Sind, Pakistan News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said.

The Pakistani election is over, and summer's arrival will present the new government, to be led by Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, with its first test.

Three dead bodies were also recovered across the city, while a former parliamentarian of MQM was injured in a gun attack.

Staff Report KARACHI: Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry congratulated the Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang and President Asif Ali Zardari for reaffirmation of the pledge to deepen strategic ties irrespective of international situation and further strengthen 'all weather friendship' and 'all-dimensional cooperation'. He ... (more)

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Nawaz Sharif is poised to become Pakistan's new prime minister in the first peaceful transition of civilian governments in the country's history.

'Early marriages, poverty giving rise to fistula cases in Pakistan' Staff Report KARACHI: Approximately 4,000 to 5,000 new fistulas cases are reported every year in Pakistan due to socio-cultural issues like early marriages, poverty and lack of education, said a senior medical expert on Wednesday.

KARACHI: Senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Syed Ghous Ali Shah has become the most potential candidate in his party for the position of Sindh Governor.

Karachi: May 18, 2013. The Central Executive Council of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC in a meeting here today approved nomination of Mr.

Staff Report KARACHI: Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan on Wednesday promulgated The Sindh HIV/AIDS Control, Treatment and Protection Ordinance 2013, to provide protection to HIV patients from being marginalised.

Staff Report KARACHI: All Pakistan Junior Ranking Tennis Championship will be staged at Karachi Gymkhana Hard Courts here from May 29 to June 4, the Sindh Tennis Association announced on Wednesday.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan from issuing official notification of victorious candidates on three provincial assembly seats on petitions against alleged rigging.

Today's post is dedicated to the Meter Gauge Railway located in Sindh province of Pakistan, which in its hey-day, had a network of 517 kilometers of track.

It's a measure of Pakistanis' obsession with eating that even the elections held on May 11 - fiercely contested, marred by violence - are being discussed in culinary metaphors.

Rice export plunges to 40% in current fiscal By Tanveer Sher KARACHI: Pakistan's rice export has nosedived to 40 percent during the current fiscal year owing to multifarious factors manifesting alarming future for one of the most valuable commodity of the country.

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KARACHI, May 22 - Staring out at his golden wheat field with satisfaction, 50-year old Alamgir Akbar says with a sigh of relief: "We've had a good crop this season." The farmer has waited a long time to utter those words.

Daniel Pearl had been held captive in Pakistan for more than a month when Mariane, his wife, learned he was dead.

KARACHI : ABL Asset Management Company Ltd appointed MCB FSL as trustee for their upcoming ABL Islamic Stock Fund.

The YouTube was banned in Pakistan in September 2012 after a blasphemous video titled "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded on it, and Muslims all over the world protested against it.