The Health Department set up a maternity and child healthcare centre (MCHC) on the land in 2013 which is actually owned by the federal government which for several decades remained under the possession of CIA police staff...
He said the transformer would be installed by July 17 for which several hours power shut down would be observed in the city and surroundings...
PESHAWAR: A local accountability court on Monday approved the plea bargain of four suspects, including a noted pulmonologist and Peshawar TB Association president, and ordered their release in a case about the illegal sale of a precious plot allotted to the association by the government...
The judge, Zarqesh Sani, issued the order after a prosecutor of National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mohammad Riaz Mohmand, said the...
ISLAMABAD: At his first executive board meeting on Thursday after assuming charge of the office of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, retired Justice Javed Iqbal ordered inquiries into alleged corruption in the Multan Metro Bus Project (MMBP), the New Islamabad Airport, the sale of PIA aircraft and money laundering activities at the Habib Bank’s New York branch, besides taking several other important decisions...
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Dozens of internet postings and a documentary film have characterised the community as a training camp for terrorists and its residents as Islamist warriors...
One blog on the Christian Action Network, for example, described the settlement as "America's first Islamic government," and warned that children are being raised to fight a holy war, girls are denied an education and rule breakers "are often tied to trees and whipped for...
But why, on earth, did the prime minister of Israel condemn Ban for encouraging “terror”?You might think he was talking about the old Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
Prime Minister Netanyahu – ever more out of tune with the rest of the world, with the massive shift towards Iran by America, Europe and Russia – had it in for the diminutive Ban...
KARACHI: A multi-storey building is being constructed in Dhoraji Cooperative Housing Society on a fast-track basis after a former Karachi Metropolitan Corporation administrator used his discretionary powers to change the land use of the plot from residential to commercial, it emerged on Sunday...
Before the abolition of the elected local government system in 2010, every conversion case was brought before the City Council for...
DUBAI: Bahrain’s lower court jailed 10 Shia men for life on Tuesday on charges of plotting attacks a day after the Gulf state sentenced 19 others to lengthy prison terms...
They had been charged with forming an outlawed group that plotted “terror” attacks, smuggling arms and ammunition into Bahrain, travelling to Iran and Iraq for military training and possessing arms and ammunition...
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is in a bind over the question of waiving surcharges on a plot allotted to the chief justice, and may have to change their policies in order to get out of the tough situation...
Mayor says no allottee should be penalised for late payment by FGEHFAs per CDA practice, in cases where were the cost of the plot is not remitted to the agency within the period specified in the FGEHF...
Said Jabarin, 26, from the mainly Arab northern town of Umm al-Fahm, was charged with attempting to aid an enemy, possession of firearms and using a weapon for terror...
Prosecutors said that Jabarin had been questioned by Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency in January over his suspected support for IS and then given a formal warning in May...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it had foiled a plot to bomb its defence ministry’s headquarters by the militant Islamic State (IS) group...
In a separate news item, SPA quoted a security source as saying that authorities uncovered “intelligence activities for the benefit of foreign parties” by a group of people it did not name...
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 34 people for plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup...
The group includes former brigadier general Gokhan Sahin Sonmezates who was accused of directing the plot...
ISLAMABAD: Amid strong opposition from two members, the CDA board has restored a commercial plot at D-12 Markaz to its former successful bidder after he failed to make the payments on time...
Member Estate Khushal Khan presented the case before the board meeting held on June 9 and convinced Mayor and temporary CDA Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz and Member Planning Asad Mehboob Kayani to restore the plot...
District Judge Beth Bloom compared the plot, which never got past the planning stages, to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings in which the two attackers used commonplace pressure cookers...
Mr Bloom said evidence showed Sheheryar was fully aware of and supported the plot...
Mr Malik said the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group posed a challenge to the entire Muslim world and stressed the need for an all-out action against it...
He called for awarding death penalty to those issuing decrees in favour of suicide attacks and meaningful action against banned groups operating under new names...
ISLAMABAD: The mystery of the ‘missing’ necklace, donated by the wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the flood-hit people of Pakistan in 2010, appeared to be resolving on Friday as former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani admitted that it was in his possession...