NAB seeks police help to serve notice on Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has sought assistance from the Multan police to send a second notice to former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for recording his statement...
View ArticleAttacks on polio teams kill three in northwest Pakistan
SWABI: Gunmen attacked two separate polio teams in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing one polio worker and two police guards.The first incident took place in Swabi in northwestern Khyber...
View ArticleJudges detention case: ATC orders improved security for trial
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad anti-terrorist court on Friday granted former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s request for exemption from appearing before it today in the judges’ detention case and directing...
View ArticlePM, COAS meet, discuss security
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the PM House on Friday. The two discussed matters related to security and other issues pertaining to...
View ArticleSindh govt asks SHC to move nine murder cases outside province
KARACHI: The Sindh Home department has approached the chief justice of the Sindh High Court to transfer nine murder cases from Karachi to other provinces, DawnNews reported.In a letter addressed to...
View ArticleEx-PM Gilani dares authorities to arrest him
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said he would not comply with unconstitutional procedures and dared the authorities to carry out his arrest wherever they wanted to, DawnNews...
View ArticleMusharraf summoned to face treason charges on Dec 24
ISLAMABAD: A special court, formed by Pakistan government to try former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in a high treason case, on Friday summoned him to appear before it on December 24...
View ArticleJamaat leader’s hanging in Bangladesh ‘saddens’ Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Friday expressed ‘deep grief’ and concern over the execution of imprisoned political and religious leader Abdul Quader Molla of...
View ArticleMove for longer preventive detention period
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: A new law to deal with the emotive issue of enforced disappearances is on the anvil and is likely to reach the Prime Minister’s office in a week or two. A source privy to the...
View ArticleGDP growth has increased to 5.1pc, says Sharif
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said the country’s economic growth had increased to 5.1 per cent from last year’s 2.9pc. “We want to take the GDP growth rate to 7pc over the next...
View ArticleStaggering increase in foreign debt due to rupee decline
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: A continuous decline in the value of the rupee since June has caused a staggering increase of Rs403 billion in foreign debt of the country. “The public and publicly guaranteed...
View Article‘Missing’ persons families resume march
KARACHI, Dec 13: After spending 20 days at a protest camp outside the Karachi Press Club, the families of missing persons on Friday resumed their journey towards Islamabad. Led by 70-year-old Qadir...
View ArticleAltaf says UK police have made his life miserable
LAHORE, Dec 13: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that British police had made his life miserable, but he would never bow before any ‘international establishment’.Addressing...
View ArticleHanging of JI leader in Bangladesh condemned
PESHAWAR, Dec 13: The Jamaat-i-Islami leaders and activists gathered at Al-Markaz-i-Islami here on Friday and offered ghaibana namaz-i-janaza (funeral prayer in absentia) of Jamaat leader Abdul Qader...
View ArticleRPP case: Accountability court adjourns hearing to Jan 3
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad Saturday deferred the indictment of former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the Rs 22 billion Rental Power Projects (RPP) case against him after...
View ArticleFormer KP police chief's remand extended in weapons scam
PESHAWAR: Former inspector general of police (IGP), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Malik Naveed, who is accused of corruption in a weapon scam case, was remanded to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for...
View ArticleOne killed in Karachi violence; 19 suspects arrested in raids
KARACHI: A 15-year-old girl was killed in a firing incident in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area Saturday whereas at least 19 suspects were arrested in a targeted operation conducted by Rangers’...
View ArticleDrone targets boat near Pak-Afghan border: reports
PESHAWAR: A suspected US drone targeted a boat in the waters of the Kabul river on Saturday near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sources told DawnNews.According to initial reports, missiles fired by...
View ArticleImran wants judiciary to administer LG polls
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said the local bodies’ elections should be administered by the judiciary and that PTI would be introducing a biometric system for...
View ArticlePM approves ECP summary for population census
ISLAMABAD: To conduct a fresh population census across the country, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has approved a summary of the Election Commission of Pakistan to present the matter at the next...
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