IT ministry can’t afford IT experts
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) cannot afford to keep IT professionals on its payroll and has taken on schoolteachers and forest officials to manage its affairs. The ministry...
View ArticleOpposition parties meet today to devise joint plan to block Protection of...
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the Senate will be meeting on Monday to devise a joint strategy to block the government’s move to get the Protection of Pakistan bill passed from the upper house.The...
View ArticleMusharraf likely to skip court hearings
ISLAMABAD: Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf will stay in Karachi for an indefinite period during which he will not attend court hearings of any case against him.“He will not attend...
View ArticleDoctors see Musharraf at his daughter’s home
KARACHI: A team of doctors from the PNS Shifa hospital conducted a preliminary medical check-up of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf at his daughter’s home in Karachi, where he is staying,...
View ArticleArab royal hunts down 2,100 houbara bustards in three week safari
KARACHI: A Saudi prince has poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai, Balochistan, during which the royal also indulged in illegal hunting in...
View ArticlePolio drive postponed for want of security
KARACHI: The health authorities postponed the ninth round of one-day special polio campaign on Sunday in ‘sensitive’ neighbourhoods of the city for a week as they could not get the security cover for...
View Article350 small dams to be built in KP, says Imran
MINGORA: The provincial government would construct 350 small dams to end power loadshedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan here on Sunday.Addressing a...
View ArticleSix injured as bus overturns on National Highway
KARACHI: At least six people were injured in the early hours of Monday when a passenger coach overturned on the National Highway in Sindh’s Kandhkot district, DawnNews reported.The accident took place...
View ArticleFive killed, one injured in Karachi violence
KARACHI: Five people were killed and one injured in different incidents of violence in Karachi, DawnNews reported.Four bodies were recovered near Dhabeji area of Karachi’s National Highway. The victims...
View ArticleThree people gunned down in Quetta
QUETTA: Armed motorcyclists killed three people on Quetta’s Munir Mengal Road on Monday, the police said.Superintendent of Police (SP) Sariab road area Imran Qureshi told Dawn.com that armed...
View ArticleSHC seeks reply from govt, FIA over Musharraf's ECL plea
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the government and Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) over former president Musharraf’s application seeking removal of his name from the Exit...
View ArticleBlast injures three in Chaman
QUETTA: Three people, including two women, were injured on Monday in a blast in Chaman, the southwestern Pakistani town sharing the border with Afghanistan, police said.Unknown militants had planted a...
View ArticleSelf-immolation case: SC orders inquiry by sessions judge
LAHORE: Hearing a suo motu case related to the self-immolation of an alleged rape victim in Muzaffargarh in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry Monday, Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani rejected...
View ArticleWomen desks to be set up at all 500 KP police stations: CM
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has announced that women police desks would be established at all 500 police stations of the province to facilitate the province's female...
View ArticleSenate committee resolution seeks to lift Youtube ban
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s standing committee on Human Rights on Monday approved a resolution that seeks to unblock the popular video-sharing website Youtube in Pakistan.The video-sharing website has been...
View ArticleGuddu Power Plant: PM launches commissioning of additional units
GUDDU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Monday inaugurated commissioning of additional power units at the Guddu Thermal Power Plant, which will add another 747 MW to the national grid at a cost of Rs 60...
View ArticleTreat the disease, not the diseased, says PM on Karachi situation
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a meeting on Karachi's law and order situation at the Jinnah International Airport on Monday during which he directed authorities to treat the disease and...
View ArticleThree SC judges named for commission to probe attack on Hamid Mir
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Monday approved three names of Supreme Court judges for the judicial commission to probe the attack on senior journalist and...
View ArticleAbducted UN workers in Karachi recovered ‘safe and well’
KARACHI: Two Pakistani employees of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) who were abducted in Karachi four days ago were recovered on Monday, officials said.Officers raided a house in the east...
View ArticleSenators call upon ISI to cooperate with probe
ISLAMABAD: Senators called upon the country’s top intelligence agency on Monday to clear its name in cases of attacks on journalists and the matter of enforced disappearances.The role of the...
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