Nepra rejects requests for recovery of Rs35bn from consumers
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent snub to the government, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has rejected requests by power distribution companies to recover more than Rs35 billion from...
View ArticleOperation Zarb-i-Azb: Sindh ready to face terrorist backlash
KARACHI: The Sindh government said on Sunday that it had done its home work to face any possible backlash from the militants and stop free flow of internally displaced people or militants in their...
View ArticlePML-N, PTI chiefs’ assent awaited on Fata reforms
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) are holding up reforms in tribal areas as the heads of both parties have yet to sign off on the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Fata...
View ArticleZarb-e-Azb: Balochistan braces for operation’s fallout
QUETTA: Like other major cities in the country, security was beefed up in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on Sunday, in view of the possibility of terrorist attacks in retaliation for military...
View ArticlePAT, AML rallies making govt uneasy
RAWALPINDI: The local administration is keeping a close eye on the leaders and activists of two political parties that are set to hold separate rallies to Lahore against the PML-N government next...
View ArticleOver Rs7 billion allocated for poor-friendly schemes: Siraj
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Sirajul Haq said here on Sunday that provincial government presented a poor-friendly and austerity-oriented budget for next financial year...
View ArticleFirst Pakistani expedition takes off for K2
SKARDU: The first-ever expedition of Pakistani mountaineers to summit K2 peak received an overwhelming reception from the local authorities, tourist organisations and foreign mountaineers at a send-off...
View ArticleLyari gang war's Ghaffar Niazi killed in Karachi police encounter
KARACHI: Ghaffar Niazi, a gangster associated with the gang war in Lyari, was killed on Monday in a police encounter in Karachi’s Moosa Lane located in the city's Lyari Town.He was considered a key...
View ArticleNWA operation: Seven more militants killed; toll rises to 187
PESHAWAR: Seven more militants were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Waziristan on Monday evening, taking the total toll to 187 since Saturday night when...
View ArticleCJ Tassaduq Jilani's relative kidnapped from Multan
MULTAN: A close relative of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, Umer Jilani, who was also identified as a security official, was kidnapped on Monday by unidentified persons from...
View ArticlePTI endorses Zarb-e-Azb operation
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday endorsed the military operation underway in North Waziristan, the party's deputy secretary general and media advisor to PTI...
View ArticlePolio virus detected in Quetta linked to Sukkur
QUETTA: Polio virus detected in a sewerage line in Quetta on Monday was traced to Sukkur, an official said.An official of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef), who...
View ArticleGovt presses for early hearing, fears Musharraf may leave country
ISLAMABAD. The government on Monday filed two separate petitions in the Supreme Court against removing the name of former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf from the Exit Control List (ECL) and...
View ArticleNW operation to continue until terrorism eliminated: Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, during a speech delivered in the National Assembly on Monday, justified the government's decision to initiate a full-scale operation in North Waziristan tribal...
View ArticleOpposition supports govt on NWA operation
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the National Assembly showed their impartial support to the government on full-flagged military operation in North Waziristan Agency.Leader of the opposition in NA,...
View ArticleJI asks militants to shun terrorism
LAHORE: Being seen as an indirect support of Zarb-i-Azb military operation in North Waziristan, the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has called upon militants active in the tribal belt and elsewhere in the country...
View ArticlePM forms committee to oversee Zarb-i-Azb
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday constituted a `National Cabinet Coordination Committee’ to oversee Operation Zarb-i-Azb being conducted in North Waziristan.The committee, according to...
View ArticleTerrorists tarnishing Islam’s image: CJ
QUETTA: The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, has said that non-state actors are responsible for acts of terrorism in the country, adding that by committing such crimes they...
View Article111 Brigade troops arrive in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Though two companies from the army’s 111 Brigade have moved into the capital, they are yet to be assigned any duty in the absence of a plan to utilise their services, Dawn has learnt from...
View ArticleTaliban control 25pc of Karachi, claims MQM leader
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Farooq Sattar, on Monday claimed that Taliban control 25 per cent of Karachi and warned that, if immediate steps are not taken, the commercial hub...
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