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KARACHI: In yet another incident of target killing, also sectarian in nature, the son of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Chief, Maulana Ghafoor has been shot dead in Nazimabad, Karachi on Thursday, police officials said.
Maulana Ghafoor himself is also said to be in critical condition.
Maulana Ghafoor was on his way to the court in the morning when two [...]
ISLAMABAD: With its receivables rising beyond Rs105 billion, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) needs at least Rs57 billion between now and April 28 to avoid default on international payments for oil imports and ensure smooth oil supplies in the country.
“We have been forced to cut down oil imports and are inviting much lower tenders than usual [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N won the by-polls for NA-123 in Lahore and PP-82 in Jhang, while PML-Z secured PP-284 in Bahawalnagar after polling for the three seats was completed in a peaceful manner on Wednesday.
Although PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had replaced himself with Pervaiz Malik for the NA seat in Lahore, the electoral fight [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government has given eight days to the Federal Investigation Agency to submit a first report on alleged corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills and asked it to identify the people who had caused immense losses to the country’s largest industrial unit.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Tuesday in pursuance of [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has given a one-year extension in service to Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to allow him to complete his tenure as three-star general and, more importantly, as head of the country’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Sources told our correspondent a summary for Lt. [...]
LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.
A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage an [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday slapped banned and imposed heavy fines on a number of its top
DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country.
The force says the arrests were part of an investigation into a [...]
KARACHI: An American captured in Pakistan this week and accused of being a key spokesman for al-Qaeda was wrongly identified as Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist organisation, Pakistani officials admitted today.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as Mr Gadahn, who was born in Oregon and is [...]
WASHINGTON: The US general who oversees the Afghan war has acknowledged that Pakistan has a reason to be concerned about its lack of strategic depth.
In two television interviews this weekend, Gen. David Petraeus also said that the Pakistani “security forces, have put a lot of short sticks into a lot of hornets’ nests over the [...]
NASEERABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court of Naseerabad/ Jaferabad sentenced four accused life in prison and fined a lakh each on Tuesday.
The incident of the women being buried alive occurred two years back in Goth Gorang in a remote village, the Baba Kot, 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district.
These women were buried alive for [...]
LAHORE: A car bomb explosion killed at least 14 people and injured 61 others near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in Model Town, Lahore on Monday.
“Eleven people have been killed and several others injured in a suicide car bombing, which took place near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in [...]
WASHINGTON: The US military still plays too dominant a role in American foreign policy and Washington needs to place a higher priority on diplomacy and “soft power”, the top American military officer said on Wednesday.
The military is a vital tool of national power but “should never be the only tool”, Admiral Mike Mullen said in [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary has ordered the IGPs, home secretaries, Advocates General of all the four provinces
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has become the new ‘battlefield’ between India and Pakistan as Indian agents have taken ‘revenge’ in Kandahar on Thursday by killing five Pakistanis. The Indians had earlier accused Pakistani agents of killing 17 people, including nine Indians, in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse. Pakistan has refuted the Indian allegation.
The Afghan secret service, [...]
JHELUM: Pakistani police said Friday teams were working round the clock to recover a five-year-old British boy kidnapped during a family holiday as his father begged for his son’s release.
Robbers snatched Sahil Saeed from his grandmother’s house in the town of Jhelum about 100 kilometres (65 miles) south of the capital Islamabad on Thursday, stealing [...]
ISLAMABAD: A list of wanted persons prepared by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) names 119 individuals including those involved in attacks on former premier Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf and on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. However, the list does not include names of prominent Taliban leaders, a BBCUrdu report said.
Although the list formulated with the [...]
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school and assailants threw grenades into a music event, killing a student, in separate incidents in north and southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
The boys’ school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for Nato troops [...]
PESHAWAR: The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had
WASHINGTON: The US government has decided to establish a Quick Reaction Force for the protection of its diplomatic missions in Pakistan.
The step has been taken in order to meet the increased terrorist threats to US personnel in Pakistan.
The Statesmen has learnt that the US Congress has been requested to allocate US$ 22.9 million for the [...]
Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup
Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation
Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan
PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
