
The military army said Sunday that three soldiers and 22 militants were killed in clashes in a Khyber agency and Balochistan province. The military said the security forces captured two string hideouts of the militants in the mountainous Tirah Valley in Khyber tribal region late Saturday. “In a successful operation security forces last night […]

Bushra Gohar of Awami National Party has claimed that elections are being held only in Punjab whereas selection is being done in the rest of three provinces. She said Taliban are making selection as to who will go to the Parliament. She was speaking in ‘Sachay Swal’ programme of Radio Pakistan‚ which is […]

Two blasts near the office of MQM in Karachi killed at least two persons and injured 30 others, police and hospital sources said. The blasts occurred in Aziz Abad area of Karachi and near the office of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the MQM spokesman, Wasi Jalil said. Rickshaw was used for the first […]

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Saturday lashed out at Jamiat ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, for his support to President Asif Zardari. Addressing public meetings in Buer, Swabi and Charsadda, Khan said that Fazal is fully responsible for the killing of Pashtoons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “There is no need of conspiracies of Jews […]

Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Saturday directed the Intelligence Agencies to sharpen their intelligence-gathering techniques as timely intelligence can prevent many a disaster. “I would also request the masses to keep their eyes open and observe the movement of suspicious elements around them and inform the police accordingly,” the Prime Minister said in […]

Pakistan has welcomed the appointment of new US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan and hoped that the appointment would help joint efforts to establish peace, stability and prosperity in the region. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday named James Dobbins, a career diplomat, as the new special representative for Afghanistan and […]

Caretaker Prime Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Friday announced that he would transfer the reign of the government to the elected representative on completion of May 11 parliamentary elections. “We will not accept extension in the tenure of the caretaker government at any cost and under no circumstances,” the Pakistani Prime Minister told the nation […]

Unidentified gunmen Friday shot dead a National Assembly candidate of the Awami National Party and his six-year old son in Karachi, police and ANP leaders said. Sadiq Zaman Khattak, came under attack as he came out of mosque after Friday prayers, at Bilal Colony in Korangi area. The gunmen, riding a motorcycle, fled […]

Pakistan on Friday condemned attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in the Indian-held Kashmir, who was shifted to a prison in critical condition. “We have learnt with deep concern that a Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah, who was serving life imprisonment in a jail in Indian Occupied Kashmir, was attacked this morning and as […]

Hundreds of troops were deployed in several sensitive areas of Karachi on Friday as part of Pakistan Army plan to deploy nearly 70‚000 troops for election-related duties. The Election Commission of Pakistan had sought army’s help in aid of the authorities to ensure peaceful and smooth polling on May 11. Army sources said […]

A senior prosecutor in the assassination case of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, was killed n firing in Islamabad early Friday, hospital sources said. Chaudhry Zulfikar was heading to the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi when came under attack, his son, Nisar said. Zulfikar, Federal Investigation Agency’s prosecutor received bullet injuries and was shifted […]

The United States celebrated the continued success of programs to educate the teachers of Pakistan on Thursday in a ceremony in Gilgit, the US embassy said. The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), awarded 115 scholarships for future educators who will study in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, including at Karakoram […]
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