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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America’s controversial drone attacks but announced new restraints on targeted killings, saying civilian casualties haunt him and that Washington is in the process of rebuilding relations with Pakistan.In a major speech to military and political leaders at the National Defence University, Obama announced the most significant shift in US counter-terrorism since the fall of the World ...

ISLAMABAD - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday promised to enhance the defence cooperation between China and Pakistan, besides reiterating the Chinese commitment to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relation and help in major energy and infrastructure projects.The incoming Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharif held a delegation level meeting with the Chinese prime minister and discussed host of bilateral and regional issues. ...

QUETTA - At least twelve personnel of Balochistan Constabulary (BC) and a civilian were killed while 18 others sustained injuries in a deadly remote controlled bomb attack in Quetta, on Thursday morning.Police officials said, a coaster-van carrying around 25 personnel of Balochistan Constabulary’s Repeat Response Group (RRG) was targeted near Eastern Bypass, in the city outskirts.“The BC personnel were on way to their duty at Civil ...

People across the country are facing worst ever electricity ...

Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has said that former dictator General ...

LAHORE - Parliamentary Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League ...

KARACHI - Dissolving MQM coordination committees, Altaf Hussain on ...

QUETTA - Four women and a man were killed and two others were wounded ...

 Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD) is organising thesis display from tomorrow (May 25) to June 1, says a press release.  The display consists of projects of students of the ...

President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has approved and signed the Regulation for the 'Establishment of FATA University' at FR Kohat to promote quality education and provide ...

A teenage boy was crushed to death by a rashly driven car when he was crossing the main boulevard Gulberg, police said on Thursday. The 16-year-old boy, unidentified so far, sustained serious ...

ISLAMABAD - Incoming Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is said to have short-listed two candidates for the top slot of principal secretary. According to highly credible sources high-ranking ...

LAHORE -  Allies of the PTI have geared up efforts to install Imran Khan as the new opposition leader in the National Assembly. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Awami Muslim League (AML) chief, Syed ...

LAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (Mashhadi group) chief Pir Syed Mehfooz Shah Mashhadi has said that JUI-S and Muttahida Deeni Mahaz chief Maulana Sami ul Haq is a bridge between incoming PML-N ...

ISLAMABAD - Resolving the impasse between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) to jointly form next government in centre, the leaderships of both parties are likely ...

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister-designate Pervez Khan Khattak said on Thursday that provincial assembly meeting had been convened on May 29, 2013. "Issues will be resolved within ...

LAHORE - Secretary Information PPP, Qamar Zaman Kaira has criticised the caretaker government for introducing ‘mini budget of Rs.152 billion’ and described it as unconstitutional, ...

NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, has called on the incoming government of Pakistan, which is set to be headed by PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, to urgently ...

ISLAMABAD -  The electoral body has notified returned candidates for three more general seats of National, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assemblies, a press release said Thursday. Kazim Ali Shah ...

MULTANJamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer and MPA-elect Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has said that those dreaming of friendship with India are not sincere with the country and nation, asking the prime ...

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