Steps taken to protect Tarbela Dam: Sabotage threat
SWABI, Feb 10: The government has banned the running of all public and private vehicles via Tarbela Dam Road and power house route as a precautionary measure to protect the dam...
Land grabbers gang unearthed
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 10: A group of land grabbers was unearthed here the other day who had got agricultural lands of Muhammad Tufail Rajput of Faisalabad District transferred to their...
Stone Age cave found in Bajaur
PESHAWAR, Feb 10: The Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar, has discovered a cave of the Middle Stone Age in a town of the Bajaur Agency, archaeologists told Dawn here on...
Lawyers threaten to boycott ATCs
TIMERGARA, Feb 10: Voicing opposition to the inclusion of serving army officers in the anti-terrorism courts, the District Bar Association, Timergara, has threatened that the lawyers community would not appear for...
TI urges govt to achieve food autarky
PESHAWAR, Feb 10: Tehreek-i-Istaqlal (TI) chief Rehmat Khan Wardag has urged rulers to implement the agriculture reforms if they want Pakistan to achieve food autarky, and to prosper working class and...
Afghan DP freed after five years
PESHAWAR, Feb 10: After remaining in illegal detention for about five years, an Afghan refugee was finally released from central prison when a judicial magistrate visited the jail here on Saturday....
Two policemen injured
LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 10: Two policemen were seriously injured when unknown assailants opened fire on a police mobile patrolling the Indus Highway in the Ghaznikhel area here early on Sunday morning....
Armymen in ATCs opposed
ABBOTTABAD, Feb 10: President of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan has opposed the induction of army officials into the Anti-Terrorist Courts and said that it would hamper the basic norms...
Policemen’s killer dies in ‘encounter’
GUJRAT, Feb 10: The district police on Sunday claim to have killed a criminal who was got freed by his three accomplices near Kaila in an ambush in which two policemen...
Wrong is the rule in DG Khan, Rajanpur
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 10: Kidnapping and killing have become a routine in the tribal area and its adjacent settle area in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur as there is complete...
‘Country stands firm on Kashmir issue’
LAHORE, Feb 10: The Kashmir Committee Chairman, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, on Sunday denied that Kashmir policy was being rolled back....
Conductor dies, 10 hurt in accidents
OKARA, Feb 10: A bus conductor was killed while 10 passengers sustained injuries in two different road accident on Sunday....
3 of a family killed on road
SAHIWAL, Feb 10: Three members of a family were killed while two injured when a car overturned near Chak 41/GD, Sahiwal-Faisalabad Road on Sunday....
Two terrorists arrested with bombs, arms
MIANWALI, Feb 10: Two terrorists were arrested and bombs, arms and ammunition recovered from them near Kamarmishani, SP Muhammad Zarat Kiyani claimed on Sunday....
Follower Deprives ‘pir’ of Rs3.8m
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 10: A follower on Sunday allegedly deprived his so-called ‘pir’ of Rs3.8 million at Bindra Basti....
Call to give teachers their due
MULTAN, Feb 10: The status of teachers will keep deteriorating if the government continues to recruit them on a contract....
PAT to resist withdrawal of graduation condition
FAISALABAD, Feb 10: The Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) will launch a countrywide protest movement if the government withdraws the graduation condition for candidates of assemblies....
Ex MNA’s mills auctioned
MULTAN, Feb 10: The Silver Land Textile Mills owned by former PML MNA Haji Boota and partners was at last sold out in an open auction for Rs10.6 million here on...
Man burnt alive
MULTAN, Feb 10: A man was burnt alive while two others sustained burn injuries in Qadirpur Rawan here on Saturday night....
Skin disease survey completed
LARKANA, Feb 10: The random survey on the outbreak of a skin disease leishmaniasis undertaken in selected villages of Larkana and Dadu districts jointly by the World Health Organization, National Institute...
Two die, 35 injured in accident
DADU, Feb 10: Two people died on the spot and 35 were injured in a road accident when a Gaji Shah bound bus overturned and fell in to a ditch on...
JSM-J opposes division of Sindh
SUKKUR, Feb 10: The division of Sindh as proposed by the National Reconstruction Bureau is against the interests of small provinces....
Death rate rises in Thar hospitals
MITHI, Feb 10: Shortage of doctors and poor health services have led to dozens of deaths in Tharparkar district during the last three months, reveals a survey conducted by this scribe....
Defective pumps add to insanitation
LARKANA, Feb 10: Out of 12 big pumps installed at pumping station-1 to drain out sewage, 10 were found inoperative when Larkana District Nazim Khursheed Junejo and the taluka Nazim Nazeer...
Father, son drown in Keenjhar
THATTA, Feb 10: A contractor and his son from Karachi drowned as the boat they were boarding overturned in Keenjhar Lake on Sunday....
Man shot dead
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 10: A Hindu landlord, Seth Goband Ram, 48, son of Aasandas, was shot dead near Mirwah town, 40km from here on Sunday, over a dispute of agricultural land....