LAHORE: Interim Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that a comprehensive security plan has been devised to hold free and fair election. Speaking at a meeting over law and order and security arrangements, he said that effective security ...
ISLAMABAD: Indian authorities have refused provide security to Pakistani devotees in Ajmer Sharif, media reported. Pakistan’s foreign office has stated that India had refused to provide security to the devotees, scheduled to visit Ajmer Sharif o...
THARPARKAR: Polling staff for 16 voting stations of NA-229 have refused to perform election duty owing to security concerns, media reported. The staff has demanded security at 16 polling stations, saying they could not go to voting stations with...
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan military’s top command, on the request of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), has deployed army personnel at most sensitive polling stations, media reported. ...
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought assistance of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for the recovery of his son, Ali Haider Gilani, media reported. Even after launching a sweeping investigation, the police have not yet ...
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has changed the number of sensitive and most sensitive polling stations across the country, media reported. The number of most sensitive polling stations has been increased from 12,716 to 15,681 ...
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Friday warned the country's 86 million electorate not to vote in Saturday's landmark elections, telling them to keep away to save their lives. "We appeal to the people to stay away from polling stat...
KARACHI: The threat of Taliban attacks hangs over Pakistan's historic election, but not in some parts of the financial capital Karachi, where the militants hold sway after chasing secular parties away. A little over six months ago, what should ...
KARACHI: The Electronics Market Association has announced to keep the electronics markets closed today following the firing incident Thursday night when two traders were injured in Saddar area, media reported. According to the announcement, the trade...
QUETTA: Five persons were injured in an explosion near the office of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) located on Brewery Road on Friday here, media reported. Police said that some unknown armed persons hurled hand grenade on the office of the PPP candid...
MIRANSHAH: A blast occurred in a main market of Miranshah Friday, killing three persons and injuring eleven others, media reported. According to initial reports, three persons lost their lives and eleven others were injured when a blast hit the main ...
PESHAWAR/QUETTA: Attacks and bomb blasts targeting the election candidates across the country, especially in Quetta, Panjgur, Gawadar, Hangu and Peshawar continuing unabated, however, no loss of life took place, media reported. ANP election office wa...
PESHAWAR: A blast near Awami National Party election office left one person in the need of immediate medical care here on late Thursday night, media reported. The explosion was reported o have struck the ANP election camp located in Faqir Abad Chowk ...
SIALKOT: Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah Haq who died in an Indian hospital following a brutal attack in Indian Held Kashmir’s (IHK) Kot Bhalwal Jail, was laid to rest with full honours in his hometown here on Thursday night, media reported. A smartly ...
MULTAN: Even after launching a sweeping investigation, the police have not yet been able to find a clue of Ali Haider Gilani, the son of erstwhile prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was kidnapped after gunmen shot dead two of his associates at an...
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere have arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit, a German government spokesman said early Friday. Merkel and de Maiziere went to the German forces' headquarters in the nort...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he could allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country as part of negotiations over a long-term security pact with Washington. After more than 11 years of US-led milit...
WASHINGTON: Boston's police commissioner Thursday called for heightened security at public events to help thwart terror attacks like the one that hit his city last month, but cautioned against "police-state" tactics. In the first of a series o...
ROME: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday warned the sale of sophisticated surface-to-air Russian missiles to Syria would be "potentially destabilising" for the region, reacting to reports of a planned sale by Moscow. "We had previous...
PESHAWAR: Two policemen have been killed during an armed clash with militants in Rashid Garhi area of the city, Geo News reported. According to police, acting on a tip off they carried out an operation, arresting a would-be-suicide bomber and r...
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