QUETTA  - Three persons including a woman were killed in various incidents of violence in Quetta and Naseerabad districts on Wednesday.According to police, a person identified as Amanullah allegedly gunned down his father over a domestic issue in Pushtun Bagh area here. Being informed, police ...

KARACHIChairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi has said that poor understanding about AIDS among people is causing its spread in the country.  Registering his concern on Sunday about sharp increase of 32,000 HIV/ AIDS cases in the country during last two ...

QUETTA  - A dacoit was killed and four others, including a Levies official, wounded in separate firing and bomb blast incidents, while unidentified terrorists fired two rockets into Mastung district sowing panic in the area. In the first incident, a dacoit was killed near Maizai terminal in ...

KARACHI - (Our Staff Reporter): Business community of Korangi Association of Traded and Industry has expressed concern over snatching of loaded trucks in Korangi Industrial Area in broad day light. In a recent incident near Vita Chowrangi at Korangi Industrial area, a truck loaded with fabrics was ...

HAFIZABAD Kolo Tarar Polling Station Presiding Officer Khadim Hussain convicted Zulqarnain, son of Muhammad Shafi on the charge of casting double vote and sentenced him to ten days RI. The accused was arrested by the police and sent to jail. Polling in the area remained peaceful, however, at some ...

QUETTA/SWAVI - The residence of PML-N candidate and former federal minister Zubida Jalal was attacked with hand grenade in Kech district on Tuesday while two power pylons were exploded near Sibi and a school was exploded in Kohlu.Unidentified armed men hurled a hand grenade at the house of PML-N ...

The Taliban-linked militancy and violent incidents claimed the lives of nine soldiers from the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a single day on Saturday, turning the day into the bloodiest one since January this year for the alliance stationed in the conflict-ridden ...

WAZIRABAD/CHINIOT/FAISALABAD/SARGODHA/KOT RADHA KISHAN - At least seven persons including five women were killed and seven other injured in separate incidents of enmity, honour killing and road accidents over the past 24 hours.According to detail, in WAZIRABAD, two young married women were murdered ...

Some unidentified persons shot dead four personnel of ‘Aman Force’, while seven others were abducted here at on Saturday.According to Levy sources, Dilbar Mitt, an area of Dera Bugti armed assailants opened fire on Aman Force resulted to loss of four personels.The local administration ...

QUETTA - Three people, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a woman were killed in separate incidents of violence in Quetta and Qila Saifullah on Sunday.In the first incident, unidentified men opened indiscriminate fire on a police van in Nawa-e-Killi within the jurisdiction of ...

DUBAI (Agencies) - Isaf Commander in Afghanistan John Allen has denied giving any assurance that incidents like Nato airstrike in Mohmand will not happen again during the war in Afghanistan. In an interview with Khaleej Times on Sunday, he however expressed his regret over the martyrdom of 24 ...

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador Cameron Munter has said that his country would vacate Shamsi Airbase within the noticed period on the directives of the government of Pakistan. About the Nato forces attack on the Pakistan checkpost, he regretted the incident, however, he repeated that the attack was not ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Balochistan is on the top as compared to other provinces with 1,424 terrorist incidents reported during last three years (2009-2011). According to the latest countrywide statistics of reported crime which were submitted to the federal government, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) ranked ...

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition on Friday has been filed in the Supreme Court praying to form a judicial commission to control car theft crime in Pakistan. Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Ministry of Interior Islamabad, Government of Sindh through Secretary Interior, Government of ...

BUREWALA - Eight people including two children lost their lives in different incidents here the other day as torrential monsoon rain lashed most parts of the sub-division. In the first incident, Muhammad Kaka, son of Liaqat Dogar, a resident of Nizamabad colony, was playing in Habib Colony ground ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pakistan Industrial & Traders Association Front (PIAF) would prepare a working plan in collaboration with the market presidents, All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajran and Qoumi Tajar Ittehad for launching awareness campaign to avoid fire incidents at business places. The ...

PESHAWAR Despite allocation of Rs 18.4 billion for law and order, the much-awaited explosive detectors have still not been provided to the militancy-plagued Khyber Pakhtunkhwa though the Chinese government has already provided it through soft loan of $ 2.96 million in July 2009. These modern ...

ISLAMABAD - Though 'special arrangements are made every year to overcome fire incidents in the Margalla Hills National Park area but the data compiled by the directorate of the authority says otherwise, as 2040.25 acres of forest area burnt in 309 fire incidents during past the 10 years. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Though 'special arrangements are being made every year to overcome fire incidents in Margalla Hills National Park Area, the data compiled by the directorate of the authority portrayed an alarming figure as 2040.25 acres were burnt in 309 fire incidents during years 2001 to 2010. The ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday urged the United States to prevent mistrust caused by isolated diplomatic incidents from spoiling ties between the two nations. Relations between Washington and Islamabad have been strained since police arrested Raymond Davis, a US national who has ...

LAHORE - Valuables worth over Rs6 million were reduced to ashes when fire broke out in a shop located in Baber Market, Anarkali on Tuesday. Rescue 1122 officials said the incident took place at 8:51am in a shop owned by Chaudhry Jamal. The flames engulfed the neighbouring shop within no time. ...

KARACHI Two persons including a child were killed in rain-related incidents while traffic chaos was witnessed on all thoroughfares for several hours during the rain, couple with thunder storm in the city on Wednesday. Thousand of vehicles remained stuck for hours in many areas including MA Jinnah ...

QUETTA - Two persons, including a woman, were killed and three others wounded in separate incidents of cylinder blast and road mishap in Khuzdar district of Balochistan on Sunday. In the first incident, a woman was killed on the spot while two others sustained injuries when a gas cylinder exploded ...

QUETTA - Besides rise in the incidents of target killing and bomb blasts, the trend of kidnapping for ransom has increased manifold in Balochistan particularly in the provincial capital. Almost in all incidents of kidnapping for ransom during last one year, not only police failed to secure the ...

KARACHI - 'The 1947 partition was a traumatic event of the 20th century, which continues to haunt us. The peace process among the two countries should not be disturbed by Mumbai like incidents. We should not try to find solution of our problems by emulating western world. Indias former Foreign ...

Karachi (PPI) - Two men were gunned down while other three sustained injuries in road accidents in seperate incidents on Monday. Chhipa ambulance sources told that they shifted body of 22-year-old unidentified man to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. PS Mominabad sources said marks of torture were found on ...

ISLAMABAD - A high level meeting chaired by the Chief Commissioner Hamid Ali Khan Wednesday reviewed security arrangements for shopping plazas and hotels and decided to beef up security in the Federal Capital. The traders's community including representatives of various market associations and ...

LAHORE - Two hundred people have been killed and 84 planes including 19 civil and 65 military crashed since 1912 due to bird-hit incidents across the world, said Chief Operating Officer CAA Allama Iqbal International Airport, Zakawat-ul-Hassan here on Tuesday. He was addressing the participants ...

ISLAMABAD - A total number of 1,321 incidents of violence against women occurred in the country during the first quarter of 2008, says a report launched here on Friday. The report compiled by the Aurat Foundation on the situation of Violence Against Women (VAW) in Pakistan possesses the ...