Rotation : PHC transfers 91 judicial officers
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel has issued orders for the transfer and posting of 91 judicial officers across the province. The order was issued on Wednesday...
View ArticlePTI to chalk out future strategy
ISLAMABAD / CHITRAL: Accepting the judicial commission’s (JC) report on rigging in the 2013 elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that his party would chalk out...
View ArticleDefence cooperation: Pakistan to buy eight submarines from China
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Thursday agreed to a multi-billion dollar deal that would see Beijing provide eight submarines to the Pakistan Navy, in an agreement that analysts are calling the...
View ArticleEngaging the Taliban: Top US general lauds Pakistan’s role in Afghan dialogue
ISLAMABAD: A top US commander stationed in Afghanistan has heaped praise on Pakistan for its earnest effort to facilitate crucial dialogue between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives in...
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Raging catastrophe: Floods continue to wreak havoc across country
SUKKUR / RAHIM YAR KHAN / DG KHAN / QUETTA / KARAK / TANK / PESHAWAR / CHITRAL: Floods continue to cause havoc as authorities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have promised to reconnect the flood-hit district of...
View ArticleCrackdown: 12 militant hideouts destroyed in Orakzai
HANGU: Security forces have destroyed at least a dozen militant hideouts during a search operation by setting them on fire in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ Upper Orakzai Agency on Thursday....
View ArticleKilling fields : Body found dumped in Kalat
KALAT: Levies force recovered the body of a young man in the Pandran area of the Kalat district late Wednesday night. Acting on information, a Levies team reached the site and took the body into...
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Border violations: Kabul summons Pakistan’s ambassador
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan summoned Pakistan’s top envoy in Kabul to lodge a protest over the alleged cross-border firing that killed at least four Afghans, officials said on Thursday. Afghan officials...
View ArticleDeceptive freedom
Our media may on the surface look free. We have, over the years, seen a rapid multiplication of news outlets, notably of TV channels, and also of FM radio stations. But there is a deception in this....
View ArticleAn unhealthy nation
It is becoming clear that problems that emerged following the devolution of powers that occurred post-18th Amendment have still not been dealt with in an efficient manner. As is the case with...
View ArticleAnd the truth remained
Now that the Judicial Commission has given its report and the prime minister has ordered that it be made public, the expectation is that the government now focuses on more important things like good...
View ArticleEmerging diplomacy
“Even with your adversaries, I do think that you have to have the capacity to put yourself occasionally in their shoes, and if you look at Iranian history, the fact is that we had some involvement with...
View ArticlePost-judicial commission politics
The report of the judicial commission rejected the complaints of the PTI and several other opposition parties that the May 2013 general elections were rigged and manipulated. By declaring these...
View ArticleThe medium-term outcome of the nuclear deal
Iran is a complex country placed right in the middle of a highly complex world. It is surrounded by a number of states openly hostile to it. Tehran reacted to the sanctions imposed on it by the West...
View ArticleEcological suicide
The mounting evidence that we are moving along the fast track to ecological suicide can no longer be denied. A new word ‘endling’ has been coined to describe an individual which is the last of its...
View ArticleCharity: CM donates Rs50m for Chitral relief
KARACHI: Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah expressed sorrow over the casualties and devastation caused by torrential rains in Chitral and announced a donation of Rs50 million for the relief and rescue works...
View ArticleBlame game: Govt’s flood relief effort claims are ‘false’
SUKKUR: The chairperson of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM), Riaz Chandio, said he visited different cities and towns of the Ghotki district, during which he observed that all the claims made by the...
View ArticleRaiding hideouts: Police arrest a target killer
KARACHI: District Malir police claim to have arrested on Sunday a member of a banned religious outfit, allegedly involved in half-a-dozen cases of targeted killings in the city. During the course of...
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Monsoon gone?: ‘No heavy rains in Karachi this week’
KARACHI / SUKKUR / HYDERABAD: Just as the authorities were swinging into action to clean storm water drains and making contingencies, the met office announced that the monsoons are no longer heading...
View ArticleAyesha Mumtaz for IG police
KARACHI: What does it take to fix an incompetent, corrupt and callous department that has failed to perform its primary duties and allowed the spread of ill-health and disease amongst millions of...
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