Monthly Archives: December 2015

New Year’s gift: PM launches healthcare program for underprivileged

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday launched the National Health Programme, a government initiative to provide healthcare and medical treatment to…

International

Obama spied on Netanyahu during Iran deal negotiations, says paper

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama ordered his agencies to spy on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while he was negotiating a nuclear…

National

Rs3m cheque given to family of guard killed in Mardan blast

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

MARDAN: The Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority, Usman Yousaf Mubeen, handed over a cheque of Rs3 million as compensation…

International

Iraq threatens to use military option against Turkey if forced

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

BAGHDAD: Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says…

Europe

Turks, Belgians report foiling plans for holiday attacks

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

ANKARA With less than 48 hours left in 2015, Turkey on Wednesday became the latest country to announce the foiling of a…

National

20 men, women, children from Lahore join Daesh, go to Syria

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

ISLAMABAD: On the morning of September 12, the female principal of a Lahore-based Islamic center left home along with her four children…

Business

Global growth will be disappointing in 2016

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

BERLIN: Global economic growth will be "disappointing" next year, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in a guest article for…

National

Zehri calls for ending propaganda over CPEC’s Western route

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

ZHOB: Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri said on Wednesday that the negative propaganda on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s western route issue should…

Sports

Sri Lanka beat New Zealand in 3rd ODI

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

NELSON, New Zealand: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by eight wickets in the third one-day international in Nelson on Thursday. They reached…

Entertainment

Blur frontman Albarn, ‘Wire’ actor Elba top UK honours list

Dec 31, 2015 0 IPP News Reports

LONDON: Blur frontman Damon Albarn and heart-throb actor Idris Elba were rewarded for their services to music and drama in Britain’s New…

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Editor of damning human rights report harassed, intimidated in ‘burglary-style raid’ in Lahore

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday condemned a “burglary-style raid” on the house of its consultant, Maryam Hasan, who edited the recently-released annual report on the state of human rights in Pakistan. In a press release issued today, the HRCP stated that the house of Hasan, who lives alone in Lahore, was raided Thursday […]

Shut down quack doctors in KP within a week, orders chief justice

Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday directed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health commission Chairman Azar Sardar to shut down all quack doctors in the province, giving him a week’s time to do so. The chief justice issued those directives while hearing a case against quack doctors at the Supreme Court registry in Peshawar today. Justice Nisar […]

Alibaba ‘doing a lot of research’ on driver less cars: Jack Ma

E-commerce giant Alibaba is steering resources towards driverless car technology, its CEO Jack Ma confirmed on Thursday, joining a global race to shape the future of driving. Despite fresh safety fears after a woman was hit and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle in the US last month, many tech giants like Google as well […]

Arsene Wenger to leave Arsenal at end of season

Arsenal have confirmed that manager Arsene Wenger will leave his role as manager at the end of the season. Wenger who has come under increasing pressure as a result of Arsenal’s poor Premier League record in the last seasons announced that he would be leaving the club in a statement on the club’s official website: […]

Paramount to distribute Elton John biopic ‘Rocketman’

NEW YORK: Paramount has agreed to fund and distribute “Rocketman“, a biopic about British entertainer Elton John, a spokesman for the US studio said on Thursday. The film will star Taron Egerton (“Kingsman,” “Eddie the Eagle“), who will sing the songs featured in the film, the spokesman said. And it will be directed by Dexter […]

Monthly Archives: December 2015

New Year’s gift: PM launches healthcare program for underprivileged

Obama spied on Netanyahu during Iran deal negotiations, says paper

Rs3m cheque given to family of guard killed in Mardan blast

Iraq threatens to use military option against Turkey if forced

Turks, Belgians report foiling plans for holiday attacks

20 men, women, children from Lahore join Daesh, go to Syria

Global growth will be disappointing in 2016

Zehri calls for ending propaganda over CPEC’s Western route

Sri Lanka beat New Zealand in 3rd ODI

Blur frontman Albarn, ‘Wire’ actor Elba top UK honours list

Editor of damning human rights report harassed, intimidated in ‘burglary-style raid’ in Lahore

Shut down quack doctors in KP within a week, orders chief justice

Alibaba ‘doing a lot of research’ on driver less cars: Jack Ma

Arsene Wenger to leave Arsenal at end of season

Paramount to distribute Elton John biopic ‘Rocketman’

PAF plane crashes near Bhakkar

Israel military says it strikes Gaza militants

Cabinet approves ‘fair trial’ bill

Pakistan, India urged to focus energies on hitting poverty, illiteracy

Clinton seeks to boost democracy in Asia’s newest country