Balochistan government restores 450 schools
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has claimed to have re-opened 450 closed schools across the province with the objective of drawing back school children to educational institutions.Adviser to the...
View ArticleConviction unfair, pleads Aafia Siddiqui
NEW YORK: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist serving an 86-year prison sentence for shooting at US soldiers is seeking to have her conviction overturned on the grounds that she did not have proper...
View ArticleFive militants killed as rival TTP groups clash
PESHAWAR: At least five militants have been killed and three others were injured as rival Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant groups clashed on the border of North and South Waziristan...
View ArticleOBL not traced due to Afridi's fake polio campaign: Sartaj
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz informed the National Assembly on Tuesday that this perception was wrong that Osama bin Laden was traced in...
View ArticlePolio vaccine a must for exit travelers from June 1
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will require all travelers leaving the country to obtain a polio vaccination from June 1, 2014, the health ministry said on Tuesday.A statement from the ministry said the...
View Article‘Admit one son to madrassa or pay Rs0.4m’
PESHAWAR: The outlawed militant group Lahskar-i-Islam (LI) has warned tribesmen in northwestern Bara district to admit at least one of their sons to “a madrassa of LI school of thought” otherwise the...
View ArticleRehabilitated Ziarat Residency to be inaugurated on August 14th
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has planned to inaugurate Ziarat Residency, the rest house used by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah during his final days, on August 14 this year.Currently work is...
View ArticlePM approves interest-free loan scheme
ISLAMABAD: The federal government will disburse Rs3.5 billion under an interest-free loan scheme.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved the scheme during a meeting held here on Tuesday.One million...
View ArticlePakistan among countries where torture is rife: Amnesty
ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International has said in a report that torture is rife across the Asia-Pacific region, with China and North Korea among worst-affected countries.The report, Torture in 2014: 30...
View ArticleLyari gangster Baba Ladla killed in Iran
QUETTA: Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla, a wanted gangster of Karachi’s Lyari area, was killed by Iranian border guards on Tuesday.According to reports reaching here, he was killed along with his two...
View ArticleNTDC announces end to loadshedding
ISLAMABAD: The power sector is setting new records as it has started receiving more than 30,000 tons of furnace oil a day following Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s directive last week for reducing the...
View ArticleGovt plans new taxes in next budget
ISLAMABAD: The government is set to introduce new taxes in the upcoming budget, in addition to Rs80 billion it hopes to collect this fiscal year by withdrawing tax exemptions.“We have to levy taxes for...
View ArticleSeminary head among four held in rape case
MANSEHRA: Police claimed to have arrested four persons including head of a religious seminary for their involvement in assaulting a girl student.Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, DSP...
View ArticleEstate agent killed in ‘sectarian’ attack
KARACHI: An estate agent was shot dead in Federal B Area, Block-16, on Tuesday evening, police said.Aun Mohammed Naqvi, 35, was sitting at the estate agency near his home in Abdullah Square when gunmen...
View ArticlePPP advises govt to defuse ‘tension’
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party sees a threat to the political system and has advised the PML-N government to defuse tension (with the military) by showing flexibility.The PPP is also likely to...
View ArticleMan held for killing three ‘homosexuals’
GUJRAT: Police have arrested a ‘serial killer’ who confessed to have killed three men separately for having homosexual tendencies, after luring them into relationship.District Police Officer Rai Ijaz...
View ArticleDrone kills ten suspected militants on Pak-Afghan border
PESHAWAR: At least ten suspected militants were reportedly killed and 14 others were injured on Wednesday during a US drone strike at the Pak-Afghan border, official sources claimed.According to...
View ArticleTreason case: FIA report presented in special court
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday presented the investigation report in the special court during the hearing of the treason case against the former military ruler Gen...
View ArticleMilitary, political leadership to supervise Karachi operation: PM
KARACHI: Pakistan's top military and civilian leadership huddled together on Wednesday to review the law and order situation in Karachi at a meeting at the Governor House chaired by Prime Minister...
View ArticleIndian journalists told in writing to leave Pakistan within a week
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told both Indian journalists stationed in Islamabad that they must leave within a week, the journalists told Reuters on Wednesday, saying they had been informed that their visas...
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