Pakistan and Thailand to upgrade defence ties
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Thailand have agreed to enhance defence cooperation, a joint statement issued by the two countries at the end of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s visit to Islamabad...
View ArticleBiggest-ever by-polls for 41 seats today
ISLAMABAD: The country’s biggest-ever by-elections in 41 national and provincial assembly constituencies will be held on Thursday — an exercise seen by many as a test of popularity graph of key...
View ArticleTaliban’s threat to women voters
KOHAT: The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has warned women of Hangu not to take part in Thursday’s by-election, otherwise they will be kidnapped and killed.The polling will be held for one...
View ArticlePM address was meant to influence by-election, says Aitzaz
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has termed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s maiden address to the nation an attempt to influence voters before Thursday’s by-elections.Speaking at a press conference at the party’s...
View ArticleCriminal gangs work in tandem with terrorists, Senate body told
ISLAMABAD: Police officers of the four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Wednesday that the crime was becoming organised as various criminal groups had...
View ArticlePHC seeks update on VC kidnapping case
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Wednesday directed several federal and provincial government officials, including interior secretary, to update it on the progress in the case about the...
View ArticleSecurity on high alert at Mansehra jail
MANSEHRA: The security of Mansehra jail has been put on high alert after a threat of possible attack by miscreants.“In view of the threat the security of the jail has been put on high alert and...
View ArticleSui Southern cancels tender for LNG import
ISLAMABAD: The Sui Southern Gas Company has cancelled a tender for import of 500 million cubic feet of Liquefied Natural Gas through its LPG-LNG retrofit facility because of deficiencies in the bidding...
View ArticlePolio team fired at in Gadap, attacker held
KARACHI: It was a nightmare at noon for over 30 female vaccinators who were to inoculate children with booster drops against polio in a Gadap town locality when they were forced to run for their lives...
View ArticleBNM’s plea to UN
QUETTA: The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has condemned the murder of Ramzan Baloch and Ghafoor Baloch and dumping of their mutilated bodies in Karachi and appealed to the United Nations and...
View ArticleMinister says knowledge of jihad must for children
PESHAWAR: Every child should know about the actual purpose and spirit of jihad as it couldn’t be separated from the faith of Muslims, said Provincial Minister for Information Shah Farman.“Jihad is part...
View ArticleBy-polls conclude; women barred from voting in some areas
ISLAMABAD: By-polling in 41 national and provincial assembly constituencies concluded as per schedule on Thursday, DawnNews reported. The polling began at 8 pm and concluded on 5 pm as per schedule....
View ArticleKey TTP commander among five killed in South Waziristan blast
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani Taliban commander believed to be harbouring foreign militants was killed along with four others in a roadside bomb explosion in South Waziristan tribal agency, officials said...
View ArticleBy-polls: Women voters absent in Nowshera and Lakki Marwat
PESHAWAR: Women voters were absent from the polling stations in some parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as in the May 2013 elections, because they were barred from polling either as a result of a ban...
View ArticlePunjab opposition members stage walkout, to challenge LG law
LAHORE: The opposition in the Punjab Assembly has announced that it would challenge the new local government law in court and would also hold protests on Friday against its passage. As the assembly...
View ArticlePSM may shut down if govt fails to release funds
KARACHI: The Ministry for Industries and Production on Thursday said that if the government failed to provide funds to the Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) by September 30, the mill would shut down...
View ArticlePunjabi Taliban commander welcomes peace talks with govt
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A senior commander of the Punjabi Taliban commander has welcomed the government’s recent offer to hold peace talks.Asmatullah Muawiya, a principal ally of the Tehrik-i-Taliban...
View ArticlePakistan Army says soldier killed by Indian fire along LoC
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani army said one of its soldiers was killed on Thursday in “unprovoked” Indian fire along the border dividing the disputed territory of Kashmir, in the second such incident within...
View ArticlePHC withholds results of women-barred KP polling stations
PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, by taking suo motu notice of ban on women voting in some constituencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has ordered to...
View ArticleDCC to be reconstituted as Committee on National Security
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership has decided to reconstitute the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) into the Cabinet Committee on National Security (CCNS) to focus on...
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