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NATIONAL

The US State Department in a statement lent support to Nawaz Sharif’s government, saying “an elected government is in place”.

ISLAMABAD

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif refuses to resign in ‘national interest’Claims clear majority of political parties support govt while no one supports ‘extra-constitutional agenda’ of PTI and

NATIONAL

LAHORE-On Pakistan’s 68th Independence Day, anti-government drives by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) headed towards Islamabad to protest against alleged electora

KARACHI

The city was saved from a great disaster as a bomb weighing 10 kilogram was timely detected in a rickshaw and defused by the bomb disposal squad (BDS) in Orangi Town of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/18/rickshaw-carrying-10kg-of-explosives-seized/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

*PTI chief announces ‘civil disobedience movement’, gives two-day ultimatum to Nawaz Sharif to tender resignation failing which PTI workers will storm Prime Minister’s House, Parliament *Urges people not to pay their taxes<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/18/skipper-decides-to-be-obediently-disobedient/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France due to meet in Berlin Ten civilians killed in Donetsk shelling Pro-Russia rebels shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet on Sunday, before Kiev and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/17/ukrainian-fighter-plane-shot-down-by-pro-russia-rebels/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

A Pakistani delegation to negotiate the return of $200 billion from Swiss Bank will be in Switzerland on 26th of August, 2014. The delegation will consist of secretary finance, chairman FBR and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/17/pak-delegation-to-negotiate-for-return-of-200b-from-26th/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Palestinian negotiator optimistic about lasting truce as Hamas spokesperson says agreement only possible if Israeli side accepts all demands of unified Palestinian delegation Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are set to resume indirect<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/17/israel-palestine-to-resume-talks-for-permanent-truce/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Hundred of activists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)’s Aman Jirga (peace committee) Sunday staged a protest rally against the Israeli aggression in Palestine and in favor of Palestinian Muslims. The rally was led<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/17/aman-jirga-holds-anti-israel-protest-rally-in-mardan/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

Korea has shown keen interest in building the second shipyard in Pakistan.Federal Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain along with Additional Secretary Major General Raza Muhammad a

Foreign

Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, officials said on Saturday. Jihadists from the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/08/16/jihadists-kill-dozens-in-north-iraq-massacre/" title="Read more" >...</a>