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The country’s largest and most resource-rich province is also the most impoverished. Almost half of the population of Balochistan qualifies for financial support under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). Over 60% of the entire population of the province is living below the poverty...

A delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement met with the chief of Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Tahirul Qadri at his residence Sunday. The MQM delegation, comprising Senator Nasreen Jalil, MPA Raza Haroon and Saif Yar Khan, met with Qadri to discuss a possible alliance in Punjab, among...

Two soldiers, 15 militants killed in Khyber Agency Fifteen militants and two security personnel were killed in shelling by warplanes on the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) positions and an encounter between the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and security forces in Tirah Valley and Bara Tehsil of Khyber...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday admitted that there was a need for bringing about a change in the country but it would take time as the situation could not be changed within days. He questioned where in the world everything could be rectified in five years...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Raza Haroon on Sunday called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to stop all those holding fake educational degrees from contesting the elections. Talking to reporters after an MQM delegation held talks with Dr Tahirul Qadri and leaders of his...

Nearly half of the PIA fleet has been grounded because of poor maintenance of its old and outdated aircraft. “The Pakistan International Airlines is facing grounding of highest ever number of 19 planes in its history,” a source told Dawn on Sunday. Two PIA aircraft have been grounded after...

China's Huawei, the number three smartphone maker behind giants Samsung and Apple, unveiled a new mobile, the Ascend P2, which it claims is the world’s fastest. Sharp-cornered and thinner than a pencil at 8.4 mm, the company said it can achieve speeds of 150 Mbps, fast enough to download a...

I always have an emotional jolt when I hear of people administering polio vaccine being murdered in Pakistan or Nigeria. The latest killings were in Kano, in northern Nigeria, earlier this month, when at least nine women health workers were shot dead by gunmen as they prepared to give the...

PML-N wants to take the country out of crises, put it on the track of development and prosperity while Zardari and his cronies are hell bent to take this country towards darkness and backwardness. If voted to power again, we will make Pakistan developed as per the vision of Quiad-e-Azam and Dr...

World powers meet negotiators from Iran in Kazakhstan on Tuesday in the hope of curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions by advancing a "significant" new offer, despite low expectations of a breakthrough after years of dashed hopes. The meeting under the shadow of the Tien Shan mountains in the...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Sunday the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling ‘insecurity and instability’ in the volatile province neighbouring the capital Kabul. "In today's national security council meeting... President Karzai...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday claimed that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had links with each other. Talking to media people in Jehanian near Khanewal, Rehman Malik said Malik Ishaq and Allama Ludhiyanvi were leading two groups of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi with the new...

ISI needs to be step up in here and contribute its talents to the local intelligence.

Night of national darkness Major cities across Pakistan, including were hit by a power outage Sunday night. The blackout affected cities and towns in all four provinces including Hyderabad in Sindh, Quetta in Balochistan and Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in addition to Islamabad, Rawalpindi...

PML-N President Nawaz Sharif says the differences between the PPP and the MQM appear to be a ‘drama’ but the factual position will become clear with the installation of a caretaker government in Sindh during the next few weeks. Talking to reporters here on Sunday, he said it was quite...

Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq, who put him in charge? Zardari?

Some how i want to see more pictures of this bridge.

China and the United Arab Emirates will help Pakistan boost its electricity output by expanding coal power in the country. Burj Power, a development and advisory firm out of the UAE, inked an agreement with China's Harbin Electric International Co Ltd., which will be the technical lead. The...

Pakistan, as a friend of North Korea and member of the UN Security Council, can play an effective role in restraining Pyongyang from threatening South Korea and persuading mass production of nuclear weapons, observed South Korean Minister Counsellor, Cho Koo-rae, in interaction with select...

Yet again: Qadri unveils 10-point manifesto “My final contest will be on March 17 in Rawalpindi’s Liaqat Bagh. I will then tell the nation whether to vote in an election or pursue a revolution,” Awami Tehreek president and chairman of the Minhajul Quran International Tahirul Qadri said on...