Two policemen arrested over murder of colleagues
GILGIT: Gilgit police have arrested two policemen accused of murdering their colleagues in the suburbs of the city. Hussain Iqbal and Manzoom Hussain were shot dead near Sakwar area on Thursday over a...
View ArticleTargeted attack?: Three killed, two injured in firing incident
CHARSADDA: Three people were killed while two others were injured on Friday night in a firing incident in Tala Shah area of Umerzai, Charsadda district. According a police report filed on Saturday by...
View ArticleRainy spell: New weather system hits K-P
SHANGLA / PESHAWAR: A new spell of torrential rain hit Khyber-Pakthunkhwa on Saturday and is expected to last till April 3, said officials of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). A westerly...
View ArticleBalochistan Unrest: District council chief, guard kidnapped
QUETTA: Members of an outlawed Baloch separatist organisation kidnapped the head of Kharan district council near Patken area of Kharan district on Saturday. According to a senior official of...
View ArticleNorth Waziristan: Spina Wam residents prepare to return
BANNU: The political administration of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Saturday said that repatriation of the displaced people of Spina Wam tehsil will start from March 31. However, only tribesmen...
View ArticleMedia talk Imran doing politics of destruction: Rashid
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said on Saturday that PTI chief Imran Khan was doing ‘politics of destruction’ and his politics revolved around former spymasters, jobless bureaucrats...
View ArticlePolitical procrastination: PTI to delay intra-party elections
ISLAMABAD: In defiance of a tribunal recommendation to hold intra-party elections within a period of three months, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders have said it would not be able to do so until...
View ArticleBalochistan unrest: Four militants killed in Kalat gunfight
QUETTA: The paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) has claims to have killed at least four suspected militants from the banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA) during a search operation in Kalat district of...
View Article19% more kids miss out on polio vaccine
ISLAMABAD: A 19 per cent increase has been witnessed in the number of children who missed out on vaccination in the third nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year compared to the previous drive held...
View ArticleCountrywide sweeps: 727 ‘hardcore terrorists’ arrested since December 24
ISLAMABAD: Around 32,347 suspects, including 727 hardcore terrorists, have been rounded up in nationwide raids since December 24 last year under the National Action Plan against terrorism. Authorities...
View ArticleCounter-terrorism: Pakistan’s safety riding on ‘unfeasible’ action plan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s safety is essentially riding on the government’s National Action Plan (NAP) – drafted in the aftermath of the December 16 attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School– but the authors...
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Inconsistent standards: AGP raises hackles over Karachi land deal
ISLAMABAD: The auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) has raised hackles over the improper leasing of land near Karachi airport by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials. As a consequence, the AGP...
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Yemen conundrum: Govt weighs options on troop deployment in KSA
ISLAMABAD: The government is studying different options on how to support the Saudi-led military coalition in its campaign against the Houthi rebels in strife-torn Yemen. And sources told The Express...
View ArticleIn the line of fire: Colonel shot dead in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: A Pakistan Army colonel was shot dead by gunmen in the posh Hayatabad neighbourhood of Peshawar Sunday afternoon. Colonel Tahir, deployed in Rawalpindi, belonged to the Kaga Wala area of...
View ArticleFC search operation: 5 militants killed in Mastung gunfight
QUETTA: At least five Baloch separatists were killed and six injured in a clash with the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Mastung district of Balochistan on Sunday. The deadly clash came a day after the...
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Civil society lauds decision to not cancel registrations of 3,000 CBOs
PESHAWAR: Civil Society Alliance, a forum which represents community-based organisations (CBOs), has lauded the provincial government’s decision to not de-register 3,000 community-based organisations...
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Heralding Holy Week: Hosanna! Hosanna! rings on Palm Sunday
LAHORE: The church choir sang a beautiful hymn as the children of St Andrew’s Church Sunday School, dressed in long robes and head dresses, waved palm fronds and re-enacted Christ’s triumphant entry...
View ArticleIn memoriam : ‘Her fight was political not personal’
LAHORE: “Tahira Mazhar Ali’s fight was political not personal,” said Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Director IA Rehman on Sunday. He was speaking at a memorial reference organised at the...
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Regional ‘friends’: ‘Need new policy on Afghanistan’
LAHORE: Pakistan and Afghanistan must enter a long-term agreement to promote bilateral relations, former foreign minister Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali said at a round table discussion on...
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Due process: Relatives of Youhanabad protesters held to ‘trace lynch mob’
LAHORE: Having identified several suspects of lynching two men following twin attacks on churches in Youhanabad, city police have taken many of their relatives into custody and detained them at various...
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