North-West Frontier, Pakistan News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police today claimed they had arrested the leader of the gang that kidnapped former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, even as security forces were continuing their search for him.

KARACHI: Attock refineries and Pakistan State Oil announced on Thursday the successful bid for a 'Fuel Farm and Operation and Maintenance of Hydrant Refuelling System' at the Benazir International Airport.

NOWSHERA: The chief of the gang that kidnapped Ali Haider Gilani, a son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was arrested during an operation by police against the abductors on Friday.

DARGAI: Twenty-one persons were killed and around 120 others sustained injuries in separate bomb blasts during the Friday prayer at two mosques in Bazdarra village in Palai Union Council of Malakand Agency, official and local sources said on Friday.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens other injured in two bomb blasts at two different mosques in Malakand Agency on Friday.

Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Friday revoked Election Commission's decision regarding recounting of votes in NA-57 constituency of Attock.

Islamabad: Ali Haider Gilani, son of Pakistan's Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was rescued in an operation in Akora Khattak of Nowshera in Pakistan yesterday.

ISLAMABAD: Just two days after the much-trumpeted 'free and fair' general election, widespread allegations of rigging in the polling process have raised many an eyebrow, putting the credibility of whole the exercise at stake.

The poll rigging complainants have started directly moving the Election Commission of Pakistan as the returning officers concerned mostly continue to reject recounting applications in a surprising development that appears to have further cast the shadows on the elections credibility in the wake of widespread reports of massive rigging in the ... (more)

PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema e Islam-Fazl Chief, Fazlur Rehman has refused to accept the mandate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Tradition or Pakistan is one hottest topic for this country. Pakistan is a land with multiple, recognizable and acknowledged divisions.

Rehman, a Pakistan Peoples Party leader, has resigned as Pakistani ambassador to Washington with immediate effect owing to the fact that her appointment was a political one, Geo News reported from Washington.

Not only did the mishap leave Shada widowed at the relatively young age of 37, she also sustained an injury to her back that immobilised her.

Three separate protest demonstrations were held by PTI here on Monday. PTI chief Imran Khan's sister Alima Khan and party's Punjab chapter president Ejaz Ahmed Chudhary led a protest demonstration at Ichhra in support of their claims of rigging in NA-122 where Imran Khan himself contested against PML-N's Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.

A Pakistani voter makes his way on a hilltop as he arrives to cast his ballot during parliamentary elections in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on May 11, 2013.

On the day of polling the results for most of the polling stations were delayed because all the presiding officers, police and even the returning office of the area was highly paid for all this.

World leaders congratulate Nawaz on election win * Indian PM felicitates Nawaz on 'emphatic victory' * Invites him to 'visit India at mutually convenient time' Obama congratulates Pakistan on vote NEW DELHI: Various world leaders congratulated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif on his party's massive victory in... Electioneering ... (more)

Staff Report LAHORE: Youth of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Sunday, the next day of general election came out on the streets to protest after hearing the unexpected result of some constituencies of the city in favour of opponent candidates especially the result of NA-125 and NA-122. They claimed that initially they were informed that their ... (more)

MARDAN: At least one person was killed and several others injured in a clash between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz activists and supporters of the Awami National Party on Sunday.

Peshwar Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has swept the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in landmark general elections by standing victorious on 35 national and most of provincial assembly seats.