SC seeks ECP report on thumbprint verification
ISLAMABAD: Without going into the merits, the Supreme Court heeded on Monday a passionate appeal of PTI chief Imran Khan seeking verification of thumb impressions of voters in at least four...
View ArticleEarn your bread, Nisar tells legislators
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan gave a dressing down to PML-N lawmakers on Monday for their lack of interest in proceedings of National Assembly. Chaudhry Nisar who in the absence...
View ArticleIHC suspends sacking of Pemra chairman
ISLAMABAD: In less than two weeks, the government suffered a second embarrassment when the Islamabad High Court suspended the sacking of Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed, Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media...
View ArticleSenate puts off vote on judges’ nationality
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Nayyar Bokhari put off on Monday voting on a resolution calling upon the government to publish the names of judges with dual nationality, after Information Minister Pervez...
View ArticleAttack on polio team foiled in Karachi
KARACHI: Police aborted a militant attack on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing one attacker and arresting another in the port city of Karachi.Two militants allegedly belonging to...
View ArticleTTP dismisses talks, vows retaliation against ‘planned operation’
ISLAMABAD: Dismissing the concept of peace talks immediately after Pakistan government’s announcement of using force as a last resort, the Taliban Tuesday said they have information that plans are...
View ArticlePakistan, India DGMOs to meet over LOC ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: The director-generals military operations of Pakistan and India will meet next week to work out a mechanism to ease tensions and maintain ceasefire at the heavily militarized Line of...
View ArticleThree dead in suicide blast near Rawalpindi Imambargah
RAWALPINDI: A powerful blast outside an Imambargah situated in the heavily guarded Gracey Lines area killed three people, including two policemen and left 14 injured.According to DawnNews, policemen...
View ArticleBangladesh grills Pakistan envoy over Molla resolution
KARACHI: Bangladesh on Tuesday sought an explanation from Pakistan’s envoy in Dhaka regarding a resolution adopted by the Pakistani parliament condemning execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla...
View ArticleNadra chief terms Nisar’s allegations baseless
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Mohammad Tariq Malik, has rejected as baseless the allegations levelled against him by Interior Minister Chaudhry...
View ArticleCNG price reduced on court order
ISLAMABAD: The CNG may not be available at all to motorists in Punjab and may remain in short supply in other provinces, but its prices have been reduced all over the country.According to a...
View ArticleMalik hits out at govt over Fazlullah
ISLAMABAD: A former interior minister and PPP senator Rehman Malik on Tuesday asked the government to tell the nation about the status of the request that the previous government had made with...
View ArticleFuel adjustment charge ruled illegal
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court ruled on Tuesday that fuel adjustment charge (FAC)/fuel price adjustment (FPA) levied by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on electricity bills...
View ArticleDense fog disrupts flight operations
LAHORE: Dense fog in and around the Punjab capital has badly disrupted air and land travel, with dozens of flights being cancelled, delayed or diverted to other cities for the second day.Train and road...
View ArticleCourt directs PTA to block illegal SIMs
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block all illegal and unregistered SIMs (subscriber identity module) of Afghan and Pakistani...
View ArticleTeacher ‘thrashes’ girl after argument on veil
PESHAWAR: A girl student of Khyber Medical College, Peshawar on Tuesday accused a male teacher of roughing her up after a heated argument over veiling herself in classroom.Misbah Syed, a first-year...
View ArticleAttack on Karachi imambargah foiled
KARACHI: Security guards deputed at an imambargah near Karachi's Khalid bin Waleed Road foiled an attack as two explosive-laden women tried to enter the place of worship on Wednesday, DawnNews...
View ArticleTribunal resends Shakil Afridi’s case for review
PESHAWAR: The FATA tribunal on Thursday disposed off a revision petition by alleged US spy Dr Shakil Afridi against an earlier decision by the Commissioner FCR, resending the case for revision and to...
View ArticlePM visits Kamra base, lays emphasis on Sino-Pak friendship
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday visited the Kamra Aeronautical Complex to attend the induction ceremony of the 50th JF-17 Thunder fighter plane in Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fleet and...
View ArticleSuicide attack kills five soldiers in North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: At least five soldiers were killed and 34 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a military checkpoint in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Wednesday, security...
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