Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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Troops’ deployment started at sensitive polling stations on Wednesday ahead of the by-elections, officials say. By-elections on forty-one seats of National and Provincial Assemblies across the country will be held on Thursday. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed arrangements to conduct the polls in free and fair manner. The election campaign ended last […]
Officials said Tuesday that flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across the country have killed 118 people and injured 812 others this month. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the rains and floods affected over five hundred and fifty-four thousand people have been affected. Over eleven thousand houses have been destroyed and […]
The Afghanistan football team Tuesday managed to score three goals in a friendly match played against the Pakistan national team in Kabul. The Afghan footballers scored a goal in the first half of the match and two others in the second half. Although a friendly match, it was the first international soccer event to be […]
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Pakistan and Thailand on Tuesday signed one agreement and two Memorandum of Understandings for increasing cooperation in economic and diplomatic fields, officials said. The signing ceremony was witnessed by the visiting Prime Minister of Thailand, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra and her Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad. The agreement pertained […]
Prime Minister of Thailand, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday on a two-day official visit to Pakistan for talks on bilateral relations, focusing on economic partnership between the two nations. This bilateral visit from Thailand would take place after more than a decade, the Foreign Ministry says. Previously Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra, brother of […]
President Obama says the United States is cancelling its biennial joint military exercise with Egypt, scheduled for September, in response to violence in the country between Egyptian security forces and the Muslim Brotherhood. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in […]
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Pakistan has become the first country to send its National Football Team to Kabul to play an international match in the war-torn country in nearly 36 years. Afghans have attached hopes that the friendly match would bridge trust gap between the two uneasy neighbours. Pakistani team reached Kabul on Monday and is set to play […]
Pakistani representative has called for stopping drones strikes as he backed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stand that they must operate within international law. “We believe that such strikes violate international humanitarian law; and therefore should be stopped,” Pakistan U.N. Ambassador Masood Khan told the Security Council’s open debate on the protection of civilians in armed […]
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday formally charge-sheeted former military President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, lawyers said. Musharraf, who was president during the murder of Benazir Bhutto, rejected the charges and termed them as politically-motivated. The former President was produced in the court under tight security. Benazir […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said late Monday that Pakistan and India will have to join their heads together so that they can address common issues like poverty and ignorance. Addressing the nation over Radio and Television networks he said history bears testimony to the fact that progress and development of a nation is deeply linked […]
Interior Minister Chauhdry Nisar Ali Khan Monday told the National Assembly that politics on issues like the Jinnah Avenue incident should be avoided. In a statement in the National Assembly‚ he regretted that media channels gave live coverage to the gunman Sikandar Malik who was blatantly abusing the Government. He said initial investigations suggest […]
Doctors at PIMS Monday allowed Islamabad police to record statement of Sikandar Hayat who had been involved in a standoff with police last week. Hayat was injured when police sniffer fired at him after he refused to surrender arms. He is being treated in PIMS and had not been able to record his statement. However […]