Dasti to challenge anti-terror act in court
ISLAMABAD: A day after it was signed into law, a lawmaker has decided to challenge the Protection of Pakistan Act 2014 in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). Member National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti...
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Chakwal’s lone Hindu family leads peaceful but secluded life
CHAKWAL: “When I first went to a local college two years ago, students and teachers gave me a strange look,” recalls 18-year-old Manisha Chhiber, a Hindu girl whose family lives a secluded life in...
View ArticleCM claims loadshedding to end in 2017
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said electricity loadshedding will end within three years as all ongoing projects in the energy sector will be completed by 2017.He was...
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Homeless under the bridge
You awake to the sounds of morning traffic. The rising sun stings your eyes as you sit up, coughing as a plume of dense, black smoke from truck smokestacks mixes with the dust from the dug up roads and...
View Article‘They will cherish their memories forever’
The World Cup of Football, held in Brazil, made sports enthusiasts from all over the world focus on that particular event. Tonight, the final is played between Germany and Argentina in Rio de Janeiro...
View ArticleMetamorphosis
Many Pakistani Pakhtuns find themselves in a spot of bother when some political commentators define right-wing extremist/militant organisations as extensions and expressions of Pakhtun nationalism.Ever...
View ArticleRoad accident claims eight lives in Azad Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD: At least eight people were killed and 14 others were injured when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in the Bagh area of Azad Kashmir, DawnNews reported.The ill-fated bus was traveling...
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North Waziristan: Falling skies
North Waziristan: Falling skiesSlowly, as the bombs razed their homes, the displaced of North Waziristan lost everything: families are broken, houses demolished, even the colonnades are no longer cool...
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Throwback: 'Essence of chicken' and 'shake at the Shack'
Throwback: 'Essence of chicken' and 'shake at the Shack'Welcome to the Swinging '60s - a time in Pakistan that featured the Xavier Sisters at the Grand Hotel, Karachi; where a Rs1,300 downpayment was...
View ArticleRs780bn for uplift projects unutilised
ISLAMABAD: The petroleum exploration and production (E&P) companies have deposited over Rs780 billion with the federal and provincial governments, but utilisation of the money for uplift of local...
View ArticleTsunami warning system not functioning for two years
GWADAR: A tsunami warning system installed in Gwadar in 2012 has not been working for the past two years.Official sources said that the control of the system installed in collaboration with the United...
View ArticleTwo ‘Lyari gangsters’ among four killed in encounters
KARACHI: Four suspects were shot dead in two separate encounters in Clifton and Lyari, officials said on Sunday.They said that police received information that two men were on their way to collect...
View ArticleSindh govt decides to split health dept
KARACHI: After the passage of a year to the order notifying bifurcation of the Sindh health department, the government has finally decided to implement it at a time when the department is being...
View ArticleStudents hold rally against Israeli air raids on Gaza
HYDERABAD: Students of various public and private universities and colleges took out a rally in protest against atrocities being committed by Israel at Gaza in Palestine on Sunday.They started their...
View ArticleMost of over 9,000 closed schools reopened, says CM
KHAIRPUR: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said 75 per cent of more than 9,000 schools that had been lying closed for years have been reopened under the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) policy of...
View ArticleTraffic police chief transferred on ‘CM’s orders’
LAHORE: The acting provincial police chief transferred on Sunday Lahore Traffic Police Officer Chief retired Captain Sohail Chaudhry and directed him to report to the Central Police Office. Punjab...
View ArticleRevolution ‘trumpeters’ want to scuttle Zarb-i-Azb
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid says those talking about revolution are trying to fail the Zarb-i-Azb military operation being conducted in North...
View ArticlePTI stages demo, sit-in against Nandipur project ‘corruption’
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly opposition leader Mahmoodur Rashid led a procession on Sunday against the alleged massive corruption committed in executing Nandipur power project. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPAs...
View ArticleHarappa Museum gets funds for boundary wall after decades
SAHIWAL: The Harappa Museum administration succeeded in getting released development funds for the construction of a five-kilometre long boundary wall with a six feet height to protect archaeological...
View ArticleBaloch women set up protest camp
ISLAMABAD: Five women from Balochistan are beating the scorching heat in their protest camp outside the National Press Club in Islamabad.Led by Zar Jan, the camp has been set up to protest the forced...
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