Bajaur: Forces take control following cross-border attack
KHAR: Security forces continued their search operation following an attack by militants who crossed the border from Afghanistan....Full Story

Pak, US forms joint counterterrorism task force
WASHINGTON: Pakistan and the United States of America (US) have formed a ‘joint counterterrorism task force’ to oversee operations against terrorism..Full Story

Justice Nisar refuses to head commission
ISLAMABAD: Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, a judge of the Supreme Court whose name has been notified by the government to head a five-member commission to probe the killing...Full Story

Protest against KESC
KARACHI: Prolonged load shedding at several areas of the metropolis continued to irk citizens, compelling them to take to the roads here on Thursday...Full Story

Fazl, Nawaz discuss APC on Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Kashmir Committee, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman Friday called on Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif here at Punjab House and..Full Story

18 hours load-shedding, shortfall up by 5,000MW
LAHORE: Power shortfall in the country has shot up to 5,000 megawatt, resulting in protracted load shedding and piling miseries on the people across the country....Full Story

Pakistan Navy launches F-22P Frigate manufactured at KS&EW
KARACHI: Pakistan do not possess any aggressive designs but country’s sea trade routes, vast Exclusive Economic Zone and international energy lines that pass close to its..Full Story

Capacity-building of police key to tackling challenges: IGP
LAHORE: Terrorism, sectarianism, heinous crimes, violation of fundamental rights, lack of accountability systems and the misuse of power are the core issues, which directly affect...Full Story

Saleem Shahzad’s murder
ISLAMABAD: The federal government at last bowed to the journalists’ pressure who were on a sit-in at the Parliament House..Full Story

Afghan Taliban attack Bajaur village, kill five
KHAR: Several hundred militants crossed the border from Afghanistan on Thursday and stormed a village in Pakistan’s tribal district, killing five civilians...Full Story

Double trouble worsens life across country
KARACHI: Many cities of Pakistan are under the grip of a severe heat wave and temperatures rose beyond 40 °Celsius...Full Story

Police torture Quetta doctors, strike continues
QUETTA: The young doctors’ strike all across the province of Balochistan including this capital city continues, while the situation has further worsened by the police..Full Story

Indian foreign secretary due in Pakistan to discuss Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: India’s foreign secretary is due to visit Pakistan this month to discuss Kashmir, a Pakistani official said on Tuesday, the first formal talks between the two rivals...Full Story

US influence can put $11.3bn IMF loan programme back on trackISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic managers strongly feel that the influence of the US will be decisive in putting the suspended $11.3 billion IMF Stand-By-Arrangement (SBA) loan..Full Story

BHC seeks probe report on police surgeon manhandling
QUETTA: The Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court Qazi Faez Issa has ordered to submit the departmental inquiry report on next hearing against the two police officials ...Full Story

We are safe now, says Captain Wasi
KARACHI: Pakistani captain of the ship, freed from Somali pirates said they were attacked again today but are safe now...Full Story

MQM walks out of NA over Karachi killings
ISLAMABAD: The government, on Tuesday, faced embarrassment in the National Assembly when one of its coalition partner, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), walked..Full Story

Gates urges patience with Pakistan after tip-off suspicions
WASHINGTON: The US is disappointed and suspicious that terrorists in Pakistan apparently were tipped off that American intelligence officials had discovered two of their....Full Story

KESC demands govt enforce law for saving assets
KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has demanded the government to enforce law and exercise its authority to get the utility’s offices and installations..Full Story

PM announces ‘revolving fund’ to deal with terror damage
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, on Tuesday, announced to set up a revolving fund for rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged by terrorist attacks as well as...Full Story