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Shahzad Town Police ‘using sex-workers to mint money’

Shahzad Town Police ‘using sex-workers to mint money’

  ISLAMABAD: It is indeed proving to be a very shameful situation for Islamabad Shahzad Town Police Station, that it has been supporting sex-centres, openly running in its jurisdictions and using sex-workers for blacking-mailing and looting innocent and helpless citizens. According to reliable sources, there were dozens of sex-centres, which were openly operating in Alipur area […]

Army chief lays foundation stone of Swat Cantonment

Army chief lays foundation stone of Swat Cantonment

  ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that the world acknowledged Pakistan’s army for uniquely competing the entire cycle of fighting terrorism from operations to reconstruction and resettling displaced people in their areas. During his visit of Mangora, Kanju and Khwazakhela in Swat on Friday, the COAS, along with the CM and […]

Ishratul Ebad Khan leaves Pakistan, flies to Dubai

Ishratul Ebad Khan leaves Pakistan, flies to Dubai

  KARACHI: Former Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has left Pakistan and flew to Dubai, a day after he was removed from the top constitutional position of the province. Sources said the former Sindh Governor travelled to Dubai via flight of a private airline from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport in the wee hours of […]

Donald Trump gives Pakistan jitters for his tilt towards rival India

Donald Trump gives Pakistan jitters for his tilt towards rival India

  Islamabad: Donald Trump’s surprise election as US president has Pakistanis wary that he may accelerate what they see as a shift in American policy to favour arch-foe India in the long rivalry between nuclear-armed neighbours, analysts said on Wednesday. Historical allies in the region, Islamabad and Washington have seen relations sour over US accusations that […]

Army chief witnesses night-dawn drill in Kharian

Army chief witnesses night-dawn drill in Kharian

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the exercises were aimed at validating the latest operational plans involving infantry and mechanised troops and their support elements from the entire central command. Apart from the first-ever use of fully digitised virtual command and control room, the exercise saw the first formal employment […]

China’s Billions Luring Once Shy Foreign Investors to Pakistan

China’s Billions Luring Once Shy Foreign Investors to Pakistan

  After years of flat direct foreign investment, it has taken China’s pledges of billions to get overseas companies to start looking beyond Pakistan’s negative headlines on security challenges and power outages. While investment into Pakistan has been little changed in the three years since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was elected, companies including Turkey home appliances maker […]

This Pakistani politician’s got ‘many marriage proposals’ but he’s ‘rejected all of them’

This Pakistani politician’s got ‘many marriage proposals’ but he’s ‘rejected all of them’

  NEW DELHI: Bhutto family scion Bilawal Bhutto said yesterday that he’s “received many marriage proposals but I have rejected all of them,” because he will only marry someone his sisters choose for him, The Express Tribune reported. “And the girl who my sisters choose will be lucky,” added the modest 28-year-old head of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), […]

Pakistan open to result-oriented talks with India: FO

Pakistan open to result-oriented talks with India: FO

ISLAMABAD: Despite the present tensions between India and Pakistan on several fronts, Islamabad insists that it remains open to “a result-oriented and sustainable dialogue” with its neighbour but admits that these offers “remain unresponded”. An answer is provided by former Indian National Security Adviser and High Commissioner to Pakistan, Shivshankar Menon, who says that Pakistan’s […]

Old woman killed by Indian shelling in Sialkot

Old woman killed by Indian shelling in Sialkot

SIALKOT/MUZAFFARABAD An old woman was martyred and two others sustained critical wounds as there was no letup in unprovoked mortar shelling by Indian forces on Sialkot villages in Charwah, Harpal, Sucheetgarh, Chaprar and Merajkey sectors along the Working Boundary on Tuesday. The Indian BSF fired long-range mortar and artillery shells to target far-off Sialkot border […]

Interior ministry asks Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt to not participate in Nov 2 protest

Interior ministry asks Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt to not participate in Nov 2 protest

The Ministry of Interior on Monday informed the chief secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), through a letter, that intelligence agencies’ reports had indicated that a group of people from KP have intentions to march on Islamabad with a declared intention of paralysing government institutions in Islamabad. “It is also learnt that certain cabinet ministers and […]

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