
Election authorities across Pakistan have started scrutiny of over 10,000 nomination papers filed until Sunday night, officials said Monday. The authorities will complete the process in a week time and a senior official of the election commission has said that the scrutiny will be merciless. The first phase of the election process has […]

Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf, Imran Khan, announced in a big election rally in Swat on Sunday that if voted to power, he will restore peace in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal regions. Khan said that people of Swat rendered sacrifices but peace could not be fully established. “There will be peace in KPK […]

A blast near a political gathering Sunday killed at least two people and injured six others, including a political leader, police said. The remote-controlled blast occurred when people gathered for an election public meeting of the ‘Awami National Party’ (ANP) in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said that the bomb targeted […]

The government on Saturday banned former President Pervez Musharraf from leaving abroad a day after a court restrained him from going abroad, officials said. Musharraf returned to Pakistan on Sunday after over four-year self-exile and is now facing several cases including his government’s failure to provide security to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was […]

A bomb attack on a school in Karachi Saturday killed principal and injured eight students, police and hospital sources said. Unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade at the four-room private school at Baldia town area when a students’ function was taking place, police said. The principal, Abdul Rashid, of the Nation School, and […]

A suicide bomber attacked a police van in Mardan district on Saturday and killed a police officer and injured several other persons, police said. The bomber on foot struck the police mobile party in Katlang, a small town, some 90 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The police mobile team […]

Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan Friday announced to award 25% tickets to youth of up-to 35 years of age. Addressing the launching of “Naya Pakistan Fund” in Islamabad‚ Khan said that tickets would be given on merit. He said the Party would provide financial assistance to educated youth to contest elections through […]

Pakistan on Friday rejected Afghan presidential spokesman’s claim that it has imposed “pre-conditions” for the peace process in the war-torn country. Aimal Faizi, spokesperson to President Hamid Karzai, said in Kabul that Pakistan has tried to ‘sabotage’ the peace process and put pre-conditions. Faizi also said that Islamabad has asked Afghanistan to cut […]

Sindh High Court on Friday extended for three more weeks protective bail to former president, Pervez Musharraf, who faces arrest in three high profile cases. However, the judges barred him from going abroad without courts’ permission. The court in Karachi extended Musharraf’s bail in three cases – his government’s failure to provide security to […]

Pakistan and China have identified 36 projects worth US$ 14 billion which cover education, healthcare, water conservancy, agriculture, transport, energy, and environment in a five-year plan, Pakistan ambassador in Beijing said Friday. Ambassador, Masood Khalid, said this while addressing a select group of prominent Chinese entrepreneurs at the Pakistan Embassy. He said a […]

A suicide bomber targeting a convoy of security forces near a military check post in Peshawar Friday killed at least 12 people, police and hospital sources said. The bomber tried to hit convoy of the Frontier Constabulary heading to the nearby headquarters on Fakhr-e-Alam road in sensitive cantonment area of Peshawar, police said. […]

Pakistan Thursday expressed concern over what it called ‘continued presence of safe havens’ of Pakistani Taliban militants Afghanistan’s Kunar and Nooristan provinces and urged Afghan government to eliminate their safe heavens. The military says that the members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have fled to Afghanistan and are now operating from their and routinely launch attacks […]