News Desk
LAHORE: President Asif Zardari said late on Sunday the PPP could not conduct electioneering due to the Taliban threat, Geo News reported.
Talking to senior journalists belonging to the South Asian Free Media Association (Safma), he said the ...
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KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan’s disputed border with ...
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KARACHI: Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers staged a sit-in in Karachi on Sunday against Imran Khan’s allegations against Altaf Hussain.
Dozens of MQM workers, who gathered at Ayesha Manzil for the protest, chanted slogans against Pakistan ...
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Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: The British government has been urged to “prosecute and indict” the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder and leader Altaf Hussain for allegedly inciting violence from British soil against “peaceful democratic protestors” in Karachi and ...
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KARACHI: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Arif Alvi won the NA-250 seat after repolling in 43 polling stations on Sunday. According to unofficial results, Alvi secured more than 77,000 votes against about 30,000 of Khushbakht Shujaat of the ...
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Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: While the caretakers are busy making hay in sunshine, one of the key ministers of the interim set-up, Ahmer Bilal Soofi, has cautioned the caretaker government not to trespass its mandate by making long term deals, appointments/postings ...
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QUETTA: PML-N Punjab President and former chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said three parties, PML-N, PMAP and National Party, would form the Balochistan government and nominate the chief minister after consultations.
He was speaking ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: Power failure due to technical faults continues to haunt powerless consumers for 20 hours in the provincial metropolis.
Citizens of urban areas witnessed 16 to 18 hours loadshedding and 22 hours in rural areas. Dejected by unending ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: The MQM has sent a defamation notice of Rs50 bn to Imran Khan for levelling allegations against its leader Altaf Hussain in the wake of the murder of a senior PTI leader in Karachi. The MQM has sent the notice through its lawyer Farogh ...
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Ammar Shahbazi
Karachi: Emotionally charged workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) shoved and pushed some of the prominent members of the party’s Coordination Committee for “not doing enough” to defend their supreme leader Altaf Hussain, who has been ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: The caretaker ministers admit failure in resolving the energy crisis and warn that the power shortfall could increase in the coming days due to multiple factors besides expressing intention of revising gas tariff mechanism upward soon. ...
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Tauseef-ur-Rahman
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) activists are shocked and astonished by the decision of the party’s Central Executive Committee to appoint an inquiry committee to look into the reasons of its embarrassing defeat in recent election and dubbed ...
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News Desk
LONDON: George Galloway MP, in a series of parliamentary questions and a parliamentary motion, has asked the British prime minister and the home secretary to remove MQM leader Altaf Hussain’s British citizenship.
Hussain is currently living in ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: Several key stalwarts of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are running for the office of chief minister Sindh, but Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani from Jacobabad is seen as the frontrunner in this race, party insiders said on Sunday.
“There is a ...
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