ANP to evolve new line of action today
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: The central committee of Awami National Party (ANP) is holding a meeting at a local hotel here on Tuesday to chalk out its future line of action amid...
Afghans’ mental health ravaged by war, says WHO
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: Twenty-three years of war have ravaged the mental health and psychological functioning of the people in Afghanistan and some five million Afghans are very likely to be affected...
7 Afghan children hurt in explosion
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: At least seven Afghan children, including four girls, sustained injuries when a cluster bomb went off in the Afghan side of the Torkham border on Monday....
Passengers slam police behaviour
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: Police checking of public transport buses in the Hayatabad township has made the life of travelling public miserable....
Malaria invades Badin district
BADIN, Nov 26: Cerebral malaria is on the rise in Badin district where many people belonging to various villages are suffering from the disease....
Rs45.745m Mansehra tehsil budget presented
MANSEHRA, Nov 26: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA), Mansehra, presented a budget of Rs45,745,000 at its meeting held here the other day....
Alliance deploys guards at Torkham
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: The Northern Alliance has deployed uniformed personnel on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham border checkpoint....
Concern over fate of volunteers voiced
BAJAUR, Nov 26: Former Jihadi commanders of Kunar and Laghman provinces of Afghanistan have expressed concern over the fate of thousands of tribal volunteers and workers of Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariah Muhammadi from...
PMC students reject results
NAWABSHAH, Nov 26: MBBS final year students belonging to the Peoples Medical College, protested in front of the Nawabshah Press Club, and rejected the results which they termed victimisation....
44 prisoners released in Kohat
KOHAT, Nov 26: The civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate, Safiullah Jan, who visited central prison here on Monday, ordered the release of 44 prisoners involved in cases of small offences....
Teachers boycott classes
MITHI, Nov 26: The teachers of Thar have pointed out that the decision of the secretary, Education, for ordering the teachers to appear at a test for obtaining the increments of...
Sharp increase in prices of edibles during Ramazan
MITHI, Nov 26: Sharp increase in the prices of kitchen items during Ramazan has further multiplied the worries of the people who were already finding it difficult to make ends meet,...
Fish dealers condemn harassment
KHAIRPUR, Nov 26: Fish dealers and sellers of the town observed token hunger strike here on Monday. They told the newsmen that they were selling fish according to scheduled rate, despite...
Dadu hotels raided
DADU, Nov 26: The judicial magistrate Dadu, Sikandar Amir Pahore, raided various hotels here on Sunday at Rai Bazar, fish market, Sabzi Mandi, Shahi Bazar, new bus stand, station road and...
Rs40bn plan for social sector approved
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: A meeting, presided over by President Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Monday approved Rs40 billion new spending programme for social sector....
Mly setup cannot replace elected govt: Chomsky
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: A military setup can not replace a democratically-elected government, though it can restore a genuine democracy, Noam Chomsky, a visiting US scholar, said on Monday....
Registration of Afghans at DPs camp restricted
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan has stopped the pre-registration of Afghan men aged 25 to 40 years at the Killi Faizo refugee camp, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said here...
Rome’s envoy to S. Arabia converts to Islam
ROME, Nov 26: Italy’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia has converted to Islam, the second time in seven years that an envoy of Rome to Riyadh has adopted its religion....
Benazir demands assurance of safety on return
NEW DELHI, Nov 26: Saying that her exile was a reflection of the state of human rights in Pakistan, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Monday sought assurances of safety from...