Corruption record broken in sports festival: PTI
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has said the PML-N government's deception and corruption has broken all Guinness Book of World Records.In a statement issued here on Saturday, PTI Punjab President Ejaz...
View ArticleConfidence rebuilding between TTP and govt, says Prof. Ibrahim
PESHAWAR: Member of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) nominated committee to hold peace talks with the government, Professor Mohammad Ibrahim has said that confidence was being restored between the...
View ArticleThree govts fail since 2006 to recover outstanding $800 million from PTCL buyer
ISLAMABAD: Three successive governments, including the present one, have failed to recover $800 million outstanding payment from the buyer of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) since...
View ArticleIran parliament approves bill on accord with Pakistan
TEHRAN: Iranian parliament approved on Sunday the Tehran-Islamabad enhanced security cooperation act.According to Iranian news agency Irna, the bill is intended to strengthen cooperation between the...
View ArticleIDPs repatriation in Kurram begins
PESHAWAR: Political authorities have started repatriating thousands of people of Ali Sherzai tribe to their native area in the Kurram tribal region.Kurram political agent Riaz Mahsud said that 55,000...
View ArticleEx-minister booked on former wife’s complaint
RAWALPINDI: A case was registered against ex-minister Azam Khan Hoti on Sunday on the charge of hurling threats to his former wife, police said.The case was registered on a court directive issued on an...
View ArticleNAB officials investigating Modaraba scam receiving threats
ISLAMABAD: Some senior officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have received phone calls threatening them to stay away from investigation into the multi-billion Modaraba (Islamic banking)...
View ArticleUch-II power project may cause financial losses to public sector companies
ISLAMABAD: Hectic efforts are being made to inaugurate the 404MW Uch-II power project despite the fact that the project is set to cause financial losses to public sector companies and unlikely to...
View Article70-year-old groom, 13-year-old bride arrested after marriage
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A 70-year-old man and his 13-year-old bride were arrested in a raid in Zubair Panhwar village within the remit of the Tharushah police station on Saturday evening. The bride’s father,...
View ArticleConstitutional amends can’t check army takeovers: Shujaat
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat says the army takeovers cannot be checked through amendments in the Constitution.He said this while talking to the media here on Sunday.Asked...
View ArticleKashmiri refugees plead PM for assistance
MUZAFFARABAD: The post-1989 refugees from the Indian-held Kashmir, on Sunday, appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to pay attention towards the resolution of their longstanding problems, following...
View ArticleNew locos to ‘anchor’ railway
LAHORE: Unloading of first batch comprising five units of the 58 locomotives the Pakistan Railways (PR) will get from a Chinese company, will begin at Karachi Port on Monday (today).A ship carrying...
View ArticleMusharraf ordered to appear in court for Bugti murder hearing
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta has ordered former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf to appear before it on April 21 in a case relating to the murder of Baloch nationalist...
View ArticleOne killed, six injured in Karachi bus accident
KARACHI: At least one passenger was killed and six others were wounded Monday when a mini bus overturned near Toll Plaza on Karachi’s Super Highway area, DawnNews reported.According to sources, the...
View ArticleCourt orders registration of case against Meera
LAHORE: A sessions court in Lahore ordered the registration of cases against actor Meera and Capt Naveed over charges of filming and uploading on social media a ‘controversial video clip’, DawnNews...
View ArticleFour TTP militants killed in S. Waziristan attack, claim sources
PESHAWAR: At least four Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, including a key commander, were killed in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan tribal region on Monday, sources said.Official sources...
View ArticleArmy to preserve its own dignity and institutional pride: COAS
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Monday said that Pakistan Army upheld the sanctity of all institutions and would resolutely preserve its own dignity and institutional pride,...
View ArticleOpposition to react if sons of Gilani, Taseer not released: Shah
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah on Monday warned that if the government failed to secure the release of Ali Haider Gilani and Shahbaz Taseer, then the...
View ArticleFC kill 30 suspected militants in Balochistan, officials claim
QUETTA: Frontier Corps claimed to have killed more than 30 militants in Balochistan's Kalat and Khuzdar districts on Monday, according to an official.Khan Wasey, the spokesperson for FC, a...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban website taken down 24 hours after launch
Less than a day after the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan launched UmarMedia.com– a website hosting videos, a magazine, and its leaders’ interviews and statements – it was mysteriously taken down.A...
View Article