PM reviews progress on Pak-China Economic Corridor
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reviewed on Tuesday progress on the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor and infrastructure projects.Presiding over a meeting ahead of his visit to China, Mr Sharif...
View ArticleSC says verdict not to affect Balochistan polls
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that its March 20 judgment in which it authorised the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold local government elections in Sindh and Punjab by Nov 15...
View ArticleCommanders meet today
ISLAMABAD: Army’s top brass is meeting on Wednesday, soon after Gen Raheel Sharif caused a stir with his remarks at a Special Services Group base in Tarbela.The meeting, which is commonly known as...
View ArticleIMF forecasts slow, but improving growth for Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast a slow growth rate of 3.1 per cent for Pakistan in the current year and an improvement to 3.7pc in the next year.At the launch of its...
View ArticleProfile: wearing uneasy Fata crown
He is not a great conversationalist. He listens intently, occasionally chipping in with a word or two, to keep the conversation going. He can be intense. In the good old days, he would gulp down...
View ArticleDrought-affected people still drinking toxic water, SHC told
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was informed on Tuesday that people and livestock in the far-flung areas of the drought-hit Tharparkar district were still drinking toxic rainwater from shallow ponds,...
View ArticleWoman injured in acid attack
LAHORE: A 22-year-old married woman suffered burns as three people, including her alleged rapist, threw acid on her on Multan Road on Tuesday.The victim, a resident of Mandi Stop, was admitted to...
View ArticleMPA, son detained, released after court brawl
GUJRANWALA: The guards of the district and sessions court judge took into custody on Tuesday an MPA, his son besides two Elite Force constables for creating scenes outside the court.Police released...
View ArticleConfusion prevails as reshuffle in KP cabinet not notified
PESHAWAR: The reshuffle in provincial cabinet by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led coalition government has brought to a standstill the file work at the departments that have been given to the new...
View ArticlePesco to suspend power supply to 11 KP feeders
PESHAWAR: Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) would soon suspend supply of electricity to 11 feeders in seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher...
View ArticleCries of discrimination go up as complex rises from ashes
RAWALPINDI: Reconstruction of the Taleemul Quran mosque-madressah-market complex has begun, but the sectarian fire that consumed the complex and five imambargahs in the city’s old quarters last year...
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At least 19 killed, dozens injured in Islamabad blast
ISLAMABAD: At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured, some critically, on Wednesday when an explosion occurred behind the Metro Shopping center in the Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city,...
View ArticleCorps commanders meet
RAWALPINDI: A meeting of the army’s top brass, chaired by Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif (COAS), is underway at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, DawnNews reported.The meeting is focusing...
View ArticleBaloch separatists claim Islamabad terror attack; 24 killed
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: United Baloch Army (UBA) – a separatist militant outfit in Balochistan – has claimed responsibility of the deadly terrorist attack in Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city that killed...
View ArticleBDS defuse 13kg bomb near Karachi's Khalid Bin Waleed road
KARACHI: A bomb weighing 13 kilograms was defused near Khalid Bin Waleed road in Karachi’s PECHS area on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.On receiving a tip-off about the presence of a bomb near...
View ArticleCourt summons all accused in next RPP hearing
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad, which was hearing the Rental Power Projects (RPP) case Wednesday, summoned all accused in the case, including former prime ministers Raja Pervaiz Ashraf...
View ArticlePetitioner moves SC against PPO
ISLAMABAD: A petitioner has challenged the controversial Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) — a sweeping new anti-terror law — in the Supreme Court today, DawnNews reported.The petitioner Mehmood...
View ArticleFiring incident in Tank district kills five, say police
PESHAWAR: A firing incident at a hotel in Kot Khadak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Tank district on Wednesday left five people dead and another wounded, according to police officials.Station House...
View ArticlePPP to ‘strongly’ oppose anti-terror law in Senate
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan peoples Party – the largest party in Senate has decided to oppose the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) in the upcoming session of the upper house of Parliament scheduled to...
View ArticleShia doctor, madressa students among 12 killed in Karachi
KARACHI: At least 12 people including a Shia doctor and three madressa students were killed and several others injured in different incidents of violence in the port city, DawnNews reported on...
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