PPP to requisition Senate session after Eid
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition PPP is planning to requisition a session of the Senate soon after Eid to raise the issues of provincial autonomy and lack of implementation of 18th Amendment in the...
View ArticleOne security man killed as militants attack oil tankers in Bolan
BOLAN: A security man was killed late Monday night when militants attacked two tankers carrying fuel for Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Bolan district of Balochistan province. A levies official, who...
View ArticleBenazir murder case: Court adjourns Musharraf’s indictment to Aug 20
RAWALPINDI: Ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday failed to appear in court to be indicted over the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto due to what police said were security...
View Article14, including three security officers, killed in Mach
BOLAN: Rebel separatists Tuesday killed 14 people, including three security officers, after stopping vehicles at a fake checkpoint in Balochistan. The attack happened in the Mach area of Bolan...
View ArticleIndia lodges 'strong protest' with Pakistan over Kashmir attack
NEW DELHI: India lodged a diplomatic protest Tuesday with Pakistan over an attack on an army post in the disputed Kashmir region in which five of its soldiers were killed, Defence Minister A. K. Antony...
View ArticleArmy deployed at Peshawar, Haripur jails
PESHAWAR: Amid security threats of militant attacks, Army troops were deployed on Tuesday at Central Jail Peshawar, which holds Dr Shakil Afridi and other high profile Taliban inmates, and Haripur...
View ArticleUS blacklists Pakistan-based insurgent leader
WASHINGTON: The US is blacklisting the new leader of a Pakistan-based group that has carried out terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The State Department announced Tuesday that it had added...
View ArticleNawaz directs Nisar to arrest terrorists behind Mach, Chilas attacks
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday directed Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to apprehend terrorists involved in militant attacks in Mach and Chilas on urgent basis.Expressing deep...
View ArticleSecurity high alert in Islamabad to remain till Eid, says IGP
ISLAMABAD: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Sikandar Hyat on Tuesday said that security in the federal capital is on high alert and it would be maintained through Eid holidays also.Speaking...
View ArticleBlast destroys private bank, injures three in Mardan
MARDAN: Three people were injured when a home-made explosive device, planted near a private bank building in Mardan, exploded on Tuesday night damaging the bank building and the adjacent medicine...
View ArticleBlast at football stadium kills seven in Lyari
KARACHI: A bomb blast in Karachi early on Wednesday killed seven people and wounded 26 others, police said.The blast took place in the impoverished Lyari neighbourhood of the city after a football...
View ArticleECP seeks army’s help
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has sought the help of army for security around sensitive polling stations during by-elections in 42 national and provincial assembly...
View ArticleAl Qaeda decimated in Pakistan: US
WASHINGTON: The United States ordered Americans on Tuesday to leave Yemen “immediately” but also acknowledged that Al Qaeda cells in the Afghan-Pakistan region had been decimated.“We are concerned...
View ArticleHeavy rain paralyses life in most parts of Balochistan
QUETTA: Thunderstorms followed by heavy rain paralysed life on Tuesday night as Quetta and other parts of Balochistan plunged into darkness after power supply was suspended from the main transmission...
View ArticleFour blasts rock Karachi areas
KARACHI: Four explosions rocked city’s Defence and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas on Tuesday night in what authorities described as part of militants’ plan to spread panic in the country.The explosions which...
View Article‘Raja Ashraf’s name included in RPP scam references’
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has included the name of former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in three references in the Rs22 billion Rental Power Projects (RPP) scam, according...
View ArticleGovt-nominated members resign from PIA board
LAHORE: The recently formed PIA board of directors is virtually no more as all the members nominated by the prime minister are reported to have resigned.The PML-N government had reconstituted the board...
View ArticleSaadi Town, Amroha Society still reeling from devastation
KARACHI: Where the water has been absorbed by the ground the roads are broken and where water is still standing people have placed bricks to step on to cross over to the other side. This is Saadi Town...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan DGMOs discuss situation on LoC
RAWALPINDI: The Directors General Military Operations (DGMOs) of Pakistan and India on Wednesday spoke over the hotline on the situation on the Line of Control (LoC), a UN-monitored de facto border...
View ArticleAverting terror bid, police defuse three bombs in Bannu
BANNU: Police in Bannu defused three low-intensity bombs planted in different areas in the limits of the city’s Miryan police station on Wednesday foiling a terrorist attack.On a tip off that...
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