Violent protests
Protests in Pakistan, even those that are ostensibly peaceful, have a tendency to take a turn towards the violent. The cause is often an interplay of two factors: aggressive protesting (though not...
View ArticleLingering questions
Cricket may have marked a return to Pakistan, but its departure has left us more confused than before. Are fans reasonable in expecting more international cricket at home in the future? Or should they,...
View Article‘Defamation’: Memon asks TV channel to apologise
KARACHI: Criticising a television channel for broadcasting ‘baseless’ and ‘concocted’ news about him, Sindh information and local government minister Sharjeel Memon asked the channel in question to...
View ArticleNeighbours clash: Three men shot dead over pushcart dispute
KARACHI: Two brothers and their brother-in-law were shot dead by their neighbours in Ashraf Nagar locality of Paposh Nagar. The two brothers, identified as Sudair Ahmed and Wazir Ahmed, and their...
View ArticleFavourite sons
Higher education is rarely in the news, except when the topic of discussion is fake degrees and the luminaries who flaunt them. Yet, last week was different. Higher education and the commission in...
View ArticleOld enmity: Armed clash leaves two dead, four injured
SUKKUR: An armed clash between two groups of the Pathan community claimed two lives and left four injured in New Goth, within the limits of the A-Section police station, on Sunday night. Since 2011,...
View ArticleAmoeba alerts
The outbreak of Naegleria fowleri, which causes a fatal brain infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, seems to have spread from Karachi to other areas, with the latest deaths occurring of...
View ArticleTask force delivers: Substandard, smuggled surgical equipment seized
RAWALPINDI: A district health department team along with members of the Punjab chief minister’s special task force on drugs on Tuesday raided the office of a pharmaceutical company and confiscated a...
View ArticleGarbage gripes: CDA expands sanitation fleet
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has refurbished its sanitation fleet by inducting a number of new and renovated vehicles. The new fleet consists of 13 garbage compactors, 11 skip...
View ArticleGiving back: Expat doctors build dialysis centre in Abbottabad
ISLAMABAD: Expatriate nephrologists have set up a state-of-the-art dialysis centre in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, with a promise to treat poor patients for free. Pakistan Kidney Centre (PKC), which...
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Market watch: Equities continue to rise
KARACHI: The index ended positive for the third successive session with increased foreign buying and news on a sales tax cut on petroleum products fuelling the rally. Amid high volumes, the index broke...
View ArticleBudget 2015-16: 10% WHT likely on advertisment income
ISLAMABAD: In a novel move, the government may impose 10% withholding tax on the income of newspaper and television news channel organisations that they earn from advertisements. The step is aimed at...
View ArticleASWJ leader’s killing: FIR registered
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police on Tuesday registered a murder case against unidentified persons over the killing of a local Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) leader. Idrees Kashmiri, a central leader of...
View ArticleCampus robberies: QAU students left with a wing and a prayer
ISLAMABAD: Students at the city’s premier varsity have been left with little option but to look to the sky and pray that they get to class and back home with the contents of their pockets still inside....
View ArticleDrone attack case: Court seeks probe records from FATA secretariat
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday directed the capital police to submit all the records of a murder case registered against a former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in...
View ArticleFinding solutions: CCI to address hydropower profit dues
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has asked the Centre for its share in the electricity and gas royalty as well as the federal taxes. According to a handout issued from the CM House on Tuesday, the...
View ArticleFBI extends FIFA scrutiny to World Cup host bids of Russia, Qatar
NEW YORK / ZURICH: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how football’s governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to...
View ArticlePunjab CM in Karachi: NFC award postponed for a year, says Shahbaz
KARACHI: The upcoming National Finance Commission (NFC) award has been delayed by a year, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday. “There are some issues, which is why the federal...
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Rigging probe: Commission proceedings to end next week, says CJP
ISLAMABAD: The inquiry commission probing allegations of rigging in the May 2013 elections will conclude its proceedings by the end of next week, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Nasirul Mulk said on...
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Unfunded debt: 10-month data shows savings rise 63.6%
KARACHI: Savings mobilisation by the National Savings Schemes (NSS) in the first 10 months of 2014-15 was Rs277.3 billion, which is 63.6% higher than the amount of savings mobilised in the...
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