Iran urged to reduce interest rate
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The government has asked Iran to reduce interest rate on about $500 million offered for construction of 781km pipeline inside Pakistan for delivery of 750 million cubic feet per day...
View ArticleBalochistan girl scores top grades in ‘O Levels’
QUETTA: A girl student of Balochistan got five A*s (90 per cent or more) and three As (between 80pc and 89.9pc) in this year’s O Level examinations given by the University of Cambridge, it was learnt...
View ArticleMQM sends $10m defamation notice to NYT journalist
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) issued a 10-million-dollar defamation notice to The New York Times' former Islamabad bureau chief, Declan Walsh, and the editor, printer and publisher of the...
View ArticleThree women shot dead in "honour killing"
PESHAWAR: Relatives shot dead three women in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan after one of them left her husband, officials said Monday.The “honour killings" happened in Jawaki village in...
View ArticleBilawal Bhutto-Zardari to take up PPP leadership
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided to hand over leadership to Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, son of late premier Benazir Bhutto, and former president Asif Ali Zardari, DawnNews reported. By...
View ArticleLG elections: Sindh govt submits response in SC
KARACHI: In view of the directives issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to hold local body elections, the provincial government of Sindh submitted its response in the apex court pertaining to the...
View ArticleArmy not to bow before terrorists terms, vows Kayani
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani vowed Monday that terrorists would not be allowed to take advantage of the military’s support to the political process. “While it is...
View ArticleZafar Baloch — a profile
KARACHI, Sept 18: Zafar Baloch could not be lucky for a third time. He had survived previous two attacks on his life and defiantly roamed the streets of Lyari with iron support on one of his legs and...
View ArticleAchakzai stirs a hornet’s nest
ISLAMABAD: It was like stirring a hornet’s nest that Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai, an ally of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, did in the National Assembly on...
View ArticleEfforts for talks with Taliban continue: minister
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Pervez Rashid, said here on Wednesday that the government would continue its efforts to achieve peace in the country as endorsed by an...
View ArticleDevelopment expenditure likely to be cut by about 28pc
ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to slash development expenditures for the current financial year by about 28 per cent to Rs834 billion from Rs1.155 trillion to contain fiscal deficit. According...
View ArticlePTI wins seat vacated by JUI-F chief
DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ TANK: The candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) won rather comfortably the by-election for the NA-25 (Tank-cum-D.I. Khan) constituency on Wednesday, according to provisional...
View ArticleN-energy programme to be expanded
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: Pakistan is poised to expand its nuclear energy programme to overcome the severe energy crisis it is facing and has sought international support, PAEC chairman said on...
View ArticleMusharraf attack case accused acquitted
RAWALPINDI, Sept 18: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Wednesday Rana Mohammad Faqir of the charge of attacking a convoy of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2003. And despite the...
View ArticleSC issues notices on Musharraf’s appeal
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the federal and Balochistan governments on an appeal moved by former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf against the Balochistan High...
View Article‘Afghan DPs to be sent home by Dec 2015’
ISLAMABAD: The government informed the National Assembly on Wednesday that it planned to complete repatriation of Afghan refugees by December 2015.In reply to a supplementary question, Federal Minister...
View ArticleNo gas for Punjab industries in winter
ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to stop gas supply to CNG stations, industries and fertiliser and captive power plants (CPP) in Punjab for more than two months in the winter and also reduce the...
View ArticleNew law promises elaborate security to witnesses
KARACHI: The Sindh Witness Protection Act, 2013 passed by the provincial assembly on Wednesday promises complete government security to witnesses in criminal cases that along with life protection could...
View ArticleWalk on burning coal track: 18 booked for practicing inhuman tribal ritual
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Border Military Police have booked 18 people for holding a tribal ritual called ‘Aas Aaf’ that requires a person to walk ‘unhurt’ on a track of burning coal to prove his innocence or...
View ArticleFish released in ponds to eliminate dengue
RAWALPINDI: Unable to control the rising number of dengue cases in the district, the Punjab government has asked the local administration to use fish from Rawal Dam hatchery to eliminate the dengue...
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