Jirga sets terms for new tax plan
MINGORA, Jan 25: The Loya Jirga, Malakand Division, has reiterated its opposition to the government’s plan to impose new taxes unless the people’s demands regarding enforcement of the Islamic system and...
Sedition case registered against protesters
DADU, Jan 25: The leaders of the Citizens Action Committee were arrested in a sedition case by police for giving a strike call and staging a protest rally in Sehwan town...
SC ruling on quota being ignored
GILGIT, Jan 25: A large number of candidates for admission in professional colleges and universities alleged on Wednesday that transparency was not being observed in the nomination on the quota of...
‘Govt not behind PML unification’
SUKKUR, Jan 25: There is no scope for Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto and Altaf Hussain for the next five to ten ears as they had miserably failed to deliver the goods...
Three kidnapped
SANGHAR, Jan 25: Three people were kidnapped by a seven-member gang of bandits from the Buddo Wassan village and Ibrahim Sanjran village on late Thursday night. The bandits were led by...
SLIC workers reject new working plan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Jan 25: Workers of State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) have rejected the new working structure of the corporation for its field staff. ...
Gims providing health care to villagers
PESHAWAR, Jan 25: The Ghandhara Institute of Medical Sciences (Gims), is working hard to provide community health care to the people of rural areas around Peshawar and other parts of the...
Summer campus for university planned
MINGORA, Jan 25: The government has decided to establish summer campus of Malakand University Chakdara at Sharingal. A high-level team visited the proposed site in this regard recently....
Two cops arrested for drug trafficking
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Jan 25: The Kandiaro police arrested six men including a head constable and an Excise constable and seized 15 kg charas from their possession on the National Highway, near...
Two arrested for installing illegal radio network
BAJAUR, Jan 25: The Bajaur Agency political administration arrested two engineers who installed illegal FM radio stations in various mosques and Madaris of the Agency....
No arrest without filing of NC: DPO
KHAIRPUR, Jan 25: The district police officer, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, said that no one would be arrested without registration of an NC by the police....
Landlord shot dead
SUKKUR, Jan 25: A landlord, M. Nawaz Jatoi, was shot dead by four armed men in the Gulsher Jatoi village on Friday....
Education, health facilities to be deregulated
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The government has decided to largely deregulate health and educational facilities in order to drastically improve all related services....
Union, tehsil councils to get funds directly: Mengal
HUB, Jan 25: Balochistan Governor Amirul Mulk Mengal said on Friday that Tehsil and union councils will be provided funds directly by the provincial government under the devolution plan....
Petition against Fazl’s detention dismissed
PESHAWAR, Jan 25: Dismissing a writ petition against the detention of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Friday declared his detention legal...
Hearing of Qazi’s plea adjourned
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The supreme court on Friday adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by Qazi Hussain Ahmad, directing the NWFP government to produce JI leader’s latest medical report and...