Multinational firms eye Pakistan for genetically-modified products
ISLAMABAD: Three multinational companies along with a number of national firms have approached the Ministry of Food Security seeking licences to raise genetically-modified (GM) food products in...
View ArticleParachinar bleeds, but who cares?
PESHAWAR: Bomb blasts devastating towns and shattering lives seem to have lost impact except to arouse condemnation from the authorities as they are forgotten sooner than any worthwhile action is...
View ArticleMobile court inaugurated: 'State bound to provide justice'
PESHAWAR: Inaugurating the first mobile court in the country here on Saturday, Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan said that the Constitution had made it mandatory for the state to...
View ArticleTwo security men injured in IED attack in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: At least two security forces’ persons were injured Sunday when a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) targeted their vehicle in Peshawar’s Wazir Bagh area. According to a DawnNews...
View ArticleAfghan president to soon visit Pakistan
KABUL: The Afghan Foreign Ministry says the country's president will soon visit neighboring Pakistan in an effort to mend fences, and says it hopes that the new government in Islamabad will seek to...
View ArticleExplosion in Parachinar kills one, injures two
PESHAWAR: An roadside blast near a vehicle in Upper Kurram tribal region's Pewar Tangi area killed one person and injured two others on Sunday, DawnNews reported.Political administration officials told...
View ArticleMilitant attack temporarily cuts railway link to Balochistan
QUETTA: Militants on Sunday blew up a portion of railway tracks in Quetta, temporarily shutting down the railway-link between the province and the rest of the country.Fayyaz Sumbal, the Deputy...
View ArticleToxic liquor kills 18 in Faisalabad
LAHORE: At least 18 people were killed and around two dozen others suffered serious health issues after consuming toxic alcoholic drinks at two separate events, officials said on Sunday.Victims were...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-linked Arab terrorist killed among six in Hangu
HANGU: Security forces claimed to have gunned down an al Qaeda-linked foreign militant among six others during a militant attack on Thall Checkpost on Saturday.Intelligence officials, not wanting to be...
View ArticlePTI wanted to boycott presidential election: Imran
LAHORE: Chief of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said on Sunday that his party would have boycotted the upcoming presidential election, had the party candidate, Justice (retd) Wajihuddin...
View ArticlePTI contested poll to not leave open field for PML-N candidate: Imran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday said that his party contested the Presidential election after consultation as it did not want to leave an open field for the...
View ArticleZardari vows to revamp PPP after presidential tenure
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday vowed to revamp his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after stepping down as president of the country on September 9.Highly reliable sources in the...
View ArticleRoad accidents kill 24 in Karak, Nawabshah
PESHAWAR: At least 24 people, including women and children, were died in two separate traffic accidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak and Sindh's Nawabshah towns in Pakistan on Tuesday. At least 17...
View ArticlePoliceman killed as militants target polio workers in Balochistan
QUETTA: Armed militants attacked a polio team in Pishin town of Balochistan on Tuesday. Abdullah Khan, a police official said militants killed a policeman guarding polio workers in the Pishin bazaar...
View ArticleEight militants, two soldiers killed in Darra Adamkhel clash
DARRA ADAMKHEL: Eight militants have been killed while two security personnel died as militants launched an attack on a border post in Darra Adamkhel late on Tuesday night.Military sources said that...
View ArticleECC approves sugar export to Iran
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The government on Tuesday allowed sugar export to Iran against electricity import.It also allowed continued higher margins to Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) and petroleum dealers...
View ArticleWajih’s extra vote shocks PML-N
KARACHI, July 30: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate Wajihuddin Ahmed continued to have secret admirers in the Sindh Assembly in his second bid out of the three presidential elections since 2007 when...
View ArticlePML-N to unite all parties for eradicating terrorism, says Rashid
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid on Tuesday said that his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) wanted to bring all political parties on the same page to...
View ArticleLHCBA demands reference against three judges
LAHORE: A general house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association adopted a resolution on Tuesday demanding presidential references against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice...
View ArticleJailbreak: it wasn’t an intelligence failure for once
IF it was for intelligence information, Dera Ismail Khan’s Central Prison debacle should not have happened.On July 27, a letter marked “secret” and “most immediate” by the country’s intelligence agency...
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