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A roadside bomb has killed a senior commander of Pakistani Taliban and his four guards in the restive South Waziristan, officials said Thursday. A remote-controlled bomb targeted Commander Ghula Jan Wazir’s vehicle in in Bermal tehsil near Wana in South Waziristan tribal agency. Commander Jan and his four personal guards were killed at the scene, […]
Voting started in the country’s by-elections on Thursday that will test popularity of the ruling and opposition parties, officials said. Elections are being held on 41 seats including 15 National Assembly and 26 Provincial Assemblies across the country. These seats were vacated by those members who had won more than one seats in the May […]
Chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Wednesday issued details of what it claimed rigging in the May 11 general elections. Khan said the party has collected nearly a 2,000-page “White Paper”, to substantiate claims that polls were rigged. The PTI chairman said that a lot of secrets have been disclosed in the […]
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned a senior Indian diplomat and a protest was lodged over the killing of an army captain in firing by Indian troops. Military officials said the army captain was killed and another soldier was injured in Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the two countries in the disputed […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday invited the World Bank to invest in Pakistan’s power sector to resolve the energy crisis. He was talking to Phillippe le Houerou, Vice President South Asia of the World Bank for South Asia and Country Director, Mr. Richard Benmessaoud, who called on the Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s […]
A bomb blast at a railway station Wednesday killed at least two people in Balochistan, police and hospital sources said. The blast at Chaman, main city in Balochistan province, occurred when passengers were to board a train, witnesses said. The blast also injured 10 more people, including women and children. The injured were taken to […]
Prime Ministers of Pakistan and Thailand have agreed to double the volume of bilateral trade within five years and stressed the need to make it more balanced through appropriate measures to encourage more exports from Pakistan to Thailand. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif took note of the fact that […]
Far more men than women are dying from skin cancer, despite similar numbers being diagnosed with the disease, a report suggests. Cancer Research UK said each year, the most serious type of skin cancer, malignant melanoma, kills 1,300 men and 900 women, a gap expected to widen. A reason could be men delaying seeking help, […]
Industrialization must be an essential part of the growth formula if Asian countries want to prosper and avoid the middle income trap, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. In a special chapter of Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2013, its flagship annual statistical publication, ADB emphasizes that manufacturing is essential to […]
Pakistan army captain was killed and another soldier was injured in Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC), military officials said Wednesday. It is the latest incident in the on-going escalations along the LoC, which has heightened diplomatic tensions between the South Asian nuclear rivals. Pakistan and India had declared a ceasefire in 2003 […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Wednesday that Pakistan is keen to learn from the Japanese achievements in the fields of science and technology and other sectors. The Prime Minister expressed these views in a meeting with Mr. Taro kimura, Special Envoy of Japanese Prime Minister, who called on him at the Prime Minister’s Office. The […]
The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that duration of electricity load-shedding has reduced significantly by six to seven hours due to the steps taken by the government. Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali told the Hour during question hour that 1700 MW electricity has been added to the national […]
