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    Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said his meeting with US President Barack Obama was positive in which they discussed various issues, including drone attacks,...

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Ishtiak Ahmad Khan said the commission had taken several concrete initiatives for ensuring fair, impartial and transparent elections...

Five armed robbers made off with valuables worth Rs 2.8 million from branch of a local bank located at Raiwind Road in the Choong...

Five armed robbers looted a private bank in the city’s Tarlai area and made away with Rs 450,000 on Wednesday. A police official said the...

A network of civil society organisations in Tharparkar district, Maroo’ara Tharparkar, in Thursday complained that measures taken so far by the Pakistan People’s Party-led...

The provincial government has taken concrete steps to restore law and order in Karachi and other parts of the province, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor...

The PPP parliamentary party in the Punjab Assembly has formally demanded the party leadership to suspend the membership of former foreign minister Shah Mehmood...

As many as eight Naval personnel have been taken into custody under the charges of abetting terrorists during attack on PNS Mehran naval base...

The Pakistan Army denied on Wednesday a report published in The New York Times claiming that a major was among the five Pakistani informants...

Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday once again asked its ruling partner Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), to initiate action against those...

Less than a fortnight after journalist Saleem Shahzad was abducted and found murdered under mysterious circumstances, his book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Beyond...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday disposed of a human rights case after the departments concerned reported that the illegal occupants had been...

Pakistan denied on Tuesday that it had any prior knowledge of the US operation, but said it had been sharing information with the American...

ISLAMABAD - After the Supreme Court (SC)'s dismissal of the government's review petition against the apex court's order overruling the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject the Judicial Commission's recommendations on judges' appointments, the Parliamentary Committee may bring the final verdict of the apex court to parliament for debate. During the hearing of the review plea, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja remarked that the eight-member parliamentary committee did not have the status

ISLAMABAD/lAHORE - In what may be termed a pre-alliance sweetener to lure the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leadership into a half-cooked power-sharing deal, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Zafar Ahmed Qureshi from heading the team investigating the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, a case in which the PML-Q's Moonis Elahi is a suspect currently in FIA custody.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday told the US that it was taking decisive measures for eliminating terrorism. The assurance was given during a meeting between the US Congressional delegation and Interior Minister Rehman Malik at the Ministry of Interior.
They discussed bilateral issues in detail whereas Malik said Pakistan was taking critical measures for elimination of terrorism and it had given great sacrifices to root out militancy from the country. The US Congressmen appreciated

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,