Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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A US spy aircraft killed six people in North Waziristan tribal region late Sunday, security sources said. The drone fired two missiles near Shawal area near the Afghan border and hit people who were crossing into Pakistan from Afghanistan. Three people also injured in the strike, they said. The slain men could not be identified. […]

Election Commission of Pakistan has completed the process of printing of ballot papers for the Presidential election, officials said Sunday. Ballot papers have been sent in the election material sealed bags to Parliament House Islamabad‚ Sindh and Balochistan provincial assemblies. The sending process of ballot papers to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa assemblies is in progress. […]

Pakistan will strive to restore strategic dialogue with the United States during the forthcoming visit of Secretary of State John Kerry to Islamabad, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. The strategic dialogue between both the countries had been stopped after the U.S. fighter jets bombed a Pakistani post and killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued final list of the presidential candidates, officials said Saturday. According to the list‚ PML (N) candidate Mamnoon Hussain and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Justice (retired) Wajhiuddin are in the run for the coveted slot. Covering candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Iqbal Zafar Jhagra withdrew his nomination papers. […]

Pakistan army says that Indian firing killed a soldier along the Line of Control on Saturday. The army spokesman Maj General Salim Bajwa said that the Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing in Poonch sector. He said that a soldier Asim Iqbal was martyred while another Naik Muhammad Khan was seriously injured. The spokesman […]

Insurgents fired rockets on a check post of security forces in the restive Balochistan province and killed at least eight security men, officials said. A check post of coastguards at Sunsar area, some 100 kilometers away from Gwadar, the port city in Balochistan, came under rocket attack at 7 a.m. Several security men were also […]

Death toll from twin deadly suicide bombings, targeting Shiite Muslims in Kurram tribal region, reached 57 on Saturday as more injured died of wounds, officials said. Officials and hospital sources say that nearly 180 others people were injured in the attacks in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram agency, just minutes before the people had to […]

Two bomb attacks near Imambargas Friday killed at least 25 people in Kurram tribal region, witnesses and hospital sources said. Officials said the first blast occurred near an Imambargahain a busy marketplace in Parachinar, the headquarters of the tribal Kurram region. The bomb was attached to a motorbike, officials said. It was followed […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Friday formally announced to contest presidential elections despite boycott by the PPP. PTI Chairman Imran Khan said at a news conference in Islamabad that the PTI would not leave the field open for the PML-N. He said the verdict of the Supreme Court for advancing the date of presidential election is within the […]

Pakistan on Friday called for the release of deposed Egyptian President Muhammad Moris and restoration of democratic institutions in Egypt. “Having itself suffered from repeated extra-constitutional interventions, Pakistan is opposed to military interventions for resolution of disputes in any country,” the Foreign Ministry said. “We also call for the immediate release of President Muhammad Morsi,” […]

Prime Minister, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, said that Pakistan needs to learn from Turkey’s rich experience in construction and housing sectors as the country has built 600000 low-cost housing units for the middle income groups during the last ten years to overcome the housing units’ shortage. The Prime Minister expressed these views in a meeting with […]

US Secretary of State John Kerry is likely to visit Pakistan in the coming two days, a government statement said issued on Friday after the meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad. The Prime Minister received the U.S. Ambassador Mr. Richard Olson as the meeting was held in advance for […]