Eight abducted from Kohat; terrorists held in Hangu
KOHAT: The tribesmen of Orakzai Agency kidnapped eight people from Ublan Afghan refugee camp of Kohat for trespassing on their area on Wednesday.Police said that the kidnapped persons had entered the...
View ArticleBanning media in courtrooms: Court summons DAG for advice
ISLAMABAD: The Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Islamabad on Wednesday summoned the deputy attorney general (DAG) to advise whether media should be banned from entering courtrooms to cover proceedings, an...
View ArticleEarthquake shocks felt in Punjab
LAHORE: Tremors were felt in different parts of Punjab on Thursday, DawnNews reported. Najeeb Ahmed, Deputy Director (DD) at Pakistan Meteorological Department's Head Office, says the earthquake was...
View ArticleShakil Afridi’s 33-year jail sentence overturned
PESHAWAR: A judicial official on Thursday overturned the 33-year jail sentence of Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Afridi was sentenced in...
View ArticlePPP decides to become party in Benazir murder case
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party decided on Thursday to become party in the Benazir Bhutto murder case and in this regards submitted two applications to gain access to the case records.Moreover...
View ArticleGunmen kill police officer in Quetta
QUETTA: Armed militants on Thursday night killed a former police officer nominated in the killing of Chechen nationals in Quetta.Muhammad Aslam, a police official told Dawn.com that two armed militants...
View ArticleCJ assails Sindh govt, equates Karachi to weapon smuggling hub
KARACHI: Pakistan’s top judge said Thursday that weapons in large quantities were being smuggled in through the Karachi port and supplied throughout the country, including Balochistan.Citing media...
View ArticlePTA directs telcos to stop voice, SMS bundles
Dawn has reliably learnt that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed all telecom operators to discontinue all kinds of voice and SMS bundle packages, including daily, weekly,...
View ArticleFazl affirms Nawaz of supporting Taliban talks
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Thursday night affirmed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his every possible assistance in negotiating a peace deal with the outlawed...
View ArticleSattar criticises PPP for adopting 1990’s politics
KARACHI: Criticising the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government in Sindh province, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar late on Thursday night accused the provincial government’s...
View ArticlePetrol and diesel prices to go up
ISLAMABAD: The prices of petrol and other major petroleum products are estimated to go up by more than Rs4.5 per litre on Saturday because of rising trend in the international market caused by reports...
View ArticleIndian response to maintaining LoC ceasefire awaited: FO
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that it was yet to hear from India about measures proposed for maintaining ceasefire along the Line of Control.“We have made some concrete proposals to...
View ArticlePlea to exempt teachers from other duties
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was requested on Thursday to order federal and provincial governments to do away with the practice of assigning elementary schoolteachers tasks other than imparting...
View ArticleChina to invest in Gwadar projects
QUETTA: China has shown interest in investing in projects pertaining to communications, port, education and solar energy in the port city of Gwadar. At a meeting held in Gwadar on Thursday, a...
View ArticlePTI seeks a month to submit statement of accounts to ECP
ISLAMABAD: While all other mainstream political parties have submitted their consolidated statements of accounts to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) sought...
View ArticleImran challenges Nawaz to bring back ‘looted’ money
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan says he will shake hands with Nawaz Sharif if his government brings even a single dollar back from President Asif Ali Zardari’s accounts in...
View ArticlePTI lawmakers lead Peshawar protest against crackdown
PESHAWAR: Some members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday blocked roads in the provincial capital against the law-enforcement agencies over the ongoing...
View ArticleNew health delivery system from September 2
ABBOTTABAD: Provincial Minister for Health Shaukat Yousafzai has said that the government is launching a comprehensive health delivery system from September 2 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after which people...
View ArticleNew health delivery system in KP from September 2
ABBOTTABAD: Provincial Minister for Health Shaukat Yousafzai has said that the government is launching a comprehensive health delivery system from September 2 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after which people...
View ArticleOne child killed as toy bomb explodes in Quetta
QUETTA: One child was killed and another injured when a toy bomb exploded in Quetta on Friday, DawnNews reported. According to the preliminary details, children found a toy-like bomb near a shop in the...
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