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KARACHI

Just two days after the Sindh cabinet rejected the federal government’s decision to extend the Sindh Rangers’ policing powers, the government issued a notification providing legal cover to paramilitary force to exercise<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/27/centre-issues-notification-extending-sindh-rangers-policing-powers/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Scud ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, according to a statement on the Saudi state news agency SPA, an attack which threatens a fragile ceasefire<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/27/saudi-arabia-intercepts-ballistic-missile-from-yemen-spa/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

The Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB) has embarked upon an ambitious plan to enhance the energy mix up to 20-25 per cent by adding 3000-3500 megawatt wind-based electricity to the national grid<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/27/3500-mw-wind-energy-to-be-added-to-national-grid-by-2018/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Umer Daudzai, a former ambassador to Pakistan, and a leading opposition figure in Afghanistan, opposes Ghani’s strategy of including Pakistan in peace talks with the Taliban, saying Islamabad wants to control the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/27/afghan-opposition-critical-of-ghani-for-including-pakistan-in-peace-talks/" title="Read more" >...</a>

LAHORE

The suspects may be presented in court on Monday

Arts / Entertainment

COURTESY CNN In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people were infected by tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization. Potentially fatal — 1.5 million died from it the same year — it<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/27/how-animals-can-give-you-tuberculosis/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sports

One of the curiosities of Dale Steyn's magnificent career is that his Test record against England is comfortably the worst - albeit that's a relative term - of the opposition he has faced. A

Arts / Entertainment

COURTESY the Independent An herbal tea containing the leaves used to make cocaine has been on sale in Italy shops for years, it has emerged. The discovery was made after a 38-year<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/26/italy-was-selling-cocaine-tea-by-mistake-for-years/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

Developing viable energy resources or utilizing alternative energy resources, could help overcome electricity shortage in the country. Focusing on short and long term plans to meet the energy crisis through alternative resources<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/26/utilizing-alternate-energy-resources-to-help-address-power-shortage-issues/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Uncategorized

Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn copies of the Holy Quran on the French island of Corsica Friday, police said, following a night of violence that left two<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/26/protesters-ransack-muslim-prayer-hall-on-french-island/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

The weekly inflation for the week ended on December 23 for the combined income group witnessed decrease of 0.07 percent as compared to the previous week. The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/26/spi-based-weekly-inflation-eases-0-07/" title="Read more" >...</a>