Flood management shortcomings remain to be addressed : Latest News, Pakistan News Today

Flood management shortcomings remain to be addressed  Meeting notes that most of 61 critical weaknesses of flood protection program have not been addressed By Khaleeq Kiani   ISLAMABAD: Shortcomings in flood management and infrastructure weaknesses which caused large-scale devastation during the floods of 2010 and 2014 are still to be addressed and most of the people responsible for the catastrophe have been cleared. As a result,...

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US Republicans question deal : Latest News, International News Today

US Republicans question deal  WASHINGTON: Top US Republicans expressed skepticism about the nuclear deal reached with Iran, saying it gave Tehran too much room to man oeuvre and does not safe-guard American security interests. Some in Congress have already said they are prepared to reject the deal because it does not comprehensively halt Tehran's enrichment process or permanently close the door on its development of a nuclear weapon. House...

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Afghan returnees from Iran bring drug problems back home : Latest News, International News Today

Afghan returnees from Iran bring drug problems back home  ISLAM QALA: At Zero Point, the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran, hundreds of Afghan laborers return to their homeland each day. Some are exhausted by grueling working conditions, but many others bear the hall-marks of heroin addiction they acquired while in Iran. Under the watchful eyes of customs officials from both countries, the laborers cross the windy and...

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Two Pakistani migrants suffer burns as they try to enter Channel Tunnel

Two Pakistani migrants suffer burns as they try to enter Channel Tunnel LILLE: Three migrants trying to smuggle their way into the Channel Tunnel to reach Britain were burnt by an electric shock, one seriously, local French authorities said on Tuesday. The men from Afghanistan and Pakistan were trying to get onto a train overnight on Monday at the entrance to the tunnel near the northern French port city of Calais when they were hit by an electric...

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Civilian govts, undemocratic forces conspiring to snatch Karachi from MQM: Altaf Hussain : Latest News , Pakistan News Today

Civilian Govt.s, undemocratic forces conspiring to snatch Karachi from MQM: Altaf Hussain LONDON/LAHORE: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain accused "civilian governments and undemocratic forces" of "joining hands to employ legal and illegal tactics to snatch Karachi away from the MQM", according to a statement° posted on the party's website. The remarks were made in a telephonic address to MQM Punjab President Senator Mian Ateeq...

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Track-II means back-channel engagement, says Aziz : Latest News , Pakistan News Today.

Track-II means back-channel engagement, says Aziz ISLAMABAD: Surprisingly the governments of Pakistan and India are confusing the planned Track-II dialogue with back-channel contacts. Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz, while talking to Dawn on Tuesday, confirmed that Track-II dialogue he mentioned in his media briefing a day earlier was actually a plan for back-channel engagement. Mr Aziz had at...

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N-deal throws open new avenues for Pakistan : Latest News , Pakistan News Today.

N-deal throws open new avenues for Pakistan   ISLAMABAD: Pakistan welcomed on Tuesday the historic deal between Iran and world powers on Tehran's controversial nuclear program and called for expeditious implementation of the pact. "I think it is very good progress in that direction and from our point of view we have a large number of possibilities of energy, Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and a number of other projects which were affected...

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Kolkata's Writers' Building refit plagued by problems  KOLKATA: It was home to the army of colonial bureaucrats who ran India, so it was perhaps inev-itable that the original 18th-century plans for Kolkata's Writers' Building would be found buried under reams of paperwork. "We even wrote to the British Library in the hope that some of the drawings might have been preserved there," says architect Madhumita Roy as she talks through some of...

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PTI questions election of 'defaulter' Sharif brothers : Latest News , Pakistan News Today.

PTI questions election of 'defaulter' Sharif brothers  By Dawn News Reporter   LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman's political adviser Ejaz Chaudhry has asked how the Sharif brothers contested general elections 2013 when they were loan defaulters. He said that Shahbaz Sharif had claimed that the Sharif family settled Rs5.22 billion loans, mark-up, cost of fund and other charges by December 2014. In a statement issued here...

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NAB staff perturbed over onslaught : Latest News Pakistan News Today

NAB staff perturbed over onslaught  Ex-employee for probe into authority's affairs By Zulqernain Tahir  LAHORE: Some officials of the National Accountability Bureau believe the PML-N government may use the same tactics the PPP did to stop it from pursuing 'high profile' cases. However, a former employee says a judicial oversight committee should be constituted to investigate NAB's 'dubious affairs' since 2008. The NAB has come under...

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Pakistan, India set to revive Track II dialogue  Kashmir and other outstanding issues will be taken up for discussion By Baqir Sajjad Syed  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are set to revive their Track-II dialogue for discussions on Kashmir and other outstanding issues. "The two sides have agreed to revive flack-II dialogue to explore ways of resolving issues that have been lingering on for a long time and need to be resolved in order...

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