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  'Kargil was in response to India's role in creation of B'desh'

  World | December 10, 2014 18:51 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan's former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he believes in a tit-for-tat policy on all fronts and claimed that Kargil conflict was in response to India's role in the creation of Bangladesh. 

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  Karachi renames Moti Lal Nehru Road as Jigar Muradabadi Road

  World | November 01, 2014 16:47 IST

  Karachi: Authorities in this commercial capital of Pakistan have renamed a road named after Moti Lal Nehru, father of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as Jigar Muradabadi road.Jigar Muradabadi, renowned Urdu poet, stayed in

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  Pakistan slashes petrol price by Rs 9.43 a litre

  World | October 31, 2014 19:28 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced a steep reduction in petrol price by Rs 9.43 a litre. The new price shall be effective from midnight today.The price of diesel has been slashed by

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  Pakistan to evacuate 50,000 people in wake of Nilofar Cyclone

  World | October 30, 2014 14:53 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan has planned to evacuate at least 50,000 people from its southern coastal areas with cyclone Nilofar slowly moving towards it, officials said today.The cyclone, moving at about 14km per hour speed towards Sindh

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  Pakistan MQM chief claims support for new province

  World | October 27, 2014 7:21 IST

  Karachi: MQM chief Altaf Hussain today claimed that the people of Sindh have spoken out in favour of new provinces in Pakistan by observing a ‘black day' against a rival PPP leader's remarks about ‘Muhajirs'. “The

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  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari holds first public rally in Karachi

  World | October 18, 2014 23:07 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan People's Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday held his first public rally here, launching his political career in a big way.Around 40,000 persons were deployed to provide security cover for the rally

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  Pakistan to intensify effort to end polio

  World | October 15, 2014 11:08 IST

  Islamabad: The Pakistan government has decided to intensify its effort to eradicate polio, a media report said.Emergence of new cases has forced international institutions and foreign governments to put restrictions on the country.The decision was

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  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister asked to pay water bill 47 years after her death

  World | June 30, 2014 12:50 IST

  Karachi: Pakistani authorities here have sent a water bill amounting Rs 2,63,774 to Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 47 years after her death.The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has

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  Pakistan PM calls officers to discus Hamid Mir shooting

  World | April 20, 2014 14:10 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a meeting of senior officers Sunday to discuss the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir, a media report said.Pakistan's Geo News' executive editor Hamid Mir was

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  Air India plane in near-miss as Karachi air traffic control gives incorrect info

  India | March 13, 2014 11:55 IST

  Hyderabad:  In a mid-air scare, "incorrect" input by Pakistan's air traffic control to a Mumbai-bound Air India Dreamliner plane from London led it to come close to another aircraft, prompting a sharp reaction from India.The

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  13 killed as suicide bomber targets police bus in Karachi

  World | February 13, 2014 22:15 IST

  Karachi: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying policemen in this southern Pakistani city today, killing 13 people and injuring 50 others. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), with which the

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  Know Pakistan's Dirty Harry, the fearless cop who survived 9 assassination attempts

  World | January 13, 2014 6:57 IST

  New Delhi: For years, Karachi's Dirty Harry, Chaudhry Aslam Khan had been grappling with the terrorists to maintain law and order in Pakistan. Also called the cop with the nine lives, he had been shot

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  Six bodies with throats slit found near Bukhari mazaar in Karachi

  World | January 08, 2014 7:43 IST

  Karachi: Six bodies with their throats slit were today found near a 'mazaar' in this southern Pakistani city with a note warning against visiting such shrines.The corpses were recovered near the shrine of Ayub Shah

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  Retd Justice Ganguly had accepted hospitality of Pak national in Karachi

  India | January 03, 2014 9:37 IST

  New Delhi: The chairperson of West Bengal State Human Rights Commission retired Justice A K Ganguly, facing charge of sexual harassment of an intern, had accepted the hospitality of a Pakistani national named Faisal Siddiqui

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  13 killed as violence hits Karachi

  World | December 04, 2013 11:59 IST

  Karachi: Violence rocked Karachi city of Pakistan as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.Police said the spate of

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  Pakistan to build n-power plant in Karachi

  World | November 26, 2013 8:05 IST

  Islamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lay the foundation stone of a 2,117 megawatt civil nuclear power project Tuesday which is being built with the assistance of China in the port city of

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  13 dead as violence escalates in Karachi ahead of Muharram

  World | November 05, 2013 16:10 IST

  Karachi: At least eight persons died in sectarian violence today in Pakistan's biggest city, taking the number of people killed in two days to 13 as tensions spiked ahead of the Muslim holy month of

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  97 held in Karachi during police crackdown

  World | November 01, 2013 11:16 IST

  Islamabad : Pakistan police have arrested 97 suspected criminals, some of them accused of murder, kidnapping and robberies, and terrorists in the port city of Karachi since Wednesday, an official statement said Thursday.The arrests were

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  Taliban leader Mullah Baradar kept in Karachi safe house

  World | September 23, 2013 8:54 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan government has kept Taliban's former No.2 leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a safe house in Karachi after his release, sources said. “Mullah Baradar was flown to Karachi from Peshawar early on Sunday.

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  'Chennai Express' a big hit in Karachi

  Bollywood | August 16, 2013 9:25 IST

  Karachi:  The Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer "Chennai Express" has become a huge hit in Karachi.The Rohit Shetty directorial movie eclipsed all other releases on Eid day by a big margin in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper