Allama Muhmmad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Quaid-e-Azam Expect the best, Prepare for the worst...
Former President Pervez Musharraf returned home on Sunday after remaining in self-exile for over four years to take part in the May 11 parliamentary elections, his party leaders said. A plane, carrying Musharraf, leaders of his party, and media persons from Dubai, landed at the port city of Karachi at 12: 45 p.m. where […]
An explosion in Balochistan province killed at least six people including two children and injured 40 others, police and hospital sources said. According to reports the blast occurred on the National Highway in Dera Allahyar town of Jaffarabad district. The bomb appeared to have been planted in a rickshaw parked at the roadside, […]
Lawyers across Pakistan Tuesday boycotted courts’ proceedings against the yesterday’s audacious suicide attack on judicial complex in Peshawar. At least four people were killed and nearly 30 others were injured in the Monday’s attack. Two armed bombers sneaked into the complex in high security zone and started indiscriminate firing and later exploded their […]
A bomb blast killed a police man and a child in a crowded marketplace in Bannu on Tuesday, police said. Nearly 18 more people were injured when the bomb targeted a police mobile near Cantt police station. An official at the district hospital, Dr Farooq Khattak, said two of the injured died of […]
Five foreign troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said on Tuesday. The cause of the crash is under investigation, however initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the incident, the ISAF said in a statement. […]
The U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, Richard Olson, on Wednesday said that the United States will not leave Afghanistan and will not repeat the mistake of late 80s. “Let me be clear, the United States is not leaving Afghanistan. The terms of engagement might change, but the commitment will not,” the envoy said in a […]
The grand tribal jirga elders will begin talks with the Taliban militants and the security forces to end violence in the tribal regions and the country. A declaration issued at the conclusion of a day-long grand ‘jirga’ or council of tribal elders and top political and religious leaders if Pakistan also called for setting […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent watchdog body, has called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate investigation into the targeted murder of veteran Pakistani journalist Malik Mumtaz, who was shot dead in Miranshah on Wednesday. “The death of a veteran journalist such as Malik Mumtaz must not go uninvestigated and unexplained,” […]
Tribal elders and political leaders Thursday opened discussions in Islamabad to chalk out policy for holding negotiations with the Taliban. Taliban had offered peace talks to the government this month. However, there has been no progress so far as the government is asking the Taliban to stop attacks before the talks are to be started […]
Six employees of the Afghan Defence Ministry and one civilian were injured in the suicide attack on the vehicle of employees of the Defence Ministry in Kabul on Wednesday, Afghan media reported. The Defence Ministry said in a statement that a suicide attacker attacked the vehicle of the employees of the Defence Ministry by […]
Gunmen in Mardan district Tuesday shot dead a policeman, who was providing security to a polio vaccination team, police said. A polio team, guarded by police, was busy to administrate drops to children in the outskirts of Mardan when unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire at them, killing a police man at the scene. […]
Interior Minister Rehman Malik Sunday claimed that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have links with each other. Talking to media in Jehanian near Khanewal, Rehman Malik said that Malik Ishaq and Allama Ludhyanvi are leading two groups of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi with the new name ‘Ahli-Sunnah wal-Jamaat’. The Interior Minister said due to the action […]
