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Urea prices to increase by Rs 35 per 50kg bag Staff Report KARACHI: Urea prices are likely to be increased by Rs 35 to Rs 1,705 per 50 kilogrammes bag due to changes in general sales tax rate and collection mechanism, analysts said on Tuesday.

A Pakistani girl was killed on Wednesday when Indian troops opened fire across the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, officials said.

Pakistani authorities have closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 people.

A Pakistani lawmaker who allegedly wore a very expensive watch during a session of the National Assembly has sparked an outcry over the huge wealth gap in a country reeling with massive poverty.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague speak to the media after their private bilateral meeting on June 12, 2013, in the Treaty Room of the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

Pune, June 18 : Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday said India is concerned about terror groups operating from Pakistan and Islamabad must initiate strong action against such groups in order to improve bilateral ties.

Pakistan's Punjab province government has allocated over Rs 61 million in its budget for fiscal 2013-14 for the largest centre of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the parent body of banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD's centre known as 'Markaz-e-Taiba', the ... (more)

Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities said.

At least 20 people including a member of provincial assembly were killed and over 50 others injured in a bomb blast that hit a funeral gathering in Pakistan's northwestern district of Mardan on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local media and officials.

The spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Yousufzai, says the bombing in the city of Mardan on Tuesday also wounded 50 people.

The women's university at the centre of Saturday's deadly twin attacks in the Pakistani city of Quetta has been shut down until further notice.

Islamabad, June 17 : A provincial leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz allegedly slapped a bus hostess for not serving water swiftly and later had her arrested for making death threat.

A rescue worker and security official collect evidence from a burned bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, June 15, 2013.

A series of bombs planted by militant nationalists in southwestern Pakistan have destroyed the 19th-century residence of the country's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah .

Teaching to read the Qu'ran text online is booming, with many firms setting up as online instructors, prompting fears about radicalisation.

Fourteen female students were killed when a bus bomb exploded in Pakistan Saturday-just eight months after Malala Yousafzai nearly died in a similar incident.

Police in Pakistan have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a senior public prosecutor who was investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto .

More and more measles patients continued to approach public sector hospitals in the province for treatment, enhancing burden on already overloaded health facilities facing severe shortage of necessary drugs.

Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people.

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Sunday the army in coordination with the navy and air force is fully configured and prepared to thwart any military aggression against the country.