Taliban’s rigidities led to their crash, says Nasim Wali
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Begum Nasim Wali Khan, provincial president of Awami National Party (ANP), has criticized the Taliban for their stubbornness which has led them to experience the worst....
Operation launched against dacoits
LARKANA, Dec 3: The Larkana police have launched an anti-dacoits operation in the kutcha area and exchanged heavy fire with dacoits in the woods of Sadho forest....
Call for limiting tobacco growing
SWABI, Dec 3: The Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) adopted a unique method to warn the Virginia tobacco growers of district Swabi and get them cultivate tobacco according to the requirements of...
JUI flays Bonn moot plan
MANSEHRA, Dec 3: The brother of the chief of the JUI, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, and deputy secretary general of the JUI, NWFP, Maulana Ataur Rehman, has said that the Bonn conference...
Sindh seeks Rs2.2m from Railways
SUKKUR, Dec 3: Governor Sindh Mohammadmian Soomro ordered the provincial finance department to initiate an inquiry against the railways authorities who have failed to return the leftover amount of Rs.2.2 million...
Gastroenteritis kills eight in Jati
THATTA, Dec 3: The outbreak of gastroenteritis has claimed eight lives within the last 48 hours in and around coastal town of Jati, Dawn has learnt here through the sources of...
Protest held against loadshedding
BADIN, Dec 3: The representatives of the Matli Shehri Action Committee took out a protest rally on Monday against the unscheduled loadshedding since the last two weeks in Matli....
Cotton dealers recovered
NAWABSHAH Dec 3: The phutti (cotton) dealers of Gupchani — Daulat Raam and Teja Raam — who were kidnapped late on Sunday night from Sim Nullah, Jam Sahib, have been freed...
Five bitten by pye dogs
KHAIRPUR, Dec 3: Pye dogs bit five people in Manglo village, Gohar Taluka, on Monday....
PADC to launch movement against govt
NOWSHERA, Dec 3: Pakistan Afghanistan Defence Council has decided to launch a protest movement against the present government after the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr for over its pro- American policy and the killing...
Two killed as drivers clash
MANSEHRA, Dec 3: Two persons were killed in a clash between two drivers in Guger Galley, some 20km from here, on Monday, police sources said....
Dadu Nazim appoints 101 teachers
DADU, Dec 3: The district Nazim, Dadu, Malik Asad Sikandar distributed appointment orders among 14 high school teachers, 16 junior school teachers, and 71 primary school teachers, both males and females,...
One shot dead over enmity
ORAKZAI AGENCY, Dec 3: One person was shot dead in the Chappar Mashti area of Orakzai Agency on Monday....
ENT specialist thrashed
MIRPURKHAS, Dec 3: Three people including a woman beat up a doctor at the civil hospital, Mirpurkhas, on Monday....
MBBS merit list on 14th
LARKANA, Dec 3: The principal and chairman Selection Board of Chandka Medical College, Larkana, on Monday released the provisional merit list of the candidates who have applied for the admission to...
Non-Pakhtoon refugees’ shifting begins today
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: The UNHCR and the commissionerate for Afghan refugees (CAR), NWFP, would jointly start shifting, from Tuesday, the non-Pakhtoon Afghan displaced persons, living in the Jallozai makeshift camp, to...
Freedom movement is not terrorism: AJK president
MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 3: AJK President Mohammad Anwar Khan said on Monday that international support for the resolution of the Kashmir issue had increased following the launching of the ongoing campaign against...
Japanese, Malaysian staff resume work: Kohat tunnel project
KOHAT, Dec 3: The Japanese and Malaysian technical staff resumed excavation of the multi-billion Kohat tunnel project after two months on Monday following clearance from their respective missions in Islamabad, the...
Pakistan’s stand on terrorism lauded
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The EU commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Assistance, Poul Nielson, met Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar here on Monday....
Appointment of LHC judge challenged
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Appointment of Justice Karamat Nazir Bhindari as judge of the Lahore High Court was challenged in the Supreme Court on Monday....
Pakhtoons blame Uzbeks for ethnic cleansing
CHAMAN, Dec 3: The Pakhtoon survivors from Northern Afghanistan, dislodged and uprooted in recent US air strikes and ground attacks, claimed ethnic cleansing by the Uzbek militia and its allies. Thousands...
Islamabad cooperating with US: envoy
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: Islamabad is cooperating with the United States on preventing ‘undesirables’ from crossing over to its side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, with the two countries working jointly to get...
Health dept bid to conceal polio cases
MULTAN, Dec 3: Punjab Health Department highups are trying to conceal the actual number of polio cases, specially in Dera Ghazi Khan division....
Sindh health secy deprived of Land Cruiser
GUJRANWALA, Dec 3: The Sindh health secretary was deprived of cash, valuables and a Land Cruiser by highwaymen on the GT Road here on Monday....
Boy scouts wing Employees denied salaries
BAHAWALPUR, Dec 3: The future of the boys scouts section of the former education department hangs in balance even after a lapse of four months of devolution plan....
Dacoits on usual hunt
FAISALABAD, Dec 3: Dacoits looted cash and valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees and drove away with four motorbikes in different strikes here during the last 24 hours....
Rs1.24bn for gas to Sialkot EPZ
SIALKOT, Dec 3: The federal government has sanctioned Rs1.24 billion for the provision of gas facility to the Sialkot export processing zone (EPZ)....
Robbers take away Rs2.6m from trader, injure one
MULTAN, Dec 3: Cash and valuables worth Rs2.8 million were robbed and two people, including a woman, were injured in two separate incidents in different parts of the city on Monday....
Woman killed, 12 injured on road
SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 3: A woman was killed while a dozen others sustained injuries, two of them serious, in two road accidents here on Monday....
LHC seeks Record from ANF
MULTAN, Dec 3: The Multan bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday asked the AAG to ensure production of record from the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) on Tuesday (today), on...
Extortion at railway station
FAISALABAD, Dec 3: The sale of railway tickets at exorbitant rates by the coolie mafia at the local station goes on unabated due to negligence of the authorities concerned....