Three security personnel killed in Mohmand attack
PESHAWAR: Three security personnel have been killed and two others injured after militants attacked security forces in Baizai Tehsil of Mohmand Agency.Official sources told Dawn.com that the exchange...
View ArticleBilawal vows to resist privatisation plans
KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan's slain premier Benazir Bhutto, vowed on Saturday to resist a massive privatisation drive planned by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government.The...
View ArticlePakistan sees eight-fold increase in HIV cases in 11 years
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: Pakistan has seen an eight-fold increase in HIV cases between 2001 and 2012, said a UN report on the eve of the World AIDS Day. The report, ‘HIV in Asia and the Pacific: Getting to...
View ArticleThree killed in Karachi
KARACHI, Nov 30: A suspected criminal was killed in an exchange of fire with police in Lyari on Saturday, officials said.Mohammad Javed alias Bengali, 37, was killed near Hanfi Masjid in Agra Taj...
View ArticleAbducted Dr Munaf Tareen recovered
QUETTA: Well-known cardiologist, Dr Munaf Tareen was recovered from Balochistan's Lasbela district during the wee hours on Sunday, police and family sources confirmed.Dr Haqdad Tareen, a senior leader...
View ArticleSharif assures Karzai of access to Baradar
KABUL, Nov 30: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday of Islamabad’s support for Kabul’s efforts to seek peace with the Taliban. He also offered to arrange a...
View ArticleBilawal scorns PML-N, says PPP has bright future
KARACHI, Nov 30: Although he matched his words with sentiment as always, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday focused his speech on Peoples Party’s arch rival, the PML-N, and offered glimpses of a future...
View ArticlePoliceman killed in attack on polio team
PESHAWAR, Nov 30: Suspected militants fired on policemen protecting a team of polio workers in a suburb of the city on Saturday, killing one and wounding another. The attack took place when the...
View ArticleObama retains oil sanctions against Iran, dashes Pakistan’s hopes
WASHINGTON, Nov 30: President Barack Obama has decided to retain US sanctions on petroleum and petroleum products from Iran, dashing hopes that a recent nuclear deal would make it easier for Pakistan...
View ArticleAltaf criticises PTI, JI chiefs for stance on Nato supplies
KARACHI, Nov 30: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has criticised Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and Jamaat-i-Islami leader Munawar Hasan for their stance on terrorism and US...
View ArticleDPC leaders demand end to drone attacks in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Sunday in protest at continued US drone strikes in the country's troubled northwestern tribal agencies and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
View ArticleDr Shakeel Afridi demands rights
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has spoken out to demand better conditions in prison and complain of being falsely implicated in a treason case, his lawyer said on...
View ArticlePervez Rashid cautions PTI for politicking on foreign policy
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervez Rashid Sunday said there should be no politicking on foreign policy and the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) should rise above its party...
View ArticleMQM confirms Mustafa Kamal was asked to quit Senate
KARACHI, Dec 1: The unexplained absence of Syed Mustafa Kamal from the country and the MQM headquarters in Karachi has prompted his party to ask him to quit his Senate seat, it emerged here on Sunday....
View ArticleMove to review 18th Amendment
LAHORE, Dec 1: Not satisfied with some provisions of the 18th Amendment, the government and opposition parties are getting in touch to revive the parliamentary committee which had worked out proposals...
View ArticleNAB launches probe into land scam
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched an investigation into a Rs6 billion land scam in the National Police Foundation’s (NPF) housing scheme in Islamabad on the directive of...
View ArticleBus plunges into ravine killing 10 in Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD: At least 10 people were killed on Monday when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) region, close to the disputed border with India.The bus travelling...
View ArticleCourt adjourns Raja’s indictment to Dec 10 in RPP case
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad adjourned on Monday the indictment of the former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf till Dec 10 in the Rental Power Project case, DawnNews reported. Raja...
View ArticleOgra case: Tauqir Sadiq's judicial remand extended for two weeks
ISLAMABAD: An Accountability court in Islamabad extended on Monday the judicial remand granted to the former chief of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), Tauqir Sadiq, for two weeks, DawnNews...
View ArticleFC man killed in attack on checkpost in Sibi
SIBI: One Frontier Corps personnel was killed and another sustained serious wounds in Sibi district of Balochistanin an attack on Monday by armed militats, an official said.Khan Wasey, the Spokesman...
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