HEC approves Rs 800ml for hi-tech labs in GCUF
FAISALABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) approved on Thursday, Rs 800 million for the establishment of hi-tech laboratories in six departments of Government College University Faisalabad...
View ArticleNine Nato oil tankers torched in Kalat
KALAT: At least nine North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) oil tankers were torched during an attack in the Sohrab district of Balochistan on Friday, DawnNews reported. According to the police, the...
View ArticleSartaj Aziz, Indian FM discuss Nawaz-Singh meeting, LoC
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz on Friday met with Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan,...
View ArticleFive-year-old raped in Lahore by unidentified men
LAHORE: A five-year-old girl was left outside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore on Friday after being brutally raped by unidentified men. The girl had been reported missing on Thursday evening. She was...
View ArticleCJ says God's name being used to evade justice
KARACHI: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday said pardoning in God's name someone convicted of murder by a court of law was tantamount to evading the law, DawnNews reported. The chief...
View ArticleParliamentary committee okays nomination of Justice Mushir Alam as SC judge
KARACHI: The Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Judges to Superior Courts on Friday unanimously okayed the nomination of Sindh High Court’s current chief justice, Justice Mushir Alam, as a judge...
View ArticleECNEC approves 10 projects worth Rs 51791mln
ISLAMABAD:The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday, approved 10 developmental projects amounting to Rs 51791.435...
View ArticleYouth arrested for ‘sexual assault’
LAHORE: Harbanspura police arrested a youth on suspicion of attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl in Harbanspura area on Saturday. Police said the girl, a resident of Gulshan Park, was playing...
View ArticlePM condoles, TTP claims responsibility for killing of Major General in KP
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb attack on Sunday killed Pakistan's two senior military officers and a soldier in the country's troubled northwest, the military said.The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have...
View ArticleKarachi operation: Rangers arrest 14 accused
KARACHI: Fourteen accused, along with other suspects involved in target killings and extortion, were arrested by Rangers in targeted operations on Sunday, DawnNews reported.According to a Rangers...
View ArticleFeudal system negates democratic system: MQM leader
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee Deputy Convener MNA Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Sunday said that feudal system negates democratic system.He expressed these views while...
View ArticleMilitants torch at least a dozen Nato oil tankers in Hub
QUETTA: Armed militants torched at least a dozen oil tankers carrying fuel for US and Nato troops stationed in Afghanistan in Balochistan’s industrial town of Hub on Sunday night.Arif Ali, a police...
View ArticleMuted response from PML-N, PTI
ISLAMABAD: The killing of two senior army officers by militants on Sunday got a muted response from the PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) — the two most vocal proponents of peace talks with the...
View ArticleZardari warns against appeasing militants
ISLAMABAD: Condemning the killing of army officers in a terrorist attack in Upper Dir on Sunday, former president Asif Ali Zardari urged people to guard against extremist mindset and appeasing...
View ArticlePost-honeymoon realities await govt in NA
ISLAMABAD: After exhausting its so-called honeymoon period, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government is likely to face hard questions, ranging from economic woes to the state of war on terror, during...
View ArticleLahore rapists still at large
LAHORE: Police have so far been unable to identify and arrest the culprits who raped a five-year-old girl and threw her outside the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital four days ago.On Sunday, however, police...
View ArticleTwo women injured in acid attack
CHITRAL: A man on Sunday threw acid on her wife and her mother here, causing serious burn injuries to them.Chitral police spokesman Inspector Buzurgud Din told Dawn that Sultan Zeb of Jandul, Lower...
View ArticleNawaz leaves for Turkey today
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will leave for Turkey on Monday for a three-day visit on the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to promote trade and economic ties between...
View ArticleLG system to end corruption, injustice, says Imran
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that the new local government system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would end corruption and injustice.He resolved to continue...
View ArticlePakistan has plenty of economic potential, says IMF
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund assured Pakistan on Sunday that it was willing to work with the country’s political and business leaders for unlocking its abundant economic potentials.In a...
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