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U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson joined Federal Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif and WAPDA Chairman Syed Raghib Shah to laud the completion of the Gomal Zam dam project. The dam will boost the region’s electricity supply, irrigate farmlands, and protect the South Waziristan area from seasonal flooding. “The completion of the Gomal Zam dam hydropower station […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the Ministry of Privatization and Civil Aviation Division to initiate the process of privatization of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) while ensuring complete transparency, adherence of all relevant codal formalities and guidelines of the superior courts in the process. He said transparent process will not only people benefit from a qualitatively […]
Attorney General informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that 500 agro farms were constructed against the laws of Capital Development Authority (CDA). He made this statement before a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry‚ Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed during the hearing of illegal construction on the land of […]
Officials in northern areas said Thursday that the main accused of Chilas tragedy Hamidullah has been arrested from Kohistan during a search operation. According to police‚ the accused had gunned down a colonel‚ captain and a Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) last month in Chilas. The slain officials were investigating the massacre of 10 tourists and […]
Pakistan plans to raise the issue of American drone attacks in the country’s tribal regions at the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The U.S. spy aircraft routinely fire missiles into Waziristan tribal region which Pakistan says kill innocent people and that the attacks are against sovereignty of the country. The U.S. has refused […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Turkey will mainly focus on economic cooperation and he will encourage Turkish business leaders to invest in the country, the Foreign Ministry said. Nawaz Sharif will pay a three day official visit to Turkey from 16-18 September at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Prime […]
Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, was scheduled to leave for Bishkek on Thursday, to represent Pakistan in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, officials said. The summit will be held on Friday. Sartaj Aziz will hold an important meeting with Indian external affairs Minister Salman Khurshid that can pave the way for the summit of […]
A days after the Mutahida Qaumi Movement provoked violence in Karachi, the country’s commercial center, life has returned to normalcy on Thursday. Markets, petrol stations and schools were opened and the city is back to routine activities. Public transport is now plying on roads and the people took a sigh of relief. The MQM made […]
The 9/11 attacks that resulted into the so-called U.S.-led war on terror have brought miseries and huge economic losses to Pakistan. Bomb attacks have killed thousands, mostly civilians, across Pakistan since Pakistan has become part of the US coalition. Casualties in Pakistan are more than the U.S. and any other country. The sacrifices of Pakistanis […]
A Stan American pastor has been arrested as he drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with kerosene-soaked Holy Qurans to a park, where the Satan had said he was planning to burn 2,998 of the Qurans to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Associated Press reported Sheriff’s deputies in Polk […]
The Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday claimed exchange of prisoners with the security forces in Waziristan tribal region. The army however rejected the Taliban claim. Taliban spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, told the media that the Taliban have handed over three security men and secured the release of six Taliban members. He said the freed […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday reposed confidence that the present government has a coherent plan and clarity of purpose for economic revival and there exists a capacity to implement the reforms’ plan into action. An IMF delegation met Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him for smooth democratic transition and stated that they […]
