ISLAMABAD: The intelligence agencies are said to have expressed strong fears that the fugitive Rashid Rauf might sneak into troubled Afghanistan to seek protection of his former comrades in the ranks of the Taliban in a bid to avoid his deportation to the UK, where he is wanted for murder. Meanwhile, sources said, despite serious […]
KOHAT, Dec 18: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials arrived here from Islamabad to start looking into Monday’s suicide attack which claimed the lives of 12 under-training soldiers in the Kohat Cantonment, officials said on Tuesday. The head of the Kohat Bureau of Investigation, Faiz Moham-mad Khattak, told Dawn that the team […]
MINGORA, Dec 18: Security forces have arrested two suspected militants, believed to be close associates of Maulana Fazlullah, at the Bariam checkpoint and seized a vehicle loaded with explosives and suicide jackets in Bandai village near Khwazakhela. An official statement issued on Tuesday said the administration had distributed warm clothes, 1,000 blankets and 500 food […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: Political leaders, lawyers, civil society organisations and students on Tuesday condemned, what they termed, brute use of force against peaceful protesters and arrests of women, lawyers and students on Monday. The arrests came when the group was proceeding to meet deposed chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry at his residence. The police blocked the […]
RAWALPINDI, Dec 18: A local court remanded two policemen in police custody for six days here on Tuesday. Special Judge Central Shaukat Ali Sajid gave Head Constable Mohammad Tufail and Constable Nawabzada in the custody of the Margalla police to interrogate the escape of Rashid Rauf, wanted in the Trans-Atlantic bomb plot case in London. […]
KOHAT, Dec 17: At least 12 army recruits were killed in a suicide attack in the heart of the Kohat cantonment area near the Army Public College on Monday morning. According to hospital sources, two soldiers were injured. Military authorities sealed the area after the blast, leaving parents of students of the college in panic […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting Senator Nisar A Memon said on Monday that escape of Rashid Rauf, a British national, from the police custody was a human error and the government should not be blamed for it. Talking to a group of local and foreign editors and senior journalists at a luncheon meeting, […]
KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has yet to complete the Shahrah-eÂQuaideen project that it has been delayed for the last 18 months. The project to rehabilitate Shahrah-e-Quaideen from Shahrah-e-Faisal to Mazaar-eÂQuaid was announced early 2006 but work on different areas, especially between ‘Khudadad Colony and Mazaar-e-Quaid, ‘is still taking place. The slow pace […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Rashid Rauf, the Briton suspected of a plane bombing plot who escaped from custody in Islamabad, got away after police let his uncle drive him back to jail following a court appearance, a security official said on Monday. Rauf, a British national of Pakistan origin wanted for an alleged plan to blow […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The government on Sunday set up a four-member committee headed by an additional secretary to investigate the escape of Rashid Rauf, allegedly involved in a London terror plot to blow up transatlantic flights in August 2006. However, members of his family and his lawyer termed it a ‘mysterious disappearance’, saying they suspected […]
BUNER, Dec 16: Police and Bomb Disposal Squad personnel foiled an attempt to blow up a private girls’ college here in Swari on Sunday. They defused the high intensity improvised explosive device (IED) aimed at destroying the Educator College. Police said if exploded the 30kg bomb would have destroyed the entire building of the college […]
KARACHI: The Archive and Research Department (A&RD) of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK), which is funcÂtioning without a professional librarian and skilled staff and has plenty of pending documents to take care of, has now also been burdened with old documents belonging to the Master Plan Group of Offices, Daily Times has learnt. ADO […]
SIALKOT (December 17 2007): The Secretary, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad has said that the ECP would extend necessary facilities and assistance to media ensuring the coverage of election process in the country. The ECP has printed as many as 50 lakh special cards to facilitate the journalist community, he disclosed. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shahid Nadeem Baloch said the Police Department has shifted its entire record to computers to provide better services to citizens in line with modern requirements. He was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Computer Data Centre at the Police Line Headquarters. Senior police officials were also present […]
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