Urdu news channels taken off air after JSQM appeal
LARKANA: Following an appeal by the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), local cable operators took Urdu news channels off the air on Friday.A cable operator, Arsalan Buriro, told Dawn that Urdu channels...
View ArticleSC registrar returns petition in treason case
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court registrar returned on Friday a petition, saying the petitioner was not an aggrieved party in the proceedings of the Special Court set up for treason trial of former...
View ArticleGovt-TTP peace negotiators meet today
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has convened a meeting of the committees representing the government and the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) here on Saturday...
View ArticleHunting of houbara bustards allowed in 2012-13, NA told
ISLAMABAD: The government admitted in the National Assembly on Thursday that the foreign ministry during 2012-13 had allowed 13 members of the royal family of United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hunt 1,300...
View ArticleMQM elements involved in extortion, killings, alleges Shahzad
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s senior leader Saleem Shahzad dropped a bombshell on Friday soon after his membership had been suspended and said that several elements within the party were involved...
View ArticleSix mortar shells fired from Afghanistan land into N. Waziristan
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Six mortar shells fired from Afghanistan fell into North Waziristan’s Ghulam Khan Tehsil area on Saturday, DawnNews reported.According to security sources, six mortar shells fired...
View ArticleMinor girl killed, 15 injured in Quetta explosion
QUETTA: A minor girl was killed and 15 others injured Saturday in a powerful explosion on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province, police said.Imran Qureshi, the...
View ArticlePeshawar to vaccinate 750,000 children against polio
PESHAWAR: Health teams will Sunday launch a drive to vaccinate some 750,000 children in the troubled northwest, with thousands of police guarding against attacks by militants who claim the polio...
View Article4pc for education in GDP by 2018: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday unveiled his government’s plan to launch a countrywide literacy movement to ensure enrolment of every child in the school, by...
View ArticleMilitant attack at Pasni radar-post kills one in Balochistan
QUETTA: An armed militant attack at Pasni Radar-Post in Balochistan's volatile Mekran belt near Pakistan's port city of Gwadar left one personnel dead, a senior official said on Saturday.The militants...
View Article‘CNG outlets to remain open seven days a week in Punjab’
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to salvage world’s biggest Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) industry and mitigate sufferings of the masses, the federal government on Saturday announced to supply uninterrupted CNG for...
View ArticleGovt, TTP agree to extend truce
ISLAMABAD: The committees representing the government and the Taliban agreed on Saturday to extend the ceasefire and take measures to speed up the dialogue process.At a joint meeting, presided over by...
View ArticleECL in focus as Musharraf’s mother hospitalised
ISLAMABAD: After 95-year-old Zarin Musharraf, mother of the former military ruler, was admitted to the W.W. Wilson Hospital in Sharjah on Saturday, his sympathisers here speeded up efforts for removal...
View ArticleEphedrine-likescam unearthed, probe ordered
ISLAMABAD: The government has unearthed an ephedrine-like scam involving misuse of quotas for import of restricted substances by about two dozen industrial firms and tax machinery that may have...
View ArticlePU Syndicate reprieve for Gilani’s son
LAHORE: The Punjab University Syndicate meeting on Saturday granted ex post facto permission for re-consideration of appeal of Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani,...
View ArticleBenazir Bhutto murder trial lingers on
ISLAMABAD: Threats to the prosecutors, police officers and the judge, have further delayed the conclusion of the six year old pending trial of the assassination of the former prime minister, Benazir...
View ArticleEphedrine-like scam unearthed, probe ordered
ISLAMABAD: The government has unearthed an ephedrine-like scam involving misuse of quotas for import of restricted substances by about two dozen industrial firms and tax machinery that may have...
View ArticleUS won’t give leftover military hardware to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The United States has said it will not give Pakistan its leftover military hardware after the completion of withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan later this year.“United States...
View ArticleMan burnt in acid attack
BAHAWALPUR: A man suffered serious burn injuries in an acid attack allegedly by his friend at Khairpur Tamewali, about 45 kilometres from here, on Saturday.Victim Farooq Ahmed, 30, and Kamran, 32, were...
View ArticleKP govt to spend Swabi varsity funds on uplift schemes
PESHAWAR: The future of the recently-established University of Swabi is at stake as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is understood to have decided to spend the funds approved for the educational...
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