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Five Pakistani men seized ‘days before the planned terror attacks in Britain’

Five Pakistani men seized ‘days before the planned terror attacks in Britain’ »

LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday. A...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
100s Held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown amid anniversary of bloody riots in 2008

100s Held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown amid anniversary of bloody riots in 2008 »

LHASA: Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008. The authorities are anxious to avoid a...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Seven arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist

Seven arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist »

DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Irish police said four men and three women were...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Dubai accuses Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad of ‘vast falsification’ of passports

Dubai accuses Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad of ‘vast falsification’ of passports »

DUBAI: Dubai’s police chief has accused Israel of “vast falsification” of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader’s murder in the emirate. “I ring alarm bells. Israel is falsifying Western...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »

SOUTH ASIA

British child recovered; infant kidnapped in Pindi for ransom »

British child recovered; infant kidnapped in Pindi for ransom

RAWALPINDI: Police in Pakistan have dismissed reports that British boy who was kidnapped last week has been released. Five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed was seized by an...

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Extremists may trigger a nuclear war in South Asia: USA »

Extremists may trigger a nuclear war in South Asia: USA

WASHINGTON: The United States continues to worry that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, RSS, VHP & Bajrang Dal can cause a war between India and Pakistan, a...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Target killing: Son of Ahle Sunnat chief shot dead in Karachi »

Target killing: Son of Ahle Sunnat chief shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI: In yet another incident of target killing, also sectarian in nature, the son of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Chief, Maulana Ghafoor has been shot dead...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Pak envoy to Syria sacks teacher on defiance, exposing truth »

Pak envoy to Syria sacks teacher on defiance, exposing truth

ISLAMABAD: The Syrian lady teacher of the Pakistan International School of Damascus (PISOD), who went public against the Pakistani ambassador to Syria, has been...

Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »

PML-N bags Lahore seat in NA-123 by-polls with thrashing lead »

PML-N bags Lahore seat in NA-123 by-polls with thrashing lead

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N won the by-polls for NA-123 in Lahore and PP-82 in Jhang, while PML-Z secured PP-284 in Bahawalnagar after polling...

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Judges get hefty raise in salary, allowances in poor Pakistan »

Judges get hefty raise in salary, allowances in poor Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari today approved a 30 per cent increase in the salary and allowances of judges of the apex...

Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »

CULTURE

Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant »

Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant

JUAREZ: Cecilia Juarez, 22, incarcerated for drug trafficking, was crowned Miss Captive Beauty 2010 during a pageant for the women inmates at the Cereso prison in Juarez. Municipal authorities organized the pageant, dubbed “Belleza Cautiva,” or captive beauty, as part of the International Day of the...

Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Low-budget Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” sweeps Oscars & makes history »

Low-budget Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” sweeps Oscars & makes history

LOS ANGELES: Kathryn Bigelow battled her way into Oscar history books on Sunday, topping her movie’s best film honor with her own Academy Award for directing to become the first woman ever to earn that distinction, reports Reuters. The low-budget film, which has earned $20 million...

Mar 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Hollywood star & Oscar hopeful Sandra Bullock crowned ‘Worst Actress of 2009′ »

Hollywood star & Oscar hopeful Sandra Bullock crowned ‘Worst Actress of 2009′

LOS ANGELES: Sandra Bullock has earned a few honors in Hollywood, “America’s Sweetheart” among them, and on Saturday she was crowned with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009, one day before she’s favored to win an Oscar. Bullock, whose drama “The Blind Side” has...

Mar 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Daniyal Mueenuddin wins the Story Prize for short fiction in New York »

Daniyal Mueenuddin wins the Story Prize for short fiction in New York

NEW YORK: Writer Daniyal Mueenuddin won the Story Prize for short fiction on Wednesday for “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” a compendium of eight interconnected short stories set in the 1980s amid feudal lands in southern Pakistan. Mueenuddin, a former lawyer who lives in London and...

Mar 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Sir Ben Kingsley becomes the first Oscar-winner to appear in a Bollywood film »

Sir Ben Kingsley becomes the first Oscar-winner to appear in a Bollywood film

MUMBAI: Sir Ben Kingsley will complete a unique cinematic round-trip today, becoming the first Oscar-winner to appear in a Bollywood film nearly three decades after playing Gandhi propelled him to global fame. The British actor, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the father...

Feb 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

SPORTS

Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup »

Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World CupLAHORE: Test cricketers Abdul Razzaq and Salman Butt are in race to win captainship of national cricket team for T20 World Cup. All-rounder Abdul Razzaq has...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection »

PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selectionLAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely for behaviour they...

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Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined »

Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily finedLAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday slapped banned and imposed heavy fines on a number of its top...

Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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ASIA PACIFIC

100s Held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown amid anniversary of bloody riots in 2008

100s Held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown amid anniversary of bloody riots in 2008

LHASA: Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008. The authorities are anxious to...

Mar 10, 2010 / More » The alleged mastermind behind 2002 Bali bombings Dulmatin ‘killed in shoot-out’

The alleged mastermind behind 2002 Bali bombings Dulmatin ‘killed in shoot-out’

JAKARTA: The alleged mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings is believed to have been killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police on the outskirts of Jakarta today. Dulmatin, nicknamed “the Genius”, was an explosives...

Mar 9, 2010 / More »

EUROPE

Five Pakistani men seized ‘days before the planned terror attacks in Britain’

Five Pakistani men seized ‘days before the planned terror attacks in Britain’

LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was...

Mar 10, 2010 / More » Seven arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist

Seven arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist

DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Irish police said four men and three...

Mar 10, 2010 / More »

AMERICAS

US Vice President Joe Biden pledges full support to Israel against Iran

US Vice President Joe Biden pledges full support to Israel against Iran

OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: US Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank , assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from...

Mar 9, 2010 / More » 9/11 conspiracy theorist shot dead; John Patrick Bedell believed US govt staged 9/11

9/11 conspiracy theorist shot dead; John Patrick Bedell believed US govt staged 9/11

WASHINGTON: The 36-year-old California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. Internet postings linked to the...

Mar 6, 2010 / More »

MIDDLE EAST

Dubai accuses Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad of ‘vast falsification’ of passports

Dubai accuses Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad of ‘vast falsification’ of passports

DUBAI: Dubai’s police chief has accused Israel of “vast falsification” of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader’s murder in the emirate. “I ring alarm bells. Israel is...

Mar 10, 2010 / More » September 11, 2001 attacks on United States a ‘big lie’: Mahmud Ahmadinejad

September 11, 2001 attacks on United States a ‘big lie’: Mahmud Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN: Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday dismissed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as a “big lie,” state media reported. Ahmadinejad has on several occasions questioned the accepted version of...

Mar 7, 2010 / More »

CULTURE

Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant

Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant

JUAREZ: Cecilia Juarez, 22, incarcerated for drug trafficking, was crowned Miss Captive Beauty 2010 during a pageant for the women inmates at the Cereso prison in Juarez. Municipal authorities organized the pageant, dubbed “Belleza...

Mar 9, 2010 / More » Low-budget Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” sweeps Oscars & makes history

Low-budget Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” sweeps Oscars & makes history

LOS ANGELES: Kathryn Bigelow battled her way into Oscar history books on Sunday, topping her movie’s best film honor with her own Academy Award for directing to become the first woman ever to...

Mar 8, 2010 / More »

SPORTS

Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup

Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup

LAHORE: Test cricketers Abdul Razzaq and Salman Butt are in race to win captainship of national cricket team for T20 World Cup. All-rounder Abdul Razzaq has appeared to be a strong contender for this...

Mar 11, 2010 / More » PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection

PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely for behaviour they...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

COLUMNISTS' VIEWS

Meaningful change: The creation of ignorance and Pakistani media

Meaningful change: The creation of ignorance and Pakistani media

There can be no doubt that the past seven years, since private media channels went on air in late 2002, have created a kind of revolution in the country. Never before in the history...

Mar 11, 2010 / More » Politicians surrender the policy control and initiative on all key issues to The Establishment

Politicians surrender the policy control and initiative on all key issues to The Establishment

With the fairly substantive and meaningful shake-up in the top hierarchy of the Pakistan Army now complete, the key issue of Lt Gen Shuja Pasha continuing as the ISI head being the last...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

ECONOMY

Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation

Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation

ISLAMABAD: The country has seen a massive 36.3 per cent inflation since the present government came to power in 2008, with prices of two basic commodities, wheat flour and sugar, rising by 83...

Mar 11, 2010 / More » Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan

Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: With its receivables rising beyond Rs105 billion, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) needs at least Rs57 billion between now and April 28 to avoid default on international payments for oil imports and ensure...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »
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