pakistan’
QUETTA: Home Secretary Balochistan Asad Rehman Gilani has said if Iran provided information about the whereabouts of its kidnapped soldiers in Pakistani territory, only then would Pakistan security...
View ArticleJournalists demand arrest of killers in Balochistan
QUETTA: Journalists in Balochistan have demanded of the government to nominate a judge for heading the judicial commission to probe into the murder of more than 30 newsmen in the province. Balochistan...
View ArticleGovt mulls major reshuffle in bureaucracy: sources
ISLAMABAD: The government is planning to make major changes in the federal bureaucracy, a senior official of the Establishment Division told Dawn.com on Tuesday.The official, who spoke on condition of...
View ArticleNisar for full implementation of SC orders on court attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Tuesday directed for immediate implementation of the orders given by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court in the aftermath of the...
View ArticleFive missing persons produced in court
ISLAMABAD: Security officials produced five more missing persons in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, instead of the seven the court had asked for.Those who appeared in the court with their relatives were...
View ArticleFriends, foes hit out at govt in Senate
ISLAMABAD: Senators from opposition as well as treasury benches on Tuesday criticised the government’s policy of holding talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and said it betrayed...
View ArticleBHC judges to get bullet-proof vehicles
QUETTA: The Balochistan government decided in principle on Tuesday to provide bullet-proof vehicles to all judges of the Balochistan High Court.Informed sources told Dawn that the decision was taken...
View ArticleObama seeks $1bn for Pakistan in 2015 budget
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is seeking one billion dollars for Pakistan in its budget proposals for fiscal 2015, which were sent to Congress on Tuesday.The $3.9 trillion budget package...
View ArticleLawyers boycott courts across KP
PESHAWAR: The lawyers boycotted court proceedings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday to protest the attack of terrorists on Islamabad District Courts.Amid the boycott of lawyers, Peshawar High Court...
View ArticleNo clue to killers of Orangi project director, PTI leader
KARACHI: Police authorities have admitted that no clue has been found so far in the high-profile murder case of Perween Rehman and tagged investigation of another last year case as ‘pending’, dashing...
View ArticleSix FC personnel killed in Hangu explosion
HANGU/KHYBER: A roadside bomb targeted a security forces’ convoy in Hangu district on Wednesday, killing six Frontier Corps (FC) personnel whereas a policeman and another person were killed in separate...
View ArticleMusharraf treason trial: Hearing adjourned until March 7
ISLAMABAD: The hearing of the treason case against former military dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday was adjourned until March 7 after the ex-military strongman’s lawyers voiced...
View ArticleKhursheed Shah opposes army's role in negotiations
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said on Wednesday that the government should itself mediate the peace talks with militants and the army should not be...
View ArticleTTP, govt committee meeting concludes; agreement on terms
PESHAWAR: The meeting between negotiators from the government and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) concluded in Akora Khattak on Wednesday with both sides agreeing to certain terms and conditions,...
View ArticleTTP frustrated at ‘defiance’ over ceasefire
KARACHI: While there are growing demands for a full-scale military operation following the post-ceasefire terrorist attacks, some experts are urging the government to better understand the militant...
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