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Former DG Hajj, top officials of TCP arrested
Nov 14th
Over 10 officials, including former Director General Hajj, are arrested on corruption charges by FIA.
What next for Barack Obama?
Nov 13th
Obama faces a growing constraint that his predecessors did not: the relative decline of American global power.
Trend report: Loving the long hemline
Nov 13th
The longer hemline is a trend that we can all actually wear instead of lust after longingly.
Poor servants
Nov 13th
We all know that household help is nothing less than modern-day slavery in Pakistan.
Robbers active on the RCD highway
Nov 12th
BALOCHISTAN is facing a severe safety problem. Robbers and burglars are ruling the streets, a greater part of which have some sort of political backing. Streets of Quetta are deserted after 8pm. During night time bandits carry out raids in groups of eight to 10. Kidnapping and land grabbing is the norm today. Conditions on [...]
Agricultural income tax
Nov 12th
YOUR editorial `Agricultural income tax` (Oct 30) was like a whiff of fresh air amidst the prevailing suffocation. There is a weed-like proliferation of TV channels. There is also no dearth of newspapers in all the languages of the country. But their staple fare is Am-Pak relations, executive-judiciary standoff, Muslim League mergers with some local [...]
NICL chief among three directors declared absconders
Nov 11th
LAHORE: A Lahore court declared proclaimed absconder, the chairman of National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) Ayaz Khan Niazi and two other directors and raids are being conducted to arrest them, Geo News reported Thursday. According to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), an FIA team conducted raids in Defence phase-V and Karachi area of Khayaban-e-Badban for Ayaz Niazi; however, he could not be arrested. Member of the board of directors of NICL Qasim Amin Dada and Javed Syed were also declared proclaimed absconders in the NICL scam, which the Supreme Court (SC) assigned to the FIA for investigations.
Students migrating to cities for education
Nov 11th
Govornment-appointed teachers ‘hiring’ local unemployed persons to work on their behalf.
FIA to conduct sugar raids; hoarders given two days
Nov 11th
ISLAMABAD: With sugar prices skyrocketing and hitting Rs110 to Rs125 per kilogram, a showdown appears to be in the offing between the Punjab government and the federal government after the federal cabinet decided on Wednesday to use intelligence network to trace sugar hoarders and confiscate their stocks. In what the PML-N termed a political stunt, [...]
Police arrest seven militants in Karachi
Nov 10th
SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan says the arrested suspects were wanted in several incidents of terrorism.
