LAHORE: A hearing of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee convened by the House Committee on Oversight and Government to discuss the upcoming parliamentary elections in Pakistan on Thursday declared that the polls could not be transparent unless the curbs on media and opposition parties were lifted. The hearing, chaired by Representative John Tierney, […]
MINGORA: Thirteen persons, including four security personnel, were killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy on Kanra Baba road near here on Sunday. The civilian casualties were allegedly caused by indiscriminate firing by the security forces immediately after the incident. More than 25 people, including 12 security persons and four women, were severely […]
CHARSADDA, Dec 23: Two Afghan refugees are among four suspects picked up for questioning in connection with the Charsadda mosque suicide attack on Eid day which left at least 56 people dead and over a hundred others injured. Security officials said the men, one of them a madressah student as well as a local prayer […]
MINGORA, Dec 23: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an army convoy, killing four soldiers and six other people on the Shahdara Road on Sunday evening. According to official sources, 29 people were injured. The convoy was returning after carrying out anti-militant operations in various areas of Khwazakhela and Charbagh when it was […]
LAHORE, Dec 19: Fourteen people died in an accident involving a trailer and a rickshaw carrying schoolchildren near Pattoki, 80km from here, on Wednesday. Seven of the victims, including three girls and two boys belonged to the same family. Witnesses and police said the accident took place in front of the Karachi Flour Mills at […]
ISLAMABAD: The only cinema in the capital will start functioning next week in the auditorium of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Sources told Daily Times that all necessary arrangements had been made in this regard. “We are planning to stage one film daily as we cannot afford to book the auditorium for the […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 19: Investigators have so far been unable to find any clue to the bomb explosions which damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Baba and a video shop on Wednesday morning. The police officials said the bomb exploded in the early hours Wednesday when the shop’s owner Ramzan Khan had not yet come to […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 19: At least 50 people were killed and 203 others were injured when the Lahore-bound Karachi Express carrying most of holiday travellers derailed near Mehrabpur, some 55km from here in the early hours of Wednesday. Twelve bogies of the train slipped off the track. The victims were trapped in four of them. […]
MINGORA: Security forces arrested eight suspected militants and targeted militant positions in the Puchar and Manjad areas of Swat district late Tuesday night, sources said. They added that security forces destroyed several militant hideouts and that the eight people arrested from the Baryam Pul and Fizagat checkpoints were said to be close aides of the […]
ISLAMABAD: The only cinema in the capital will start functioning next week in the auditorium of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Sources told Daily Times that all necessary arrangements had been made in this regard. “We are planning to stage one film daily as we cannot afford to book the auditorium for the […]
MEHRABPUR: The number of deaths in Karachi Express tragedy is reported to have risen to at least 58 on Wednesday morning with at least 120 other people wounded. Karachi Express train packed with holiday travellers derailed at Tuesday-Wednesday night near Mehrabpur, officials said. The Karachi Express night train was on its way to Lahore when […]
KARACHI: Several bogies of Lahore bound Karachi Express derailed near Mehrabpur railway station in district Naushehro Feroz, railways sources said. About 50 people were feared dead and dozens wounded in the train accident early Wednesday, foreign news agency reported. The train was traveling between the southern port city of Karachi and eastern border city of […]
KARACHI, Dec 18: The fierce gun battle between workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP), which resulted in the death of a man and injuries to three others on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road on Monday, has set alarm bells ringing in the police quarters, sparking fears of more violence […]
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court has held that madrassa degrees will not be considered equal to graduation unless the compulsory subjects of English and Pakistan studies were passed at the bachelors level. The bench gave this ruling while dismissing a petition of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Khan Zia Ahmad Khan […]
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