News Desk

Foreign

US intelligence launched a fake vaccination drive in the Pakistan town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an effort to gather DNA from members of his family, the Guardian<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/us-ran-fake-vaccine-project-in-hunt-for-bin-laden-report/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

The government has given go ahead to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to conduct feasibility study for the import of 4500 MW from the Central Asian states to overcome the

Political unrest in Karachi continued to weigh down upon the local bourse for a fourth consecutive trading session. Volumes were restricted to 31.6 million shares as the index nosedived 98 points to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/political-unrest-weighs-down-on-karachi-stock-exchange/" title="Read more" >...</a>

LAHORE

Directing the Health Department officials to launch an anti-mosquito and fogging campaign, Punjab Health Secretary Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan said that the campaign should be directly monitored by the district coordination officers (DCOs).<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/health-department-to-initiate-anti-mosquito-campaign/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination of President Hamid Karzai’s younger brother on Tuesday, calling it “one of our biggest achievements” in nearly a decade of war. Taliban spokesman Usuf Ahmadi<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/taliban-claim-assassination-of-karzai-brother/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

At least 15 persons were burnt alive while several others were injured as a passenger bus caught fire after a CNG cylinder blast here on Tuesday, police said. The incident occurred near<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/15-burnt-alive-as-bus-catches-fire-in-islamabad/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Iraq has renewed talks to buy up to 36 US F-16 fighter jets in a deal worth billions that Washington hopes will help contain neighboring Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/iraq-in-talks-to-buy-us-fighter-jets-report/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The Cantt judicial magistrate on Monday sent sevens people, including Dr Hanif, Nadeem, Imran, Mushtaq, Sagheer, Mubashir and Ali involved in an illegal business of human organs transplant to jail on

The body parts of suicide bomber, who targeted PML-Q’s procession, have been dispatched from Peshawar to Islamabad laboratory for DNA test, here on Tuesday. At least eight persons have been killed and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/12/body-parts-of-battagram-suicide-bomber-sent-for-dna-test/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

If the 60-member provincial cabinet of mostly Baloch ministers, an all-powerful, multi-layered security apparatus and a sprawling bureaucracy of mostly Baloch people cannot come out with a healing touch for the troubled<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/11/the-balochistan-quagmire-where-does-the-answer-lie-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Following the footsteps of the PPP-led coalition government which restored the commissionerate system in Sindh, the Punjab government is also bracing to revive the old administrative structure in the province. Sources in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/11/punjab-bracing-for-old-administrative-structure/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Rescue teams pulled bodies and survivors Monday from the wreckage of two Indian passenger trains that derailed in separate incidents over the weekend, leaving 63 dead and 200 injured. Nearly a dozen<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/11/india-train-death-toll-rises-to-53/" title="Read more" >...</a>