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KHAR: About 29 former militants were set free after completing vocational training at Navi Saha -- an internment centre in Bajaur Agency. A ceremony to this effect was held here the other day on the premises of the institute attended by Bajaur political agent Mohammad Yaha Akhunzada, Commandant...

KARACHI: At least five persons were killed and 20 persons other, including women, wounded when unknown armed men opened fire on a bus near Safoora Chowk area in Karachi. Around eight to ten armed men riding four motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on a bus wounding several passengers. The...

— Dawn photos FAISALABAD: Immediately after reaching the school, students of the Government Primary School for Boys, Kot Farid Mahmood Kathia, Shorkot, have to fix the lever of a hand pump. Similarly, they have to remove the lever after end of the school time to save the sole source of water...

It is relevant to note that on March 30, a parliamentary panel also expressed its concern over mushroom growth of business-oriented higher learning institutions in the country. — Reuters/file ISLAMABAD: Despite making claims of bringing significant improvement in higher education sector, the...

Those killed allegedly include perpetrators of Saturday's massacre in which 20 construction workers were gunned down. — AFP/File QUETTA: At least 13 suspected militants were killed on Monday in a raid by security forces near Turbat in Balochistan’s Kech district. The dead militants allegedly...

Lakhvi was handed over to members of the Jamatud Dawa after his release from Adiala jail. ─ AP/File RAWALPINDI: Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was released from Adiala jail on Friday following the Lahore High Court's dismissal of detention orders issued...

We’ve all heard of the Coliseum, the Great Wall of China, and the Taj Mahal. But what about the world’s undiscovered architectural wonders: the man-made marvels where most crowds don’t stray? Palace of the Parliament, Romania The world’s largest, most expensive and heaviest civilian...

The cooperation we have just witnessed is a relief from the hostile posturing by the two countries from time to time. —PN/File IT’S not often when a navy warship, decisively primed for conflict, shows its country’s ‘soft’ side, that too to its ‘enemy’. But that’s what happened when the Pakistan...

Bangladesh has one of the world's highest death rates from road accidents, mainly due to the poor state of roads and vehicles and a failure to comply with traffic regulations. — AP/file DHAKA: At least 25 people were killed and many more injured when a packed bus slammed into a tree in...

The leopards, along with two others, had eaten poisoned meat. Leopards are now regarded as a ‘near threatened’ endangered species by the IUCN ─ DawnNews screengrab ABBOTABAD: The regional office of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department recovered the carcass of a leopard from the Tarnawa...

The security personnel were in a vehicle during their routine duty when an IED exploded nearby. —AFP/File PESHAWAR: At least 11 security personnel were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off Thursday in Mangrosa area of Khyber Agency. According to a security official, the...

Hi Dear Members, It will be pleasure and helpful for me if anyone have info regarding the seat reservation process to see the Pakistan day praid on 23rd march for general public.

Still from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deeawani. - Photo courtesy: Koi Moi Each year, Holi, the festival of colours, is celebrated with much fervor around the globe but especially in India. The two-day festival is all about playing with powder colours, singing, dancing and scrumptious food! On the holiday...

Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location ─ Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: A Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) militant was arrested on Friday morning in an information-based operation (IBO) carried out by security forces near Sarai Naurang in Bannu, said a statement issued by the Inter...

Before forming his own political party in 1996, Imran Khan had already joined a government. This is one fact that has completely gotten lost in the loud cacophony of noises in the media that have been commenting on his every move for the last three years or so. After retiring from cricket in...

Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam says Pakistan do not look at Muslim Ummah through sectarian, racial or ethnic prism.—PID/File ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that it supported the Ummah’s unity and had no sectarian or racial considerations in relations with countries in...

The fenced border between Indian and Pakistan. — Reuters/File NEW DELHI: For decades, India and Pakistan have vied to claim possession of the elusive healing elixir for Jammu and Kashmir. As the decks were cleared on Friday for Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to become...

The image shows Hatf 4, Shaheen I, test fired from an undisclosed location. —Online/File WASHINGTON: A major terrorist attack in India might lead to a large-scale military assault on Pakistan, which then could lead to a nuclear war in one of the world’s most populous regions, the US Congress was...

Maria Golovnina. - Courtesy: Maria Golovnina's Facebook ISLAMABAD: Maria Golovnina, the Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief of Reuters who was based in Islamabad, was found dead at her office in the capital’s F-8 sector, sources in the police told Dawn. Golovnina had reportedly gone to the...

Taj Muhammad alias Rizwan - ISPR photo ISLAMABAD: One of the primary executors of the Taliban attack on Peshawar's Army Public School (APS), Taj Muhammad alias Rizwan, was arrested on Monday by security forces in an Intelligence Based Operation (IPO). According to an Inter Services Public...