KABUL: The Taliban on Tuesday opened an office in Qatar in a bid to start “dialogue with the world” as US officials said they hoped to meet the insurgents within days, after the Afghan government took control of nationwide security from ...
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Waseem Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Swiss government has communicated to Pakistan that the graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari and others cannot be reopened in the Swiss courts despite a recent letter by the PPP’s former government.
However, Pakistan’s ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif on Tuesday told legislators in the National Assembly that the Nawaz Sharif government could not be held responsible for the crisis in the energy sector, which was caused by the misdeeds in the ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: In its first major reshuffle in bureaucracy, the Nawaz Sharif government on Tuesday changed 13 federal secretaries while contracts of some 100 officials are likely to be cancelled.
The government appointed Director General Passport ...
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Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set to seek today (Wednesday) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a $4.5 billion loan programme to pay back the previous loan instalments.
Pakistan economic managers team, headed by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, ...
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UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for steps to protect children in situations of armed conflict, while stressing the need for negotiations to address the issue of damaging effects unleashed by the drone strikes.
Pakistan believes that the use ...
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Monitoring report
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday said that Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has kept himself away from politics but people like former ISI chief Gen Pasha still exist in the army.
He said “we need ...
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday directed the Federation to increase a special allowance of 20pc on the running basic pay of all the federal government employees as it was granted to the officials of ministries and divisions. ...
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has sought the entire record including all applications of Chairperson Defence of Human Rights Amina Masood Janjua in the case regarding missing of her husband Masood Janjua.
The two-member bench of the SC under the ...
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our correspondent
PESHAWAR: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Imran Haider, who was wounded in a blast in North Waziristan Agency, succumbed to his injuries in Combined Military Hospital here on Tuesday.“An IED victim, Lieutenant Colonel Syed Imran Haider, embraced shahadat ...
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RAWALPINDI: Deputy Secretary Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Paul Grigson on Tuesday said he fully acknowledged the role and sacrifices of the Pakistani Armed Forces in the war against terror.
Talking to Secretary Defence Lt ...
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Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will visit the under construction Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project near Muzaffarabad today (Wednesday).This will be the first visit of Nawaz Sharif since assuming office of the Prime Minister to any ...
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal urged the concerned authorities to evolve a comprehensive strategy to improve economy and maintain peace in Balochistan.
He said that there is need to formulate a strategy to ...
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Mushtaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday formally announced that they were willing to hold peace talks with the Afghan government and US officials to find a negotiated settlement to the 12-year long Afghan conflict.
Senior Afghan Taliban ...
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Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the National Assembly on Tuesday that the government would use all its resources to check drone attacks if this practice was not stopped, adding that the democratic set-up ...
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Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: A constitutional petition seeking the stoppage of drone attacks in the tribal areas was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Mado Jan, a resident of Karez Kot Gangi Khail village of Wana, South Waziristan Agency, has filed the ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday extended its full cooperation to the Nawaz Sharif government for ending the role of the establishment in Balochistan and restoring peace in the province. “The rulers have the mandate to restore ...
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Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Opposition senators stormed out of the Senate on Tuesday against the new increase in the general sales tax (GST), alleging the rulers were running Pakistan as their ‘personal fiefdom’.
Both the treasury and opposition legislators in ...
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ISLAMABAD: Attorney General (AG) Munir A Malik has filed the government reply on loadshedding in the Supreme Court (SC) saying the power distribution formula needed to be reviewed.
The reply, filed in the court on Tuesday, said there were ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Akram Khan Durrani will become part of the federal cabinet representing the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) next week after the first expansion in the cabinet. It is likely that seven ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the Punjab government has presented a revolutionary budget for the fiscal year 2013-14 in which a number of important measures have been announced for the progress and welfare of the ...
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Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: Federal Law and Justice Minister Zahid Hamid on Tuesday decided to step down after the appearance of his name as defendant in the case of emergency imposed by former president Pervez Musharraf.Earlier in the day, he conveyed to the ...
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