Gunmen kill nine foreign tourists and their guide in Nanga Parbat
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen dressed as paramilitary police killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack in the Himalayas of Nanga Parbat on Sunday, in a security failure bound to embarrass the new...
View ArticleOne security person killed, two injured in Bannu
BANNU: At least one security man was killed and two others injured in a militant attack in the Frontier Region of Bannu district on Sunday, official sources said.According to the officials, a security...
View ArticleSecurity forces kill six militants in Dera Bugti operation
QUETTA: At least six militants, including their commander, were killed during a security forces' operation in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan on Sunday.Sources in Frontier Corps told Dawn.com that...
View ArticleSindh govt to convene APC over Karachi situation
KARACHI: Sindh's Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah presided over a meeting of his cabinet on Sunday during which the decision to convene an All Parties Conference (APC) in the first week of July over the...
View ArticleFrontier Corps foil major terror bid in Quetta
QUETTA: Frontier Corps claimed to have foiled a major terrorism bid in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan on late Sunday night. FC sources told Dawn.com that forces had recovered 2100 kilograms of...
View ArticleNo difference between attack on university students in Quetta and Malala:...
QUETTA: Well-known human rights activist, Asma Jehangir said that the deadly bombing at the Women University of Quetta left every rational person of society grief stricken.Talking to reporters after...
View ArticleNA resolution strongly condemns killings
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly unanimously adopted on Sunday a resolution strongly condemning the killing of nine (later revised to 10) foreign mountaineers and two Pakistanis in Gilgit-Baltistan...
View ArticleTour operators assail security agencies
ISLAMABAD: Tour operators criticised the law-enforcement agencies on Sunday after the Gilgit-Baltistan base camp attack and said they did nothing except checking buses on the Karakoram Highway.They...
View ArticleZardari slams tourists’ killing
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday condemned the terrorist attack on a group of foreign tourists in Gilgit-Baltistan and directed the authorities concerned to present a report to him on...
View ArticleDebate on Balochistan budget: Opposition decries ‘insufficient’ funds for...
QUETTA: The Leader of Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, Maulana Abdul Wasay of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, has criticised the government for having failed to identify development schemes in...
View ArticleMountaineers’ bodies taken to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan received at the Air Marshal Nur Khan Air Base in Rawalpindi on Sunday the bodies of 10 members of a trekking expedition killed in a terrorist attack...
View ArticleBNP-M holds protest against raid, arrest
QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) held a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against raid on the house of party leader Nawab Amanullah Zehri in Khuzdar and the...
View ArticleThree killed
QUETTA: Three people, among them a Levies Force man, were killed in separate attacks in Quetta and Kharan on Sunday.Sources said Levies personnel were patrolling Bisema area of Kharan district when...
View ArticleExcessive use of drugs creating resistance to antibiotics: report
KARACHI: An excessive and irrational drug use across the health sector in Pakistan is creating resistance to frontline antibiotics used to control infections, says an official report.The recent report...
View ArticleDSP traffic; driver shot dead in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) traffic and his driver in Peshawar’s Faqirabad area in a firing incident.Sources told Dawn.com that gunmen opened...
View ArticleFederal cabinet meeting: Nawaz expresses sorrow over tourists' killing
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called for the immediate arrest of the culprits responsible for killing ten foreign tourists and their guide in an unprecedented attack in the Himalayas of Nanga...
View ArticleFormer dictator Musharraf to be tried for treason: PM Nawaz Sharif
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dropped the strongest hint on Monday to file a written request before the Supreme Court to try former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for...
View ArticlePakistan suspends expeditions after tourist killings
ISLAMABAD:Pakistan on Monday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak, evacuating climbers from Nanga Parbat after 10 foreign tourists were shot dead by gunmen at a base camp.Well-armed and...
View ArticleFor the victims of the Quetta blast, life has changed forever
QUETTA: The deadly bombing in Quetta on June 15 which resulted in the death of 12 female university students has faded out of the news – glossing over the fact that for many of the injured, their lives...
View ArticleImran demands national policy on terrorism
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday demanded of the federal government devise a national policy for countering terrorism in the country suggesting that Pakistan should...
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