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The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has urged all citizens to have their expired CNICs renewed immediately to avoid any inconvenience in legal,...

Fuelling the already volatile political situation, President Asif Ali Zardari’s explosive speech at Naudero targeting PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has not only shattered the...

US President Barack Obama reassured Jewish donors on Monday he strongly supports Israel, stressing close ties between the United States and the Jewish state,...

While urging the PPP workers to follow the footsteps of Benazir Bhutto, President Asif Ali Zardari asked them to donate blood and serve the...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif approved on Thursday the unanimous decision of the PML-N’s joint parliamentary party to launch a decisive movement...

The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that 80 percent of agriculture farms located in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) were being misused and...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday asked the Balochistan chief minister to approach veteran Baloch leaders for wooing 'estranged' groups of the province.
Gilani expressed his hope that the tribal elders could work for greater reconciliation between the government and the dissident group. The PM said this in a meeting with Balochistan CM Aslam Raisani at his Chamber in the Parliament House.
He said the government has withdrawn army from troubled areas

KARACHI - The Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has refused to provide furnace oil to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) until the power utility pays up the price differential claims of Rs 3.9 billion made by the former.
Moreover, a clear directive from the federal government is also needed to provide the facility of subsidised furnace oil to the KESC, which is demanding oil on the rate of gas, after a reduction in gas supply from the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to the power

KARACHI - Provincial Senior Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has asked the teachers' community in general, and the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) office-bearers in particular, to compare what the previous regime did for them and what they have achieved during the tenure of the present government.
According to a statement, the minister, while commenting on the SPLA declaration that it would protest against the Education Department, said," The

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that two missing people, Adnan and one other, were activists of a banned organisation Tehreek-e Islamia.
Appearing on notice in a case of two missing persons, Islamabad Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Binyamin contended before the court that Zahida Parveen, mother of Adnan, was also an important activist of the Tehreek-e-Islamia.
A three-member bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that available documentary evidence incriminated MPA Moonis Elahi, son of PML-Q leader Pervez Elahi, of involvement in the NICL scam.
The FIA also informed the court that Rs 1.68 billion had so far been recovered, while efforts were underway for recovery of the remaining Rs 42 million. Appearing on notice, FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi submitted a progress report on the scam

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the national exchequer suffered a loss of Rs 7 billion due to evasion of customs duty by ISAF containers at the Chaman crossing along the Pak-Afghan border.
Appearing on notice, FBR Chairman Salman Siddique told a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani that a total of 2,981 containers went missing, of which 408

WASHINGTON - Pakistan has told the United States to sharply cut the number of CIA agents and special forces operating there, and to rein in drone strikes against militants, a US newspaper said Monday.
The New York Times said the order highlighted the near collapse of US-Pakistani cooperation, the result of a row that erupted when CIA officer Raymond Davis shot and killed two Pakistani men in January.
The authorities in Islamabad were asking a total of about 335 CIA officers,

KARACHI - While thousands of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) employees wait for a stay order from the court over their dismissal from service, the power utility has shared the details of a 'severance scheme' with the Sindh High Court (SHC) under a new plan to sack around 4,000 of its non-core, non-management staff.
However, this time the KESC management has taken all precautionary measures by completing all legal procedures before launching the new scheme and no visible

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry told the Punjab chief secretary on Friday to submit a report within 15 days about who was responsible for the deaths of several patients during the 37-day doctors' strike.
The CJ questioned why the "ineligible" Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad was not transferred. The CJ told Fawad that if he could not run the affairs, he should quit. The CJ also clarified that the matter was worth taking suo motu notice of,

LONDON - Lord Nazir Ahmed, member of Britain's House of Lords, asked British Prime Minister David Cameron in a letter on Thursday to send former president Pervez Musharraf back to Pakistan to face cases pending against him in Pakistani courts.
Ahmed demanded that Musharraf be extradited immediately because he was alleged to have been a part of a broad conspiracy to murder former prime minster Benazir Bhutto. He said that a Rawalpindi court had issued arrest warrants for Musharraf

MOGADISHU - Somalia's prime minister has told UN agencies to move their offices to its capital within 90 days, saying they were not helping the war-torn state from their bases in neighbouring Kenya.
Most aid agencies working in the country have moved their headquarters to Kenya to avoid kidnappings and frequent fighting between Islamists and government-allied troops in Somalia. "Somalia is not worse than Iraq and Afghanistan ... We need you to stay with us and share with us the