Balochistan unrest: ‘Foreign states’ warned against stoking terror
QUETTA: Days after 20 construction workers were methodically killed in Turbat, army chief General Raheel Sharif issued a stern warning to the foreign spy agencies that are stoking unrest in...
View ArticleShahbaz in Riyadh on damage control mission
ISLAMABAD: Notwithstanding Pakistani parliament’s vote against jumping into the Yemen fray, the Saudis are believed to have been still pushing Islamabad to join the nine-nation military coalition...
View ArticleThree murder convicts hanged in jails across Punjab
LAHORE: Three murder convicts were hanged in jails across Punjab earlier this morning, Express News reported Thursday. In Central Gujranwala Jail two murder convicts, Abdul Jabbar and Ijaz Arif were...
View ArticleTransitions: Veteran politician Azam Hoti dies at 69
PESHAWAR: Senior Awami National Party leader Azam Khan Hoti passed away in Mardan on Wednesday after a prolonged illness and was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in the town. He was 69. Azam...
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Trade-off: UK asked to extradite Baloch rebels first
ISLAMABAD: Offering the United Kingdom a quid pro quo, Pakistan’s security czar has said that if the British government wants Pakistan to hand over the suspects of MQM leader Imran Farooq’s murder,...
View ArticleInsurgency in Balochistan: Afghanistan to be urged to eliminate BLA sanctuaries
ISLAMABAD: Top civil and military leadership has decided not only to exert pressure on Afghanistan to eliminate safe havens of Baloch insurgents in its territory but also resolved to escalate...
View ArticleYemen conflict: Is Pakistan neutral no more?
ISLAMABAD: Has Pakistan abandoned its policy of neutrality on the Yemen conflict that was approved by parliament? Whatever the truth may be, this was the sense gathered from the high-level huddle...
View ArticleChinese president due on Monday
ISLAMABAD: After months of speculation, Chinese President Xi Jinping will be arriving in Islamabad on Monday in a much anticipated visit aimed at cementing strategic and economic ties between the two...
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Call for confidence: No plan to seek Altaf’s extradition, says Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan made it clear that Islamabad has no plan of making any formal request to the British government either to take legal course or to extradite...
View ArticleVP of medical college attacked
KARACHI: A US national and vice principal of the Jinnah Medical and Dental College (JMDC) was shot and injured on Shaheed-e-Millat Road on Thursday in what the police believe to be the first targeted...
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On hold: SC suspends military court death sentences
ISLAMABAD: The top court has stayed the execution of death sentences awarded by the military courts to six accused on charges of terrorism. These courts were recently established under the 21st...
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Regional cooperation: Poverty reduction must top Saarc agenda, says PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has suggested that poverty alleviation should be the top agenda for all countries in the South Asian region. “Pakistan places poverty alleviation on top of Saarc...
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Cybercrime bill: Bored teens, ethical hackers can end up in jail
ISLAMABAD: Ignoring all reservations of the citizens’ Joint Action Committee on Cyber Crime Bill 2015, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication adopted...
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Vote fraud claims: Judicial body gives ECP a week to reply
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has been given a week to respond to a 46-page statement on alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections. Moreover, Nadra has been told to submit...
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Metro bus service: Centre will pay more in subsidy, get less from revenue
ISLAMABAD: The federal government’s love for Punjab knows no end as it will share more of the subsidy and operational cost of the metro bus project while get less from the revenue. According to a...
View ArticleUnified in faith: Proposal to shut down markets at prayer times
ISLAMABAD: Religious scholars from different schools of thoughts reached consensus on uniform prayer timings in the federal capital. Meanwhile, proposals to telecasting the call to prayer on TV...
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Year under review: HRCP reports rise in women in politics
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) released its annual ‘State of Human Rights in 2014’ report on Friday. According to the report the year opened with a series of faith-based...
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Hundreds take to Srinagar streets
SRINAGAR: Demonstrators set fire to an Indian flag and hurled rocks at riot police in Kashmir’s largest city Friday as protests over the arrest of a top separatist leader turned violent. Hundreds took...
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Death-row convict: Shafqat Hussain pleads for inquiry to verify age
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday directed all respondents, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Mamnoon Hussain, to submit replies within a fortnight, pertaining to...
View ArticleMy choice
Deepika’s video, “My Choice”, went viral on social media recently. All sorts of comments on it were heard and read. Starting from how amazing it was for her to come up with something of the sort to...
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