Moderate 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits Balochistan
QUETTA: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan on Friday, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.The epicentre was close to the city of Sibi, in...
View ArticlePTI protestors baton-charged in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists protesting against rigging in May 2013 elections, were baton-charged by police near Nadra Chowk in the federal capital city on Friday, DawnNews reported.A...
View ArticleAltaf NICOP issue: Nisar warns MQM against ‘politics of threats’
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan warned the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Friday against “politics of threats,” saying there is no gain for the government by not issuing Altaf...
View ArticlePakistani national killed by Iranian border guards
QUETTA: Iranian border guards killed one Pakistani national and injured another near the Pak-Iran border on Friday, an official said.The incident happened in Balochistan's Panjgur district.Fateh...
View ArticleBlasphemy accused Ahmadi man gunned down in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: A teenager walked into a police station on Friday and shot dead a 65-year-old man from a minority community accused of blasphemy in a Punjab village, their spokesman said, the second murder...
View ArticlePakistan hopes for ‘result-oriented’ resumption of TTP talks
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Friday that the government wanted to make next round of talks with the Pakistani Taliban meaningful and...
View ArticleProvinces sent fake polio reports, Senate told
ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Friday that provincial governments had been sending fake reports about anti-polio campaigns.Saira Afzal Tarar, the Minister of State for National Health Services,...
View ArticleTax-to-GDP ratio down
ISLAMABAD: The budget strategy paper for 2014-17 presented to the federal cabinet by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar sets ambitious targets for reduction of debt build-up and fiscal deficit, but concedes...
View ArticleECC approves Rs2bn Ramazan package
ISLAMABAD: The government decided on Friday to extend a Rs2 billion subsidy package for supply of essential kitchen items at cheaper rates to people during Ramazan.The package was approved by the...
View ArticleUproar over Geo programme turns into full-blown controversy
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Friday adopted a watered down resolution against the Geo Television for, what the opposition called, airing of a blasphemous programme in its morning transmission, while...
View ArticleNAB works out plan to reduce pending cases
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has realised that it has failed to overcome pendency of cases, which has adversely affected the performance of the organisation.According to a...
View ArticlePre-launch of Rahat’s Back to Love
KARACHI: Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan spoke about his music at a pre-launch gathering of his music album titled Back to Love at a hotel on Friday. The ceremony was attended, among others, by...
View ArticleTerror network having TTP link busted
LAHORE: Police claimed on Friday to have busted a network of terrorists-cum-target killers associated with the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and another outfit.It arrested eight terrorists...
View ArticleFour more counters set up to issue polio certificates in capital
ISLAMABAD: Four more polio certification counters will be functional in the federal capital from Saturday (today) while 11 counters set up in the Rawalpindi division have already issued 1,000...
View ArticleExtortionists, the fear of Taliban and the police
Last week, the Rawalpindi police won big headlines for tracking down two gangs of extortionists in the city. However, their celebrations over the feat ended in humiliation on Thursday when the...
View ArticleUpper limit for girls’ admission to KP colleges abolished
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has done away with the upper age limit for the girls’ admission to public sector universities and colleges in the province.It has also decided to provide...
View ArticleFiring outside Meera's Lahore residence
LAHORE: Unidentified gunmen resorted to aerial firing outside the residence of the film actor Meera on Friday night, after which they fled from the spot, DawnNews reported.According to Lahore police,...
View ArticlePakistani student attacked at Indian university returns home
LAHORE: Ali Hasan Raza, a Pakistani student who was attacked by a three-member gang in a hostel at India’s Pondicherry University, arrived in Lahore on Saturday, DawnNews reported.Raza, 24, had...
View ArticleZaka Ashraf back as PCB chairman for third time
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricket turmoil deepened Saturday after an Islamabad high court suspended a management committee appointed by the prime minister and reinstated Zaka Ashraf as chief of the cricket...
View ArticleSindh endorses PM’s decision to continue Karachi operation
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet fully endorsed on Saturday the decisions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to expedite the ongoing targeted operation of the law enforcement agencies against criminals and...
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