- Two bombs defused in Karachi By : Karachi News
Two bombs, apparently aimed at causing maximum damage in a crowded market place here, were defused today, police said. - Pak to go ahead with border mining, fencing along Durand Line By : Karachi News
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Islamabad would go ahead with its plan to fence and mine parts of its border with Afghanistan to check cross-border movement of extremists. - We'll fence, mine border with Afghanistan: Pakistan PM By : Karachi News
Pakistan will "selectively" fence and mine its border with Afghanistan despite protests from that country, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on the eve of his visit to Kabul. - Missing persons are hiding voluntarily: Pakistan PM By : Karachi News
Faced with growing protests over a large number of missing persons in the country, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has now said that most are "hiding voluntarily". - Pak PM says no deal with PPP, minister says talks in "decisive stage" By : Karachi News
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has rejected the possibility of entering into an deal with the Pakistan People's Party, led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, ahead of the next general elections. - About 300 people hospitalised for food poisoning in Pakistan By : Pakistan News
About 300 people were admitted to hospitals for food poisoning after they ate sweets infected with fungus in Ghotki town in Pakistan's Sindh province. - MQM chief says health does not permit him to continue By : Karachi News
Altaf Hussain, chief of Pakistan's largest ethnic outfit, Mutthaida-e-Qaumi Movement (MQM) has told his followers that health does not allow him to continue running party affairs. - Transport strike cripples Karachi, one person dies By : Karachi News
A bus passenger died, several people sustained injuries and around 50 protestors were rounded up after a transport strike called by the ethnic Pashtoons in this Pakistani port city turned violent today. - Jinnah's body was taken away in a `faulty' ambulance By : Karachi News
Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah maybe one of the revered icons of the country today, but few would know that when he died in 1948, the treatment meted out his body bordered on the ridiculous. - India, Pakistan must have joint control of Kashmir: Asghar Khan By : Karachi News
Lamenting the lack of results out of the nearly three-year-long composite dialogue process between Pakistan and India, Air Marshal (retired) Asghar Khan has called for out-of-the-box solutions to existing bilateral disputes. - Pakistan needs provincial autonomy, says Asghar Khan By : Karachi News
Most of Pakistan’s problems can be solved with the introduction of provincial autonomy, claimed Air Marshal (Retired) Muhammad Asghar Khan. - Mushtaq's appointment questioned by Justice Qayyum By : Karachi News
The appointment of leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed as assistant coach of the Pakistan team has been questioned by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum, who had blacklisted the former player in his report on match-fixing. - Baloch leader Marri rules out talks with 'oppressive' Pak govt By : Karachi News
Prominent Baloch leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri has ruled out any possibility of talks with the Pakistan federal government, saying that there could be no talks between "oppressors and oppressed". - 'Create awareness in civil society to combat honour killing' By : Karachi News
Alarmed at the growing number of "honour" killings in the country, Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry today said awareness must be created in civil society, particularly among women, to combat the crime. - JWP demands investigation into Nawab Bugti’s death By : Pakistan News
The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) has demanded an investigation into the death of Baloch nationalist leader and party chief, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. - Pak maritime agency arrest 25 Indian fishermen for illegal fishing By : Pakistan News
Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) on Saturday apprehended 25 Indian fishermen along with four boats for illegally fishing in Pakistani territorial waters. - Pakistan U-19 squad overhauled after mauling in Tests By : Pakistan News
Stunned by the two heavy defeats against arch-rivals India in the 'Tests', Pakistan's junior selection committee has gone for an overhaul of the Under-19 squad, making as many as nine changes for the one-day series starting on Tuesday in Lahore. - Independent report finds gross HR violations in Balochistan By : Karachi News
A fact finding report has found that Balochistan witnessed gross human rights violations during fighting between the armed forces and militants in the Dera Bugti and Sui which resulted in the killing of innocent civilians, including women and children. - AQ Khan likely to leave hospital within next two days By : Karachi News
Pakistan's nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan health has been reported to be improving at the Aga Khan Hospital. - Five rockets fired in Quetta By : Karachi News
As many as five rocket explosions were reported from the Mach region of Quetta, last evening. But, no loss of life or property took place. - Bugti's son says he can’t hold talks with 'dictators and murderers' By : Karachi News
Nawabzada Jameel Akbar Bugti, the elder son of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, has dispelled the impression that talks were going on between his family and the government, saying that that his family will not hold talks with the “dictators and murderers”. - Bomb blast in Balochistan district kills three, injures 14 By : Karachi News
The situation in Baluchistan continues to remain unstable and unpredictable, 13 days after the killing of senior Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. - Mass arrests being made in Baluchistan(Lead: Baluchistan) By : Karachi News
In complete disregard of the sentiments of the Baloch people following the August 26 killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the authorities in the troubled province today scooped down on over 500 activists belonging to the Balochistan Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Baluch Students Organisation (BSO). - Balochistan shut down today against Bugti killing By : Karachi News
The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) in Pakistan, along with other Opposition parties, has given a call for one day strike today in Balochistan to protest against the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. - BNP-Mengal to quits all assemblies to protest Bugti’s killing By : Karachi News
As a mark of protest against the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and the subsequent response of the Pakistan federal government, the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has announced that all its members would quit from the Senate, National Assembly, Balochistan Assembly and other district bodies. - Leading Pakistan politicians criticise handling of Bugti’s case By : Karachi News
Some of the leading politicians of Pakistan have criticised the way the federal government handled burying of the body of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, saying it was ‘immoral’ and ‘inhuman’. - Pakistan Air Force jet crashes near Karachi, pilot killed By : Karachi News
A Pakistan Air Force jet on a training flight crashed near Karachi on Friday. The pilot was killed in the crash. - Baluchistan heading for federal rule, chorus for CM's resignation rises By : Karachi News
Pakistan largest, yet poorest province of Baluchistan is almost certainly heading for federal rule, with a majority of Pakistan's opposition parties saying on Thursday that their members were ready to resign from the Baluchistan provincial assembly, to register their protest against the killing of senior Baloch leader Akbar Khan Bugti in a military operation last Saturday. - Attaullah Mengal says Baluchistan will remain cut-off till Bugti's body is produced By : Karachi News
In a hard-hitting speech to the Baloch people, senior Baluch National Party leader Ataullah Mengal has said that all links between Baluchistan and the rest of Pakistan will remain cut off till the military authorities in Islamabad do not hand over the body of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. - Sindh Assembly adjourned sine die over Bugti killing protests By : Karachi News
Sindh Assembly Speaker Rahila Tiwana had to suspend legislative proceedings on Tuesday when a defiant but united opposition refused to stop condemning the murder of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. - Pakistan mourners torch shops after Bugti's funeral prayers By : Karachi News
Thousands of mourners in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province Tuesday turned violent and torched several shops after attending the funeral prayers of powerful local politician Nawab Akbar Bugti, killed in a weekend military operation. - Akbar Bugti's Ghaibana Namaz-e-Janaza offered in Quetta, Karachi By : Karachi News
A Ghaibana Namaz-e-Janaza for the late Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was offered at Chaudhry Khalique-uz -Zaman Road in Karachi's Gizri area on Tuesday. - Fires and violence grip Quetta, other Pak cities following Bugti's killing By : Karachi News
Baloch mobs set fire to cars and government-owned buildings even as their representatives and leaders declared war against the Pakistan Government following the killing of their senior leader Akbar Khan Bugti during an army operation in the Kohlu Hills on Saturday. - Son-in-law says still trying to retrieve Bugti's body By : Karachi News
Tension and confusion prevails here as family members of veteran Baloch leader Akbar Khan Bugti were said to be running from pillar to post trying to get some information regarding his tragic death at the hands of the Pakistan Army in the hills of Kohlu. - Nawab Bugti’s murder will widen gap with Islamabad: Sardar Mengal By : Karachi News
Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said that the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti would widen the gap between the Balochis and the federal government. - Profile of Balochistan's struggle for self-determination By : Karachi News
Balochistan is regarded as the poorest and most backward of Pakistan's four provinces. With about six million inhabitants, Pakistan's largest province has less than half the population of Karachi. - Jinnah's Museum waterless since '93 over Rs 500 unpaid bill by his sister! By : Country News
The Quaid-e-Azam House Museum has been without water since 1993, because it owes a whopping Rs 1,50,000 water bill to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. The water.....
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