Senate calls for taking up water disputes with India
ISLAMABAD: The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Monday urging the government to formally include water disputes in the agenda for talks with India.“The house calls upon the government to...
View ArticleFive of a family shot dead in Mowachh Goth
KARACHI: Five young men — two brothers and their three relatives — were killed in Mowachh Goth early Monday morning followed by what police described as an encounter with the suspected killers that...
View ArticleNo vaccination drive in Waziristan due to Taliban ban
PESHAWAR: A three-day anti-polio drive started on Monday across the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) except North and South Waziristan Agencies and parts of adjoining FR Bannu due to a Taliban...
View ArticleMusharraf treason case: Court adjourns hearing to March 14
ISLAMABAD: The special court formed to try former president of Pakistan Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf for treason while ordering for the former military ruler to appear before it on Friday said that the...
View ArticleRupee continues to rise against dollar
KARACHI: The rupee continued to appreciate on Tuesday as the value of the US dollar fell to below Rs100.According to the forex.pk website, the open market rates for the greenback were Rs99.90 in buying...
View ArticleTwo killed, three injured in Turbat firing
QUETTA: Two people were killed and three others were injured in an ambush in Turbat on Tuesday.Levies sources said that unknown armed men targeted five people with sophisticated weapons in Pedrak area...
View ArticleMQM worker's killing: SHC summons advocate general
KARACHI: A Sindh High Court bench on Tuesday summoned the province's advocate general over a petition filed by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against the alleged abduction and killing of its worker...
View ArticleCops escorting polio team shot dead in D I Khan
PESHAWAR: Two policemen escorting a polio vaccination team for security were shot dead in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.The two cops were...
View ArticleDasti's evidence not credible, says govt committee
ISLAMABAD: The government's inquiry committee constituted to investigate independent Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti's allegations that a number of parliamentarians were involved in...
View ArticleSartaj Aziz heads to London for Pak-UK dialogue: FO
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz left on a governmental tour to the United Kingdom Tuesday to review the Pak-UK dialogue, DawnNews quoted the...
View ArticleTaliban committee to remain intact, says Yousuf Shah
ISLAMABAD: Member of the Taliban's mediating committee, Maulana Yousuf Shah said on Tuesday that the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had decided to maintain its existing team for the dialogue process with...
View ArticlePakistani laws prohibiting underage marriage un-Islamic: CII
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded its 191th meeting, here Tuesday with the ruling that the laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age...
View ArticleQaim asks chief secretary to submit report on Thar situation
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah chaired a high-level meeting, on Tuesday to identify the reasons of delay in the distribution of aid to Thar, asked Sindh Chief Secretary, Chaudhry Mohammad...
View ArticlePakistan, a committed nuclear non-proliferation state: Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday said Pakistan is a committed nuclear non-proliferation state and all its nuclear power plants as well as research reactors are under International Atomic...
View ArticleKP govt ready to open TTP office in Peshawar: Khattak
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak told reporters on Tuesday that his provincial government is ready to provide an office to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan...
View ArticleEx-Pemra chief Jabbar arrested for illegal appointments: sources
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested former chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Dr Abdul Jabbar along with three other officers over illegal...
View ArticlePak Army to donate a day’s ration to drought-hit people
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has decided to donate a day’s food ration to the drought-hit people of Thar desert in Sindh as the relief activities intensified on the directives of Prime Minister Nawaz...
View ArticleTTP’s Mohmand chapter vows to abide by ceasefire
PESHAWAR: Chief of Pakistani Taliban’s Mohmand Agency chapter Umar Khalid Khurasani Tuesday vowed to abide by the ceasefire negotiated between the government and Taliban despite the outfit’s claim of...
View ArticleLooming power shortage perturbs ECC
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has expressed serious concern over fears of serious shortage of power supply and increase in loadshedding in the coming summer and...
View ArticleSC again refrains from action against PM, CM
ISLAMABAD: Exercising extreme restraint, the Supreme Court on Tuesday again came short of invoking constitutional provisions against the chief executives of federal and provincial governments for their...
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