Raymond Davis' family reaches Pakistan

Lahore: The family of US official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, has arrived in Pakistan, a media report said on Saturday. ... Read More

PPP not to indulge in horse-trading: PM

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) would never resort to horse-trading to get majority in Punjab.He said this while talking to newsmen here after addressing the 9th ... Read More

American man jailed for illegal stay in Pakistan

A court in Pakistan Saturday sent an American man to jail a day after he was arrested in the country' s northwestern city of Peshawar for ... Read More

Another US national sent to jail in Pakistan

A Pakistani court Saturday sent a US national, who was arrested in Peshawar for overstaying his visa, to jail on 14-day judicial remand. ... Read More

Security forces kill two militants in Swat

 

MINGORA: The security forces killed two militants in an exchange of fire in Kala Killay area of district Swat’s Kabal tehsil on Friday.
The sources said the forces were on a routine patrol when the militants identified as Abdul Kabir, resident ... Read More

USAID allocates $176m for SWA uplift

PESHAWAR: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) is vital to stability of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) that is why the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated an amount of $176 million for the ... Read More

Govt-Ahmadzais talks again remain inconclusive

PESHAWAR: Talks between the government and Ahmadzai tribal jirga again couldn’t reach conclusion to end tension between the two sides in South Waziristan tribal region despite the restoration of some perks and privileges of the tribe by the ...  Read More

Rally against Davis ‘extradition’

RELIGIOUS parties on Friday continued protest against the likely extradition of US spy Raymond Davis to America, demanding the rulers and the army shrug off the US threats and show courage to save Pakistan from CIA terrorists by arresting ... Read More

Flood-affected students of FJWU get cheques

Rawalpindi: The Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) arranged a cheque distribution ceremony here on Friday for its flood-affected students. FJWU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Saeeda Asadullah Khan distributed cheques among the flood-affected ... Read More

Two shot dead

Two men were killed in separate incidents in the city on Friday. The bullet-riddled body of Hafiz-ur-Rehman, 44, was found in the Orangi Town police limits.
Police said that the body had been lying outside a house in Ghaziabad.
A ... Read More

MQM rejects tariff hike

MQM parliamentarians in Sindh have strongly condemned the National Electrical Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra)’s decision to allow an increase of 33 paisa in power tariff by the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), said a press ... Read More

Lanno Malla flood survivors opt for self-rehabilitation

 

In the absence of government assistance for rehabilitation of the flood-affected people, the resilient survivors in Lanno Malla village in UC Begna, Jati, have taken up the responsibility of rebuilding their houses and roads. Here, women ... Read More

Flood victims unaware of their basic rights

When Aami was forced off the shrine where she had been seeking shelter, she had nowhere to go and no one to turn too. While some of the flood victims were lucky enough to find refuge at government and private relief camps, others ... Read More

Jobless man commits suicide

A jobless man committed suicide at his residence in the Awami Colony police limits on Friday, police said. After an exchange of hot words with his parents, 25-year-old Zubair Ahmed locked himself in a room and hanged himself with the ... Read More

MQM to benefit from PPP-PML-N rift

After the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief’s announcement on Friday to oust the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ministers from the Punjab cabinet, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) finds itself in a stronger position to bargain ... Read More

‘Police official occupying ancient temple’

 

A police official has occupied the ancient Nehal Darya Temple in Thatta, says Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo.
Responding to question by Nusrat Abbasi during the question-hour session in the Sindh Assembly on Friday, the culture ... Read More

HEC refuses to recognise PhD of Iqra University registrar

Students of the Iqra University, once full of hopes for a bright and lucrative future, now live in uncertainty as it has emerged that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has refused to recognise the PhD degree of the institution’s Dean ... Read More

Public-Private Partnership Act amended

The Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously passed the Sindh Public-Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2011’ into law.
Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah said the assembly had passed the law on February 18, 2010, which then became an act ... Read More

7,000 sacked employees likely to be reinstated

 

The Sindh Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Friday, urging the government to reinstate 7,187 sacked lower grade employees of the Education Department and then consider their regularisation sympathetically.
The resolution, ...  Read More

Taliban prepare for summer offensive

PESHAWAR: Taliban are finalising preparations for launching their spring and summer offensive in March. With the end of winter and the gradual warming of the weather, Taliban commanders have started mobilising their fighters and marshalling ... Read More

Lord Nazir lauds Rescue 1122

LAHORE: Member British Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmad appreciated the services of Rescue 1122, particularly its response time of seven minutes, and pledged support in capacity building of Rescue 1122 staff by the United Kingdom. He visited the ... Read More

Rally against ‘extradition’ of Raymond Davis to US

LAHORE: Religious parties on Friday continued protest against the likely extradition of US spy Raymond Davis to America, demanding the rulers and the army shrug off the US threats and show courage to save Pakistan from CIA terrorists by arresting ... Read More

CJCSC meets Chinese leadership

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Khalid Shameem Wynne, who is on official visit of China, met the senior civil and military leadership of the Peopleís Republic of China (PRC). Chairman JCSC co-chaired the 8th ...  Read More

Govt, Ahmadzais talks remain inconclusive

PESHAWAR: Talks between the government and Ahmadzai tribal jirga again couldn’t reach conclusion to end tension between the two sides in South Waziristan tribal region despite the restoration of some perks and privileges of the tribe by the ... Read More

Afghans’ voluntary repatriation process to resume from March

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s voluntary repatriation programme for registered Afghans will resume on March 1 and run through October 2011 through two Voluntary Repatriation Centres in Quetta and ... Read More

ANP sees mid-term polls in Punjab

LAHORE: The Awami National Party has warned that the decision of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz may pave the way for mid-term elections in Punjab.
Talking to The News, ANP Senior Vice-president Senator Haji Mohammad Adeel said reasons ... Read More

New opposition leader hot issue in PPP

LAHORE: The name of a new opposition leader has become a hot issue in the PPP Punjab after the PML-N parted ways with it.
Though the name of parliamentary leader Raja Riaz Ahmed is doing the rounds for the slot of opposition leader, yet some ... Read More

Raisani enjoying support of coalition partners: Kurd

QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Parliamentary leader in the Balochistan Assembly and provincial Finance Minister Mir Asim Kurd Gailo has said Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has been enjoying full support and trust of ... Read More

People banking on turncoats to lose: Khosa

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Latif Khan Khosa has termed the PML-N decision not ‘worrisome’ for the PPP and said those banking on ‘turncoats’ will be at a losing end.
Talking to The News, he said the PPP government in the CSentre would complete its ... Read More

PPP, PML-N alliance in Punjab lasts for 1,033 days

LAHORE: The bumpy romance between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab, which culminated on Friday evening, could last for two years, 10 months and three days or 1,033 days to be more ... Read More

Relief items seized from market

HANGU: Raiding a local market, the security forces on Friday seized food items meant for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Orakzai Agency by an international organisation, official sources said.
The sources said that acting on a ... Read More

It’s time to book the responsible: CJ

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Friday asked the counsel for secretary ministry of railways to make a clear stance over 141 acre Railways land in Lahore leased out during former President Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf regime. A ... Read More

U-Bloc has no legal standing, says ex-EC secretary

ISLAMABAD: The Unification Bloc in Punjab has no legal, constitutional or moral ground to join the Punjab government unless its members resign and get re-elected in by-elections, says former EC Secretary Kanwar Dilshad.
“Otherwise they clearly ... Read More

Punjab case may go to the Supreme Court

ISLAMABAD: The constitution is silent on the legal status of a parliamentary party in which majority of elected MPs disowns its leadership and forms a new political entity and experts say ultimately the Supreme Court may have to rule on the ... Read More

No talks with Taliban pursuing foreign agenda: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Friday ruled out the dialogue with those Taliban who are pursuing the foreign agenda but only with those militants who will de-commission and surrender their arms before the local authorities.... Read More

FBR field formations’ restructuring from March 1

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected Rs85 billion tax in 25 days and in the next three days it has to pool yet another Rs45 billion to fulfil the February revenue collection target of Rs130 billion. The FBR will carry out ... Read More

PML-N needs only eight MPAs from Q

LAHORE: The PML-N will now need the support of eight MPAs in case a no-trust motion is moved against it in the Punjab.
In the house of 371, the PML-N possesses strength of 173 MPAs and with the support of two from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal ... Read More

All options open in Punjab after PPP-Nawaz split

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N’s decision to show the door to the PPP in the Punjab government is a possible prelude to mid-term polls in the country.
Tempers have run high quickly. The Presidency, in a tit-for-tat reaction to Raiwind’s decision to throw ...  Read More

Gilani government blamed for Davis’ secret entry in Pakistan

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s intelligence agency blamed Gilani government for allowing Raymond Davis to enter the country secretly, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The paper claimed that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) says the ... Read More

US national held for illegal stay in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: An American was arrested by the Special Branch of police on Friday for illegally staying in the city after the expiry of his visa in October last year. The foreigner was identified as Aaron Mark DeHaven, a citizen of West Virginia ... Read More

India starts construction of another mega dam on Chenab

ISLAMABAD: India has started construction of the Bursar Hydroelectric Project - a mega dam on the Chenab River that will reduce water flows to Pakistan by as much as 2.2 million acre feet (MAF). The project will store a huge quantum of 2.2 million ... Read More

Four killed as 15 Nato tankers torched

PESHAWAR: In a brazen attack on three parking lots in Garhi Qamardin on the Ring Road, over three-dozen armed militants killed at least four people and wounded 17 others before blowing up and torching 15 oil-tankers supplying fuel to the Nato ... Read More

Davis refuses to sign, receive Challan

LAHORE: Additional district and sessions judge Yousaf Aujla on Friday fixed March 3 for framing charges against US national double murder accused Raymond Davis while the accused has refused to receive a copy of the challan given to him by the ... Read More

Balochistan situation getting worse: CJ

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday observed that the law and order situation in Balochistan was getting worse and ordered the authorities concerned to take effective measures to control the rising incidents of kidnapping and target killings and ... Read More

851 Americans enjoy diplomatic immunity in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: American diplomatic and non-diplomatic staff top the list of those enjoying diplomatic immunity in Pakistan - 851 in total including 31 working at its consulate in Lahore alone. The government on Friday informed the National Assembly ... Read More

Maneka, Tahir tipped for ministries

LAHORE: The PML-N leadership has decided to accommodate two members from the unification bloc as ministers after the exit of the PPP from the provincial cabinet, The News has learnt.
Though the unification bloc members are in the dark about ... Read More

PPP to play role of opposition in Punjab

ISLAMABAD: With the final burial of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) between the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz after the announcement of Mian Nawaz Sharif to say goodbye to the PPP in the Punjab, the People’s Party on ... Read More

PML-N gets rid of PPP in Punjab

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Friday announced it was parting ways with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Punjab after “receiving no encouraging response” to its 10-point reforms agenda, getting rid of the PPP ministers in the ... Read More