
LONDON:U.S. and Afghan officials have slammed Britain’s intelligence service for allowing an impostor to hold talks with high-level members of NATO and Afghanistan’s government. The London Times reports that the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) paid a man they believed to be Akthar Mohammad Mansour — a former aviation minister in the pre-2001 Taliban government, [...]
November 27, 2010 | Posted in
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LAHORE: Misbah-ul-Haq, the middle-order batsman, has been appointed captain of Pakistan’s Test side a day after he was recalled to the squad. Misbah, who was axed following the winless tour of Australia in 2009-10, is Pakistan’s fourth Test captain this year. Shahid Afridi remains the captain of the ODI and Twenty20 squads. Pakistan had announced [...]
October 8, 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON: US funds for private security contractors in Afghanistan have flowed to warlords and Taliban insurgents, undermining the war effort and fueling corruption, according to a Senate report issued Thursday. The investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the government had failed to vet or manage those hired to provide security under contracts [...]
October 8, 2010 | Posted in
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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to refrain from comments on the country’s atomic programme. The court had called for a reply from the federal government on a petition challenging the alleged restriction on the movement of the nuclear scientist in violation of the court order. The court was [...]

NEW DELHI: Interpol notified its members on Thursday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pakistani citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an official said. India asked Interpol to issue the so-called ”red corner notices” for the five Pakistanis, said R.K. Gaur, a spokesman for India’s [...]

RAWALPINDI: Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani has ordered an inquiry into an internet video showing men in military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes. In a statement, General Kayani said a military board headed by a Major General would conduct the investigation to determine the authenticity of the five-and-a-half minute video. Emphasising [...]

KARACHI: Police stepped up patrols in Karachi on Friday to try and prevent renewed violence after angry mobs rampaged through the city in the aftermath of a suicide attack on a Sufi shrine that left eight dead and 65 injured. The attack by two suicide bombers on the shrine was a stark reminder of the [...]
October 8, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: Pakistan Today, an English daily headed by Arif Nizami, the former editor of The Nation, has launched in Lahore and is preparing to launch in Karachi. It has joined the growing list of English dailies the public now has to choose from. Amidst rumours about its style and substance, there is genuine curiosity about [...]
October 8, 2010 | Posted in
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PARIS: France is to probe allegations of kickbacks on arms deals with Pakistan used to fund political campaigns following a suit lodged by relatives of French engineers killed in a 2002 Karachi bombing. Investigating magistrate Renaud van Ruymbeke is to probe allegations that a company set up with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval channelled money from [...]
October 7, 2010 | Posted in
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On October 1, the Swiss Parliament passed the historic “Return of Illicit Assets Act” (RIAA)-a significant law that will make it possible for many developing countries, like Pakistan to recover the billions of dollars shifted to the Alpine state by unscrupulous individuals and companies. The rent-seekers and beneficiaries of loan write-offs in Pakistan have shifted [...]
October 7, 2010 | Posted in
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LAHORE: Six months after he got married, suspended Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif, who is implicated in the spot-fixing scandal, has finally brought his wife home. The bride, Sana Hilal, and Asif’s ‘rukhsati’ ceremony took place six months after their ‘nikah’ due to the pacer’s commitments with the Pakistan team. “It is a relief to finally [...]
October 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Below is a shocking recoded audio call apparently did in the last month between number two of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistan and America’s most wanted man in Pakistan. Hamid Mir is seen talking to the guy and convincing him that Khalid Khawaja is a qadyani (Ahmadi) and is a CIA agent and is worst than [...]
May 15, 2010 | Posted in
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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
April 16, 2010 | Posted in
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As many as 736 prisoners undergoing jail terms in various prisons have been freed while over 3,200 convicts benefited
April 15, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
April 14, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
April 14, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
April 14, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
April 14, 2010 | Posted in
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