National

The National Category contains the news from Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan.

Lahore

Lahore : Multiple blasts targeting Church

Lahore  : Two blasts targeting a Church and a nearby school killed ten people and injured at least 36 others in in Lahore's Youhanabad area on Sunday. Sources said blasts hit a Church and an adjacent school at a time when a ceremony was underway in the worship place. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...

Altaf Hussain

Arrested MQM workers being tortured under detention

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain urged lawyers, rights activists and journalists to raise their voice against the ‘brutal torture’ of his party workers arrested by the Rangers force. Early morning Wednesday, Rangers forces raided the MQM head-office, claimed to have seized a “huge quantity” of weapons and...

OGRA

3,600 MW electricity to be produced with LNG

A comprehensive plan has been prepared to overcome energy crisis and provide relief to people. Official sources said several hydel, solar and wind energy projects have been launched to eliminate load-shedding. Steps are also being taken to control power theft and replace old and obsolete power transmission lines to avoid...

Who killed Waqas ?

Who killed Waqas ?

Who killed Waqas ? Rangers raid at MQM’s headquarters Nine Zero sparked strong protest by the supporters when one of the party activists – Waqas Shah – was allegedly shot dead by a Rangers man, however the mystery of party worker’s killing is still to be resolved Hundreds of MQM workers...

MQM

MQM announces countrywide protest over Nine Zero raid

KARACHI: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has announced a peaceful shutter-down strike against the overnight raid of party’s central office by the rangers, After a brief emergency meeting, the MQM’s Coordination Committee appealed to people to keep their business activities at a standstill and transport off roads today in protest...

MQM

KARACHI CLOSED : Rangers raid MQM’s Nine-Zero

KARACHI: In a targeted operation early Wednesday morning, Rangers forces carried out a raid at Nine-Zero, the headquarters of the ( MQM )  Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Karachi, with the party claiming that several leaders had been arrested. Rangers' raid at MQM's Headquarters Nine Zero, arms and ammo recovered, several...

Musharraf

Court issues arrest warrant for Musharraf in Lal Masjid case

A local court has issued a bailable arrest warrant against former military ruler General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf regarding murder trial of Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed. Islamabad’s Additional Sessions Judge Wajid Ali Khan presided over the hearing and rejected four requests issued by Musharraf’s counsel and adjourned the hearing...

Public Hanging death row

Pakistan to restart executions for death row prisoners

Pakistan will begin executing criminals on death row whose appeals have been exhausted, an interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday, reversing an earlier announcement that only those convicted of terrorism would be executed. "It applies to all (on death row), irrespective of the nature of the crime," said the spokesman, who...

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