Missing person cases: Secret agencies warned of criminal proceedings
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday warned that if any intelligence agency expressed ignorance about any missing person, who was later found to be in their custody, then a case of illegal...
View ArticleIndian fisherman awaiting release dies
KARACHI: An Indian fisherman, who was an inmate of Malir District Jail, died at a hospital here on Thursday.According to jail sources, 60-year-old Dadu Bhai, son of Narain Bhai, had suddenly fallen ill...
View ArticleRumours trigger violence in Lyari
‘Peace talks’ to continueKARACHI: A renewed wave of violence in old city areas intensified on Thursday when half a dozen persons, including a woman and a boy, were wounded in gun and cracker attacks...
View ArticleHyderabad traders sound alarm over extortion
HYDERABAD: Traders and businessmen have expressed grave concern over a rising wave of street crime and extortion in the commercial areas of Hyderabad, warning that they will take to the streets if...
View ArticleZardari calls on Gilani
MULTAN: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday arrived in Multan on a short visit to express his solidarity with former prime minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani over the kidnapping of his son Ali Haider...
View ArticleSindh govt issued notice over lawyers’ killings
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday directed the provincial government to furnish a reply in connection with a petition of the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) against targeted killings...
View ArticlePolice find Khattak’s remarks in bad taste
PESHAWAR: If the idea was to chastise the police for endemic corruption within the department, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister chose a bad day to do so, when police together with other...
View ArticleIt is time to perform for every party in power
ISLAMABAD: Elections are long over and governments have been formed. Now is the time primarily for different political parties in the saddle in the four provinces to live up to their election...
View ArticlePakistan, China vow to promote regional peace, cooperation
BEIJING: Pakistan and China Friday resolved to promote the policies aimed at advancing the cause of peace, co- operation and harmony creating a win-win situation in the region.Prime Minister Nawaz...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills six at Pak-Afghan border
CHAMAN: At least six officials, including an Afghan border commander, were killed and 19 others injured Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border near Chaman...
View ArticleKarachi central prison: A tinderbox of expanding militant networks
KARACHI: Even with increased outreach of militant networks from within Karachi’s central prison, most search operations carried out inside the jail are done without scanners or metal detectors, the...
View ArticleDoes Pakistan have a plan to halt terrorism?
ISLAMABAD: Terrorists have killed at least 160 people during the new Pakistani government's first month in office, fueling concern that the country's leaders lack a coherent strategy to fight the...
View ArticlePakistani stocks rise over 200 points, rupee weakens
KARACHI: Pakistan’s stock exchange closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark 100-share index of the Karachi Stock Exchange up 0.96 per cent or 211.38 points at 22,178.34.Market continued its uptrend...
View ArticlePakistan’s forex reserves fall to $11.007 billion
KARACHI: Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves dropped to $11.007 billion in the week ending June 28, from $11.344 billion the previous week, the central bank said.Remittances from Pakistanis abroad...
View ArticleOne killed, eight injured in firing at Lyari protest rally
KARACHI: Unidentified miscreants on Friday opened fire on a funeral at Mauripur Road in Karachi’s Lyari area, killing a man and injuring eight other people.According to rescue sources, unidentified men...
View ArticleNawaz picks ex-PCB boss to improve ties with India
ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday appointed former foreign secretary and ex-chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Shaharyar Khan, as his special representative for...
View ArticleGunmen kill two in Quetta, Nato tanker set ablaze in Mangochar
QUETTA: Armed militants torched a Nato tanker and injured its driver in Mangochar area of Balochistan whereas gunmen killed two persons on Saeed Ahmed Khan road in Quetta on Friday.Fayyaz Sumbal, the...
View ArticleRapes cases: Bill calls for making DNA tests mandatory
ISLAMABAD: The provincial assembly of Sindh is expected to take up a bill in its next session seeking DNA tests of the accused as well as victims in rape cases.If taken, the landmark step would revamp...
View ArticlePTI chief not to attend meeting on national security
ISLAMABAD: It may just be a coincidence, but Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan will be out of the country when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be hosting a meeting of the heads of...
View ArticleProtesting BNP-M activists block highways
QUETTA: Activists and supporters of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) blocked the highways at different locations on Friday to condemn what they called activities of death squads in Wadh...
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