Karzai concludes Pakistan visit with invitation to Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamid Karzai returned to Kabul on Tuesday after completing an extended visit to Pakistan, but apparently without any major breakthrough on stalemated peace talks with...
View ArticleEU delegation warns Pakistan over death penalty
ISLAMABAD: An EU human rights delegation on Tuesday warned Pakistan that resuming executions would be seen as a “major setback” as the European parliament considers the country's application for...
View ArticleAitzaz praises first ever peaceful power transition in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in Senate, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan on Tuesday congratulated President Asif Ali Zardari and both houses of the parliament on a peaceful and democratic transition of...
View ArticlePakistan to urge US for Dr Aafia’s repatriation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government is set to bring Dr Aafia Siddiqui back home from a US prison as the interior ministry Tuesday dispatched a summary to the cabinet division seeking approval of the federal...
View ArticleSardar Mengal to take oath as Balochistan MPA today
QUETTA: After much deliberation, Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal has decided to take oath as member of the provincial assembly on Wednesday.Sardar Akhtar Mengal and...
View ArticleExecution moratorium not an EU condition
ISLAMABAD: The debate whether or not to lift the moratorium on executions took a new turn on Tuesday when European Union Ambassador to Pakistan Lars-Gunnar Wigemark said the European Commission had no...
View ArticlePakistan said to have large reserves of shale gas, oil
ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the American federal authority on energy statistics and analysis, has estimated fresh recoverable shale gas reserves of...
View ArticlePTI chief defends use of word
ISLAMABAD: PTI chief Imran Khan pleaded before the Supreme Court on Tuesday to withdraw its contempt notice against him and clarified that the word ‘sharamnak’ (shameful) he had used in his July 26...
View ArticleZardari to focus on PPP reorganisation after Sept 8
ISLAMABAD: After completing his five-year tenure on Sept 8, President Asif Ali Zardari will focus on reorganising the PPP, especially in Punjab, party sources told Dawn on Tuesday.They said Mr Zardari...
View ArticleRemarks against Rabbani trigger rumpus in Senate
ISLAMABAD: The Senate witnessed on Tuesday a rumpus when opposition members protested over objectionable remarks made by Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq against PPP’s parliamentary leader Raza...
View ArticleBalochistan MPAs call for policy on law and order
QUETTA: Expressing concern over the poor law and order situation in the province, members of the Balochistan Assembly asked the provincial government on Tuesday to frame a concrete policy for...
View ArticleEmployees of BISP without salary for two months
ISLAMABAD: Although the government has allocated Rs70 billion in the budget for the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), its 2,100 employees have not been paid salary for two months because of want...
View ArticleJamaat feels let down by KP govt
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Munawar Hassan on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.“We believe that the...
View ArticleBenazir murder case: Blame game begins for delay in trial
RAWALPINDI: The trial of the accused persons, including former president Pervez Musharraf, in the Benazir Bhutto murder case started afresh for the third time in the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here on...
View ArticleKP hospitals to get autonomy on UK pattern
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has decided to replace the Medical Institutions Reforms Act, 2002 with a new law modeled after National Health Service UK to give complete autonomy to the teaching...
View ArticleSC hearing in law & order case begins today
KARACHI: While the law and order situation in Karachi continues to deteriorate with so-called operations of Rangers and police under way, a larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan is resuming on...
View ArticleDengue claims four more lives in Sindh
KARACHI: After a month-long respite from dengue deaths, the city alarmingly recorded three more deaths caused by the virus over the past three days while yet another death — the first one outside...
View ArticleSeven killed and three injured in Karachi violence
KARACHI: Seven people were killed and three others injured Wednesday in different incidents of violence in Karachi, DawnNews reported. Two bodies were found in the city’s Rexer Lines and the Mewa Shah...
View ArticleChildhood diseases in KP: Area-specific campaigns to promote vaccinations
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department is devising a comprehensive strategy under which information would be provided to people in local languages to increase awareness of benefits of...
View ArticleNisar proposes parliamentary committee over Karachi situation
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan proposed on Thursday the formation of a parliamentary committee to review the deteriorating law and order situation in Karachi whereas...
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