To meet the need: CAA opened 7 aerospace colleges in past one year
ISLAMABAD: In an effort to cater to the growing demand in domestic and international aviation industry, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has opened seven new aerospace engineering colleges during the...
View ArticleAppointment: Zahid Hussain tipped as new FST head
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to appoint Justice (retd) Syed Zahid Hussain as the new chairman of the Federal Services Tribunal (FST).On November 4, the government had assured the...
View ArticleNew strategy: PTI shifts its focus to national issues
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has seemingly come over its only concern – alleged rigging in 2013 general elections – as the party has started raising issues being faced by the masses and...
View ArticleCrippling virus: Seventh polio case surfaces in Sindh
KARACHI: The seventh polio case of Sindh surfaced on Friday late evening, taking the total cases of the country to 43 so far this year. The three-year-old boy, Hasnain, son of Asadullah, resident of...
View ArticleFive murders: SC restores 70-year jail term for convict
ISLAMABAD: After the passage of 16 years, the top court has restored the punishment of a man, who was initially jailed for 70 years but served only 14 for slaughtering his wife and four minor...
View ArticleHigh alert: Agencies warn of Da’ish-inspired attacks in Punjab
LAHORE: Authorities in Punjab have warned of possible attacks by the ultra-orthodox Islamic State (IS) against high-profile targets in the province.The Home Department issued an intelligence-based...
View ArticleWarning: Stop harassing madrassa students: JUI-F chief
SUKKUR: Eponymous chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, took up the cudgels for seminary students on Sunday, warning that any harassment on the part of the government could...
View ArticleCost of loyalty: JI chief rails against rulers for silence over executions
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq on Sunday likened Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina Wajid’s administration to the rulers in Islamabad, saying there was no difference between two with regards...
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Economic corridor: Mushahid champions rights of locals to CPEC rewards
QUETTA: Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Sunday championed the cause of the local population at least when it comes to reaping the benefits of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and other...
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Essential upgrade: Security czar tasked to make NACTA functional
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has tasked the interior ministry with making the country’s top counterterrorism body fully functional, according to a source within the ministry.To improve...
View ArticlePakistan looks to check Indian DTH service
KARACHI: After an endlessly tiring day, Fareeha Khan looks forward to unwinding at home. In the few hours she gets to relax, television seems like the most obvious choice for entertainment.“I like...
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Islamabad all agog for historic vote today
ISLAMABAD: Residents of the federal capital will vote on Monday (today) to elect their local representatives – a first for the city’s urban areas – amid some wrinkles in the relevant laws that need to...
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Textile industry in its worst patch in history
KARACHI: With stagnant exports and continuously declining market share in the international arena, Pakistan’s textile industry is going through the worst patch in its history.The gap between Pakistan...
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Ghani-Nawaz meeting in Paris will be icebreaker: Khattak
ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s participation in the upcoming ministerial meeting of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process in Islamabad will depend on the outcome of his meeting with the...
View ArticlePPP won’t allow misuse of religion-based laws: Zardari
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that his party would continue its struggle to ensure religion-based laws were not misused to stifle dissent or...
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Drunken attackers plundered factory: MPA
LAHORE: Most of the men who torched a chipboard factory in Jhelum over blasphemy allegations were in a drunken state and were only there to steal valuables, a provincial lawmaker claimed on...
View ArticleYes, no, maybe? Ayyan expected to get passports back today
RAWALPINDI: Currency-smuggling suspect Ayyan Ali is likely to get her confiscated passports back on Tuesday (today) after her application to do so was rejected by the Customs court on Monday for being...
View ArticleKarachi show: Rulers must learn from history, says Bilawal
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday called upon the people sitting in the power corridors to learn a lesson from history and stop imposing their own...
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Taking aim: I will fight till the last ball, says Imran
SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that he will never accept defeat and will continue his struggle against corruption ‘till the last ball’.After leading a large...
View ArticleFaulty stationery, untrained staff: A tale of mismanagement
ISLAMABAD: A few irregularities were witnessed in several polling stations, of which most were mistakes of technical nature by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).At Monday’s local bodies polls, it...
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