A step back: Another case emerges as anti-polio drive kicks off
QUETTA: A new case of polio was confirmed in Quetta, as a three-day, nationwide immunisation campaign against the crippling disease kicked off on Monday. The latest case takes the total count to three...
View ArticleConspiracy theory: No militant wing in MQM, says Altaf Hussain
KARACHI: The head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday ruled out the possibility of a militant wing existing in his highly-disciplined political outfit, calling the allegation a part of the...
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Delayed meeting: Petroleum policy on CCI agenda tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: More than nine months have passed since the Council of Common Interests (CCI) met on May 29 last year. Their next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday (tomorrow), when a 10-point agenda –...
View ArticleRegistering refugees: Afghans won’t be forced out, says Khattak
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government and Afghanistan on Monday agreed that Afghan refugees will not be sent back to their home country by force. According to a statement issued after a...
View ArticleRPP cases: NAB chairman reviews progress in recovery
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry was briefed Monday on the current status of the rental power plants (RPPs), especially recovery made in RPPs and...
View ArticleEgypt condemns to death Brotherhood chief, 21 others
CAIRO: Egyptian courts on Monday condemned to death Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 21 other members of the banned movement in two separate cases over incitement to violence. State news...
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Conflicts and coverage: ‘The Great Game is not over’
KARACHI: The ‘Great Game’ is not over, we just have different actors now. We have to look at Russia, America is replacing the British and we also have China. French journalist Jean-Pierre Perrin shared...
View ArticleCapital punishment: Man sentenced to death for triple murder
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing three people. Muhammad Ismail, a tailor, was found guilty of murdering Arshad Khan, Muhammad Siddiq and Shahjehan....
View ArticleQuetta Rendezvous: Lt. General Janjua meets LG reps
QUETTA: Commander Southern Command Lt. General Naseer Hussain Janjua held a dinner in Quetta for the newly elected mayor and deputy mayor of provincial capital as well as the chairmen and deputy...
View ArticleDetained Or Not?: Man acquitted in Pearl case missing
HYDERABAD: The whereabouts of an acquitted suspect in the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl has become a puzzle. After his exoneration from the case by the Anti-Terrorism Court in...
View ArticleHeroin Smuggling: Riyadh beheads 3, including a Pakistani
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani and two Saudis on Tuesday, bringing to 48 the number of executions carried out this year. That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014....
View ArticleCyber crime legislation: Independent agency proposed in final draft
ISLAMABAD: The government proposed the creation of an independent agency to deal with cyber crime cases on Tuesday as it presented before parliament the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015. The...
View ArticleIn-chamber hearing: CJP rejects Saulat Mirza’s second review petition
QUETTA / ISLAMABAD: The apex court on Tuesday dismissed a plea against the execution of death-row prisoner Saulat Mirza on March 19. Mirza, apparently a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),...
View ArticlePetroleum shortage: Court reinstates OGRA chairman
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has reinstated the chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), annulling an earlier government move to send him on forced leave. Justice Noorul...
View ArticleAzam Tariq murder case: IHC dismisses appeal against scholar
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal filed against Shia scholar Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi in Maulana Azam Tariq’s murder case. “There is no substance in the evidence and the...
View ArticleSyria claims downing of US drone
DAMASCUS: Syria’s military shot down a US drone over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said on Tuesday. The US military confirmed that it had lost...
View ArticlePolio vaccinator shot dead in Bajaur Agency
SHABQADAR / ISLAMABAD: Barely a day after an audacious attack on a polio team in Manserah, another incident took place in Bajaur Agency, leaving a health worker dead and another wounded on Wednesday....
View ArticleFlying high: Air Marshal Aman named new air chief
ISLAMABAD: Air Marshal Sohail Aman was on Wednesday named new Chief of Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force (PAF). He will take up his new assignment with effect from March 19. An accomplished fighter pilot,...
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No show, no pay: Salaries of PTI’s absent lawmakers stopped
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said the salaries of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers have been withheld for absenting from the assembly sessions. While emerging...
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Falling prices: Power tariffs to go down by 20% next month
ISLAMABAD: Electricity tariffs for domestic consumers are expected to decline by Rs2.08 per unit, or 20.2%, from next month on account of lower fuel prices for the month of January 2015, following a...
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