A boy was killed and 15 other people, including women and children, were reportedly injured when an explosion occurred outside Dar-i-Abbas Imambargah on Monday evening in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area, DawnNews reported. SSP Central Muqaddas Haider, while talking to Dawn, confirmed the death of teenage boy. The deceased has been identified as 13-year-old Faraz s/o Bashir, […]
NEW DELHI: As India-Pakistan ties hit a rough patch, Islamabad has decided against sending a senior representative from the Election Commission of Pakistan for an international conference on voter education being organised by the Election Commission here this week. A junior official of the Pakistani poll watchdog will however attend the two-day meet beginning October 19. Justice (retd) Shakeel Ahmed […]
PPP symbol of federation: Wattoo From Our Correspondent OKARA: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is a symbol of federation, said party central leader Mian Manzoor Wattoo. Talking to newsmen here on Monday, he said that it was the right of the PPP to lead and not to follow any other party as a subservient political […]
Finally, a crucial issue is settled Despite denials by the government regarding the contents of a story published in an English daily and its rejection as a fabrication, the paper concerned insists that many at the helm of affairs are aware of the senior officials and participants of the meeting who were contacted by […]
With great power comes great responsibility Miandad and Afridi represent two different eras of Pakistani cricket. And when someone reaches the kind of status that sportsmen like Miandad and Afridi have reached, there are expectations from them that they would not indulge in washing their linen in public. They become the face of a sport […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida, who created a furore with his October 6 report in the ‘Dawn’ on the “confrontation” between its civilian and Army leaderships over Pakistan-based terror groups striking in India and Afghanistan, has been barred from leaving the country. Oxford-educated Almeida said on Tuesday his name had been placed on the “exit […]
LAHORE Ashura, the 10th of Muharram, will be observed on Wednesday (today) with traditional religious solemnity and fervour amidst tight security to ward off terror fears as authorities have made extra security measures to ensure security, including suspension of mobile phone service in and around the main procession route and other sensitive areas. Despite […]
PESHAWAR: The processions of Muharram 9 were taken out and Majalis-e-Aza were held amid tight security across the province on Tuesday to remember the sacrifices of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions. The mobile phone service was remained suspended in most sensitive districts for Muharram to avert the probable terrorists’ attacks. Around 36,000 police […]
PESHAWAR: At least 12 Muharram processions were taken out amid tight security in Peshawar on Tuesday. The main procession started from Imam Bargah Hussainia in Saddar Bazar at 10 in the morning and passing through the traditional routes concluded at the same place whereas Majalis were also held across the city. Other processions […]
The implications for India of the growing strategic nexus between China and Pakistan are stark because the two are hostile, non-status-quo powers bent upon seizing additional Indian territory and undermining Indian security in different ways. Indeed, the nexus extends to shielding Pakistani terrorism at the United Nations. This makes China complicit in Pakistan’s proxy […]
