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KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has disbanded the party’s coordination committees in Pakistan and the United Kingdom with immediate effect on Thursday. The administration of the party’s headquarters, Nine Zero in ...
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Waseem Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned former prime ministers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Yusuf Raza Gilani for an investigation into the illegal appointment of ex-chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir ...
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Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court’s order not to take any further action regarding appointments, transfers and postings during its remaining tenure, the caretaker government, through an ordinance issued on Thursday, declared thousands of ...
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday argued that the idea of using military might in a “boundless” war everywhere that radicalism took root, be it in Pakistan or Arab Spring nations or Somalia, was now obsolete.
“A perpetual war — ...
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Tahir Khalil
ISLAMABAD: The valued friendship between Pakistan and China emerged when visiting Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, keeping in view the difficult economic situation in Pakistan and in the spirit of austerity, directed officials not to arrange any ...
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Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: Mobile phone services remained suspended in the twin cities, the federal capital and Rawalpindi, for the second day on Thursday to ensure security of the visiting Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
“In the wake security arrangements, ...
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ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister-in-waiting, has short-listed a team of bureaucrats he wants to be his core team at the federal level to implement his vision, writes Ansar Abbasi.
In his endeavour to build a good team of bureaucrats ...
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Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the militant organisation operating in Pakistan, on Thursday welcomed Nawaz Sharif’s call for peace talks made to it on Sunday, saying the offer would be discussed among the top leadership and a ...
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Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The numerical strength of the opposition parties in the 342-member National Assembly, put together, will cross the 100 mark with the inclusion of the reserved women and minority seats.
This tally will further swell by at least a dozen ...
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Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: British Muslims unanimously and unreservedly condemned the brutal assassination of a British soldier on a Woolwich street here by two coverts of Nigerian origin and said that their barbaric act has no basis in Islam.
Prime Minister ...
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LAHORE: Amid a record heatwave, electricity suspension continued for 14 to 18 hours in the urban and rural areas of the Punjab respectively, making people’s lives miserable.
In the provincial metropolis and other parts of the province, people ...
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Umar Cheema
ISLAMABAD: A damning report by the New-York-based influential Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has accused MQM and ISI for harassing and killing journalists and demanded the would-be prime minister Nawaz Sharif re-open murder cases of 23 ...
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Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The fate of the presidential ordinance to impose taxation measures hangs in the balance as consultations continue with the incoming government of the PML-N to hammer out an agreement, official sources confirmed to The News on Thursday ...
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Amir Riaz
LAHORE: The Sindh High Court has restrained Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) from contributing or circulating any “libellous or false material” against JS Bank Ltd (JSBL) and issued notice to the TIP management in this regard.
The court ...
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HANGU: Twenty militants and two soldiers, including a Pakistan Army captain, were killed following a militants’ attack on the security forces convoy and subsequent clash in the central Kurram Agency, official sources said on Thursday.
The ...
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the treason case against former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf will be heard by a special court.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja was ...
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