US govt reduces aid requests for Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has requested $1.16 billion for aid to Pakistan in the 2014 financial year — almost half of the $2.6bn it spent in 2012 and a quarter of the $4.5bn it spent in...
View ArticleOpposition invited to talks over local bodies system
KARACHI: Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani has asked all opposition parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to come to the negotiating table to sort out differences over which local...
View ArticleFata reforms process to continue: Zardari
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari endorsed on Wednesday recommendations of a ‘Grand Assembly’ of the people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas and said the process of reforms in Fata would...
View ArticlePIA’s board of directors reconstituted
LAHORE: The government reconstituted the board of directors of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Wednesday.The new board comprises prominent businessmen – Aslam Khaliq, Mian Mohammad Mansha,...
View ArticleGovt APC on 12th to evolve strategy against militancy
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government officially announced on Wednesday that it would hold an all parties conference on July 12 “to discuss and evolve a national strategy to curb militancy and address the...
View ArticleSix ‘separatists’ arrested from hospital in Quetta
QUETTA: Police arrested six suspected separatist militants from a hospital here on Wednesday. Those arrested included two injured men who were under treatment at the hospital.Sources said that police...
View ArticleMeeting on missing persons today
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Muneer A. Malik will hold a special meeting in his office on Thursday (today) to chalk out a comprehensive plan for settling the chronic and emotive issue of missing...
View ArticlePM Sharif talks business on China visit, meets Chinese president
BEIJING: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday during his first foreign visit since his May election, looking to secure infrastructure projects to tackle a chronic...
View ArticleIHC orders Sethi to hold fresh PCB elections within 90 days
ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the country's cricket board to re-elect a chairman within 90 days after Zaka Ashraf was suspended over concerns about a dubious ballot.The decision...
View ArticleShutter-down strike in parts of Balochistan
QUETTA: A shutter-down strike on Thursday was being observed in Quetta and different parts of Balochistan on the call of the Balochistan National Party - Mengal (BNP-M) against the forced...
View ArticlePakistan ends moratorium on executions: official
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's new government has ended a moratorium on executions, an official said Thursday as Amnesty International raised concerns about a “shocking and retrograde step”.Under the previous...
View ArticleSuicide blast kills four security personnel in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Four security personnel were killed in a bombing at a checkpost in the North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, DawnNews quoted government sources as saying.Sources said the blast, said to...
View ArticleKey Taliban 'commanders' killed in Peshawar operation: security officials
PESHAWAR: Two key militant commanders of the Pakistani Taliban were killed in a successful operation by security forces in Peshawar on Thursday, security officials said. Security officials told...
View ArticleMilitants attack Nato tanker in Khuzdar; driver killed
QUETTA: Militants attacked a Nato tanker and killed its driver and injured two others in Balochistan's restive Khuzdar district on Thursday.Police sources said four militants on two motorcycles opened...
View ArticlePakistan, IMF agree on $5.3 billion bailout package
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan asked for a new $5.3 billion bailout loan programme from the International Monetary Fund on Thursday after talks with a visiting delegation from the global lender.“The government of...
View ArticleMissing persons: Database planned to identify duplications
ISLAMABAD: A special meeting convened by Attorney General Muneer A. Malik on Thursday decided to develop a database as a first step to identify duplications which will eventually help in finding out...
View ArticleMeeting on national security: Nisar says army chief to be invited
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani would be invited to the proposed meeting of the heads of all political parties in...
View ArticleHaj scam of 2010: Immunity available only when it is claimed: SC
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court said on Thursday it would not be in a position to determine the protection available to former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani under Article 248 of the constitution unless he...
View ArticleKP opposed to extending stay of Afghans
PESHAWAR: Rejecting Islamabad’s draft ‘National Management and Repatriation Policy of Afghans’ as arbitrary, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has opposed extending Afghan refugees’ stay in the country and suggested...
View ArticleEngineers urged to help ease energy crisis
QUETTA: The National Party’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Sardar Kamal Khan Bangulzai, has urged engineers to help ease the current power crisis by developing solar energy projects on...
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