Govt employing emergency measures to control power crisis: CM Punjab
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said his government was employing emergency measures to control the power crisis afflicting the province, DawnNews reported.Speaking to Chairman...
View ArticleWill President Zardari stay in Pakistan post-retirement?
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to leave Pakistan to stay abroad for an indefinite period after his retirement on September 8.Sources close to the president told Dawn.com that his...
View ArticleSeven shops gutted in Chaman fire
CHAMAN: Seven shops were gutted in a fire that erupted in a timber godown on Chaman’s Boghar road on Saturday.Police said people present in the godown were cooking a meal for sehri when the fire...
View ArticleBlast outside policeman’s residence in Dera Murad Jamali; no casualties
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A bomb blast occurred outside the house of a retired policeman in Dera Murad Jamali’s Bohar Mahala area on Saturday. However, no loss of life was reported in the incident. Police...
View ArticleDG IB, Interior Secretary visit Lyari
KARACHI: Director General (DG) of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Aftab Sultan, and Interior Secretary Major (retd) Qamar Zaman Chaudhry on Saturday visited Karachi’s conflict-ridden Lyari area to review the...
View ArticleTaliban ban tight men's clothing in Waziristan
WANA: The Pakistani Taliban have banned tight or see-through clothing for men, threatening to impose a fine and shutter businesses selling the items, traders from the country's restive tribal belt said...
View ArticleZulfiqar Mirza reaches London to expedite probe against Altaf
KARACHI: Former home minister of Sindh province, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Saturday reached London to help British authorities investigate among other charges, money laundering and incitement to violence...
View ArticleCases registered against ‘influential water thieves’ in Balochistan
QUETTA: Cases were registered against six influential growers for stealing water from Pat Feeder canal in Naseerabad district of Balochistan on Saturday.Secretary Irrigation Balochistan Naseebullah...
View ArticleRabbani calls for formation of CCI
KARACHI: Additional Secretary General of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Mian Raza Rabbani on Saturday called for the formation of Council of Common Interests (CCI).He was addressing a news...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills two suspected militants in N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH: Two suspected militants were killed in a US predator strike in Mir Ali Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency late on Saturday night, official intelligence sources told Dawn.com.Sources said that...
View ArticleIndependent MPA Badini joins PML-N
QUETTA, July 16: The newly elected independent MPA from PB-40, Chagai, Mir Ghulam Dastagir Badini, has joined Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Mr Badini announced his decision to join the PML-N during a...
View ArticleFata uplift low on govt priority list
PESHAWAR: The most underdeveloped region of the country and a frontline territory in the war against terrorism, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) seems to be low on the government’s priority...
View ArticleKP health reforms don’t touch implementing wing
PESHAWAR, July 16: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department, which recently appointed a focal person for coordinating the PTI-led health reforms programme with the relevant working group, says it has...
View ArticleIT secretary summoned over YouTube ban
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday summoned the federal secretary for information technology in a case against the prolonged government ban on YouTube, a social media website.A bench...
View ArticleTwo factories sealed for ‘fleecing’ public
LAHORE, July 16: Punjab Food Minister Bilal Yasin along with food safety officers sealed two factories for selling fake drinks and lodged an FIR against the administration of a juice factory. A factory...
View ArticleLegislation for compulsory free education ‘soon’
LAHORE, July 16: Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan has said the provincial government will soon be legislating for Article 25-A to impart free and compulsory education to all children...
View ArticleCM ‘allows’ delay in local govt polls
LAHORE, July 16: The chief minister is learnt to have allowed a further 180-day delay in the local elections under the existing local government system.The elections will be delayed after an amendment...
View ArticlePunjab governor’s resignation accepted
LAHORE: The resignation of Punjab Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmud, tendered after the May elections, was accepted by President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday.“A notification in this regard will be issued...
View ArticleAll secret funds must be audited: SC verdict
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that all secret funds be audited by the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP). In its judgment in the media commission case, the court declared illegal and...
View ArticlePML-N board meets to select candidates
ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary board of the ruling PML-N met here on Tuesday to select the party’s candidates for by-elections scheduled for August 22. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also the party...
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