Meeting Japanese envoy: Pakistan offers power projects for investment
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan offered Japan to invest in power transmission projects after it turned down an earlier offer by Tokyo for financing a new 650-megawatt supercritical coal-fired power plant at...
View ArticleMari Petroleum’s profit rises 7%
KARACHI: Mari Petroleum Company’s profit improved 7% to Rs6.05 billion in the year ended June 30 on the back of higher sales and lower finance cost, according to a bourse filing on Thursday. The...
View ArticleCorporate results: AGTL announces earnings of Rs528m, up 6%
KARACHI: Al Ghazi Tractors Limited (AGTL) reported earnings of Rs528 million in the second quarter ended June 30, up 6% compared to Rs498 million in the same period of last year, according to a company...
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Parliamentary approval: Cyber terrorists to be jailed for 14 years
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Thursday passed the controversial cybercrime bill through a majority vote that prescribes a maximum penalty of 14 years in jail and Rs5 million in fine for...
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Quetta carnage: Islamabad hints at RAW’s involvement
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday indicated that India’s premier intelligence agency RAW might have collaborated with local militant groups to carry out the latest terrorist attack in Quetta, which left...
View ArticleCrashed helicopter: Fate of chopper crew still unknown
The fate of six crew members of a Punjab government helicopter, which crashed in Afghanistan last week, remains unknown with conflicting reports emerging on Thursday of their recovery. The crew, which...
View ArticleTop court calls for screening out private guards
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the provincial authorities to evolve a mechanism for screening out private security guards on the off chance that they might be indulging in nefarious...
View ArticleLawyers to help overhaul criminal justice system
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has established a think-tank comprising 1,400 lawyers to float recommendations in an effort to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system. SCBA...
View ArticleImmigration saga: Nisar says US citizen not a ‘spy’
RAWALPINDI / ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said that blacklisted American citizen Matthew Craig Barrett, who is facing a second expulsion from Pakistan, is not a spy...
View ArticlePakistan to account for violations in Balochistan: Modi
NEW DELHI: Accusing Pakistan of fomenting trouble in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IOK), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Pakistan would have to answer for its ‘human rights’ violation in...
View ArticlePPP wanted concessions on Ayyan, Dr Asim: Nisar
ISLAMABAD: The country’s security czar claimed on Friday that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had offered to distance itself from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and cooperate with the government...
View ArticleFighting extremism: Shahbaz questions Afghan jihad policy
LAHORE: Emphasising the need for introspection and learning from past mistakes, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday called into question the country’s decision to enter the Afghan war in the...
View ArticleTop militants among dozens held in sweep
QUETTA / PESHAWAR / KARACHI: Security forces have accelerated combing operations in the wake of Monday’s deadly carnage at a Quetta hospital, rounding up dozens of suspects in raids across the country...
View Article‘Lack of NAP progress affecting Zarb-e-Azb’
ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Raheel Sharif warned on Friday that establishing long term peace and stability in Pakistan would remain a ‘distant dream’ unless all stakeholders deliver meaningfully on...
View ArticleOlive branch extended: Pakistan invites India to hold dialogue on Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan extended an olive branch to India on Friday when it invited its arch rival for talks on the longstanding Kashmir dispute in the wake of escalating unrest in the valley. This offer...
View ArticleDevelopment plan: PM wants power projects ready by tenure’s end
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to complete all ongoing power projects in his tenure in a bid to rid the country of frequent power outages and boost industrial growth. His remarks came...
View ArticleWar of petitions: Not to be outdone, PTI fires own response
ISLAMABAD: In an effort to stonewall itself against any possible PML-N act of chicanery, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is planning to file its own reference with the National Assembly speaker for...
View ArticleQuetta carnage: ‘India has mounted an unconventional war’
QUETTA: Head of Southern Command Lt. Gen Aamer Riaz on Friday claimed that the neighbouring country has launched an unconventional war on Pakistan. “The arrest of Kulbhushan Yadav, a RAW agent, from...
View ArticleCombing operations: Three ‘terrorists’ killed in firefight
QUETTA: Three militants were killed in an exchange of gunfire with security officials in the Hazar Ganji area of Quetta on Saturday. The gun battle erupted when security officials mounted a search...
View Article‘Quetta martyrs have set an example of humanity’
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faiz Isa of the Supreme Court observed on Saturday that victims of the Quetta bombing have set an example of brotherhood, friendship, humanity and implementation of law. “They...
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