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Water-shortage: Pakistani farmers test less thirsty way to grow rice
Different patterns of monsoon rains have made it increasingly hard for rice farmer Sardar Muhammad to bring in a good…
Farmers’ package: IHC rejects govt appeal to stay ECP suspension
The Islamabad High court (IHC) earlier today rejected a government appeal for a stay order on decision by the Election Commission…
A decade after: 100s of schools yet to be reconstructed after quake
It was ten years ago on this day, a massive earthquake rocked northern Pakistan at 8:52 am and caused more…
Any checks to nuclear programme ruled out
A senior Pakistani official earlier yesterday dismissed speculation that Islamabad could agree to put certain limits on its nuclear weapons…
Govt challenges ECP suspension of Farmers’ package HC
The petition filed by the federal government states that purpose of the Farmers’ package was not to influence voters in…
“Allah will ask those pocketing interest”: SC ruling
A two-member bench of the Supreme Court earlier yesterday discharged a petition seeking the elimination of ushery system in the…
China to build 4 of 8 submarines at Karachi naval dockyard
China will construct four of eight submarines in Karachi, that it is selling to Pakistan. Minister for Defence Production Rana…
Crown Plaza scam: FIA arrests EOBI deputy DG Iqbal Haider
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) earlier today formally arrested deputy Director-General Syed Iqbal Haider of Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) for…
SC asks ‘if individuals have authority to punish blasphemers’
The Supreme Court questioned earlier today whether individuals had the authority to punish a blasphemer. Hearing former elite force guard Mumtaz…