Power tariff raised for Karachi
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has approved up to 70 per cent increase in electricity tariff for Karachi-Electric consumers.Through a series of tariff...
View ArticlePolice seize books in Gwadar
GWADAR: Police claimed to have seized ‘objectionable’ material, including books, here on Wednesday.A police team raided Al Badar Bookshop and news agency, seized a number of books on Balochistan and...
View ArticleRape victim’s family accuses police of coercion
ISLAMABAD: Nizam Mai, the mother of the rape victim who torched herself in front of a Muzaffargarh police station and later died of her injuries, said on Wednesday she was being coerced to settle the...
View ArticleSHC stays work on flyover near Ghazi shrine
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday restrained the real estate concern from raising any construction on the flyover project near Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Clifton.A single bench headed by...
View ArticleCracks in PTI widen
PESHAWAR: Three more MPAs of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, including the deputy speaker, on Wednesday joined the party’s dissidents in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly amid the provincial...
View ArticleSpy agency DG fails to appear in court
ISLAMABAD: Citing security reason, director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) did not appear before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday in a missing person case.The IHC, however,...
View ArticleMusharraf’s convoy escapes blast in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: A powerful explosion on Thursday hit Faizabad bridge just after the convoy of the former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf passed from it, DawnNews reported.Musharraf was being shifted...
View ArticleMusharraf moves SC to strike name off ECL
ISLAMABAD: A petition was submitted in the Supreme Court Thursday seeking removal of ex-army strongman Pervez Musharraf’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL), DawnNews reported.Advocate Shah Khawar...
View ArticlePakistan to tighten border for Afghan elections
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will increase security along its border with Afghanistan, the foreign ministry announced Thursday, as its neighbour heads into presidential elections this weekend that Taliban...
View ArticlePM house denies govt release of Taliban prisoners
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government on Thursday denied reports that it has released prisoners of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a bid to revive peace talks with the militant group.“The reports...
View ArticleHafeez resigns from T20 captaincy
LAHORE: Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez stepped down as Twenty20 captain on Thursday after the team's failure to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.Pakistan went out from the...
View ArticleNisar hopeful of progress in talks with Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday expressed optimism about progress in talks with the Pakistani Taliban and said a meeting would be held soon to...
View ArticleIran says all five abducted border guards alive
DUBAI: Iran has said five border guards kidnapped by militants are in good health, disputing a report that one of them had been killed.The guards were seized while patrolling the lawless frontier with...
View ArticleToy bomb kills boy, injures four children in Nowshera
PESHAWAR: A 10-year-old boy was killed and four others were wounded when an explosive apparently hidden inside a toy they were playing with detonated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera town on Thursday,...
View Article19 Taliban freed as ‘goodwill gesture’
ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Thursday that it had released 19 non-combatant Taliban as a goodwill gesture for bolstering the peace process with the outlawed TTP.But surprisingly, the claim...
View ArticlePPP asks govt to take political parties into confidence over TTP talks
NAUDERO: The Pakistan Peoples Party has asked the government to take political parties and parliament into confidence over the talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.A meeting of the PPP...
View ArticleSC restores NA membership of PTI lawmaker
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court restored on Thursday the National Assembly’s membership of a PTI lawmaker after vacating its earlier order. Ghulam Sarwar Khan was elected from NA-53 Rawalpindi-IV, but the...
View ArticleDiscrepancies in Nepra tariff determination: official
ISLAMABAD: The federal government declined on Thursday to pass on up to 79 paisa per unit reduction in the electricity tariff for consumers from lower middle class in Karachi and moved a case for its...
View ArticleTrial of Mumbai attacks case suspects stalled
ISLAMABAD: The proceeding in the Mumbai attacks case has come to a standstill as the special judge of the anti-terrorism court (ATC) has expressed his inability to conduct the trial of seven Pakistani...
View ArticleFazl demands fresh polls for Sindh Assembly
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has claimed that the Sindh Assembly stands dissolved after it passed a resolution against the Council of Islamic Ideology...
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