Man kills family over domestic dispute

MARDAN: A person axed to death his three family members including father, wife and daughter over domestic disputes here on Tuesday. Police arrested the...

FIR lodged against 12 for conspiring against KP polio-drive

PESHAWAR: Police have registered First Information Report (FIR) against 12 individuals who were behind the propaganda against the polio campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The...

Two dead, 18 injured as van falls in gorge

BHIMBER: At least two people died and 18 others injured when a passenger van fell into a gorge in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)...

Policeman on way for polio duty gunned down in Bannu

BANNU: Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) Imran, who had been deployed at a basic health unit in Bannu to provide security to polio workers during a province-wide...

University student gunned down in robbery attempt

PESHAWAR: A student was shot dead by robbers on resistance in Tajabad area in the outskirts of the provincial capital, police said on Monday. According...

IGP warns of stern action against aerial firing, fireworks

ISLAMABAD: IGP Aamir Zulfiqar Khan chaired a high-level meeting, attended by DIG (Headquarter) Sarfraz Ahmad Falki, DIG (Operations), Waqar ud din Syed, SSP (Logistic),...

Woman among two killed for ‘honour’ in Bannu

BANNU: A man killed two people, including his sister-in-law, for 'honour' here on Monday. The incident took place in the city's suburbs where a man...

One dead, two injured in Attock road mishaps

ATTOCK: A youth died while two others were injured in separate road accidents here on Sunday, police said. The first accident took place at Rawalpindi Road in Fateh...

No space for underperformers: Shaukat Yousafzai

SWAT: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Sunday said that the ministers who are not performing up to the mark should...

17 girls faint, hospitalized due to gas leakage in Peshawar seminary

PESHAWAR: At least 17 girl students of a seminary fainted and hospitalized due to leakage of gas here on Saturday. According to details, due to...

ANF foils bid to smuggle ice heroin, arrests accused

ISLAMABAD: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled a bid to smuggle over one-kilogram ice heroin worth millions of rupees to abroad and arrested an...

Missing Chinese national found dead after one week

ISLAMABAD: Li Jinqiang,  a Chinese national who went missing from Islamabad's Super Market on April 13 was found dead in Rawalpindi's Iqbal Town area on...

IHC constitutes commission for recovery of kidnapped citizen

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday constituted a three-member commission for the recovery of an abducted citizen Mir Afridi and directed it to submit report...

South Korean envoy calls on HEC chairman

ISLAMABAD: Kwak Sung-Kyu, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Pakistan, called on Dr Tariq Banuri, Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) at the Commission...

75% Pakistanis do not read books: poll

ISLAMABAD: According to a recent survey carried out by Gallup and Gilani Pakistan, 3 in 4 Pakistanis (75%) claim not to read any books...

Rainfall fills Rawal Lake to capacity

ISLAMABAD: The weather system over central and upper parts of the country has almost cleared and is moving eastward, with negligible chances of further...

FIA raids two illegal money changers in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Teams from the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Islamabad Circle on Thursday raided two offices operated by currency exchange companies in Islamabad's F-10 Markaz...