Suspected militants kill police officer near Srinagar
SRINAGAR: Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir say suspected militants shot dead a police officer and wounded two of his colleagues on Monday outside the main city of Srinagar.Unknown gunmen opened...
View ArticleFormer Bagram prisoners allowed to meet family in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Six Pakistanis, earlier released from Bagram jail by US authorities and currently imprisoned in Peshawar, were allowed to meet their family members on Monday on the directives of the Lahore...
View ArticleOutgoing Pakistani envoy sees 'light at end of tunnel' with India
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's outgoing envoy to New Delhi said Monday he saw “light at the end of the tunnel” in diplomatic relations and predicted the improvement would survive next year’s Indian...
View ArticleECP to issue Punjab, Sindh LG polls schedule on Dec 7
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will issue the schedule for holding local government elections in Punjab and Sindh on December 7, DawnNews reported on Monday.Speaking informally...
View ArticleAttack on ExpressNews office injures three in Karachi
KARACHI: At least three people, including a private guard, were injured in an attack by unidentified miscreants on building of Express media group in Karachi on Monday night, private TV channels...
View ArticleGovt believes in transparent appointment of judges: Zafarul Haq
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the House in Senate Raja Zafarul Haq on Monday said the government believed in a transparent procedure for judges’ appointment, “so that nobody could point fingers at the selection...
View ArticleFlour prices be made ‘affordable’, orders SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The Supreme Court ordered the federal and provincial governments on Monday to take immediate measures to ensure the availability of flour and other foodstuff at affordable prices.A...
View ArticleIJT students set bus on fire, paralyse Lahore
LAHORE, Dec 2: A face-off between the Punjab University administration and the Islami Jamiat Tulaba turned ugly on Monday as the latter’s activists resorted to violent protest, causing massive traffic...
View ArticleUlema of different sects devise code for harmony
LAHORE, Dec 2: Ulema of different schools of thought have unanimously agreed on a nine-point code of conduct (COC) to maintain sectarian harmony. They signed the code after a detailed deliberation at a...
View ArticleKhurram Dastagir gets portfolio of commerce
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has changed the portfolio of Minister of State Khurram Dastagir Khan from privatisation to commerce. According to a notification, he has been appointed...
View ArticleTwo missing internees died in custody
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: In a startling disclosure, the acting Defence Secretary, retired Maj Gen Raja Arif Nazir, informed the country’s highest court on Monday about the death of two of the 35 detainees the...
View ArticleBalochistan doctors to continue token boycott
QUETTA, Dec 2: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Balochistan chapter, has announced continuing token boycott of out-patient departments in government hospitals till Dr Akbar Marri and Dr Din...
View ArticleSindh CM expresses satisfaction over pace of Karachi operation
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed satisfaction over pace of the targeted operation ongoing against terrorists and criminals in Karachi.Presiding over a law and order...
View ArticleChaudhry to be new foreign secretary
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The government reversed on Wednesday its earlier decision about appointment of next foreign secretary and picked Aizaz Chaudhry as successor to outgoing secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani,...
View ArticleSenators assail govt over price hike
ISLAMABAD: Opposition senators on Wednesday held the government’s poor economic policy responsible for the current wave of unprecedented price hike in the country, alleging that rulers were busy in...
View ArticleSC scraps LPG extraction plant licence
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The Supreme Court held on Wednesday that the 2003 LPG extraction plant licence issued to Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited (JJVL) was non-transparent, tainted from its very inception and...
View ArticlePakistan can’t win war against India, says Singh
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: If there is a war over Kashmir, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is reported to have said could be the case given that the region is a perennial flashpoint, then Pakistan is not going...
View ArticleObjection against Musharraf trial court rejected
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected on Wednesday a petition against the formation of a special court for the treason trial of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf. The...
View ArticleUS sees no long-term impact of current KP situation
WASHINGTON: The State Department Wednesday said the US favors using Pakistani overland routes for retrograde movement of equipment out of Afghanistan and voiced the hope that the current situation in...
View ArticleMilitants kill policeman in checkpost attack near Bannu
PESHAWAR: Militants killed one policeman and wounded another in an attack on a checkpost in northwestern Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.The attack took place on the outskirts of Bannu town, in...
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