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QUETTA, June 13: The MCC Resources Development Limited (MRDL) working on the Saindak Cooper and Gold mining project said on Thursday it had paid $39.8m to the Balochistan government on account of royalty over the past 10 years from the Saindak project. A spokesman for the MRDL owned by the...

Businesses and shops in Karachi and other cities of Sindh were shut on Friday, after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced a day of mourning following the murder of one of its activists. The body of Mohammad Asif, 40, with a single bullet wound in his head, was found near the ‘Sukhan...

PESHAWAR, June 13: With the official deadline for the withdrawal of refugee status from Afghan refugees nearing an end on June 30, officials privy to the matter believe the newly-elected federal government will have little choice other than extending the stay of more than 1.6 million Afghans in...

Pakistan Air Chief gets honorary badge Air Chief Tahir Rafique Butt got an honorary pilot badge from his Thai counterpart, a press release issued here on Thursday said. During his visit to Bangkok, Butt called on Thai Air Chief Prajin Juntong. Both the officials remained together for some...

Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that modern technology will be fully utilised for curbing crime and rooting out criminal elements as a number of countries of the world have controlled crime in this manner. He said that there is a need for Punjab Police to devise an...

The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan is awaiting the US response over the matter of stealing cellular and Internet data by the National Security Agency as the country took up the matter with the US authorities. During the weekly press briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Aizaz...

India vs Pakistan is never a dead rubber: Gavaskar India and Pakistan are set to renew their historic rivalry at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Saturday. The edge may have been taken away from the game with India already in the semifinals of the ICC Champions Trophy with two facile wins against South...

Iran reformists hopeful on eve of presidential vote With Iran’s conservative camp divided, reformists were confident of a good showing by the moderate cleric they back in Friday’s presidential vote as they seek to avenge the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years...

Speaking at his first cabinet meeting, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "the dual policy of issuing public statements against drone attacks while [secretly] giving the go ahead to the US to carry on with the strikes will not be allowed under our rule. The US government will have to...

Google on Wednesday downplayed its role in a secret government surveillance program, detailing for the first time how it typically hands over data to federal officials. When faced with a court order, the tech giant said, it uses surprisingly simple and low-tech methods, including the delivery...

Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have begun boycotting products from Iran for its support of the Syrian regime, while activists staged a demonstration against the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the conflict. At least nine cooperative consumer societies out of 50 in the...

Several thousand people marched through Moscow on Wednesday to support detained or jailed anti-Kremlin protesters, a day after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of supporting a protest movement against him. Led by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, the protest dubbed the "March...

A member of the Ahmedi community was shot dead while his son and another companion were injured in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday evening. The victims were identified as Hamid Sami, 45, his son, Osama, 18, and a companion, Salman Zaman, 48. They were shot multiple times by...

Pakistan raises annual defence budget by 10 per cent Pakistan's new government announced Wednesday a 10 per cent increase in defence spending a week after taking office, despite a crippling budget deficit of 8.8 per cent. The budget for fiscal year 2013-14, which begins July 1, comes against a...

The United States has assured to help Pakistan overcome energy crisis. The assurance was given by a delegation of the USAID at a meeting with Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Asif in Islamabad on Wednesday. Members of the delegation said 853 million dollars will be provided to the power...

Jordan on Sunday announced the start of military exercises involving more than 8,000 soldiers and observers from 19 different countries, but insisted the manoeuvres were unrelated to the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Around 4,500 US troops and 3,000 Jordanian soldiers are taking part in the...

“Germany is prepared to stand by Pakistan,” said German Foreign Minister Dr Guido Westerwelle on Saturday as he announced an assistance of Euros 93.5 million for year 2013-14 to support Pakistan’s new democratic government. These funds would be utilised to bolster development in energy...

Security forces made significant gains during the last three days of an ongoing operation beginning June 6, clearing areas of Maidan, after the clearance of Mohammadi Top in Kurram and Haider Kandao in Tirah valley, according to ISPR. During the last two days of the operation, 35 alleged...

Nawaz, Hashmi’s ‘slip-of-tongue’ leader! PTI central president Javed Hashmi, who has been in hot waters since his declaring PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as still being his leader on the National Assembly floor, met with party chairman Imran Khan on Saturday to clarify his...

Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was elected unopposed Balochistan chief minister on Saturday. He is the first chief executive of the province who is neither a tribal chieftain nor member of any family who once ruled princely states. Nomination forms for the post of chief minister were to be submitted on...