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Court takes FC to task over disappearances
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Supreme Court assailed the Frontier Corps (FC) on Friday for its perceived role in the growing…
US base in Afghanistan attacked; 14 killed
KABUL, June 1: A suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base on Friday, sparking clashes that killed up to 15…
Non-imposition of tax on farm income irks MQM minister
ISLAMABAD, June 1: At a special meeting of the federal cabinet held here on Friday to approve proposals for next…
Former minister’s son gunned down
QUETTA, June 1: A son of a former provincial minister was killed in Spiny road area of the city on…
Govt plans nine power projects
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The government will initiate work on nine power projects during fiscal year 2012-13 as part of the…
Plane escapes disaster
KARACHI, June 1: A PIA aircraft flying over Punjab on Friday evening with 49 passengers on board had a close…
Tax revenue likely to go up by Rs150bn
ISLAMABAD, May 31: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh presents on Friday his third and the PPP-led coalition government’s fifth budget…
Energy crisis main constraint in growth
ISLAMABAD, May 31: The Economic Survey for 2011-12 concedes that energy outage was the dominant constraint on the overall growth…
Saudi officer hurt in brawl at airport
RAWALPINDI: A Saudi military officer was assaulted by Airport Security Force (ASF) personnel when he argued with an official over…
PML-N keeps to itself its plan for NA session
ISLAMABAD, May 31: Whatever hell his apparently desperate political foes may play, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will mark a…
Court rejects Assange’s appeal against extradition
LONDON, May 30: Britain’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be extradited to Sweden over…
Neurosurgeon Qureshi killed by kidnapper during rescue bid
HYDERABAD, May 30: Dr Aftab Qureshi, a senior faculty member of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences and…
Speaker’s ruling cannot be questioned outside NA: Fehmida
ISLAMABAD: As far as National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza is concerned her ruling against sending a reference to the…
Economic Survey
ISLAMABAD, May 30: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh will unveil on Thursday the Economic Survey 2011-12 on the performance…
EC can’t act against PM before SC verdict: member
ISLAMABAD, May 30: The Election Commission cannot act on its own on the issue of disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf…
Special court indicts Kazmi, others in Haj scam case
RAWALPINDI, May 30: A Special Court on Wednesday indicted former minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi and two others…
Provinces ordered to notify rules for transplantation
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The Supreme Court asked the provincial governments on Tuesday to notify in six weeks rules and protocols…
Avalanche victims declared ‘martyrs’
ISLAMABAD, May 29: All the 139 people, 124 of them soldiers, buried in snow when they were hit by an…
‘Munter found drone strikes unacceptable’
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The outgoing US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron P. Munter, found the drone strike-driven American policy unacceptable and complained…
Bhoja Air operations suspended
KARACHI, May 29: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suspended on Tuesday operations of Bhoja Air for not having the required…
Syrian diplomats expelled by several countries
PARIS, May 29: Governments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats on Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian…
Rs1.97 power tariff hike approved
ISLAMABAD, May 29: A Rs1.97 per unit increase in electricity tariff for all distribution companies of Wapda was approved by…
US military chief backs aid cuts
WASHINGTON, May 29: US military chief Gen Martin Dempsey has said that his country’s senators made the right call by…
New petitions against ruling
ISLAMABAD, May 29: Another two petitions — one by PML-N lawmaker Syed Zafar Ali Shah and the other by a…
Budget team mulls tax relief, revised revenue target
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to impose 5 per cent tax on monetised transport facility of senior government officers, unlike…
Turkey to indict Israeli commanders
ANKARA, May 28: A Turkish court has approved an indictment seeking multiple life sentences for four former Israeli military commanders…
Judiciary can’t be left unbridled, says CJ
ISLAMABAD, May 28: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said the judiciary has to win public confidence through its performance…
Three killed in Kurram bus attack
PARACHINAR, May 28: Three people were killed and nine others injured on Monday when armed men attacked a bus with…
Dr Afridi made scapegoat, alleges brother
PESHAWAR, May 28: A brother of Dr Shakeel Afridi sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the CIA trace…
Coalition partners seek uplift schemes
ISLAMABAD, May 28: With the government set to present its fifth budget on June 1, coalition partners are pressurising the…
