OBL's wives' version
When the compound in Abbottabad was stormed by the Navy Seals in the middle of the night, Osama Bin Laden’s first reaction was to tell his family to stay calm and recite the kalima. Putting together...
View ArticleMilitants torch three Nato containers in Quetta
QUETTA: Militants on Monday torched three Nato containers in the Western Bypass area of Quetta.According to the police, four militants on two motorcycles opened fire on the containers, causing the...
View ArticlePassenger bus overturns near Dadu; 12 killed
ISLAMABAD: At least 12 passengers were killed and over 35 injured when a bus overturned near Dadu on Monday morning. The dead also included women and children.According to a media reports, the...
View ArticleSeparate blasts kill at least nine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: police
PESHAWAR: At least nine people, including two bomb disposal officers, were killed Monday in two separate explosions in restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.Station House Officer (SHO) Doaba...
View ArticleFauzia Kasuri rejoins PTI
LAHORE: After over a month of disillusionment and disagreements with senior party leadership, senior leader Fauzia Kasuri announced Monday that she was rejoining the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf...
View ArticleNo executions in Pakistan until President Zardari retires: aide
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari would not reject any mercy petitions of criminals facing the death penalty as long as he is in office, a close presidential aide said Monday.Presidential spokesman...
View ArticlePakistani stocks end higher, o/n rates rise
KARACHI: Pakistan's stock exchange closed higher on Monday, with the benchmark 100-share index of the Karachi Stock Exchange up 0.84 per cent or 187.38 points at 22,365.72.Positive statements by rating...
View ArticleViolence persists in Karachi as 14 killed
KARACHI:At least fourteen people, including a police officer, were killed in different incidents of violence across Karachi on Monday, DawnNews reported.Two persons were killed in a gunfiring incident...
View ArticleTariq Khokhar appointed as Additional Attorney General of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Tariq Mehmood Khokhar was appointed as Additional Attorney General for Pakistan, according to an official notification issued on Monday by the Ministry of Law and Justice.Tariq Mehmood...
View ArticleSenate committee proposes 7-point Action Plan for Cyber Secure Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Defence and Defence Production organised a policy seminar on “Defending Pakistan Through Cyber Security Strategy” in coordination with Pakistan Information Security...
View ArticleShareholder’s court plea raises gas price
ISLAMABAD: Following an order of the Sindh High Court, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has determined a Rs22 per unit increase in gas prices to be passed on to consumers soon after Eidul...
View ArticleEOBI scam: Ex-caretaker minister held
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Monday Iqbal Dawood Pakwala, a minister in the Sindh caretaker government, in connection with a multi-billion scam in the Employees Old-age...
View ArticleExcerpts from Abbottabad Commission report
123: The testimony of Major Amir Aziz was recorded on October 25, 2011. He was reluctant to appear before the Commission. But when informed of the consequence of refusing to do so, he came and offered...
View ArticleSC to proceed ex parte against organisations declining audit
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court decided on Monday to proceed ex parte against the government organisations or their subsidiaries which had refused to get their funds audited and opted not to be...
View ArticleJUI-F fails to win PML-N support for Senate seat
ISLAMABAD: Despite allout efforts, the JUI-F finds itself on a limb after its failure to gain support of the PML-N for its candidate on one of the two vacant Senate seats from Balochistan.Sources told...
View ArticleJI no more interested in obscenity case
ISLAMABAD: A petitioner expressed regrets in the Supreme Court on Monday that the Jamaat-i-Islami had lost interest after the death of one of its leaders in pursuing a case relating to what he called...
View ArticleAccepting Baloch rights the only way to peace, says Mengal
ISLAMABAD: From January to May 2013, nearly 84 people disappeared and 79 disfigured dead bodies were recovered from different parts of Balochistan.The only way to establish the trust of the Baloch...
View ArticleOf overbearing consultants and a brooding Khattak
PESHAWAR: It has been 38 days since Chief Minister Pervez Khattak took oath of his office and those thirty-eight days have been amusingly roller-coaster.No wonder, the nascent government has yet to...
View ArticleCourt sends fugitive Ogra chief on 14-day physical remand
ABU DHABI: An accountability court in Islamabad sent Tauqir Sadiq, the fugitive former chief of the Oil and Gas Regularity Authority (Ogra), on a 14-day physical remand on Tuesday. The UAE authorities...
View ArticleOpposition leader nominates former judges for NAB chairman slot
ISLAMABAD: The leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday nominated the names of two former judges to head the country's top accountability office, the National...
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