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Pakistan raises annual defence budget by 10 per cent Pakistan's new government announced Wednesday a 10 per cent increase in defence spending a week after taking office, despite a crippling budget deficit of 8.8 per cent. The budget for fiscal year 2013-14, which begins July 1, comes against a...

The United States has assured to help Pakistan overcome energy crisis. The assurance was given by a delegation of the USAID at a meeting with Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Asif in Islamabad on Wednesday. Members of the delegation said 853 million dollars will be provided to the power...

Jordan on Sunday announced the start of military exercises involving more than 8,000 soldiers and observers from 19 different countries, but insisted the manoeuvres were unrelated to the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Around 4,500 US troops and 3,000 Jordanian soldiers are taking part in the...

“Germany is prepared to stand by Pakistan,” said German Foreign Minister Dr Guido Westerwelle on Saturday as he announced an assistance of Euros 93.5 million for year 2013-14 to support Pakistan’s new democratic government. These funds would be utilised to bolster development in energy...

Security forces made significant gains during the last three days of an ongoing operation beginning June 6, clearing areas of Maidan, after the clearance of Mohammadi Top in Kurram and Haider Kandao in Tirah valley, according to ISPR. During the last two days of the operation, 35 alleged...

Nawaz, Hashmi’s ‘slip-of-tongue’ leader! PTI central president Javed Hashmi, who has been in hot waters since his declaring PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as still being his leader on the National Assembly floor, met with party chairman Imran Khan on Saturday to clarify his...

Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was elected unopposed Balochistan chief minister on Saturday. He is the first chief executive of the province who is neither a tribal chieftain nor member of any family who once ruled princely states. Nomination forms for the post of chief minister were to be submitted on...

The economists want Pakistani manufacturers, exporters and businessmen to look towards the rising economies of Asia, as South Korea Thursday termed the existing volume of over $ 1.6 billion bilateral trade with Pakistan “far below (the) potential”. “I am pleased to note that...

Pakistan has a growing fear that the US might abandon it once again after its exit from Afghanistan next year. The Pakistan embassy has conveyed the message to the Obama administration in numerous meetings, according to the acting ambassador Dr Asad Majeed. Talking to The News after...

Drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 1,000 civilians, activists say, while the US maintains they only target terrorists. Victims of drone warfare and their families live in constant fear of another strike, and say they are “angry and want revenge.” A review of classified US intelligence...

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Pakistan military said it celebrated on Wednesday ‘Pakistani Peacekeepers Day’ to commemorate what it termed as sacrifices rendered by its soldiers while deputed abroad. “June 5 is observed as Pakistani Peacekeepers Day and it marks an important event to pay homage to Pakistani soldiers who...

Foreign funds and companies are looking to drastically increase investments in Pakistan and the rise could improve Pakistan’s dire economic conditions, financial experts told The News on Tuesday.The investors’ interest is based on their expectation that the newly elected PML-N government will...

District government has set up a complaint cell seeking public cooperation to keep the city clean. Citizens are being given Rs1,000 to Rs5,000 for pointing out ***** littered sites, cattle pens and presence of stagnant water in the city,. Talking to reporters on Tuesday, District...

In a telephone call to the Pakistani Foreign Office on Tuesday, India's foreign secretary apologised to his Islamabad counterpart over the mistreatment of a Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, diplomatic sources told DawnNews. Pakistan's First Secretary (Trade) Zargam Raza and his driver Haider...

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab women wing has passed a resolution demanding the party should make all out efforts to redress Ms Fauzia Kasuri’s grievances and ensure she should stay in PTI fold. It says the party should make efforts in this regard in the same spirit as it did in the case...

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the ruling alliance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday agreed to move a resolution in the KPK Assembly soon against drone attacks on Pakistan's soil. The decision to this effect was made at the parliamentary...

The UN’s food agency on Tuesday said obesity and poor nutrition weigh heavily on the global economy and told governments that investing in food health would bring big economic as well as social returns. Lost productivity and spiralling health care bills linked to obesity cost the world...

The Asia Pacific Corporation (APC) would present its investment plan worth of $10 billion to the new government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) to overcome power crisis in the country. Sources informed that Consortium leaders of Asia Pacific Corporation (APC) would present its proposals...

WASHINGTON : Florida socialite Jill Kelley says in a lawsuit the govt knowingly libeled her in the affair that led to David Petraeus’ resignation as CIA director, according to US media reports. Kelley and her husband, Scott Kelley, allege in a 65-page complaint filed in US District Court in...