CID police arrest key Taliban commander in Karachi
KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of police claim to have arrested a key Pakistani Taliban commander, Abu Hamza, during a raid in Karachi’s West Wharf area on Saturday.Chief of CID’s...
View ArticleDar vows to bring down price of US dollar
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar on Saturday said the US dollar price would be brought down urging the investors to encash their dollars to avoid losses.Addressing the All Pakistan...
View ArticleNational security policy draft complete, says Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday said that the government has worked out the country’s first three-pronged national security policy draft to curb terrorism and maintain...
View ArticlePemra chairman axed by president
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has accepted and signed the advice of the Prime Minister to terminate Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad...
View ArticleShia cleric Allama Nasir Abbas shot dead in Lahore
LAHORE: Shia cleric Allama Nasir Abbas of Multan was shot dead by unidentified armed men on Sunday night. He belonged to the Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Fiqh Jafaria (TNFJ). He was going to his residence after...
View ArticlePunjab CMs set Pakistan, India agenda
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: If India-Pakistan talks appear to have hit the doldrums, the chief ministers of Punjab provinces on both sides would have none of it. They issued instead a joint statement on Sunday...
View ArticleBilawal invites Sharif, Imran to Sindh festival
KARACHI, Dec 15: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari invited on Sunday all political rivals, including the prime minister, to an “apolitical” Sindh Festival to be held in February. “I invite the prime...
View ArticleNadra to be under ECP control for three months: Nisar
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: In order to complete the process of verifying thumb impressions of voters in a transparent manner, the government has decided to place the National Database and Registration...
View ArticlePML-N, PTI up the ante ahead of Punjab LG polls
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The PTI again hit out at leaders of the PML-N on Sunday for questioning its decision to hold a protest rally in Lahore on Dec 22 against an unprecedented increase in the cost of...
View ArticlePM declines to approve gas tariff hike
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his cabinet colleagues are divided over a proposed substantial increase in gas tariff from next month under an agreement with the International Monetary Fund...
View ArticleAccord for Balochistan solar power plant signed
QUETTA, Dec 15: The Balochistan government signed on Sunday an agreement with a Korean company to set up a 300 megawatt solar power plant at a cost of $700 million.Work on the project will start next...
View ArticleAnti-narcotics force to be set up in KP
PESHAWAR, Dec 15: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will spend Rs500 million to raise anti-narcotics force in accordance with the 18th Amendment that also requires it to have its own narcotics interdiction law,...
View Article‘Protest will continue until drone strikes end’
PESHAWAR, Dec 15: Coalition parties in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government have vowed to continue the sit-in protest against Nato supplies till the drone strikes are permanently stopped. The announcement...
View ArticleBlast kills bomb disposal expert, two others in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: A roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Peshawar Monday killed three personnel of the bomb disposal unit (BDU) who were on their way to defuse another bomb elsewhere in the city, DawnNews...
View ArticleSHC reserves ruling, tells Musharraf to contact govt on ECL
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday rejected a petition seeking to permanently include the name of former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in the Exit Control List (ECL) and reserved...
View ArticleSeven of a family killed in accident near Nowshera Vikran
NOWSHERA VIRKAN: A head-on collision between a van and an oil tanker on Monday morning killed seven of a family, including two minors, near here in the Khan Bagh village area.According to Qila Deedar...
View ArticleShia cleric's funeral held in Lahore
LAHORE: Funeral prayers were held Monday for prominent Shia scholar Allama Nasir Abbas, who was gunned down in Lahore the previous night.Thousands of mourners attended the funeral prayers for...
View ArticleNato's Isaf Commander in Afghanistan arrives in Pakistan
RAWALPINDI: Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) commander in Afghanistan General Joseph Dunford arrived in Pakistan from Kabul and met with Army Chief General Raheel Sharif during a...
View ArticleNisar terms Quader Molla's hanging a judicial murder
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday described the capital punishment of Bangladesh Jamaat-i-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla as a “judicial murder” as the National Assembly...
View ArticleProvinces refuse to finance local bodies’ elections
ISLAMABAD: Provinces have refused to meet the entire cost of local bodies’ elections and declined to clear outstanding electricity bills of hundreds of billions of rupees without ascertaining their...
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