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The terrorist attacks on the PPP, MQM and ANP are obviously condemnable and cannot be condoned yet these parties have to blame themselves for what they are facing today. Not only during their just-completed five-year rule they failed to evolve any counter-terrorism strategy, they had...

ISLAMABAD: Senior army officers on Friday expressed concern over ridiculing the army as an institution. What is all this happening, they questioned. A 75-member delegation of the Command and Staff College, Quetta, with Lieutenant Colonel Saqib Ali Cheema in the chair had a dialogue with...

LAHORE - In a survey conducted by the AliAilaan, a campaign to ensure top priority attention for education in ongoing election campaigns, 60 percent of respondents stated they intended to vote, promising thus to lead to the highest voter turnout in the country’s history. Contrary to...

Two explosions took place in Hangu and Kohat whereas two other bombs were defused in Bannu and Charsadda districts on Friday. In Hangu’s Muhammad Khawaja area, militants blew up a government high school, partially damaging the structure, local political administration sources said. Whereas in...

Intelligence agencies have warned that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has made a comprehensive plan to kidnap former President Pervez Musharraf. Sources said that intelligence agencies have issued an advisory in this regard, which says that TTP has hatched a plot to kidnap Pervez Musharraf...

WASHINGTON/LONDON - The White House disclosure that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons still leaves the Obama administration stuck with a limited choice of military options to help the rebels oust President Bashar Assad. Arming the rebels runs smack into the reality that a...

They need to hang him up or release him, he has wasted a lot of time. I don't expect Indian loving Zardari Bhutto to hang him though.

Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has demanded MQM Chief Altaf Hussain to take notice of MQM workers, active in Malir, Jinnah Square, Ice Depot, Jafar-e-Tayyar, who are threatening the MWM candidates and its workers. We demand action against them because they are defaming the MQM, said Allama Sadiq Raza...

Islamabad/Karachi/Quetta - The election commission Thursday vowed not to delay the elections even by a ‘single day’ as polls related attacks killed at least six more people while Taliban distributed pamphlets in some cities warning citizens against participating in the elections. A bike bomb...

Imran again challenges Nawaz to debate PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has once again challenged his political foe Nawaz Sharif for a live TV debate ahead of elections and boasting his cricket credentials by saying that he will bowl the PML-N leader on the very first ball...

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has come up with an interesting proposal, saying he would urge overseas Pakistanis to sponsor the development of at least one village back home. He was talking to media at a hotel here on Wednesday where 67 former nazims and naib...

Three soldiers have died when gushing rainwater swept them away as they were pulling a vehicle stuck in a drain near Frontier Regions Bannu, official sources said. Military officials confirmed the soldiers died when a vehicle they were pulling out from a drain was swept away by torrential...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked the Centre to be tough with China and Pakistan in its resolve to sort out the issue of the border intrusions in Jammu and Kashmir. “We would like the Government of India to take up this issue [of the border intrusions] with both China...

It is better for Taliban to allow them to vote so someone better can come and perhaps have a peace deal.

A British woman with a rare disorder eats up to 2,500 calories a night in her sleep. Lesley Cusack, 55, keeps herself on a strict diet during the day because she has no control over what she eats while asleep at night. The mother-of-three from Warrington, Cheshire, said: “I can only tell by the...

Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said there is a dire need of modernization of traffic system. He directed that necessary steps should be taken to make traffic system more effective, for which traffic rules should be strictly implemented, while the traffic officials should deal with the...

Life in the port city stood still on Wednesday as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement observed a mourning day against a bomb attack on party’s election office at People`s Chowrangi, which killed three people. The NED University of Engineering and Technology, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and...

Brussels - Afghan and Pakistani leaders met with US Secretary of State John F Kerry on Wednesday to try to reverse a deterioration in relations that has threatened Afghanistan’s peacemaking efforts. Invited by Kerry, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani...

Pakpattan - PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that President Asif Ali Zardari and Imran Khan were trying to divide the PML-N vote bank. Addressing a public gathering in Pakpattan, the former Punjab chief minister alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari had placed his gun on the...

LONDON: A British millionaire is facing jail after he was convicted on Tuesday of selling fake bomb detectors toIraqand other countries. James McCormick, 56, was found guilty of three counts of fraud atLondon’s Old Bailey court for selling completely ineffective devices based on an American...