Skill drill: IGP addresses first Junior Command course participants
PESHAWAR: IGP Nasir Khan Durrani directed Junior Command course officials to make the best use of their training and confront challenges in a dignified manner. According to a handout, he said this...
View ArticleKalat encounter: Three militants, FC man killed
QUETTA: At least three militants and a Frontier Corps trooper were killed following an exchange of fire in Kalat on Friday. The FC was conducting a search operation in the Giddar Valley when the...
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Good performance: Balochistan witnesses 50% decline in sectarian violence
QUETTA: Official documents show that acts of terrorism as well as sectarian and targeted killings have gone down by 50 per cent in Balochistan over the last two years under Chief Minister Dr Abdul...
View ArticleFresh date: By-elections in NA-154 Lodhran set for December 23
ISLAMABAD: The top election authority announced on Friday a new date, the second in recent months, for by-election on the NA-154 constituency in Lodhran. Polling will now be held in the south Punjab...
View ArticleState visit: Belarusian premier expected on November 9
ISLAMABAD: Belarus Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov will be leading a high-powered delegation to Pakistan early next week during his maiden visit to the country.According to an official handout, Kobyakov...
View ArticleTrapped for 50 hours : Survivor pulled from factory’s rubble
LAHORE: As the death toll from the collapsed four-storey building near Lahore rose to 37 on Friday, rescuers managed to pull out a young man from the rubble nearly 50 hours after the incident with...
View ArticleHajj stampede: Seven Pakistani pilgrims still unaccounted for
ISLAMABAD: A month and a half has passed since the Hajj stampede in Mina, but the fate of seven Pakistani pilgrims is still unknown, much to the anguish of their families.Ninety-nine Pakistani pilgrims...
View ArticleTirah air raids kill 15 militants
BARA: At least 15 militants were killed and many more injured in the latest air strikes carried out by the military in a strategic valley of Khyber Agency on Saturday.The air blitz came after a brief...
View ArticleThe mythology surrounding earthquakes
I t is a maxim that knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. Enlightening individuals about catastrophes is a necessity of the times. This is not the...
View ArticlePromoting Sports: SNGPL holds climbing championship
Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) hosted its fourth All Pakistan Rock Master Sports Climbing Championship 2015 at DHA Sports Complex in Lahore. The utility service responsible for supplying...
View ArticlePolitical Mobilisation: PTI protests against fuel price hike
ISLAMABAD: After months of protests and rallies against electoral fraud in the country yielding negligible gains, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday held a protest against recent hike in...
View ArticleConvicted for terror: Woman moves SC against verdict of military court
ISLAMABAD: The mother of a man sentenced to death by a military court approached the Supreme Court on Saturday on the pretext that her son was an internally displaced person from Bajaur Agency and a...
View ArticleUN rights council: PPP files motion against diplomatic defeat
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s failure to retain a seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council continues to embarrass Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government in both houses of parliament.Opposition parties...
View ArticleFair trial in Bangladesh: Khakwani seeks world intervention
ISLAMABAD: Former railways minister Ishaq Khan Khakwani is appealing for help from the international community to ensure a fair trial for Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi politician convicted...
View ArticleFour Pakistanis among ‘militants’ held in Dhaka
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested seven suspected militants including four Pakistani nationals, they said on Saturday, accusing them of planning to commit acts of violence in the country.The...
View ArticleAgreement: Newly elected lawmaker joins ruling party, gets his way
ISLAMABAD: Newly elected lawmaker Chaudhry Riazul Haq has joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) on his own terms, wresting control over allocation recommendations for development funds...
View ArticleTransitions: Daman’s Sir Syed Ahmad Khan bows out
DI KHAN: Mohiuddin’s last wish was to be buried at Shama Public School, the school he established in his hometown of Ruree in Kulachi, DI Khan. However, no one anticipated he would be brutally gunned...
View ArticleTrapped: Five suffocate to death in godown fire
TIMERGARA: Five people, including two brothers, died of suffocation when a fire broke out in an underground godown of a bakery in Khal Bazaar, Lower Dir on Saturday night.“The fire broke out around 1am...
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Into the wild: Three injured in bear attack in Kaghan
MANSEHRA: At least three people were injured after being attacked by bears in separate incidents in Kaghan Valley on Saturday.A police official told The Express Tribune on Sunday, Sajid Mehmood, a...
View ArticleLay of the law? Houses destroyed during operation
DI KHAN: Police officials demolished houses of wanted offenders during an operation on Sunday. At least three houses and all their contents were destroyed in Umar Kalay in the northwest region of Tank...
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