Jamaat leader drowns near Balakot
BALAKOT: Deputy Chief of Jamaat-i-Islaami Karachi Ameer Nasrullah Shaji drowned in River Kunhar on Monday in an attempt to save a child from drowning near Balakot, DawnNews reported. The incident...
View ArticleCOAS leaves for China
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday left for China on an official visit.“General Raheel Sharif is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese defence authorities,” a...
View ArticleBlast hits goods train in Dalbandin; two injured
QUETTA: Two people were injured in a bomb blast that hit a goods train on Monday in Balochistan's Dalbandin area, Levies officials told Dawn.The attack also damaged the railway track and a section of...
View ArticleSuspected thieves claim police chopped off hands in Bahawalpur
BAHAWALPUR: Pakistani police chopped off the left hands of two men accused of theft after they refused to confess to stealing electrical wire and mobile phones, the victims told Reuters on Monday.The...
View ArticleRussia lifts arms embargo to Pakistan: report
MOSCOW: Russia has lifted its embargo on arms supplies to Pakistan and is holding talks on supplying Islamabad with combat helicopters, the head of state-owned Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said Monday, the...
View ArticleAnother Rs701bn lost due to terrorism
ISLAMABAD: Economic losses suffered by Pakistan due to terrorism continued to pile up as the country lost another Rs701 billion ($6.9bn) during the first nine months (July-March) of 2013-14.The country...
View ArticleNew budget: govt pins hopes on slashing subsidies, reducing tax exemptions
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will be presenting the PML-N government’s second budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday. The finance bill for the fiscal year 2014-15 includes fiscal...
View ArticleLaw and order improving, says Balochistan chief minister
ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Malik claimed on Monday that the law and order situation in his province had improved and crime declined significantly in the first year of his...
View ArticleDengue control thru’ mosquitoes?
LAHORE: The health department has constituted a committee of experts to submit recommendations on the use of genetically-engineered mosquitoes to control dengue.The decision was taken in a meeting held...
View ArticleLife term for three in acid attack case
MULTAN: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 judge handed down on Monday life imprisonment on two counts to three accused and imposed a Rs1.1 million fine each for killing a man in an acid attack in Sahiwal...
View ArticleEight killed, six injured in Kurram tribal region
PESHAWAR: At least eight people were killed and six others injured on Tuesday when a landmine exploded in the Khomta area of Kurram tribal region, DawnNews reported.The victims were travelling from...
View ArticleReleased Bagram prisoners: LHC directs interior ministry to reply
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the federal interior ministry to respond on June 5 over a petition relating to Pakistani citizens who were reportedly released following their detention...
View ArticleTwo elite force men injured in firing near Lal Masjid
ISLAMABAD: Two elite force personnel were injured when unknown assailants opened fire on them in the downtown area of Islamabad.Elite force personnel were on routine security patrolling when they came...
View ArticleThree killed, five injured in Karachi violence
KARACHI: Three people, including a gang-war suspect, were killed and five others injured in different incidents of violence in Karachi, DawnNews reported on Tuesday.On receiving a tip-off about the...
View ArticleThree killed as PAF jet crashes in Karachi's Baldia Town
KARACHI: At least three people were killed and eight injured when a Pakistan air force fighter plane crashed at a bus terminal in Karachi’s Baldia Town area.Those killed included both pilots operating...
View ArticleFormer PM Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shaukat Tareen indicted in RPP case
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad indicted former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and 11 others on Tuesday in the rental power project case, DawnNews reported.Former finance minister...
View ArticleAltaf Hussain arrested for money laundering; MQM denies
Altaf Hussain arrested for money laundering; MQM deniesKARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain was arrested on Tuesday in London on charges of money laundering but his party has denied...
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Politics and exile: The story of Altaf Hussain
Politics and exile: The story of Altaf HussainAltaf Hussain is the founder and chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Previously known as the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, Hussain’s party started off...
View ArticleFinance Minister announces budget 2014-15
The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the federal budget for the year 2014-15, with a total outlay of Rs3.945 trillion, and a Public Sector Development Programme allocated at Rs525billion.Finance...
View ArticleHerald exclusive: Altaf Hussain, losing the plot
This article was first published in The Herald Annual issue of January 2014.Altaf Hussain must have felt untouchable when the British government decided to grant him a burgundy passport in 2002, a...
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