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Deputy Director of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) Naeem Memon said here that another wind power project of 56MW has completed at Jhimpir. He was briefing the media persons during a visit to the project at Jhimpir, some 120 kilometres north east of Karachi, on Saturday. Memon said...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday made it clear that his party would not enter into an election alliance either with Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) or with General Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). In a statement issued here, Imran categorically said...

Finance Minister Saleem Mandviwalla said on Saturday around 1.5 million people have the national tax number (NTN) out of which only 0.9 million pay their taxes. According to a private TV channel, the minister, while talking about terminating the requirement of NTN while purchasing a car, said...

Pakistani fishermen came under attack from the Indian navy within the sea limits of Pakistan on Saturday, leaving a fisherman injured and others escaped by jumping into water. According to details, Indian navy personnel opened indiscriminate firing on the fishermen, fishing on the Pakistani side...

PESHAWAR - Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market in Peshawar for the ‘shameless’ selling of video clips, ring tones and accessories, officials said Saturday. Some 60 shopkeepers received letters in the post ordering them to burn the offending stock, including memory cards and...

I am on my seventh trip to India since I first visited the country in 1976. Nothing is the same. The essential Indian narrative has gone from timelessness to disruption; the national icon from the lumbering elephant to the call centre to the high-tech entrepreneur. The Delhi that I first knew...

Most of the members support the top hierarchy, just in a hope to get power.

Pakistan and Turkey on Friday discussed possibilities of local production, co-production and transfer of technology for defence-related products according to needs of the two countries. Defence Minister Syed Naveed Qamar discussed these issues during his visit to Turkish Aerospace Industries...

The United States and Pakistan have widely divergent interests in South Asia and should break up to forge a ‘non-allied relationship’, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to Washington said. “Each country accuses the other of being a terrible ally – and perhaps both are right,”...

The Sindh Assembly Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the PML-N to ‘dissociate’ it from and discontinue ‘support’ to banned terrorist organisations, in a move seen by observers as a thoughtless reaction to PML-N’s electoral alliance with PML-F and NPP...

India finances trouble in Pakistan: Hagel India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan from across the border in Afghanistan, says Senator Chuck Hagel, US President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of defence. Mr Hagel, who faces a confirmation vote in the US Senate on...

Israel and the United States on Monday staged the first test flight of the latest generation of their Arrow missile defence system, the Arrow 3, the defence ministry said. “This is the first flight test of the Arrow 3 interceptor and was conducted at an Israeli test range over the...

PTI criticises N for links with banned outfits Prompted by a statement of Maulana Ludhianvi of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) that was published in local media on Monday stating that PML-N indeed approached him for seat adjustment, a spokesperson of PTI said that the statement by Maulana...

An Indian man has been arrested on charges of spying for Islamabad on military wargames staged on India’s border with Pakistan, police said on Monday. The 35-year-old man is accused of passing on details of the exercises held by the Indian Air Force on Friday in the western desert state of...

Maulvi Faqir’s arrest becomes mysterious Arrest of a key Al-Qaeda operative and TTP's former second-in-command Maulvi Faqir Mohammad by Afghan forces on February 21 has turned out to be a mystery, sources said on Monday. "He is not among those Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan,&#8221...

The Syrian regime is ready for talks with armed rebels and anyone who favours dialogue, President Bashar al-Assad's foreign minister said in Moscow on Monday in the first such offer by a top Syrian official. Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem was in Moscow for talks with Russian counterpart...

Dual national can’t be party chief The Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday clarified that any person holding dual nationality cannot become party chief. The ECP reviewed a petition filed against the agreement signed between the government and Tahirul Qadri. Pakistan Awami Tehreek...

11 militants, 3 security officials killed in Khyber Warplanes attacked militant positions in Khyber Agency, killing five terrorists and wounding three others, officials said, six more militants were killed in a clash that also claimed lives of two security officials in the restive tribal...

The Afghan water and energy ministry announced on Sunday that a Pakistani company will survey and design the Farah River Dam, a Tolo News report said. The National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak) is expected to complete the $4 million project within a span of 18 months. The project...

Mocking Interior Minister Rehman Malik as a ‘comedian’, a group responsible for most violence in the country has called upon the government to replace him with a ‘serious person’ for peace dialogue. The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said on Sunday...