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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Police suspect extortionists behind Charanjeet’s murder

PESHAWAR: The counter terrorism department on Thursday arrested another suspect over the killing of Sikh peace activist Charanjeet Singh here. Prime suspect in the case Shahryar was taken into custody on June 14. Mr Charanjeet was killed by gunmen on May 29 in the Scheme Chowk area, where he’d a shop for several years. Another suspect arrested; […]

Taliban kill 16 Afghan soldiers, kidnap 43 workers after ceasefire ends

KABUL: Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eidul Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials said on Friday. The Taliban, fighting to reimpose strict Islamic law after their 2001 ouster, resumed their campaign on Thursday after rejecting President Ashraf Ghani’s […]

Basic human rights being eroded in Venezuela, United Nations says

Government security forces in Venezuela carry out unjustified killings without any apparent consequences as the rule of law in the country quickly vanishes, a United Nations report charged Friday, drawing a rejection from Caracas. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Venezuelan officers accused in some 500 questionable killings appear to […]

PML-N becomes a divided house in Taxila

TAXILA: The supporters and workers of the PML-N in Taxila are in a fix as the party stands divided in two camps, one led by former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and the other by party’s Rawalpindi chapter president Sardar Mumtaz Khan. Mr Nisar, who bagged 102,142 votes in the 2013 elections, is now […]

Greek leader dons tie in sartorial relief over bailout end

Greece : Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has donned a tie, for the first time in more than three years in office, to celebrate the debt relief deal agreed by the country’s creditors. Tsipras sported the burgundy tie with a white shirt and blue suit during a speech Friday to lawmakers from his left-led coalition government […]

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

Police suspect extortionists behind Charanjeet’s murder

Taliban kill 16 Afghan soldiers, kidnap 43 workers after ceasefire ends

Basic human rights being eroded in Venezuela, United Nations says

PML-N becomes a divided house in Taxila

Greek leader dons tie in sartorial relief over bailout end

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