Clashes on Tuesday in north Iraq between security forces and anti-government protesters allegedly infiltrated by militants left 27 people dead and about 70 injured, top army officers said.The clashes are just the latest violence between security forces and demonstrators in recent months, and will ...
TOKYO - Myanmar's Suu Kyi arrived in Japan, her first visit to the country where she spent time as a university researcher nearly three decades ago. A group of well-wishers including Burmese gathered at Narita airport to greet her, but were denied the chance to meet her. During her 6-day trip, the ...
SARGODHA - The newly appointed DPO Sultan Ahmad Chaudhry has transferred all 27 Station House Officers (SHO’s) across the district.According to the notification, Inspector Khurram Anwar has been posted as SHO City Sargodha, Inspector Akhtar Nawaz SHO Satellite Town, Inspector Nasir Nawaz SHO ...
LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...
KARACHI- The Karachi police in their ongoing drive against criminals, arrested 27 accused during the past 24 hours. A police statement said that those arrested included three absconders and one proclaimed offender. It said that there were three encounters of the police with alleged criminals ...
ALMATY - A military aircraft carrying 27 people including top members of the Kazakhstan border guard crashed Tuesday in the south of the country with all those on board believed dead, officials said.The KNB security service said the An-72 military transport was carrying seven crew and 20 ...
ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police have promoted five sub-inspectors, eight assistant-sub-inspectors and 14 head constables to next ranks.These promotions were given on the recommendations of departmental promotion committee headed by DIG Headquarters Sultan Azam Temuri comprising of SSP Logistics ...
KARACHI - Twenty-seven officers of the Sindh police got the cadre of Police Services of Pakistan.The summary for the approval of some 60 Superintendents of Police (SPs) from entire Sindh, was sent by provincial departmental promotion committee (DPC) to the federal government for approval, ...
NEW YORK - At least 27 people including 18 children were killed in a shooting Friday at a Connecticut elementary school, US media reported, citing law enforcement officials.The gunman who slaughtered staff and children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown was reported to be 24-year-old ...
LAHORE - In all, 27 disciplines will be contested during the 32rnd National Games scheduled to be held here from December 22 to 28 at the various venues of the city. This decision was taken at a meeting of the representatives of the various national federations held here to review and finalise the ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER BAHAWALPUR - Unicef and the United Arab Emirates with cooperation of the Punjab government distributed Rs72,000 each to 27 youth who were used in camel race in the UAE after they have attained the age of majority.Punjab DG Social Welfare Malik Muhammad Aslam said that the ...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Railways (PR) is working on rehabilitation of 27 locomotives to help improve business operation and control deficit and losses. The department would receive spare parts within 13 months from date of effectiveness of the contract signed in July this year.According to ...
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI - Islamabad Police on Sunday arrested 11 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered 55 wine bottles, weapons, stolen cars and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman said.According to a press note issued from office of SSP Islamabad, ASI Khurram Shazad ...
KARACHI - Malir District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yameen, Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Aslam Sheikh and others visited the district jail on Sunday. According to a statement, the district and sessions judge was also accompanied by Saleem Khan, the senior vice-chairman of the Saiban, an ...
At least 27 people were injured Friday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk in four successive blasts that President Viktor Yanukovych called a challenge to the nation. "There is a total of 27" injured in three explosions in the city of about a million people east of the capital Kiev, ...
BEIRUT - At least 27 Syrians were killed in violence on Friday, opposition activists said, only four days before a troop pullback agreed by President Bashar Assad as part of a peace plan proposed by mediator Kofi Annan.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shelling had killed at least ...
At least 27 persons were declared dead and 97 others were severally injured as two blasts rocked the Syria's capital Damascus Saturday morning, Health Minister Wael Al Halaqi stated on Syria News. The two deadly explosions, apparently a "terrorist attack," were timed minutes apart to trigger utmost ...
PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has imposed a ban on 27 private security companies after cancelling their licence. According to KP Home Department, a ban had been imposed on 27 security companies which had not got them registered or didn’t have office in the concerned ...
All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) President and former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf Sunday announced that he would contest election from Chitral. Addressing a public gathering near Mazar-e-Quaid via telephone from Dubai, Musharraf said he will reach Karachi between January 27th and ...
Former military dictator and president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has expressed the hope that he would be acquitted after two to three court hearings.Speaking at an event here in Dubai on late Thursday night, the former ruler said that he would land in Pakistan on January 25 or 27.He claimed ...
LAHORE - The Model Town Police Division cops claimed on Thursday to have arrested 27 gang members during a massive crackdown launched against hardened criminals during the last month. DIG Operations Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, flanked by SP Model Town, an under training lady ASP and several SHOs, said ...
Four more devotees of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Urs drowned in Arral Wah Canal raising the death toll to 27. According to Edhi sources four devotees drowned in the canal on Saturday while taking bath to defeat the scorching heat. The bodies of the deceased stated to be hailing for different areas of ...
At least 11 people killed and 27 others were injured in a road accident on Coastal Highway. A passenger coach, going Mand from Karachi, overturned due to over speeding near Ormara on Coastal Highway, leaving 11 people dead and 27 injured. The rescue workers have shifted the injured to hospitals in ...
Thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets across Syria after Friday prayers, in defiance of the ongoing crackdown on dissent. At least 27 people were killed when security forces opened fire on a crowd of about 50,000 people in the central city of Hama, activists said. The ...
Indian spy Gopal Das was released and handed over to Indian officials on Thursday at the Wagah border. Indian government had sent Gopal Dass for task of spying in Pakistan in 1984 but he was arrested by intelligence agencies from Azad Kashmir. He was awarded sentence for life time. President Asif ...
LAHORE - 27 officers of Pakistan Railways including present general manager operation Ashfaq Khattak and two additional general managers are going to retire next year. The officers who will retire belong to different departments, which included traffic and commercial (nine officers), mechanical ...
LAHORE The PML-N Parliamentary Board Punjab has interviewed 27 aspirants for Sargodha PP-34 by-polls while nine of them are considered to be strong candidates, The Nation has learnt. Insiders privy to the development told this scribe on Tuesday that Ch Hamid Hameed, Ch Tabraiz Gill, Dr Liaquat ...
KARACHI (PPI) - Thousands of the students of Karachi University face immense problems in reaching the campus, due to acute shortage of university point buses. Presently, there are just 27 point buses to cater the needs of some 28000 students and teachers, and the university urgently requires at ...
ISLAMABAD - A meeting of the special committee constituted by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on the prevailing energy crisis in the country held here Thursday under the chairmanship of the Federal Minister for Water & Power, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and discussed the current power situation and ...
LAHORE - The PIA is likely to complete a major deal for about 27 new single-aisle aircraft within a couple of weeks, once it receives best and final offers from Airbus and Boeing, reported a foreign newspaper. It reported that the deal, worth more than $2b could be one of the major narrow-body ...






