KHAIRPUR: Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister, Ms Sharmila Farooqi has said that present government of PPP has provided 40, 000 jobs to the people on merit basis. ‘PPP government is striving for the welfare and better living of masses and especially for the women it had started Shaheed Benazir income Support Program through which poor […]
ISLAMABAD: People from different walks of life have congratulated Information Minister Sherry Rehman for winning the title of ‘Democracy’s Hero’ by International Republican Institute (IPI). In a statement, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairwoman Asma Jehangir said the IRI Award was recognition of the Information Minister’s struggle for democracy. “After the title’s award, Sherry […]
GHALLANAI: Two militants were killed and four others injured when the security forces and militants clashed in Pandyalai tehsil and Bhai Daag area of Baizai Subdivision in troubled Mohmand Agency on Tuesday. Sources said that a group of militants attacked the security forces checkpoint in Targhakhi with rockets and mortars. However, the security forces quickly […]
KARACHI, Jan 3: The Sindh government has approved a sum of Rs100 million for setting up a media centre. This was stated by provincial Minister for Information Shazia Marri while speaking at a presentation regarding the proposed media centre at the information department here on Saturday. She said Rs40 million of the allocated funds would […]
WANA, Jan 2: A US missile attack in Laddha area of South Waziristan killed three suspected militants and injured three others on Friday. According to local people, a drone fired two missiles on a government primary school for girls in the Maidan Narry area, considered to be a stronghold of Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of […]
QUETTA, Jan 1: At least three security personnel and 10 militants were killed in a clash near Uch gas field, in Dera Bugti district, on Thursday. “Three of our soldiers lost their lives and five others were injured in the clash,” Frontier Corps Inspector-General Maj-Gen Saleem Nawaz said. According to official sources, an FC contingent […]
GHALLANAI: One soldier was killed and two others sustained injuries as clashes between the security forces and the militants continued in Safi Tehsil and the adjoining areas of the Mohmand Agency for the second consecutive day on Thursday. The security forces also claimed to have killed several militants when their hideouts were dynamited besides arresting […]
ISLAMABAD: Senior anchor person and former MD PTV Dr Shahid Masood has said that he has been told by a federal minister that Ansar Abbasi, Editor Investigations, The News, was on the government hit list and once he is “dismantled” the next target will be Shaheen Sehbai, the Group Editor of the newspaper. Dr Shahid […]
LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government would restore the deposed judges in the light of the decisions made in the Bhurban Declaration by the coalition partners. Talking to journalists after attending a lunch hosted by the PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind farm on Wednesday, the premier said: “We […]
Karachi has been robbed of a top journalism school owing to petty politics spawned by university staffers unsure of their future if the venture succeeded, The News has learnt. Seven years have passed since the foundation was laid for a state-of-the-art Mass Communication Institute at Karachi University (KU) but, despite the good intentions of its […]
A Japanese journalist suffered injuries Saturday in a bomb attack on an Italian restaurant in central Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, Japanese media reports. The 34-year-old journalist sustained injuries in his face and was taken to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital on Sunday, where he received stitches to his lips. “He is in a stable condition,” a doctor […]
SLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday stayed the election result of the National Assembly constituency NA-118 Lahore-1, where a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate succeeded in the recent general elections held on February 18. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, hearing an election candidateÕs appeal, directed the […]
LANDI KOTAL, June 29: Security forces on Sunday pushed on with their offensive against militants and destroyed several hideouts and an FM radio station in the Bara tehsil of the Khyber tribal region. However, there are indications that the militants had moved out of the area before the offensive was launched. Paramilitary forces are reported […]
ISLAMABAD: Dina Khan, the defiant daughter of Dr AQ Khan, has snubbed the deputy attorney general of Pakistan Raja Abdul Rehman and has warned the government that if her father was silenced, she would continue to fight and won’t sit like a silent spectator. In a communication to The News, Dina Khan sharply reacted over […]
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