Hundreds of angry people took to streets in Mirpur Azad Kashmir to protest long unscheduled loadshedding. The protesters are heading towards Mangla Dam. Police resorted to firing to stop the protesters due to which several people got injured. The demonstrators maintained that Mangla Dam was constructed on their lands and they are deprived to [continue....]
ISLAMABAD: Serbia has sought Pakistan’s help to get an observer status in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). “We have applied for an observer status in the OIC where Pakistan is an influential member. We are hoping that soon we will get an observer status,” Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said here on Thursday. Mr Jeremic is [continue....]
ISLAMABAD: One bold step of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday night followed by his rare meeting with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday eased the prevailing tension in the country altogether and averted a possible clash between the executive and the judiciary. Just minutes after his meeting with Chief Justice [continue....]
Lahore: Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has fiercely criticised key politicians depositing money in foreign banks, as ‘they have nothing to do with the interests of country. Such politicians should never be allowed to contest polls unless they bring back into country, their assets and accounts from foreign banks. The Pakistan [continue....]
FAISALABAD: FIA has withdrawn the charges of power abuse against Interior Minister Rehman Malik in a case here. The Interior Minister was appeared before special judge in central court here for hearing of his interim bail plea in a case of power abuse. However, FIA investigation officer during the court hearing withdrawn charges of power abuse [continue....]
MIRANSHAH: Multiple missile strikes carried out by US pilot less drone aircraft killed at least 30 people in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan tribal region. Several more people were injured in the air attacks that took place in at least four villages of North Waziristan district. At least eight drones took part in the attack, and [continue....]
FAISALABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that in few days Karachi’s peace and law and order situation will return to normalcy. Pakistan Army too is our institution and in need we can call them even. Outside the Accountability court at Faisalabad, while talking to the media, Rehman Malik said that the government has played its [continue....]
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: The federal government stepped in to prevent the Sindh coalition government from unravelling following bitter recriminations between key ministers belonging to the Pakistan People’s Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Tuesday. As the provincial leadership of the PPP and the MQM, locked in what is viewed as a marriage of [continue....]
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways has taken strict notice of leasing of the railway lands on cheaper rates. National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways met at Parliament House with Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in chair observed that Pakistan Railways has been in deficit of billions of rupees but its lands being given on leasing [continue....]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed $1.2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants. Created by Congress last year, the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund set aside some $700 million in 2009 to train and equip the country’s army and other security [continue....]
