Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: Within days of its signing, one of the biggest deals involving US$1.5 billion (almost Rs140 billion) for the procurement of five new Boeing ER 777-300 by the state-owned Pakistan International Airlines has landed into a serious ...
|
Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The federal government once again is set to increase the prices of petroleum products next week. This was disclosed in a meeting of a special committee to review the POL prices on Wednesday when Secretary Petroleum and Natural Resources ...
|
our correspondent
LAHORE: A two-member bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed deep concern over an excessive number of prisoners in jails and summoned the Punjab home secretary for today (Thursday) to explain how to accommodate and provide more facilities ...
|
LONDON: Pakistan will give its full support to any clear effort by the Afghan government to achieve a political settlement with the Taliban but does not want to lead a peace process that would impose a solution, its foreign minister said on ...
|
KABUL: At least nine demonstrators were shot dead and dozens wounded on Wednesday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the burning of the Holy Quran at a US-run military base, officials said.
In Kabul and in provinces to ...
|
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief, Mian Nawaz Sharif, has conditioned participation in the All Parties Conference with the trial of Nawab Akbar Bugti’ assassins and concrete steps for the recovery of missing persons.
Talking ...
|
Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: In compliance with the court’s earlier order, Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq on Wednesday submitted documentary evidence in the contempt case against Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and also recorded his statement while ...
|
Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of the tabling of a resolution in the US House of Representatives, calling for the grant of the right of self-determination to the people of Balochistan, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has summoned an emergency meeting ...
|
Muhammad Ejaz Khan
QUETTA: Supporting the resolution on Balochistan tabled in the US House of Representatives, the chief of Baloch Republican Party (BRP), Nawabzada Brahmdagh Bugti, on Wednesday rejected the proposed All Parties Conference (APC), saying that the APC ...
|
Akhtar Amin
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan on Wednesday observed that the state authorities and functionaries were concealing facts from the courts in the missing persons’ cases after unbearable pressure from the security ...
|
Khalid Kheshgi
PESHAWAR: An environment of horse-trading and vote-selling is being created as the treasury and opposition benches in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have failed to agree on unanimous candidates for general as well as technocrat and women reserved ...
|
News Desk
ISLAMABAD: The spouse of a former intelligence officer, Major Aseed Zahidi, has alleged that her husband is in the ISI’s custody since last one and a half years.
Major Zahidi (retd) was working with the military intelligence in Karachi in 2008 ...
|
Shoaib A Raja
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said talks were necessary for permanent and solid relations between India and Pakistan.
Speaking at a reception in honour of Indian parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker ...
|
Khursheed Abbasi
KARACHI: The government formed 15 judicial commissions to investigate the serious crimes in Karachi from 1997 to 2011, but no report of any commission was ever unveiled.
While seven of these commissions completed their investigations, their ...
|
Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau Wednesday decided to reopen more than 40 high-profile corruption cases against politicians including PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, which were pending for the ...
|
our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: A petition seeking termination of Dr Nazir Mughal, Vice Chancellor, University of Sindh, was filed on Wednesday in the Supreme Court, stating that his appointment was made in a non-transparent manner, without undergoing the due process ...
|
KHOST: An Afghan radio reporter was beheaded in the insurgency-plagued southeastern province of Paktika after being lured to a meeting by unidentified men, an official said Wednesday.
The body of Samid Khan Bahadarzai, 25, who worked for a local ...
|
BUENOS AIRES: A packed commuter train slammed into a retaining wall at a railway terminus in the capital and largest city of Argentina during rush hour Wednesday, leaving at least 49 dead, 550 injured, and dozens trapped in the wreckage.
“The ...
|
ur correspondent
ABBOTTABAD: Two cops and an alleged outlaw were killed in an exchange of fire in the Mir Alam town in the limits of the Mirpur Police Station on Wednesday, police sources said.
The sources said that the Rider Squad, including police Constables ...
|
MUMBAI: The Press Council of India Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan asking why his government should not be sacked for failing to protect journalists.
In a stinging letter to Chavan, a copy of ...
|
Hanif Khalid
ISLAMABAD: The damage of billions of rupees has been inflicted on the national exchequer due to the connivance of the officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). The Director General Intelligence and Investigation In-land Revenue had detected a ...
|
Wajid Ali Syed
WASHINGTON: The principal organisation that helped “prepare and push” Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for last week’s controversial Congressional hearing on Balochistan, claims to be “a lobbying group with the goals to educate the American ...
|
S Rahman
Although Washington administration has disowned the Congressional resolution on Balochistan, terming it as just one out of a few thousand un-adopted resolutions tabled in the Congress during the last four years, Pakistan government has not at all ...
|
Sabir Shah
LAHORE: A Chicago school is collecting penalties to the tune of hundreds of dollars from its students found guilty of ‘misconduct,’ prompting educators to raise questions about the fairness of the practice.
Students at the Noble Street Schools ...
|
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has asked the Sindh Police to drop charges of forgery against its high-ups probing the high-profile ISAF/Nato containers scam.
The Sindh Police registered an FIR against the FBR officials, including ...
|
ISLAMABAD: The process of upgrading the posts at Election Commission of Pakistan was without any legal flaw, nepotism or favoritism.
A spokesman of the Election Commission has dispelled the impression created through a news report and said, ...
|
our correspondent
LAHORE: The UAE Government’s decision to pay off their debts has not only helped the Emirati investors heave a sigh of relief, but the move is also likely to help the local banks reduce their non-performing loans to comfortable levels. According to ...
|
our correspondent
LAHORE: While we are living in a country where even the President’s pet can hardly be questioned or held accountable for any wrong act, look what is happening in the neighbouring India where the son of the sitting Indian head of state has been ...
|
Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The crime rate in Punjab registered a sharp increase during the year 2011 by 10.2% as compared to 2010 with a viciously strong ‘Thana Culture’.
These findings present a stark challenge to a government, which has staked its ...
|
Khassadar force vehicle escapes IED attack
By our correspondent
CHARSADDA: A vehicle of the Khassadar Force escaped a roadside blast near Dando Bridge in Shabqadar tehsil on Wednesday, sources said. The sources said the vehicle of the ...
|
Agha Khalid
KARACHI: A meeting of the Anti-Corruption Establishment Committee No-I held here in June 2011, presided over by the chief secretary, Sindh, over the future of 103 anti-corruption inquiries involving millions of rupees and 300 accused officials and ...
|
our correspondent
HYDERABAD: Expressing concern over the suspended classes, the University of Sindh administration has asked the agitating teachers not to stop those teachers who want to perform their duties and take classes. The university administration has said ...
|