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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed on Sunday said that the government was under no threat from army, judiciary and mid-term elections, but if there was any threat, it was from poor governance and corruption.
Speaking to media in Lahore, he said that President Zardari was following the policy of ‘Khedaan ge na [...]
LAHORE/PERTH: Iqbal Qasim, the chief selector of Pakistan cricket team, has tendered his resignation in the wake of the team’s dismal performance in Australia.
Dashing the hopes of a British win in over seven decades, Swiss legend Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) to win the 2010 Australian Open Men’s title on Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Sydney Sunday.
This was 28-year-old Federer’s fourth Australian Open crown and 16th Grand Slam title. Federer had defeated Murray in [...]
MELBOURNE: Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Leander Paes of India won the Australian Open mixed doubles title Sunday, defeating Russian Ekaterina Makarova and Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5 6-3.
Laes led the top-seeded pair Sunday with a dominant presence at the net and quick footwork. Paes, from India, and Black, from Zimbabwe, won their second Grand Slam [...]
ISLAMABAD: Official sources have confirmed the death reports of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Hakeemullah Mehsud at Orakzai Agency today.
According to sources, Hakeemullah was seriously injured in a US drone attack and and could not survive. Sources confirmed that he was buried at Tehsil Mamozai.
The pre-dawn attack in Shaktoi area on Friday, 15th January this year [...]
BERLIN: Heavy snow and high winds have caused traffic chaos across Germany with at least three deaths reported and many injuries nationwide.
Conditions closed some motorways and caused long traffic jams on many others.
North Rhine-Westphalia, which includes the cities of Cologne and Dusseldorf, recorded 300 accidents on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Public transport in some areas [...]
BERLIN: Pakistan should be more closely involved in solving the Afghan conflict, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview due to be published on Sunday.
“There will be no peace in this region unless Pakistan carries its share of responsibility,” Merkel told German weekly Welt am Sonntag.
Faced with an insurgency by indigenous Taliban [...]
PESHAWAR: Peshawar police claimed to have apprehended 5 terrorists involved in 45 bomb blasts in different parts of
KARACHI: At least eight persons — six alone in Qasba Colony and its neighbouring Orangi Town area — were killed on Saturday, apparently as fallout of a late-night armed clash between two political parties in the ruling coalition, paralysing life and forcing a business shutdown in the vicinity.
The latest wave of violence served as a [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been deliberately keeping its stance on the president’s immunity vague
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday did not rule out the possibility of direct talks between US officials and Taliban leaders but warned that such speculations at this stage were not useful.
In an interview to Bloomberg Radio, the chief US diplomat separated the process of reintegration with that of reconciliation, saying that [...]
MIRALI: Suspected US missiles hit a compound and a bunker in Pakistan’s volatile tribal region, killing nine militants as part of an unprecedented wave of strikes since a deadly attack against the CIA across the border in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
Three missiles targeted Taliban militants early Saturday in the Mohammad Khel area of North Waziristan, [...]
NEW YORK: In an attempt to prove that Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist on trial for attempted murder, was lying, the prosecution on Friday brought in a surprise witness to show that she knew how to handle a gun.
Gary Woodsworth, an instructor of the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club in Massachusetts, testified that Ms Siddiqui [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate standing committee on Industries and Production on Friday asked the government to privatise Pakistan Steel Mills for a turnaround and reduce burden on the national economy.
The members of the committee said that PSM has become a bottomless pit and the recent borrowing of Rs10.3bn by the government for the revival of PSM [...]
MELBOURNE: Defending champion and top seed Serena Williams won her fifth Australian Open title when she beat a brave Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 on Saturday.
Williams won a tight first set then had to hold off a charging Henin to deny the Belgian a fairytale ending to her tennis comeback in a thrilling two hours [...]
TEHRAN: Iran put on trial on Saturday 16 anti-government protesters, including two women, who were arrested on the Shiite mourning day of Ashura, a local news agency reported.
Five of the defendants are accused of being mohareb (enemies of God) and corrupt on earth, both crimes punishable by death under the Iranian legal system, which is [...]
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel yesterday of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai — a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was a key to the continuing [...]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the country’s special forces have carried out a number of assassinations of Palestinian militants in the past and have also been blamed for killings which the Jewish state has never publicly taken responsibility for.
In addition, the army and air force have carried out so-called ‘targeted killings’ of numerous Palestinian leaders [...]
Accountability is the mother of democracy. Pakistan’s democracy is on trial and — for democracy’s sake — no democrat ought to be let free to slay the progenitor. Transparency is a precondition to democratic governance —individual as well collective transparency. Democracy is all about responsibility — individual as well collective responsibility.
For way too long the [...]
The national assembly session was prorogued on Friday after passing 10 bills. Not a bad job for a ten-day sitting. Having said that however, it appeared comical when the House also passed a bill related to the establishment of an Institute of Space Technology. A space technology institute? when we have yet to get our [...]
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
