Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday approved and signed the ‘Electoral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance‚ 2013 to facilitate the overseas Pakistanis to cast their vote from abroad. Giving details of the ordinance‚ Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that ordinance provides that the Election Commission of Pakistan at least 14 days before the day […]

Pakistan Thursday said it considers India’s on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development. Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said Pakistan has constantly drawn attention of the Indian Government to the issue through composite dialogue process. About Pakistan’s short range missiles, he said these are meant to address […]

Pakistan on Thursday lamented the killing of its UN Peacekeeper in Eastern Congo, who was killed while performing his duties in the strife-torn eastern Congo. The incident occurred when a military convoy of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) was ambushed by unidentified assailants in South Kivu, […]

President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed grave concern and condemned the kidnapping of the son of former Prime Minister after attack on a political gathering, presidential spokesman said Thursday. Ali Haider Gillani the son of Yusuf Raza Gilani and candidate from a provincial assembly’s seat in Multan, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen after they […]

Unidentified gunmen Thursday kidnapped son of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani after an attack on an election meeting of his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the city of Multan, police and family said. Ali Haider Gilani, the youngest son of the former prime minister, was taken away by the gunmen in a car […]

The Peshawar High Court on Thursday described the American drone strikes in the country’s restive tribal regions as illegal and inhuman and instructed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the United Nations against the attacks. The court issued the landmark verdict against the American strikes on four writ petitions, who had stated […]

Pakistan says that the body of its national Sanaullah, who died in an Indian hospital on Thursday days after he was attacked and injured by an Indian prisoner in a prison in Indian-occupied Kashmir, will be repatriated. The 52-year-old Sanaullah had suffered multiple head injuries last week after being attacked by another inmate inside […]

A Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who was critically injured in an attack in a prison in the Indian-occupied jail by a retired Indian army soldier, died on Thursday. The condition of injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah deteriorated further on Wednesday, Indian officials said. Manju Wadwalkar, the public relations officer of Post Graduate Institute of Medical […]

Chief of Jammiat Ulema Islam-F, Maulana Fazal Rahman has appealed to women voters to cast votes on May 11 to elect capable and sincere leadership. In a statement, he said that has asked his own family to cast votes. “It is a national obligation and they should exercise this right in order to select […]

Prime Minister Hazar Khan Khoso was informed on Wednesday that pendency of applications which stood at 800000 in the first week of April, 2013 has been reduced to 500000 due to measures taken by the government. The pendency, the Prime Minister was told had accumulated due to lack of availability of lamination paper, rampant […]

The condition of injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah has deteriorated further, Indian officials said Wednesday. “According to doctors, the patient has become extremely critical. He has developed renal failure with no urine output since morning,” said Manju Wadwalkar, the public relations officer of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) hospital in Chandigarh […]

U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson has reaffirmed the United States government’s long-term support to farming communities in Pakistan. “Since the 1950s, the United States has been working to support agriculture in Pakistan, introducing the Kinnow orange and helping to double Pakistan’s wheat production. Today, we continue our support because improving crop yields, protecting food sources […]
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