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A briefing session for the resident Diplomatic Missions in Islamabad on the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) was convened by the Foreign Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Govern...

Pakistanis are angry about a sudden increase in their electricity bills. In daily protests that began in late August, people are demanding the government take back the new charges that have made electricity almost unaffordable for many. VOA’s Pakistan ...

Mainly hot and humid weather is expected over most plain areas of the country during the next twelve hours.Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning:Islamabad and Muzaffarabad twenty-four degree centigrade, Karachi twenty-seven, Lahore th...

A three-day 23rd largest IT and Telecom exhibition of the country ITCN- Asia kicked off at the Expo Center in Karachi on Thursday.Caretaker Federal Minister for IT and Telecom Dr. Umar Saif inaugurated the exhibition.Our Karachi correspondent reports ...

A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle has targeted a security convoy in northwest Pakistan, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 20 others, the military and three security officials said, a sign of increasing militant violence.The attack happ...

Pakistani officials said Thursday that a “motorcycle-borne” suicide bomber struck a military convoy in a remote northwestern region, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding several others.The deadly attack occurred in the Bannu district of Khyber P...

A journalist who reports for VOA's Deewa Service was held in custody overnight in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley.Police late Wednesday arrested Fayaz Zafar and took him to a district jail on accusations that he "exploits freedom of speech," including o...