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Karachi - Sindh Planning and Development Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bajrani and his wife were murdered mysteriously in their house in Defence area on Thursday. Unknown culprits fired shots in the heads of the couple. Investigators say that according to the preliminary investigation, the incident seems to be suicide. The...

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has proposed hike in petroleum products prices from February 1, 2018. Ogra has sent a summary to the Ministry of Petroleum for approval proposing increase of Rs 2.98 per liter for petrol, Rs 10.25 for diesel, Rs 12.74 per liter for kerosene and...

Press Release: With the advent of the dreadful incident of baby Zainab and with the history of the vulnerability of the vicinities of Mazars and Shrines in Sindh along with increasing trends in beggary near landmark locations, the Government of Sindh had constituted and notified a Committee with a view...

KARACHI: Additional Inspector General Counter Terrorism Department Dr Sanaullah Abbasi announced on Tuesday that Naqeebullah Mehsud was innocent, and was killed in a fake encounter, while speaking to participants of a Mehsud Jirga here at Sohrab Goth. The police officer promised the participants of the Jirga that he will conduct...

KARACHI: Senior officials of the Sindh Police have decided to arrest suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar and other policemen involved in the extrajudicial murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud. Mehsud, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan, was among four suspected terrorists killed in an ‘exchange of fire’ with a police team headed by...

KARACHI: SSP Rao Anwar appeared before an enquiry committee, headed by Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi, and produced the criminal record of the alleged terrorist Naqeebullah Mehsud who was killed in a police ‘encounter’ on January 13. The enquiry committee also recorded Rao Anwar’s statement on...

The brutal rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab in Kasur is not a one-off incident. As many as 11 cases of child sexual abuse are reported from across Pakistan every day, according to data collected by non-governmental organisation Sahil. Even in Kasur—which became the center of a massive child abuse...

ISLAMABAD: The government revised prices of petroleum products on Sunday increasing the price of petrol by Rs4.6 per litre. PM's advisor on finance, Miftah Ismail, announced revised rates of petroleum products. The new rate of petrol would be Rs81.53 per litre. The price of high-speed diesel has been increased by...

KARACHI: 10th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is being observed today. Main ceremony and public meeting has been arranged at Garhi Khuda Bux Bhutto where PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari are expected to address a rally. A poetry recital has also been scheduled in front of...

Supreme Court is hearing a drinking water case in court summoned Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah to appear in person to tell the court, how we ended up drinking impure and toxic water. In Sindh most underground water quality is alkaline mixed with salts and organic compounds that was the...

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has barred at least 314 political parties from contesting general elections 2018 under the provisions of Election Act 2017. The parties have been barred due to submission of incomplete details. Only 11 per cent of the filed parties got clearance to contest elections. Among the...

KARACHI: The session court (South) on Saturday approved the bail of Shahrukh Jatoi and three other defendants in the Shahzeb Khan murder case. The court ordered the defendants to submit surety bonds of Rs 0.5 million each, following which the court will issue the release order of the accused. Jatoi...