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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1974: Fifty Years Ago: No cause for alarm

PARACHINAR (Kurram Agency): Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today [July 15] Pakistan may consider India’s...

Published 16 Jul, 2024 09:01am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1949: Seventy-five years ago: Pir disqualified

KARACHI: Pir Illahi Bakhsh, the Sind premier, having been found guilty of corrupt practices by the Election ...

Published 05 Feb, 2024 10:19am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1948: Seventy-five years ago: Trail of destruction

TRARKHAL [AJK]: The Indian Army has suffered one of its worst set-backs in Kashmir in the Mendhar Valley. Indian...

Published 04 Jul, 2023 08:04am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1948: Seventy-five years ago: Liaquat’s charge-sheet

THE Government of the Indian Union were accused of planning destruction of the State of Pakistan by the Prime...

Published 04 Jan, 2023 07:02am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1947: Seventy-five years ago: Refugees massacred

“THE Government of Pakistan regret to have to announce that a Muslim evacuee special [train] was attacked at...

Published 25 Sep, 2022 04:07am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Indira greets Bhutto

SIMLA: President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was welcomed by a smiling Mrs Indira Gandhi, as he arrived in a sunbathed Simla...

Published 29 Jun, 2022 08:39am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Indians for Simla success

NEW DELHI: An ordinary Indian is as keen on the success of the forthcoming summit talks between India and Pakistan...

Published 27 Jun, 2022 08:50pm

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: ML to be lifted

ISLAMABAD: The President and Chief Martial Law Administrator, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, today [April 14] made a dramatic...

Published 15 Apr, 2022 07:43am

From The past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Language issue in NA

SANGHAR: President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today [March 31] denounced the self-seeking elements who, he said, were...

Published 01 Apr, 2022 07:30am

Much needs to be done to improve LGs’ performance, says minister

LARKANA: Sindh Minister for Information and Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the performance ...

Published 24 Jan, 2021 06:43am

SSP intervenes to get matter solved, restore services

SUKKUR: A special bench of the Sindh High Court at Sukkur has fixed April 22 for issuing its order on the bail...

Published 18 Apr, 2020 06:17am

Khuhro sees conspiracy behind his exit from polls

LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh chapter president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said a conspiracy is afoot to keep ...

Published 08 Jul, 2018 07:14am

Private schools’ students win Shangla speech contest

SHANGLA: Students of private schools outclassed their peers from government-run schools in a bilingual declamation...

Published 16 May, 2018 05:44am

BLF’s boycott of newspapers ends

All press clubs in the province open after remaining closed for nearly three months.

Updated 21 Jan, 2018 09:05am

Solar energy panels given to Kaghan village

MANSEHRA: The Rabt Development Organisation, working for the uplift of marginalised segments of society, has ...

Published 28 Oct, 2017 07:14am

Drizzle brings long-awaited chill

LAHORE: A day-long cloud cover and drizzle in the late afternoon put winter in full swing in the city on Friday,...

Published 07 Jan, 2017 07:06am

Fog again disrupts rail, air traffic

LAHORE: Dense fog continued to disrupt rail, road and air traffic in the plains of Punjab and adjoining Sindh on...

Published 31 Dec, 2016 07:14am

Ex-IGPs join the fray

LAHORE: Former IGPs say the Punjab bureaucracy is bent upon assuming ‘illegal’ control over the police....

Published 30 Dec, 2016 08:02am

45 flights disrupted as fog descends on Punjab, Sindh

LAHORE: Dense fog descended on the plains of Punjab and Sindh on Saturday, disrupting air, road and rail traffic and...

Updated 26 Dec, 2016 08:16am

Man killed, 33 hurt in fog-related incidents

LAHORE: One person died and 33 others were injured in accidents on roads covered by dense fog that continued to...

Published 14 Dec, 2016 06:48am