Shoaib A Raja
ISLAMABAD: China and Pakistan should make the cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Pakistan seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near ...
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Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has hammered out a short-term plan to erase the Rs500 billion circular debt once and for all through treasury bills, an expert of the party involved in finalising the strategy to overcome the crippling power crisis told The ...
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Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has said that the Metropolitan Police have received an “unprecedented” number of complaints about the comments made by Altaf Hussain during his speeches ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan went home after he was discharged from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre on Wednesday.
According to a press release issued here, the hospital spokesman said ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The law ministry has declared the decision of the caretaker prime minister to ban vehicles of over 1000cc capacity from utilising CNG as a ‘negation of the basic spirit of the Constitution which ensures equal rights to all citizens’. ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday asked if there were any government or law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in the country and if it was not their job to take notice of Altaf Hussain’s speech.
The CJ expressed ...
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our correspondent
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and prime minister-designate Mian Nawaz Sharif’s talks offer to the Taliban was challenged in the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday.
A freelance journalist Shahid Orakzai filed a writ ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday conferred Pakistan’s highest civil award Nishan-e-Pakistan on Chinese Premier Li Keqiang for his outstanding contribution to strengthening Pakistan-China relations.
The investiture ceremony held at ...
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our correspondent
CHARSADDA: Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister for law Arshad Abdullah along with 19 other persons were arrested from the court premises after a local court cancelled their bail on Wednesday.
Former minister for law and parliamentary affairs and ...
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RAWALPINDI: Two more bodies of Shaheed soldiers, who came under a huge snow slide last year, were recovered from Gayari sector in the ongoing search operation during the last 36 hours.
A spokesman for Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: Protests against killing of PTI activist from Karachi Zahra Shahid Hussein continued on Wednesday and party women workers from Lahore staged demonstrations in different parts of the city.
A demonstration was staged in the area of ...
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NEW DELHI: India said it will do all within its means to promote stability in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai, while talking to reporters in New Delhi said: “We have a wishlist that we have put before the government of India. It is up to the ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: A Lawyer was shot dead by four persons in the Defence A area on Wednesday.Victim Zain Ghaffar was on his way to a court from his house when some armed persons riding on bikes intercepted him in Z Block, Defence A and shot him dead.Victim’s ...
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News Desk
BAHAWALPUR: PML-Q MPA-elect Dr. M Afzal’s son shot and injured a girl in Model Town area, Geo News reported Wednesday. Abdullah escaped after shooting the girl as she got out of a private school. The injured student was being treated at Bahawal ...
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ISLAMABAD: If payments are due then institutions should get it, said Justice Jawad S Khawaja while heading a 3-member Supreme Court bench and hearing secret funds case.He said the court wants to impart justice to all in accordance with the law. The ...
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our correspondent
LONDON: Journalists in Pakistan are under “serious threat” from state security forces, some political parties and religious militant groups, Amnesty International has said.
At the launch of its 2013 annual report at its London headquarters here, ...
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Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday notified the names of the returned candidates of the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies with a record 41 seats (14 of NA) still vacant due to different reasons.
The ...
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LONDON: A man believed to be a serving British soldier was brutally murdered on Wednesday near a London barracks in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Cameron called the attack “appalling” and said: “There are ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab Najam Sethi has said he has understood everything during the last two months and that the solution of power crisis was not an easy task.
He said his government had tried to get approved three ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended all appointments, postings and transfers carried out by the caretaker government except the transfers mandatory for free and fair elections and for running the day-to-day affairs.
A ...
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Obaid Abrar Khan
ISLAMABAD: Judge of the Anti-terrorism court (ATC), Kausar Abbas Zaidi, Wednesday rejected the bail petition of former President General (R) Pervez Musharraf in judges’ detention case.
Ilyas Saddiqui counsel for General Musharraf appeared before ...
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Ammar Shahbazi
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement is going through an aggressive internal restructuring process cleansing the party of the members who earned it a ‘bad name’ as party chief maintained that land grabbers had no room in the party.
In a ...
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Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The government is mulling promulgation of draft Tax Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, through which the rate of GST has been proposed to be increased from 16 to 17 percent.
This proposed ordinance had not yet been signed by the ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said Wednesday that Pakistan is not interested in American weapons and ammunition being used in Afghanistan. Talking to journalists at the PM’s reception for visiting Chinese PM, he ...
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Asim Yasin and Tahir Khalil
ISLAMABAD: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday boycotted the luncheon hosted by President Asif Ali Zardari in honour of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
Chaudhry Shujaat had an invitation for the main table for the luncheon ...
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