Hearing for Musharraf treason trial resumes
ISLAMABAD:The special court constituted to try General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for treason on Tuesday resumed the hearing of the case. The court constituted three high court judges and is headed by...
View ArticleThree suspects arrested in Islamabad with 100kg explosives
ISLAMABAD: Police have arrested three men and seized 100 kilograms of explosives in a raid in the capital Islamabad, officers said Tuesday, following two deadly Taliban attacks on military targets.The...
View ArticleThree dead in attack on polio team in Karachi's Qayyumabad
KARACHI: Three people, including two women, were killed and another wounded when a polio team was attacked on Tuesday in Karachi's Qayyumabad area, DawnNews reported. The police said that killing of...
View ArticleASWJ leader survives gun attack in Karachi's Landhi
KARACHI: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday attacked Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) leader Maulana Zarin in Karachi's Landhi area, DawnNews reported. The ASWJ leader was in Landhi's Labour Colony when...
View ArticleGovernment to ensure law and order at all costs, says PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday that maintenance of law and order was the government's top priority. “A concerted effort and united stand will enable us to achieve the...
View ArticleThree killed in attack on polio team in Karachi
KARACHI: Gunmen killed three health workers taking part in a polio vaccination drive in Karachi on Tuesday, police said, in the latest blow to efforts to stamp out the disease in Pakistan.After the...
View ArticlePlaywright Asghar Nadeem Syed injured in Lahore firing
LAHORE: Renowned playwright Asghar Nadeem Syed was injured Tuesday when unknown motorcyclists opened fire on his vehicle in Lahore, DawnNews reported. According to sources, Syed was traveling in his...
View ArticleBlast on bus kills 22 Shia pilgrims in Mastung
QUETTA: At least 22 people were killed and dozens injured Tuesday when a powerful explosion ripped through a bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Balochistan's militancy-hit Mastung district.The bus was...
View ArticleSpecial court to study probe report
ISLAMABAD: A special court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf sought on Tuesday the investigation report of the high treason case to examine allegations that the retired army chief was being...
View ArticleIndia summons envoy over stalled bus service
NEW DELHI: India summoned Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner on Tuesday in connection with the suspension of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot-Poonch bus services by Pakistan, which has demanded...
View ArticlePower tariff for Karachi cut by 7 paisa
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority reduced on Tuesday tariff for customers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (now renamed as K-Electric) by seven paisa per unit under...
View ArticleTaliban’s change of heart on polio vaccination
KUNAR: Apparently on feeling growing pressure from the sympathisers of those affected by the crippling polio disease, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has officially distanced itself from some of...
View ArticleNA committee approves anti-terror bill with majority vote
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Interior approved on Tuesday the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) bill. A meeting of the committee, presided over by its chairman Rana...
View ArticlePolio security team attacked in Charsadda; seven dead
PESHAWAR: At least seven people were killed and nine others injured Wednesday in an explosion near a police vehicle on its way for security duty for polio immunisation workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's...
View ArticleBilawal declares 'cultural coup'
KARACHI: Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Tuesday that the culture and heritage of Sindh was in danger and the Sindh festival announced by him was aimed at...
View ArticleSeven Levies men killed, Spaniard wounded in Mastung clash
QUETTA: At least seven Levies personnel were killed and ten others, including a Spanish tourist, wounded as a militant kidnapping bid was foiled in Koshak area of Balochistan, DawnNews reported.Asad ur...
View ArticleNorth Waziristan strikes killed 33 Uzbeks, three Germans: sources
PESHAWAR: At least 36 of the 40 killed during the air strikes in the North Waziristan tribal region on Monday night and Tuesday were foreign fighters, security sources told Dawn.com on Wednesday....
View ArticleNato tanker burnt, polio team attacked in Balochistan
QUETTA: Armed militants on Wednesday torched a container carrying Nato equipment in the Western Bypass area of Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province, police said.A police official who...
View ArticleImran says would stand by army in case of military operation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chiarman Imran Khan on Wednesday said his party would stand by the army in case a military operation is to be launched to counter the terrorist threat, DawnNews...
View ArticleMaulana Samiul Haq distances himself from Taliban talks
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Samiul Haq, a Pakistani cleric with close ties to the Taliban said Wednesday he would no longer act as a government-backed peace broker with the militants after airstrikes killed 40...
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