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  • Minority leaders in Hyderabad condemn India for using Quran desecration incident to portray ‘negative image of Pakistan’

    Local representatives of religious minorities in Hyderabad on Tuesday accused India of trying to portray a negative image of Pakistan by capitalising on the events of August 21, when unrest ensued across the city over an incident of alleged desecration of the Holy Quran...

    Law enfo­rc­ement agencies had resorted to tear gas shelling and fired into the air in different areas of Hyderabad on Sunday as enraged crowds had forced their way...

  • Huge sigh of relief as Zimbabwe tour ends without incident

    LAHORE: More important than any result in the last two weeks for the Pakistan Cricket Board was its demonstration of tight security during Zimbabwe's tour, the first by any top sporting team since a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team's bus six years ago...

    The world cricket community was skeptical, the Zimbabwe team was urged by its government, the players union and security experts warned not to undertake the tour, and the...
  • Pabbi incident

    THE ugly episode in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa town of Pabbi on Sunday — and its aftermath — illustrates that despite the claims by some quarters that a new political culture is being forged in Pakistan, in many respects the vindictive ways of old refuse to go away...

    Though there are claims and counter-claims about what exactly transpired, this much is clear: Habibullah, a teenaged PTI supporter, was shot dead as hundreds of the party’s...
  • Mastung incident condemned

    ISLAMABAD: National Party (NP) on Monday held a peaceful demonstration to condemn the Mastung incident in which innocent passengers of two Karachi-bound buses were killed...

    Apart from workers of the NP, men and women from various backgrounds including students and civil society representatives joined the procession to raise their voice against this tragic incident...

  • Will support parliament for investigation into Raymond Davis incident: Khawaja Asif

    Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said that he would support an investigation into the release of US spy Raymond Allen Davis if the parliament asks for it, terming the whole incident a matter of embarrassment for the entire nation...

    The minister was replying to a point-of-order raised by Senator Hafiz Hamdullah of Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) during Friday's Senate session regarding the alleged involvement of...

  • HRCP asks govt to explain Karachi incident away

    LAHORE: The barbaric killing of members of the Ismaili community in a bus attack in Karachi is highly condemnable but it deserves more than mere words of censure and sympathy from the authorities, the political parties and the civil society, says the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)...

    In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Commission said: “It is tragic beyond words that once again bands of killers have massacred Pakistan’s...
  • Yet another rape incident

    SHEIKHUPURA: A youngster has allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl at Jandiala Sher Khan about 14 kilometres from here...

    ‘A’ was going home from her school when ‘S’ bundled her into a car and raped her at a place far away from her house
  • Rao Anwar goes on leave as AIG Sindh orders inquiry into Stargate firing incident

    Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar Ahmed was granted 14-day casual leave soon after the Additional Inspector General (AIG) Operations Tanveer Odho ordered an inquiry into the police action at Stargate which resulted in 27 people being injured...

    The injuries were caused when police allegedly opened fire at people gathered near Stargate last week on Karachi's main artery, Sharea Faisal, in support of Faizabad protesters
  • Police razakar killed in firing incident in Karachi

    One police razakar was killed and another was injured in a firing incident in the Northern Bypass area in Karachi on Thursday, said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar...

    A new terrorist group, Ansar-ul-Shariah Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the incident in pamphlets left at the site of the attack...

  • PAT chief rails against Sharif brothers on Panamagate, Model Town incident

    During his lengthy diatribe against the ruling party and its leadership, the focal point of the gathering, Qadri heavily criticised the Sharif family, accusing them of undermining democracy and protecting the culprits behind the Model Town incident, which resulted in the killing of 14 people, including PAT workers, in clashes with police in Lahore's Model Town on June 17, 2014Police said PAT protesters had "resisted operations", leading to a...

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