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Bahrain has expelled 450 Pakistanis who were sent to Arab country to join its army but the deportees said they were detained and tortured. The returnees said on arrival in Islamabad on Thursday that the authorities in Bahrain kept them like hostage for 19 months. They said they all are university graduates and […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has suggested three names for the caretaker Prime Minister in response to a letter of Opposition leader in the National Assembly, spokesman for the PM office said on Thursday. The prime minister in his letter proposed three names of former Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh, former State Bank Governor […]
Pakistan has rejected claims by Indian officials that the two militants who stormed a paramilitary camp near a cricket ground in Indian-occupied Kashmir Wednesday “seem to be from across the border, probably Pakistan.” Indian officials said that at least five security forces personnel were killed and injured eight others in suicide attack at Bemina […]
Police in Quetta say they have arrested a group of children who could be used for blasts in the city and other parts of Balochistan. The arrested children were produced at a press conference in Quetta and the police said they were arrested during a targeted operation. Senior police official said the children […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Wednesday promised free and fair election in his last address to the federal cabinet. He also said that transparent polls are pre-requisite for democracy‚ integrity and development. He said only the elected representatives can set direction for the country that is economically sustainable‚ socially and politically acceptable. The […]
The man who has served as Pakistan’s Prime Minister for few months again wants to take the responsibility again. Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Chief, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, said on Wednesday that he should be named as the caretaker prime minister. He was talking to reporters at the PML-Q central office in Islamabad after […]
Afghan Taliban have killed their own commander who had joined the government in southern province, media reported on Wednesday. The local police commander, Mullah Zainuddin known as Mullah Zaino, was killed and his two guards injured in a mine explosion in Panjwai District of Kandahar Province, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. The head […]
Hostilities in Pakistani politics are so deep that political leaders do not accommodate opinion of rivals even if they come up with recommendation in line with the constitution. The opposition Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) last week proposed three names for the caretaker Prime Minister, however, Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira laughed at the names. […]
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior official of the election commission in Quetta on Tuesday, police said. Ziaullah Qasmi, Deputy Election Commissioner, came under attack in Quetta on Chandni road when he was heading home from office in a rickshaw. He was shifted to hospital in critical condition where he died of wounds, […]
A senior Iranian official says Pakistan has sought increase in the volume of gas to be imported through the peace pipeline. Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Javad Oji said that Iran plans to export 21 million cubic meters gas per day initially to Pakistan via the peace pipeline. Pakistan favors […]
Experts and businessmen have welcomed the ground-breaking of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and said the project will resolve the serious energy crisis in the country. President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad performed on Monday groundbreaking of the project. The project will deliver 750 million cubic feet of gas […]
A bomb blast killed a police man and a child in a crowded marketplace in Bannu on Tuesday, police said. Nearly 18 more people were injured when the bomb targeted a police mobile near Cantt police station. An official at the district hospital, Dr Farooq Khattak, said two of the injured died of […]
