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  • Large asteroid to zip past Earth today

    PARIS: The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year is expected to swing closest on Monday, giving astronomers a rare chance for a good look at a space rock that formed at the dawn of our solar system...

    While in astronomical terms this marks a close encounter with the asteroid -- called 2001 FO32 -- Nasa says there is no threat of a collision with “our planet now or for centuries to come”
  • Pakistan successfully test fires nuclear-capable Ghauri missile

    RAWALPINDI: Pakistan test-fired on Wednesday ballistic missile Ghauri, which is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads up to a distance of 1,300 kilometres...

    In a statement, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the launch of the intermediate-range Ghauri was conducted by a Strategic Missile Group of the Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) that was aimed at testing the operational and technical...

  • Babar Ghauri, Shamim Siddiqui quit Altaf-led MQM

    Former federal ministers and members of the London faction of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Babar Ghauri and Shamim Siddiqui, announced on Sunday their resignation from the Altaf Hussain-led party...

    Ghauri, while speaking to DawnNews, confirmed that he was resigning from the MQM-L for personal reasons...

  • NAB fails to locate Babar Ghauri’s properties

    KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) authorities have failed to locate and attach the properties owned by former minister Babar Ghauri for around two years after the court declared him a proclaimed offender in a case pertaining to illegal jobs’ regularization in the Karachi Port Trust (KPT)...

    Mr Ghauri, then a leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, along with then KPT chairmen Javed Hanif, Rauf Akhtar Farooqui and...

  • MQM leader Babar Ghauri arrested at Karachi airport

    KARACHI: Former federal minister and leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Move­ment (MQM) Babar Khan Ghauri was arrested by police on Monday night minutes after he landed at Karachi airport while returning from the United States ending his seven-year self-exile, officials said...

    The former ports and shipping minister, who returned Pakistan after almost seven years, had through his attorney moved the SHC last month and submitted that he was...

  • MQM’s Babar Ghauri released in hate speech case for want of evidence

    Karachi police on Wednesday released MQM leader Babar Ghauri in a case pertaining to the facilitation of an alleged hate speech by Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain, defence counsel Shabbir Shah confirmed to Dawn...

    Ghauri, a former federal minister for ports and shipping, was arrested from Karachi airport on June 4 upon his return to the country, ending his seven-year self-imposed exile...

  • Babar Ghauri leaves for UAE after being released

    KARACHI: Police on Wednesday released former federal minister Babar Ghauri in a case pertaining to allegedly facilitating an incendiary speech of London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain in 2015...

    After getting released from police custody, Mr Ghauri left Karachi for the United Arab Emirates...

  • SHC berates police for filing incomplete report on cases against MQM's Babar Ghauri

    KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday came down hard on police for filing an incomplete report about pending cases against former federal minister Babar Khan Ghauri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and directed the inspector general of police to submit a comprehensive statement till the next hearing...

    The lawyer for petitioner argued that former minister has feared that he would be arrested when he will return again to Pakistan...

  • Ex-MQM leader Babar Ghauri returns

    KARACHI: Former federal minister Babar Ghauri returned to the country on Tuesday...

    Mr Ghauri was arrested at the Karachi airport on June 5 last year after he returned to the country ending his seven-year self-imposed exile...

  • Code for Pakistan brings technology geeks to solve civic and social issues

    ISLAMABAD: A two-day Islamabad Civic Hackathon — an event organised by Code for Pakistan (CfP) and OPEN Islamabad — concluded Sunday with participants working constantly to develop mobile/web applications and digital tools which address civic and social issues...

    “It was inspirational … It makes me feel incredibly hopeful for Pakistan...

  • Pakistan startup founders booked for plagiarising source code

    KARACHI: Four people were reportedly booked on Wednesday for violating copyright and intellectual property laws after allegations of plagiarising source code for a financial information startup surfaced...

    The entrepreneurs behind Investor's Lounge, Baqar Abbas Jafri, Sennen D’Souza, Hammad Ali Hashmi and Waqar Ehsan, have been accused by their former employer ? Mir Muhammad Ali Khan of AMZ MAK Capital Ltd ? of stealing firm’s source...

  • ECP issues notice to Imran, Fazl for violation of code of conduct

    ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman for violation of the code of conduct ahead of by-elections in PK-8 (Peshawar)...

    After receiving reports about the two party chiefs’ visit to the constituency, warnings were issued reminding them of blatant violation of the code of conduct...

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