Balochistan political landscape: ANP leader doesn’t foresee any change
QUETTA: The president of the Balochistan chapter of Awami National Party, Asghar Khan Achakzai, has ruled out any change in the provincial political set-up. “Had there been any change in the works, CM...
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No right without responsibility: Corruption pushed Pakistan to brink of...
LAHORE: Mismanagement and corruption have pushed the country onto the verge of collapse, said Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali as he emphasised there was no right without a corresponding...
View ArticleKarachi LG polls: Rangers can take action inside polling stations
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Rangers have been given powers to take action inside polling stations during the December 5th local government (LG) elections in Karachi.The port city would be going for the...
View ArticleBaseless, concocted: Govt denies secret Nawaz-Modi meeting in Nepal
ISLAMABAD: A day after reports suggested that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had secretly met with his Indian counterpart during a regional summit in Nepal last year, both governments on Wednesday...
View ArticleService structure: Paramedics stage demonstration at PIC
LAHORE: More than two dozen paramedics from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday, demanding that the government regularise the contractual and daily wage...
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‘Indian blockade’, protests push Nepal to the brink
KARACHI / KATHMANDU: A queue of little red cylinders snakes through women and children as they wait for their turn to purchase cooking gas. The metal vessels are chained together and the line stretches...
View ArticleMilitary trial: ‘No forgiveness’ as four APS attack convicts executed
KOHAT: Four abettors of last year’s deadly rampage at a military-run school in Peshawar were hanged to death in the Kohat Central Jail in early hours of Wednesday with parents of victims saying the...
View ArticleReengagement: Hopes rekindle amid reports Sushma will visit Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: In a move that may help resurrect a stalled dialogue process between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is likely to visit Pakistan next week...
View ArticleSan Bernardino shootings: Pakistani-origin couple behind California carnage
Police authorities confirmed on Thursday that the young couple that mowed down 14 people in San Bernardino and were later slain in a shootout with police were originally from Pakistan.Syed Rizwan...
View ArticleNo entry: Pakistan sends back 30 deportees to Greece
RAWALPINDI / ISLAMABAD: A little over a week after the European Union and Pakistan gave a new lease of life to their deportee re-admission treaty, Islamabad refused to accept 30 citizens who had been...
View ArticleBenefiting the poor: Supreme Court orders survey for low-cost housing
ISLAMABAD: The top court has asked the authorities to conduct a housing survey and chalk out a policy for establishing low-cost housing schemes for the poor.On Thursday, the Supreme Court told the...
View ArticleKey tribe agrees to hand over wanted militants
JAMRUD: Sipah tribesmen from Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on Thursday agreed to hand over ‘wanted’ clan members after hammering out a deal with the political administration.Elders and maliks from the...
View ArticleEight killed in bus-truck collision in Lasbela
QUETTA: At least eight people were killed and 15 more were injured in a road accident in Balochistan’s Lasbela district on Thursday.A passenger coach travelling to Karachi from Quetta collided head-on...
View ArticleInsulating Diamer from trouble
For quite some time now, Gilgit-Baltistan’s scenic Diamer Valley has been in the spotlight, but for all the wrong reasons. It all began in 2011-12, when passenger buses travelling on the Karakoram...
View ArticleUS envoy: Hale presents credentials to president
ISLAMABAD: Ambassador-designate of the United States to Pakistan, David M Hale presented his credentials to President Mamnoon Hussain at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday. Later, the ambassador called on...
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Tough talks: Pakistan, India need true leadership, says Imran
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan once again criticised the secret meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart at the 2014 regional summit in Kathmunda,...
View ArticleAll in the name: ‘He Named Me Malala’ shortlisted for Oscars
Documentary film He Named Me Malala has been shortlisted for the 2016 Oscar Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The film is a portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the passionate...
View Article‘Kuchlak meeting’: Kabul ‘confirms’ Taliban chief injured in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government on Thursday ‘confirmed’ that Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was injured in a firing incident in Pakistan, but the orthodox militia dismissed the claim as...
View ArticleSan Bernardino rampage: Female attacker from DG Khan praised Da’ish chief
DG KHAN / WASHINGTON / SAN BERNARDINO: Investigators believe that the female shooter involved in Wednesday’s deadly rampage in California, had pledged allegiance to Da’ish (Islamic State) group leader...
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Treason trial: FIA team opens fresh investigation
ISLAMABAD: As per the three-judge special court’s order, a four-member team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has restarted investigations into the high treason case against subversion of the...
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