Analysis: An iconic mess?
Bahria Town’s Clifton project has had a bumpy ride ever since it was initiated six weeks ago.The mega construction project, comprising two flyovers and an underpass in a historically significant part...
View ArticleIslamabad metro bus project begins
ISLAMABAD: The contractors have started work on the first portion of the metro bus project in Islamabad, even before the public hearing of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).The digging has...
View ArticleMilitants planning to use Indus River for movement between provinces
ISLAMABAD: Security agencies have started surveillance of the Indus River on the basis of an intelligence report that outlawed militant groups were planning to use the waterway for transporting arms...
View ArticleBannu emerges as major threat to anti-polio efforts
PESHAWAR: Opposition of parents to oral polio vaccines has been haunting children in Bannu, a southern district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where about 10,000 children remained unvaccinated during the last...
View ArticleMysterious disease claims lives of 14 women in Bajaur
KHAR: At least 14 women have died during the past one week and several others suffering with infection after a mysterious disease broke out in Warah Mamond area of Bajaur Agency.Local people told Dawn...
View ArticleKarachi returns to normalcy after MQM's mourning
KARACHI: The country’s financial capital returned to normalcy after a shut down call was given by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for observing a ‘day of mourning’ against killings of its party...
View ArticleCorps commanders’ meeting underway at GHQ
RAWALPINDI: The army top brass was meeting on Friday under the leadership of Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif at General Headquarter Rawalpindi, DawnNews reported.The meeting was discussing...
View ArticleGovt one of the biggest electricity defaulters, says Khawaja Asif
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Muhammad Asif on Friday declared the federal government as one of the biggest defaulters of electricity bills and warned consumers of having to...
View ArticleWB approves $12 billion loan for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a $12 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan to be given out in a period of five years, the country's finance ministry said on Friday.The finance ministry said...
View ArticleWaqar Younis offered two-year contract: Sethi
LAHORE: Former captain and fast bowler Waqar Younis has been offered a two-year contract by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), according to chairman Najam Sethi.While it remains unclear whether Younis...
View ArticleAnother polio case surfaces in N. Waziristan
PESHAWAR: A 14-month old child was diagnosed with the polio virus in Miramshah area of North Waziristan tribal region, DawnNews reported.The detection of the latest case was confirmed according to a...
View ArticleMQM demands arrest of those involved in workers' killings
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar demanded on Friday the arrest within 72 hours of those persons involved in the killing of four of its workers whose bodies were recovered on...
View ArticlePeace talks cannot move forward amid ‘needless rhetoric,’ says Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday lashed out at all those involved in criticising the government’s peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, saying the dialogue process...
View ArticlePakistan protests Indian refusal of issuing visas to pilgrims
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan lodged strong protest with India on Friday over refusal of visas to 500 Pakistan pilgrims who wanted to go for the Urs of Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti, to be held at the Sufi...
View ArticleVeena Malik receives grand reception at in-laws
Famous Pakistani actor Veena Malik received a grand reception on Friday when she reached Shakar Dara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to meet with her in-laws for the first time after performing Umrah in Saudi...
View ArticleTen die of suffocation due to chemical waste in D.I. Khan canal
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least 10 people died of suffocation and eight others fell unconscious on Friday while passing through a water channel which carries chemical waste from industries mainly from...
View ArticleYousuf Shah dispels ‘impression’ of rift among TTP ranks
HYDERABAD: A member of Taliban negotiating committee, Maulana Yousuf Shah has said there is no grouping in the Pakistani Taliban as all militant groups support the dialogue process being taking place...
View ArticlePress Freedom Day: Protesters demand end to journalists’ killing
QUETTA: To mark the World Press Freedom Day, journalists marched on the roads of Quetta to mourn the killings of colleagues and voice for freedom of speech and expression on Saturday.The members of...
View ArticlePakistan summons Middle East envoys to discuss Syria
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has summoned its envoys from key Middle Eastern countries to meet in Islamabad on May 4 for urgent consultations over situation in Syria in particular and Middle East in...
View ArticleProtesters torch D.I. Khan sugar mills
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Protesting against the death of their relatives in a drain of toxic effluent, enraged villagers ransacked a sugar mills and set its building on fire in the Ramak area of Dera Ismail...
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