Provinces told to try harder to eradicate polio
KARACHI: A communiqué from Islamabad sent to the provincial governments wants more rigorous polio vaccination coverage in parts of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to help the country improve...
View ArticleNisar’s absence from NA fuels speculation
ISLAMABAD: At a time when the National Assembly was debating the crucial anti-terrorism law on Wednesday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was sitting in the nearby spacious Punjab House...
View ArticleMusharraf’s lawyers have ‘abettors’ list
ISLAMABAD: Although the prosecution has repeatedly said it has been unable to obtain the details of meetings former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf held with certain military and political...
View ArticleCartels operating in several sectors, Dar tells NA
ISLAMABAD: Many industries and sectors in the country have formed cartels in order to obtain an undue economic advantage, mostly at the cost of their consumers, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the...
View ArticleCounsel concludes secretary’s cross-examination
ISLAMABAD: Farogh Nasim, the defence attorney for former president retired General Pervez Musharraf, concluded his cross-examination of Interior Secretary Shahid Khan on Wednesday.During the...
View ArticleMehran appointed chief of Marri tribe
QUETTA: Tribal elders loyal to the late Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri have elected his son Nawabzada Mehran Marri as chief of the Marri tribe, rejecting in the process the purported appointment of Jangeez...
View ArticleSC unconvinced by mystery of state lands
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court tried to unravel on Wednesday the mystery behind the utilisation of a large chunk of lands, allotted to the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the Pakistan Air...
View ArticlePunjab Police to be divided into six wings
LAHORE: Punjab anti-terrorism minister retired Col. Shuja Khanzada unfolding a plan on Wednesday to divide the police into six different sections, said there would be a command and control centre,...
View ArticleAnti-polio drive for IDPs fails to achieve its end
RAWALPINDI: The district health department has failed to register internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vaccinate children coming from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) against the polio virus.A five-day...
View ArticleQadri vows to topple government within weeks
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said Thursday that the present government would topple "within a few weeks", DawnNews reported.He said he was committed to bringing a...
View ArticleOne killed in Sultanabad firing; bomb defused in Manghopir
KARACHI: One person was killed while one other was injured on Thursday in a firing incident in Karachi.According to police, the firing took place in Karachi's Sultanabad area.Meanwhile, a bomb was...
View ArticleTwo bullet-riddled bodies found in Panjgur
QUETTA: Two people were killed on Thursday as a result of firing in Balochistan province's Panjgur district.A police official who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to media told...
View ArticleArsalan Iftikhar steps down from Balochistan Investment Board
QUETTA: Mounting media pressure worked, the son of former top judge of the country, Arsalan Iftikhar on Thursday tendered his resignation from the post of vice chairman Balochistan Board of...
View ArticleAnother suspect of PIA plane attack arrested in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: In a major development, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a second suspect involved in an attack on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft at Peshawar...
View Article800 bodies found in Balochistan in past three years
QUETTA: Over 800 bodies were found in Balochistan during last three-and-a-half years, with most of them being found in Quetta, Khuzdar and Makran belt.This information was shared with Dawn.com by...
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111 Brigade, police surveying airport areas
RAWALPINDI: The 111 Brigade of the army and the local police have started surveying the flight path of the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) to set up security pickets, it has been learnt.The...
View ArticleNorway to give aid for Punjab police
ISLAMABAD: The Norwegian government has entered into an agreement with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), pledging $700,000 for enhancing the training and investigation capacity of...
View ArticleTargeted killings rise by 30pc in KP during 2014
PESHAWAR: The incidents of targeted killings have increased by 30.3 per cent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the current year, according to data collected by police. It said that 129 cases of targeted...
View ArticleKhattak threatens long march against power outages
NOWSHERA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak threatened here on Thursday to lead a long march against prolonged power outages in the province if the problem was not resolved. Talking to...
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Power grid can’t cope with demand
ISLAMABAD: The authorities conceded on Thursday that due to obsolete transmission system the national grid was simply incapable of supplying more than 15,000MW of electricity to consumers. They also...
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