A suicide bomber killed at least 10 persons in Peshawar on Monday as there is no let-up in pre-election violence, police and witnesses said. The bomb targeted a police van on the busy University road also injured over 60 others, they said. Two Afghan consulate employees were among those killed in the attack. […]
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief, Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif Sunday said that President Asif Zardari and dictator Pervez Musharraf have wasted 11 years of Pakistan. Addressing public meetings in Murree and Havalian‚ he said he has no word of praise for Mr Zardari as he has not done anything good for the people and […]
The Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that it has provided 2nd Consular access to Indian diplomats to visit the Indian convict who had been critical injured in an attack in a Pakistani prison. Sarabjeet Singh, convicted for alleged involvement in a series of bomb attacks that killed 14 people in 1990 in Punjab province, was […]
Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Sunday defended attacks on three parties for their support to military operations against the militants in tribal regions and Swat. Taliban say they will target Pakistan Peoples Party, the Awami National Party and the Mutahida Qaumi Movement. Three bomb attacks killed nearly 10 people in Kohat, Peshawar […]
At least 10 people killed and nearly 30 others were injured in three separate bomb blasts in Kohat, Peshawar and Swabi on Sunday. The blasts took place near the election offices and a gathering. In Kohat‚ 5 people were killed and 16 injured in blast outside the office of an Independent candidate from […]
Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan Saturday strongly condemned the bomb attacks on political parties, workers, leaders and electoral offices. In a statement, Khan extended his condolences to the workers and their families who have become victims of this unacceptable terror that has spread its tentacles across Pakistan, including the blast in Karachi on […]
The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian has field a complaint with the Chief Election Commissioner to probe the incidents of PML-N candidates openly carrying arms in Lahore and to stop them from brazenly violating the code of conduct. The complaint filed by Sardar Latif Khosa with the CEC today cited the incidents of rioting and […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Saturday took notice of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan’s ‘abusive’ language for the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shehbaz Sharif. Imran Khan is using word ‘jackal’ for Nawaz Sharif in speeches he is delivering in election campaign. The PTI Chief started […]
Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, has supported creation of more provinces as the country needs new provinces. Addressing a public meeting in Bahawalpur on Saturday‚ Khan however said the decision about new provinces must be taken with great care. He promised thousands of people that PTI will create new provinces if his party […]
An Indian national, Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in a Pakistani prison, and was injured in an attack by prisoners on Friday, is still in ‘coma’, hospital sources said Saturday. Singh was shifted to a hospital shortly after the attack by other prisoners when he was routinely walking in the premises of […]
Paramilitary troops Saturday raided the house of Peoples Amn Committee leader Uzair Jan Baloch in Lyari and arrested several people, officials said. A spokesman for the Rangers said that the security forces also recovered arms, uniform of foreign military and flag of Baloch National Army. TV footage showed the arrested men standing blind-folded […]
A bomb blast near the office of the Awami National Party in Karachi killed at least 11 people late Friday, police said. A senior leader of the party Bashir Jan escaped unhurt in the blast. His vehicle was hit and damaged by the device. Police and hospital sources said that five people died […]