PM asked to avoid a tilt towards Indian counterpart
MUZAFFARABAD: A top Kashmiri Mujahideen leader on Sunday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take the feelings of Kashmiris into account and avoid showing “unilateral tilt” towards his Indian...
View ArticleJamaat to challenge Protection of Pakistan Act in court
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has criticised the Protection of Pakistan Act 2014, saying his party will challenge the law in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.Addressing a press conference at...
View ArticleControversy over teacher’s appointment on minority quota
MINGORA: The appointment of a candidate against the post of primary schoolteacher in Swat on the quota of minorities has triggered a controversy. Sources said that the candidate was a Muslim, who was...
View ArticleJirga asks Afghan govt to stop militants’ infiltration
KHAR: The elders and members of peace committees of Mamond tribe in Bajaur Agency on Sunday expressed concern over the fresh cross border attack and asked the Afghan government to hand them over the...
View ArticleRoad accident claims four lives in Attock
ATTOCK: At least four people were killed and 14 others were injured on Monday when a van and a car collided near Bisaal Chowk in the Attock district of Punjab province, DawnNews reported.Police...
View ArticleAgony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade
FAISALABAD: Shumaila* once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, the bright-eyed Pakistani girl was tricked into prostitution in UAE, beginning a four-year nightmare of cruelty,...
View ArticleDilip Kumar's Peshawar home declared national heritage
Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar’s house in Peshawar has been declared a national heritage, said a report published in The Times of India (TOI). Manzoor Ali Memon, spokesperson of Pakistan High...
View ArticlePPA challenged by Dasti in IHC
ISLAMABAD: Member of National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti on Monday challenged the Pakistan Protection Act 2014 in the Islamabad High Court saying such laws gave limitless powers to characters like...
View ArticleAssistant sub-inspector gunned down in Karachi
KARACHI: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) was gunned down on Monday by unidentified assailants in Korangi’s Zia Colony, DawnNews reported. According to sources, the deceased was identified as Yousuf....
View ArticleArsalan unlikely to get Imran’s family registration certificate from Nadra
ISLAMABAD: Dr Arsalan Iftikhar, son of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, is unlikely to obtain a copy of the family registration certificate of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran...
View ArticleEighth polio case detected in Sindh
SANGHAR/KARACHI: The first case of poliovirus in any part of Sindh other than Karachi was detected in a two-year-old resident of Sanghar on Monday.All the seven cases confirmed earlier this year in...
View ArticleLEAs can’t trace militants’ network in Karachi, concedes Sindh govt
KARACHI: The provincial government on Monday conceded in the Sindh High Court that the law enforcement agencies could not track down the network of a large number of militants who moved to Karachi...
View ArticleKarachi: Suspected robber lynched in Orangi Town
KARACHI: A suspected robber was beaten to death allegedly by a mob in Orangi Town on Monday.Police said six bandits barged into the house of Tahir Hussain in Orangi Town’s Sector 11 ½ and started...
View ArticleSHC suspends lease of 6,300-acre forest land
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday suspended till further orders the operation of an administrative letter of the provincial government leasing out 6,300 acres of forest land in Badin and Sujawal...
View Article‘Substandard’ anaesthesia drug purchased for DHQ hospitals
LAHORE: The Directorate General Health Services Punjab has allegedly purchased a ‘substandard’ anaesthesia medicine to be supplied to the district headquarters hospitals all over the province.The...
View ArticleMan electrocutes brother’s three kids
GUJRANWALA: A man allegedly killed three of his brother’s children and injured his sister-in-law and two other children after electrocuting them over a domestic dispute in Raja village, Sadhoki, on...
View ArticleAnyone can ask about PM House expenses: LHC
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday observed that every citizen had the right to ask about the expenditures incurred on Prime Minister's House. Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan gave these remarks...
View ArticleModel Town probe: Tribunal gets recording of CM-others talks
LAHORE: A joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Model Town incident on Monday submitted to the single-judge tribunal the record of telephonic conversations held among the chief minister, the...
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A children's hospital that is just a signboard
FAISALABAD: In the last nine years, the government installed only a signboard inscribed with a slogan “Thank you Uncle Shahbaz! Someone thought of a hospital for us” at a piece of land earmarked for...
View ArticleInterviews as police reshuffle on the cards
LAHORE: In what appears to be a police shuffle after the posting of new provincial police chief and Model Town tragedy, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif interviewed 14 senior officers at his Model Town...
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