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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 armed gang while staying with relatives in Jhelum (Pakistan) last week.
Punjab’s Law Minister, Rana Sanaullah has been reported as saying the boy was found on Wednesday and has been handed over [...]
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 senior US military commander told a congressional panel on Wednesday.
Lt-Gen Francis Kearney, deputy commander, US Special Operations Command, told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that while the United States was [...]
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 in Nazimabad, Karachi on Thursday, police officials said.
Maulana Ghafoor himself is also said to be in critical condition.
Maulana Ghafoor was on his way to the court in the morning when two [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Syrian lady teacher of the Pakistan International School of Damascus (PISOD), who went public against the Pakistani ambassador to Syria, has been shown the door, on the pretext that she had jeopardised Syria-Pakistan relations by damaging the reputation of the school.
Ms Manal Suleman, the only teacher in Syria who conducts biology practicals for [...]
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 for the three seats was completed in a peaceful manner on Wednesday.
Although PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had replaced himself with Pervaiz Malik for the NA seat in Lahore, the electoral fight [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari today approved a 30 per cent increase in the salary and allowances of judges of the apex
ISLAMABAD: While the Supreme Court has taken note of how the convicted FIA officer Ahmed Riaz Sheikh got a top job, the NAB is treating him with velvet gloves and has not yet reopened his case although he enjoys no immunity like his friend President Asif Zardari.
As cases of all other NRO beneficiaries have been [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government has given eight days to the Federal Investigation Agency to submit a first report on alleged corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills and asked it to identify the people who had caused immense losses to the country’s largest industrial unit.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Tuesday in pursuance of [...]
KARACHI: District government has been unable to start construction work of a flyover on Shahra-e-Faisal for more than three months now. The delay in construction is not due to lack of funds, but because of a house belonging to president Zardari.
Officials at the district government say that the chief minister of Sindh has ordered to [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has given a one-year extension in service to Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to allow him to complete his tenure as three-star general and, more importantly, as head of the country’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Sources told our correspondent a summary for Lt. [...]
NEW DELHI: Socialist lawmakers forced India’s parliament to adjourn twice Tuesday as they tried for a second day to block passage of a historic bill to increase the number of female lawmakers across the country.
On Monday, angry legislators in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, rushed to the chairman’s seat as he presided over [...]
NEW DELHI: United Nations report claims that Asia is “missing” about 96 million women — the vast majority in China and India
KARACHI: An American captured in Pakistan this week and accused of being a key spokesman for al-Qaeda was wrongly identified as Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist organisation, Pakistani officials admitted today.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as Mr Gadahn, who was born in Oregon and is [...]
COLOMBO: India’s external intelligence agency tried to undermine Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse at polls in January & wanted him defeated, a minister
WASHINGTON: The US general who oversees the Afghan war has acknowledged that Pakistan has a reason to be concerned about its lack of strategic depth.
In two television interviews this weekend, Gen. David Petraeus also said that the Pakistani “security forces, have put a lot of short sticks into a lot of hornets’ nests over the [...]
NASEERABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court of Naseerabad/ Jaferabad sentenced four accused life in prison and fined a lakh each on Tuesday.
The incident of the women being buried alive occurred two years back in Goth Gorang in a remote village, the Baba Kot, 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district.
These women were buried alive for [...]
LAHORE: The Supreme Court has been informed by the Ministry of Defence following a high-level inquiry that former President Pervez Musharraf was responsible for causing millions of rupees loss to the national exchequer by compelling senior government officials to purchase land for the New Islamabad International Airport (NIIA) at inflated rates. Having conducted a lengthy [...]
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court’s Justice Javed Iqbal termed the corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills as the massive dacoity in the national history.
Also, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been exempted from appearing before the court.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal heard the case relating corruption in the PSM.
On this occasion, [...]
ISLAMABAD: The ambassador to Syria, after appointing his kith and kin at the Pakistan International School in Damascus (PISD), has turned rough on the teacher who went vocal against him in the media and has issued a show-cause notice to her.
But Ms Manal Suleman, the only teacher in Syria who conducts biology practical for senior [...]
LAHORE: A car bomb explosion killed at least 14 people and injured 61 others near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in Model Town, Lahore on Monday.
“Eleven people have been killed and several others injured in a suicide car bombing, which took place near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in [...]
4 Time champions Pakistan ends Hockey World Cup ranked last
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
