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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »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 »
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 »
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 »
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...
Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »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...
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