Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: Two Pakistani men were arrested at the Stansted Airport by the Essex Police on suspicion of endangerment of a PIA aircraft on Friday after a Royal Air Force Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort the Lahore-to-Manchester flight.
Essex ...
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Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday urged Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to hold a probe into, what he called, unprecedented rigging, and punish the erring Returning Officers (ROs) for their ‘terrible ...
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Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The financial and administrative wizards of the in-waiting government of Nawaz Sharif are working on a proposal to reduce the number of federal ministries from the existing over 40 to 25 besides marking down certain departments and ...
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Friday said he doesn’t think that there will be any major shift in foreign policy with the change of the government.
Answering a question at the weekly news briefing at the Foreign Office, he ...
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Shoaib A. Raja
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday warned that action would be taken against anyone found disobeying its orders and that the veil of secrecy had been done away with.
The warning came as the apex court issued contempt of court notices to ...
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Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Water and Power that met here on Friday with Senator Zahid Khan in the chair asked the government to immediately stop the supply of 650MWs electricity to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) as the Punjab, ...
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Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: Three persons were killed and five others sustained injuries in a suicide attack on the car of an Afghan cleric outside the Jamia Uloom-e-Islamia seminary in the Saeedabad locality near the Pajaggi Road here on Friday.
The apparent ...
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Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif will undertake whirlwind visit of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and China next month after assuming the office of the prime minister since Pakistan would like to discuss methods with world community to overcome its problems, ...
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Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD: The belated move of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to get de-notified by Election Commission of Pakistan, five MNAs and MPAs-elect from Punjab who got elected in their independent capacity stems from the ...
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our correspondent
SUKKUR: The authorities of the People’s Medical College (PMC), Benazirabad have deprived 150 students of MBBS of their right to house job, which was due in January 2013.
The News has learnt that 150 students, including 30 foreigner students of ...
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our correspondent
CHARSADDA: Four policemen, including assistant sub-inspector, were wounded in a roadside attack in the limits of Sro Killay Police Station on Friday, sources said.They said a party of Sro Killay Police Station headed by ASI Amjad Khan was on a ...
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Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: The United States has finally and publicly admitted what Pakistan has been advocating all along that ‘force alone cannot make us safer’.Islamabad has been sending a stark reminder that it was about time that Pakistan’s sacrifices in the ...
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PESHAWAR: A man was killed and another injured when unknown miscreants opened firing on a container in Tehsil Jamrud of Khyber Agency on Friday morning.According to Political Administration of Khyber Agency, the container was coming to Peshawar ...
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KARACHI: Disturbing reports have emerged of members of the Quetta police having close links with some of the deadliest terrorists in the sectarian war theatre of Pakistan. In a press conference on Monday, DIG Operations Quetta Police Fayyaz Ahmed ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday threw out appeal of Aqeel Karim Dhedhi and five other business personalities for removal of their names from Exit Control List (ECL) and permission to visit abroad.
On a request of Pakistan ...
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Shahid Shah
KARACHI: While several market pundits predicted a pre-election rally, few expected the KSE-100 index to cross the 21,000-point mark. The fundamentals hadn’t changed, they argued, so hefty inflows were unlikely. But the ‘foreign investors’ leading ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday warned against making baseless allegations about the transparency of general election, saying if the system derailed, all would be losers.
Talking to the media persons here, ...
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Obaid Abrar Khan
ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf on Friday filed bail petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in the judges’ detention case.
Ilyas Saddiqui, counsel for Musharraf, appeared before the court and argued that a person who had ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has asked the Ministry of Interior to investigate the issue of alleged illegal gratification to a former PPP government influential by an Audit Department officer.
The AGP has also informed the ...
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ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has expressed displeasure over non-filing of references by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against former FIA Additional DG Ahmad Riaz Sheikh and former OGDCL Chairman Adnan Khawaja
A ...
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KABUL: Explosions rocked central Kabul for several hours on Friday after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centered on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
One police officer was killed and five ...
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