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Pakistan military angered by treatment of Musharraf: reports Pakistan's powerful army chief has suggested the military is unhappy with how authorities have treated former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf since his return from exile. A Pakistani court on Tuesday imposed a lifetime ban...

ISLAMABAD - The national airline will soon acquire twelve medium range aircraft in the PIA fleet. This was stated by PIA Chairman Lt Gen (r) Asif Yasin Mailk at PIA’s two- day Global Marketing Conference which concluded on Tuesday. The PIA chairman said that all employees have to work...

A US government-appointed panel urged Washington Tuesday to step up pressure on Pakistan over religious freedom, warning that risks to its minorities have reached a crisis level. In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also raised concerns about what it...

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain Tuesday paid glowing tributes to party's former chairman Azeem Ahmed Tariq and other Haq Parasts for sacrificing their lives. In a statement on the 20th death anniversary of Azeem Tariq, he said the sacrifices of MQM's martyrs would...

Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani has said that a 15-day targeted operation by the army and Frontier Corps against the armed militants will commence today (May 1) in different parts of the province. “It can be launched anytime and anywhere,” he told The Express Tribune on...

Porsche today announced the latest range of second generation Porsche Panameras for the Pakistan market. The Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid, Porsche Panamera 4S, and Panamera Turbo will all be available in Pakistan in both standard and Executive classes. The cars are available for order as of now...

As the Niwanis, an influential political group of Bhakkar district, has been disqualified by the Lahore High Court, the PML-N is likely to lose a major district of Punjab in general elections. Rasheed Akbar, Saeed Akbar and Hameed Akbar are learnt to have been disqualified by a Lahore High...

Warfare may be an awful thing, but it has a habit of accelerating health technology in ways that are helpful to everyone. For example, in World War II the Allies made significant medical advances in vital areas such as developing antibiotic drugs - which the Germans didn’t possess - and...

In a strange coincidence following protests by lawyers against Pervez Musharraf on his appearances in Rawalpindi courts, at least two senior lawyers have been picked up by ‘unknown’ men, who beat them black and blue and dumped the injured men at some distance, ‘The News’ has learnt on good...

Pakistan has imported around $ 4.377 billion mobile phone handsets and other telecom apparatus during last five years with telecom imports of US $ 1.331 billion only in 2007-08, the most promising year for the sector. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in its year 2012 report has...

Little-known bowler Ahmed Jamal has vowed to make a name for himself after winning a nationwide "King of Speed" competition launched by cricket chiefs to unearth a new Pakistani quick. Pakistan boast a proud history of pacemen including the likes of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib...

Deciding on concentrated troops deployment for polling stations under threats, the military leadership on Monday approved a security plan for national and regional polls it had earlier formulated in consultations with the election commission and the government. The security plan envisages a...

Musharraf should be allowed to meet mother: Bakhtawar Elder daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari on Friday said former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf should be allowed to meet his ailing mother.In a message on social networking website Twitter, Bakhtawar...

The terrorist attacks on the PPP, MQM and ANP are obviously condemnable and cannot be condoned yet these parties have to blame themselves for what they are facing today. Not only during their just-completed five-year rule they failed to evolve any counter-terrorism strategy, they had...

ISLAMABAD: Senior army officers on Friday expressed concern over ridiculing the army as an institution. What is all this happening, they questioned. A 75-member delegation of the Command and Staff College, Quetta, with Lieutenant Colonel Saqib Ali Cheema in the chair had a dialogue with...

LAHORE - In a survey conducted by the AliAilaan, a campaign to ensure top priority attention for education in ongoing election campaigns, 60 percent of respondents stated they intended to vote, promising thus to lead to the highest voter turnout in the country’s history. Contrary to...

Two explosions took place in Hangu and Kohat whereas two other bombs were defused in Bannu and Charsadda districts on Friday. In Hangu’s Muhammad Khawaja area, militants blew up a government high school, partially damaging the structure, local political administration sources said. Whereas in...

Intelligence agencies have warned that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has made a comprehensive plan to kidnap former President Pervez Musharraf. Sources said that intelligence agencies have issued an advisory in this regard, which says that TTP has hatched a plot to kidnap Pervez Musharraf...

WASHINGTON/LONDON - The White House disclosure that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons still leaves the Obama administration stuck with a limited choice of military options to help the rebels oust President Bashar Assad. Arming the rebels runs smack into the reality that a...

They need to hang him up or release him, he has wasted a lot of time. I don't expect Indian loving Zardari Bhutto to hang him though.