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Iraq reopens Baghdad museum 12 years after looting
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered. The...
View ArticleMan gets convicted as wife testifies against him
KARACHI: A district and sessions court sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Saturday for strangling a woman to death. Mehboob Ali was found guilty of killing his neighbour, Aliya, during a theft bid...
View ArticleShot dead: Three ‘gang members’ killed in alleged encounter
KARACHI: Three suspected gang members were killed during an alleged encounter with the police in troubled Lyari on Saturday. According to the police, the encounter took place at Sardar Sheikha Road in...
View ArticleIllegal advertisements: SC issues notices to civic, land-owning agencies
KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued notices to various land-owning and civic agencies within the city, including cantonment boards, the railways, the station headquarters, the navy and the...
View ArticleCaught in the act: ‘Militants’ caught trying to abduct ANP leader
KARACHI: Two suspected militants were caught and later handed over to the police for trying to abduct the local leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) in Orangi Town on Saturday. Nearly 20 suspects...
View ArticleECP finalises list of 131 candidates for Senate polls
ISLAMABAD: Anticipating that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government will fail to muster enough support for its proposed changes to the procedure for Senate elections, the Election Commission...
View ArticleNew dept set up at KU with aid worth $1.9m
KARACHI: The new teacher education department at the University of Karachi (KU) stands in stark contrast to the delapidated buildings of the surrounding social sciences departments. Built with $1.9...
View ArticlePaying tribute: Allama Domki lauds police efforts
SUKKUR: The chairperson of the Shuhada Committee, Allama Maqsood Domki, has lauded the efforts of the Shikarpur Police for having apprehended the suspects behind the deadly suicide attack on Imambargah...
View ArticlePublic woes: Essential items’ prices remain unchanged
ISLAMABAD: Even though prices of some edible items have witnessed a marginal reduction, it is still not commensurate with the price cut in petroleum products. Moreover, no letup in the cost of...
View ArticleRegulating drugs: Illegal medicine factory sealed
ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) sealed an illegal medicine factory in the Kahuta Industrial Area during a raid on Saturday. The...
View ArticleRoots Millennium Olympiad: Concert enthralls students at closing ceremony
A musical performance enthralled students and teachers alike at the closing ceremony of the three-day Roots Millennium Olympiad 2015 on Sunday. The highlight of the event organised at Roots College...
View ArticleMaking ends meet: No rose without a thorn
ISLAMABAD: Unaware of her surroundings, Seema Bibi is engrossed in separating decayed roses and tuberoses from fresh ones and arranging them on a brown piece of cloth placed in front of her. “I...
View ArticleLawyers’ bodies: PPP-backed candidates win LHC, IHC bar polls
RAWALPINDI: The candidate backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP beat the PML-N supported presidential candidate in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA)...
View ArticleTransitions: Islam Bahadar Khan passes away
SWABI: Former commissioner and senior civil officer Islam Bahadar Khan passed away on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Chota Lahor of Swabi....
View Article2010 FLOOD VICTIMS: Turkish organisation sets up model village
Turkish organisation Yardi Milli has established a model village for 2010 flood affectees in Charsadda. A three-member delegation from the organisation met Minister for Finance Muzaffar Said, Minister...
View ArticleSupporting IDPS: Exhibition to promote entrepreneurship
PESHAWAR: An exhibition was held at a hotel to showcase crafts made by internally displaced persons (IDP) residing in camps in Kohat on Sunday. The displayed items were made by women trained by the...
View ArticleIn cold blood: Woman killed allegedly by husband
PESHAWAR: A woman was killed allegedly by her husband in Miskeen Camp area of Badhaber on Sunday. Police said Malika Bibi was shot dead by Majeed Gul, a resident of Miskeen Camp, due to unknown...
View ArticleArrests: Two suspected kidnappers held
HANGU: The police on Sunday arrested two suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a 17-year old girl around three months ago from Thal in Hangu district. Thal police SHO Pir Mohsin Shah said...
View ArticleIreland take on South Africa with nothing to fear
CANBERRA: Ireland captain William Porterfield is confident his team will not be overawed by the mighty South Africans in Canberra on Tuesday, saying they have made plans to contain AB de Villiers’...
View ArticleWater shortage: Farmers protest against canal closure
FAISALABAD: Dozens of farmers staged a protest demonstration on Monday against the closure of Rakh Branch Canal. The farmers, residents of Chak 47-RB, said that their crops were being affected by a...
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