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Pakistan’s former military regime failed to protect ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto despite knowing of numerous threats against her shortly before her assassination
As many as 736 prisoners undergoing jail terms in various prisons have been freed while over 3,200 convicts benefited
JERUSALEM: A disgraced senior Palestinian official at the centre of a sex tape scandal claims he was entrapped and says he has not abused his position. Rafiq Husseini, who also holds British citizenship, was dismissed last week as President Mahmoud Abbas’s chief of staff at the end of a long-running scandal. He was shown in [...]
BANGKOK: The Thai prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, is under increasing pressure to resign after the country’s electoral commission ordered his ruling Democrat party be dissolved for accepting illegal donations. The decision – which comes days after the worst political violence in a generation – is a blow to the beleaguered Abhisit, and further complicates Thailand’s [...]
BISHKEK: A top U.S. diplomat arrived for talks with Kyrgyzstan’s interim leaders on Wednesday about defusing a crisis in the Central Asian country, where Washington rents an air base to back its war effort in Afghanistan. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose government has close ties with the interim leaders and sees Kyrgyzstan as part of [...]
LAHORE: Additional Sessions judge on Tuesday ordered Ghalib Market SHO to proceed under the law on the application of film and TV actress Veena Malik seeking registration of an FIR against cricketer Muhammad Asif. In a similar development, a civil judge has restrained Veena Malik from using the disputed cheques for initiation of legal proceedings [...]
ISLAMABAD: A Petition has been filed with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking restoration of Nawaz Sharif government which was dissolved on October, 12, 1999. The petitioner had taken the plea in his application that following the declaration of all the steps taken by former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf as unconstitutional and illegal by [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Sharif brothers have finally appointed the officer they wanted to be as their Chief of the Army Staff in 1999, Gen Ziauddin Butt as the Chairman of the Punjab Chief Minister’s Inspection Team. A senior official of the Punjab government confirmed the appointment to The Statesmen and said that the hassle-free job suits [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has directed the Ministry of petroleum to file a complete record by April 14 regarding a 25 billion dollar Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) scam. A three- member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ch. Ijaz Ahmed, and Justice Ghulam Rabbani Rabbani gave the directives while hearing [...]
WASHINGTON: Without naming Pakistan’s A Q Khan operation, India on Tuesday reminded the world of the dangers of “clandestine proliferation networks” and asked the world to join hands to combat trafficking of nuclear materials. “Clandestine proliferation networks have flourished and led to insecurity for all, including and especially for India,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [...]
Pakistan has said that it has acquired advanced nuclear fuel cycle capability and can offer it to the rest of the world under
HYDERABAD: After the high-voltage run-up to what’s being called the wedding of the season, tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik took their wedding vows in a simple ceremony before a select gathering of family and friends on Monday afternoon. The groom placed a sparkling solitaire on the bride’s ring finger to seal [...]
ROME: At least nine people were killed and 30 injured when a landslide derailed a train in northern Italy. Rescue officials said the train was struck as it was travelling near the city of Merano, close to the Austrian border, just after 9am (7am GMT) on Monday. Italian television reports said up to 20 people [...]
WARSAW: Language problems between Russian air traffic controllers and Polish pilots, and pressure from high-ranking plane passengers, may have contributed to the crash on Saturday in which 96 people – including the Polish president – were killed, it was revealed today. The Russian air traffic controller Pavel Plusnin – who was the last person to [...]
ABBOTTABAD: Seven people were killed and over 100 sustained injuries on Monday when police used force to break up a protest here against the renaming of NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The peaceful headquarters of Hazara division turned into a battlefield when the police used batons and fired teargas shells to disperse protesters who fought back with [...]
BEIJING: The death toll from the earthquake in a remote part of western China rose to 617, with 66 students and 10 teachers dying in school collapses that echo the country’s last major quake in 2008. Thousands of survivors battled freezing temperatures overnight with scant shelter after a 6.9-magnitude temblor flattened the town of Jiegu in [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan Monday urged non-discriminatory access to civil nuclear technology to meet the country’s exponentially growing
KARACHI: The frustration of the people intensifies as the hours of loadshedding increases throughout the country. Protests against prolonged and unscheduled power outages continued throughout the country on Monday. In Hyderabad, a rally was taken out by members of a business association as protesters blocked the main Jinnah roundabout. Residents of Multan also took to [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan yesterday came under increased pressure over its nuclear arsenal when a Harvard study warned of “a very real possibility” that its warheads could be stolen by terrorists. The rising concern about poorly-guarded nuclear weapons and material was the subject of an extraordinary two-day summit which began in Washington yesterday. Last night, Ukraine became [...]
MUMBAI: There has been speculation about Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram and actress Sushmita Sen ever since they hosted a reality show together on television around two years ago. What’s cooking between Wasim Akram and Sushmita Sen? At that time Akram’s marriage to Huma was going strong. But after her untimely demise in October last [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
