Peshawar: Cigarettes sale near schools banned
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar deputy commissioner, Syed Zahirul Islam, on Wednesday banned sale of cigarettes in areas near educational institutions and health centres with a view to protect non-smokers from...
View ArticleCourt seeks explanation for denial of death certificate
PESHAWAR: A two-member Peshawar High Court bench on Wednesday sought explanation from the chief of the Lakki Marwat internment centre for not issuing the death certificate and autopsy report of an...
View ArticleTwo policemen killed in Peshawar firing
PESHAWAR: At least two policemen were killed in a firing incident within the remit of Peshawar’s Chamkani police station on Thursday, DawnNews reported. According to police, a police mobile was on...
View ArticleSeparate encounters kill three gang war members in Karachi
KARACHI: At least three gang war members were killed on Thursday in separate police and Rangers encounters in the Napier and Lyari areas of Karachi.Upon receiving a tip-off about the presence of...
View ArticleExplosion in Bannu; four injured
PESHAWAR: Four civilians were injured in an explosion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu town on Thursday. The explosion took place on Railway Road in the northwestern town and its target was a vehicle of...
View ArticleSix suspected militants killed in North Waziristan drone attack
PESHAWAR: Six suspected militants were killed in a drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday. A comprehensive military operation, Zarb-i-Azb, has been under way in the tribal...
View ArticlePM Nawaz arrives in Karachi on one-day visit
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday reached Karachi for a one-day visit to review the law and order situation in the city, DawnNews reported.Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah...
View ArticleKarachi operation: Report says over 30,000 arrested so far
KARACHI: Some 31,336 alleged criminals have so far been arrested in several targeted operations conducted by police and Rangers personnel since the Karachi operation was launched, states a report on...
View ArticleAmin Fahim gets bail in TDAP corruption case
KARACHI: A federal anti-corruption court on Thursday granted bail to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim in the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) corruption...
View ArticleOver 375,000 IDP children vaccinated
ISLAMABAD: Over 375,000 children displaced by the military operation in North Waziristan have been administered anti-polio vaccine at different transit points.About 800,000 people have moved out of...
View ArticleDar says PM wants hassle-free transfer of pensions
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the Ministry of Finance to finalise a blueprint of pension reforms within a month to ensure the hassle-free transfer of pensions to government...
View ArticlePTI wants removal of all ECP members: Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) wants that all members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should be removed to create the benchmark for the much talked-about electoral reforms in...
View ArticleKarachi: Three found shot dead in Lyari
KARACHI: Three young men were found shot dead in Lyari’s Kalakot area on Thursday night, officials said.The bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Afshani Gali, according to SSP City Sheraz...
View ArticleBNP-M defends tribal, parliamentary systems
QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has criticised self-exiled Baloch leader Mir Harbayar Marri for trying to embroil the party in his family dispute and said that selection of...
View ArticleTrain bogie catches fire
QUETTA: A bogie of the Quetta-bound Bolan Mail caught fire during shunting at the Sibi station on Thursday.Railways police said an extra bogie had been attached to Bolan Mail after it arrived at Sibi...
View ArticleTraders’ demand for army role in Karachi operation rejected
KARACHI: In an interaction with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, traders and industrialists expressed dissatisfaction over the ‘Karachi operation’ and demanded that the army be called in to...
View ArticleAirport security: no lessons learnt
KARACHI: Hardly a month after the audacious attack by militants at Karachi airport on the night between June 8 and 9, the security at the airport remains surprisingly lax. Accounts of survivors Dawn...
View ArticleQaim calls on Syedna Mufaddal
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah visited spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin on Wednesday night at his residence in Karachi, said a statement...
View ArticleInquiry raps police, admin over stormy Sikh protest
ISLAMABAD: A judicial inquiry into the storming of the Parliament House by Sikh protestors in May, over the burning of their holy book in Sindh, has found both the police and the federal capital...
View ArticleIDP fund: Teachers flay ‘forced charity’
RAWALPINDI: The district’s schoolteachers are up in arms over being ‘forced’ to contribute a part of their salaries to a Punjab government fund for upkeep of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),...
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