News Desk

NATIONAL

Pakistan might be willing to allow future drone launches, provided it is given substantial control over drone activities and targets, said former director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Counterterrorism Center Robert<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/23/pakistan-may-allow-drone-strikes-if-given-control-over-campaign-ex-cia-official/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

A mass rally by the Thai opposition is being held in Bangkok on Sunday in a bid to bring down the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. A turnout of hundreds of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/22/thai-opposition-holds-mass-rally/" title="Read more" >...</a>

ISLAMABAD

Sasta Sahulat Bazars have helped in controlling price hike and providing relief to the citizens in Punjab said Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab. The minister said solid steps taken<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/22/minister-believes-sasta-sahulat-bazars-helped-in-controlling-price-hike/" title="Read more" >...</a>

ISLAMABAD

Smugglers on Islamabad Motorway attacked custom authorities and abducted a deputy superintendent and his assistant. Later, they released the aide but the superintendent is still reported to be in thei

PTI sit-in against inflation

Foreign

China has condemned Japan’s new national security strategy and has  accused Japan of military expansion, according to the state’s news agency. Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in a statement that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/21/china-condemns-japanese-military-strategy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Talks with President Salva Kiir have been termed “productive” by the  African intermediaries trying to turn away civil war in South Sudan. On Friday, President Kiir met foreign ministers from Ethiopia, Djibouti,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/21/south-sudan-talks-with-kiir-productive-say-mediators/" title="Read more" >...</a>

LAHORE

Colorful events including kite flying at Changa Manga Forest Park to be part of festival Member National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and Provincial Minister for Sports & Youth Affai

Foreign

International negotiators have reached a deadlock on whether or not to invite Iran for peace talks over the Syrian conflict, according to the UN-Arab League envoy. Lakhdar Brahimi stated that United States<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/21/geneva-ii-us-not-convinced-to-include-iran-for-peace-talks-on-syria/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will be facing his third criminal trial - over his breakout from prison in 2011.Morsi and 132 others, including members of Hamas, will be defending a trial

Gunmen kill anti-polio worker in Khyber Agency

Foreign

A US judge in Utah, USA ruled that the state’s ban on gay unions is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Shelby ruled a voter-passed 2004 ban violates the same-sex couples’ rights to equal protection.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/12/21/court-unbans-gay-marriage-in-utahusa/" title="Read more" >...</a>