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The UN probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has hit a road block as the government denied access to the incumbent Army Chief and other top serving military generals for interrogation.
The UN had appointed a three-member inquiry commission to determine the facts and circumstances under which Bhutto was assassinated on December [...]
MUMBAI: Believe it or not but Katrina Kaif will be left jobless after completing Prakash Jha’s ‘Rajneeti’. The gorgeous beauty has no projects at hand and she has reportedly been calling up directors and producers to sign her in their films. According to sources, the actress who has been giving hits is suddenly without work [...]
NEW YORK: Recession and climate change worries may have dominated 2009, but the year will also be remembered for some-high-profile sex tape scandals.
This year`s cast of characters ranges from a champ golfer to California`s most embarrassed fifth grade teacher.
The top ten list has its share of politicians, beauty queens, porn stars and athletes, but also [...]
MUMBAI: Three Oscars, collaborations with Hollywood studios, a doctorate for Shah Rukh Khan and many more – the Indian entertainment industry made its mark on the global arena in 2009. Now it is set to move forward with international projects like ‘Kites’ and ‘My Name Is Khan’ and Grammy nominations for A.R. Rahman and Amjad [...]
MUMBAI: John Abraham and Smita Thackeray have come together for a mission – to eradicate AIDS. The ‘I Pledge’ campaign of Smita Thackeray-helmed Mukti Foundation took off with actor John Abraham as the face of the campaign.
“When it comes to eradicating HIV/AIDS, it is the attitude that makes the difference,” says Smita Thackeray.
Considering that more [...]
LONDON: Never before has Europe’s monetary union seemed so fragile, With Greece teetering, the worst may not be over for Europe.
Day by day, fears are growing that Greece or another weak country may default on its sovereign debt obligations, forcing the richer countries in Europe to ride to the rescue or risk having one or [...]
NEW YORK: For two hours on Wednesday, Times Square morphed into a militarized zone as the police swarmed an unoccupied van with blacked out windows and no license plates parked in an area set aside for Thursday’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
Officials said that nothing harmful was found in the van. But the scare illustrated the [...]
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing.
The electronic intercepts were [...]
KABUL: A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest killed at least eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to NATO officials and former American intelligence officials.
The attack at the C.I.A. base, Forward Operating Base Chapman, in Khost Province appeared to be the single deadliest [...]
LAHORE: With the help of intelligence agencies, police have captured Khalilullah, the Punjab chief of the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and a young man trained for suicide bombing.
Khalil, who was said to be the right hand of late Baitullah Mehsud, allegedly masterminded the twin suicide bombings at Iqbal Town’s crowded Moon Market.
Police found explosive material and [...]
LAHORE: The Senate Standing Committee on Culture and Tourism discussed matters pertaining to the film industry during a meeting at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal here on Wednesday.
Chairperson of the Committee Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar chaired the meeting, which was attended by Senator Jahangir Badar, Rehana Yahya Baloch, Sabina Rauf, Gulshan Saeed, Chairman Censor Board Barrister Malik Shahnawaz Noon, [...]
Although, the December 31, 2009 deadline given by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the panel investigating Benazir Bhutto’s murder is expiring on Thursday (today), the former Pakistani premier continues to feature in the list of 20 unfortunate heads of government or state in the last 500 years, whose murders either remain unsolved [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly has decided to reopen the case of what has been described as the biggest-ever ‘misuse’ of military land worth billions of rupees, condoned by former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in 2008.
Many attempts were made in the past to regularise commercialisation of A-Lands (lands allocated for [...]
KABUL: American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed.
Western military sources said [...]
کراچی…کالعدم تحریک طالبان نے کراچی دھماکے کی ذمہ داری قبول کر لی ہے۔ غیر ملکی خبررساں ادارے کے مطابق تحریک کے کمانڈر عصمت اللہ شاہین نے ادارے کو بتایا کہ دھماکا تحریک طالبان نے کیا ہے۔
گوادر…انیس سال کے بعد متفقہ قومی مالیاتی کمیشن ایوارڈ پر دست خط کردیئے گئے ہیں ۔ وزیر اعظم اور چاروں وزرائے اعلی ٰ نے اسے تاریخی موقع اور جمہوریت کا ثمر قرار دیتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ صوبوں نے پاکستان کی یک جہتی و استحکام کے لئے اتحاد و اتفاق کا بے مثال مظاہرہ کیا [...]
DURBAN: Graeme Swann finished with 5-54 as England beat South Africa by an innings and 98 runs in the second Test to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
With the hosts 76-6 overnight, England needed only four more wickets to seal victory on the final day in Durban.
Swann took the first with his fifth [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in Karachi, and threatened more attacks.
“My group claims responsibility for the Karachi attack and we will carry out more such attacks, within 10 days,” Asmatullah Shaheen, one of the commanders of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, who [...]
WASHINGTON: U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official [...]
GWADAR: The Chief Ministers of four provinces signed today the historic 7th National Finance Commission Award, marking a great step forward to the strengthening of the federation.
The ceremony at Gwadar, in Balochistan province, was witnessed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and members of his cabinet.
The venue was specially chosen to reflect the desire of [...]
Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup
Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation
Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan
PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
