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A three-day special campaign to enroll five hundred thousand out of school children in schools was launched across Pakistan on Monday, officials said. The federal‚ provincial‚ Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan governments would aggressively participate in the campaign to achieve the target. During the campaign‚ children of school going age would be enrolled with the cooperation […]
The All Parties Conference (APC) convened to devise a comprehensive strategy for overcoming terrorism will be held in Islamabad later on Monday. All major political parties have accepted the invitation to participate in the conference, Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says. Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who will chair the APC, will deliver his […]
At least two people were killed in a bomb blast in Quetta late Sunday, police said. The blast on busy Saryab Road near a power station also injured nearly 10 people, police and hospital sources said. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle and was detonated with the help of a remote-controlled device, a […]
Outgoing President, Asif Ali Zardari, vowed Sunday that his opposition Pakistan Peoples Party will continue to support the government of Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif to fight terrorism. Zardari spoke to his political supporters in the eastern city of Lahore just few days after he stepped down as the President on completion of his five-year constitutional […]
Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan has said he will present four point agenda in the All Parties Conference that will help restore peace in the country. Addressing a party convention in Lahore‚ he said Pakistan should abandon the US war on terror and hold talks with Taliban. He said there is a need of Nelson […]
Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz has said meeting of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh will be held in New York later this month. Both leaders will attend the UN General Assembly’s session. Sartaj Aziz said in an interview that Pakistan wants to maintain good […]
President, Asif Ali Zardari, stepped down Sunday on completion of his five-year constitutional term. Zardari, who was elected in 2008, became the country’s first elected President to complete his tenure. Zardari was presented guard of honour by a contingent of Pakistani forces at the Presidency after national anthem was played. He then left the Presidency […]
The Afghan Taliban have released Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, the member of parliament from Kandahar Province, in exchange for six of their prisoners. Kakar was abducted in eastern province of Ghazni last month. Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban spokesman, said in a statement on Saturday that the Taliban in Ghazni Province handed over Fariba Ahmadi to her […]
The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet was informed by the Governor State Bank of Pakistan on Saturday that SBP had received the first installment of US $ 550 million from the International Monitoring Fund thus increasing the Foreign Exchange Reserve to US $ 10.4 billion. This was disclosed when the ECC was discussing the […]
The armies of India and Pakistan fired on each other’s position on the line-of-control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region, Indian officials said on Saturday. The incident took place Friday evening in Mendhar sector of frontier Poonch district, around 185 km southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir. “Pakistani army violated ceasefire last […]
The security agencies claimed Saturday the arrest of five people, including three women, and foiled a terror plot in Islamabad. Official sources say the security agencies recovered heavy amount of explosives and remote-controlled fibre planes from the basement of a house in Gulshan-e-Kashmir area of Islamabad. They said the law enforcement agencies carried out […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Pakistani government to ensure that there is a full investigation into the abduction and beating of a journalist for The Friday Times. Ali Chishti, who writes on national security and counter-terrorism, told CPJ and local news outlets that he was abducted and beaten on Friday, August […]
