Thursday, February 14, 2013
Ansar Abbasi & Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The forensic report on the death of Kamran Faisal establishes unambiguously that the NAB investigating officer, who was probing the high profile RPP corruption case, was tortured before death. Even the analysis of ligature ...

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Ansar Abbasi & Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: In a major initiative toward electoral reforms in the country, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has approved a 30-day scrutiny period for nomination papers of candidates to ensure that frauds, fake degree holders, ...

Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ansar Abbasi & Shoaib A Raja
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday announced that tomorrow (Friday) would be observed as ‘Yaum-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (SAW)’ and would be a public holiday to raise a national voice against the anti-Islam film which has rocked the Muslim ...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Ansar Abbasi and Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: The Secretary of Election Commission has said that the commission’s decision to bar dual nationality holders from contesting elections, also applies to the incumbent MPs. Talking to The News, the secretary ECP, Ishtiak ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Ansar Abbasi & Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD/DUBAI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked Sindh to stop the victimisation of Farooq Leghari, the brother of HEC Chairman Dr Javed Leghari, but has put up a new bureaucratic hurdle to delay action on fake ...

Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Ansar Abbasi & Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: Total confusion prevailed on Tuesday night about the fate of a report of the three-man fact-finding committee, headed by Cabinet Secretary Rauf Chaudhry, as conflicting statements were issued by responsible official ...

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Ansar Abbasi & Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: Has the president announced extraordinary remission of 1/4th of the total sentence for all the convicted criminals, excluding those involved in heinous crimes, whose number is said to be in thousands, just to benefit his ...

Thursday, December 03, 2009
Ansar Abbasi & Ahmad Noorani
ISLAMABAD: The front man who bought nearly 2,500 kanals (over 300 acres) of Islamabad land, now worth Rs2 billion or more, for President Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal in mid-90s, has finally come forward to make some candid ...

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ansar Abbasi & Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities suspect that Americans involved in training of the Punjab Police at the Sihala Police College may have been involved in espionage near the Kahuta nuclear site located close by. However, US diplomats ...

Sunday, May 17, 2009
Ansar Abbasi & Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: The prime judicial body — the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (NJPMC) — has reached a consensus to completely disassociate the judiciary from the election process. However, according to sources, the final ...