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Third-time lucky: Old PPP hand escapes Lyari hand grenade attack
Habib Jan Baloch survives after men on motorcycles attacked his brother's estate agency.
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Blast injures 5 in Karachi
Blast occurs outside an office of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Karachi violence: Three more people killed
Three people killed, two injured in firing incidents in Karachi.
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MQM Foundation Day: Altaf holds Punjab govt responsible for Davis’ release
Hussain says the US should pay compensation to heirs of all those killed in drone attacks in North Waziristan.
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Milk sellers to explain Rs10 per kg increase
United Human Rights Commission has filed a petition against milk sellers and producers.
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Book launch: Poetic works of Amin Hazeen Sialkoti
Urdu poet Sialkoti’s first ghazal was published in 1904 and was received well in the literary circles of Lucknow.
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Notices issued: Petition for lawyer missing after Hajj
Nawabshah Bar Association forwarded a resolution to Sindh High Court’s chief justice.
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Bomb hoax: Caller threatens Mama Parsi School
Classes ended abruptly when an anonymous call to the Mama Parsi School warned of a bomb on campus.
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Protesting violence: Bhutto clansmen accuse police of arson
Team raided village to recover kidnapped woman.
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Freeing of Davis: Lawyers assail decision
Punjab, Centre facilitated his release, they claim.
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Family giving up hope as SITE killing of industrialist’s son hits dead end
Police rule out neighbourhood gang but know little else.
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‘Davis’ release was unexpected and immature’
Several protests, demonstrations held across the city after Juma prayers.
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Holi day: Good vs evil, not white vs colour
Holi starts today across the country, Lahore scales down celebrations for Shahbaz Bhatti.
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Indian delegation visits: ‘A visa-free South Asia zone’
Visa issues, social networking and manipulation of global players dominate discussions.
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DCO assumes additional charge of administrator
Administrator Fazlur Rehman on a 90-day leave.
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Police book five Jatoi men for gang rape in Shikarpur
The group of armed men stormed into the house of MS, a peasant who works for landlord Manzar Ali Jatoi.
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Missing doctors: High court summons Middle East director-general
Father of missing brothers petitions against authorities.
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Local government: Secretaries gain power, mukhtiarkars dismissed
Government empowers union council secretaries to deal with the registration of births, deaths, marriage certificates.
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Students give unpaid teachers full marks for protesting
Many students were shocked to learn that their teachers had not been paid for months.
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Bank heist: Brazen robbers steal millions of rupees, dollars
Armed men beat up manager, security guard.
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MQM, PPP lawmakers argue over bill
Coalition partners disagree over legislation, Malir and Lyari Development Authority Revised and Amendment Bill, 2009.
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Reactions to Davis release: Protests likely to continue today
Political, civil society groups ask ‘where is the chief justice now’.
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Truck runs over huts killing five
Loader truck coming from Loni Kot hits huts killing five people and injuring six others.
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Target killing: Seven killed overnight
Seven people killed, several others injured in various shooting incidents.
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Don’t blame rule changes, urges Jansher
Squash coach unhappy with complaints on PSA’s decision.
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Lyari group: Peoples Amn Committee to shut offices
PAC will shut its 350 offices across Sindh and Balochistan.
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Post-riot: 400 Hyd prisoners sent to jails across Sindh
Hyderabad Central Jail starts relocating at least 400 trouble-making prisoners across the province.
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Court stays demolition of shops in Nursery
Shopkeepers have challenge SBCA for telling them to remove additional structures
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‘11 labourers from Pakistan equal 5 from India and 7 from Bangladesh’
The labour in Pakistan is degenerating with 11 men equalling five from India and seven from Bangladesh.
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Milk prices: Petitioner moves court against increase in prices
SHC moved against increase in prices of milk and other dairy products.
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Pakistani roosters are no chickens as they fight their way to Dubai and the Philippines
Every Friday, thousands of people gather at the outskirts of Sukkur to watch a ‘grand cockfight’.
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Exhibition: 5 artists get ‘amnesia’, tackle the loss of cultural memory
Remnants of an overlooked Pakistani culture rejuvenated by five young artists.
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NED students enter competition to design formula racecar
Students working day and night to design a racecar to take part in global Formula Racing competition.
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Sindh Assembly: Treasury benches fill up after MQM and PPP patch up
Nine-day boycott ends as MQM legislators return to the Sindh Assembly session.
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Qamar David’s case: Nervous doctors perform blasphemy convict’s autopsy
Nervous doctors perform crucial autopsy on Christian blasphemy convict.
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Water board shuts off supply to railways
The water board’s claims to have disconnected the Pakistan Railways over Rs140.8 million in unpaid bills refuted.
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Lyari Medical College: Entrance test for MBBS programme on March 27
More than 1,000 students have applied to the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Lyari Medical College.
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Senior citizens: Judges told to hurry up with ‘old’ cases
SHC CJ directs judges to process appeals of convicts who older than 60 years.
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Art for sale: Fear, old family photos and suffocation
Visitors float into Canvas Gallery on opening day of group show of works of five fresh graduates from NCA.
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Professors and teachers sprayed, tear-gassed away from CM House during protest
The water cannon came out against teachers — again.
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1 in 10 women infected with Hepatitis at beauty parlours: Study
The disease is rapidly increasing in the country due to the contaminated equipment at beauty parlours.
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Sindh Assembly session: Talking about everything but what’s on the agenda
MPAs paid tribute to a social worker who just received the International Women of Courage award 2011.
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Target killings - day six: Brazen daylight shootings continue
Brazen daylight drive-by shootings continue as six more men get killed.
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Hyderabad jail operation: 7 prisoners die, 40 injured in fight for a cup of tea
There was an electricity breakdown in the area the previous night which cut off the water supply to the prison.
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Ward boy burnt as boiler bursts in theatre
A ward boy was burnt when a boiler burst in the operation theatre of the orthopaedic ward at Civil Hospital.
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Squatters bring out land ownership papers
The houses were built on 110 feet of a 300-foot-wide road in the industrial area.
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‘Rs560 million fraud’
The Sindh Excise and Taxation Department has embezzled nearly Rs560 million within the past year.
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Petition seeks MPAs’ disqualification
Human Rights Commission South Asia’s Syed Iqbal Kazmi has filed an application in the Supreme Court.
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SC commission visits Kandhkot
The Supreme Court commission investigating breaches in embankments visited Tori Bund.
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Labour union protests against ‘surplus pool’
KESC labour union staged a protest against the management for creating a surplus to “isolate employees”.