Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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Articles By Tahir Khan

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government has proposed an increase of 15 percent in the salaries and pension of government employees. A balanced and tax-free budget of KPK for the fiscal year 2013-14 amounting to 344 billion rupees was presented in Provincial Assembly on Monday. The Provincial Senior Minister and Minister for Finance Sirajul Haq […]

Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia Mr. Shahid Masroor Gul Kiani has said the Malaysian companies are seriously looking to explore business and investment opportunities in Pakistan. “We have spent the last few weeks holding a series of talks with the Malaysian trade officials and the captains of various industries and the response to our offer […]

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has telephoned Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and ‘reassured that the US Administration remained steadfast in supporting the new democratic government in Pakistan’, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Secretary Kerry provided an update on the recent developments and expressed appreciation for Pakistan’s positive role in advancing peace and […]

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the National Assembly on Monday that despite dozens of check posts in Quetta, the security agencies could not succeed to check the movement of the armed men, who can strike wherever they want. “There are many check posts of police, paramilitary forces and security agencies. The intelligence […]

A PPP delegation Sunday visited the MQM headquarters in Karachi and formally invited the MQM to join the Sindh government. Former Interior Minister Rehman Malik, along with other PPP leaders, met the MQM leaders and discussed the future cooperation. The MQM leaders told the PPP team that the party’s Rabita Committee will discuss […]

Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday that the PML-N gov’t standby its policy of dialogue with militants to end the bloodshed in the country. Speaking to reporters in Quetta he said the gov’t will hold talks with those who are willing to talk. He however said the gov’t will come with […]

The National Assembly and Senate Sunday adopted unanimous resolutions to condemn terror attacks in Quetta which killed 25 people including female university students. The two houses also condemned attack on the Quaid residency in Ziarat. In the National Assembly, the resolution was moved by Law Minister Zahid Hamid while Senator Nuzhat Sadiq of PML-N […]

PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar proposed a three point frame work to release the creative energies of the people for resolving energy crisis, restoring peace and accelerating growth and investment instead of resorting to coercive regulatory and taxation measures. Participating in the discussion on the budget today he said that taking the bull of […]

Normal life was disrupted in most parts of Balochistan on Sunday to protest against the killings of girls’ students and civilians in militant attacks on a hospital in Quetta. Nearly 25 people, including 14 students of a women university, were killed and dozens more injured in suicide bombing and attacks on a main hospital […]

Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah said on Saturday the new budget envisages no relief measures for the poor‚ farmers and labourers. Opening debate in the budget he said it was the first budget of the PML-N government and it would have been pro-poor and people friendly. He […]

A group of seven heavily armed men stormed into Bolan Medical Complex and detonated bombs and opened fire inside the hospital, killing deputy commissioner Quetta Abdul Mansoor Khan Kakar and nine other people. Assistant Commissioner was also injured in the attack. The armed men, whose affiliation was unclear, entered the hospital shortly after […]

A bomb blast on a bus of a women university in Quetta city killed at least 11 students and injured several others on Saturday, police and rescue team said. The bomb was attached to the bus and the device exploded when the bus was standing at the parking, a police officer and the college […]