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SSP chief death triggers riots

August 18, 2009
SSP chief death triggers riots

KHAIRPUR/KARACHI - The chief of a banned outfit Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan, an offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Allama Ali Sher Haideri was shot dead in Khairpur in the wee hours of Monday. The killing sparked riots in interior Sindh and Karachi, in which two protesters were killed and ...

US lures Pakistan away from gasline

US lures Pakistan away from gasline

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Asking to stay away from Iranian gas pipeline for enhanced American energy cooperation, the Washington left Islamabad ...

Singh's remarks annoy Islamabad

Singh's remarks annoy Islamabad

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Monday expressed its serious concern over the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs remarks that possible ...

International
Mass rallies on last campaign day for Afghan poll

Mass rallies on last campaign day for Afghan poll

August 18, 2009

KABUL (AFP) - Top candidates in the Afghan presidential race addressed rallies attended by thousands of cheering supporters on ...

Donkeys bring ballot boxes to mountains

Donkeys bring ballot boxes to mountains

August 18, 2009

BABA ALI, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghan officials dispatched donkey trains laden with ballot boxes and voting papers into the ...

10 candidates drop out of presidential race

10 candidates drop out of presidential race

August 18, 2009

ABUL (AFP) - Ten candidates have dropped out of Afghanistans presidential race, leaving around 30 in the fray as campaigning ...

Israel causing 'human dignity crisis' in Gaza: UN

August 18, 2009

UNITED NATIONS - Israels three years of Gaza blockade has triggered a protracted human dignity crisis, with negative humanitarian ...

Iraqi cabinet okays referendum bill

August 18, 2009

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqs cabinet endorsed a bill requiring a referendum be held on the Baghdad-Washington security accord that calls ...

Asia faces food shortage without water reform: UN

August 18, 2009

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Asia could face chronic food shortages and social unrest if the region fails to improve its management of water ...

Ex-wife 'confesses' to Kuwait wedding blaze

August 18, 2009

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait wedding party that turned into tragedy when a fierce fire engulfed a ...

Russia power plant accident kills eight

August 18, 2009

MOSCOW (AFP) - A sudden flood at Russias largest hydroelectric plant Monday killed at least eight people and left dozens missing ...

Insecurity hobbles Afghan vote preparations

August 18, 2009

KABUL (AFP) - Insecurity has handicapped preparations for Afghanistans key elections this week, with officials unable to confirm ...

Iran arrests protesters

August 18, 2009

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian police on Monday arrested demonstrators outside the newspaper offices of an opposition leader under fire ...

Jankovic downs Safina to capture Cincy title

August 18, 2009

CINCINNATI (Ohio) (AFP) - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic boosted her US Open hopes with a brisk 6-4, 6-2 victory over world number one ...

Lee delivers Ashes reminder

August 18, 2009

LONDON (AFP) - Brett Lee boosted his chances of playing in the Ashes decider with a three-wicket haul as Australia beat England ...

Lightning Bolt strikes again to smash 100m record

August 18, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) - BERLIN (AFP) - Jamaican Usain Bolt added the world crown to his Olympic title as he scorched to victory in a world ...

Bolt inspires Robles in hunt for world hurdles title

August 18, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) - Cuban Dayron Robles will take inspiration from Usain Bolt's world record-breaking performance in the 100m when he ...

Kiwi Vili digs deep to defend world shot putt crown

August 18, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) - New Zealand's Valerie Vili retained her shot putt title here on Sunday at the world athletics championships. The ...

Ennis wins Britain's first-ever heptathlon gold

August 18, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) - Britain's Jessica Ennis won her country's first-ever world heptathlon title here on Sunday after dominating the ...

Radcliffe wins but refuses to commit to marathon

August 18, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) - Britain's 2005 marathon world champion Paula Radcliffe won the New York half marathon on Sunday but revealed in a ...

Business
Govt to surrender $49.217m to WB

Govt to surrender $49.217m to WB

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Pakistan government has planned to surrender $49.217 million surplus amount of fund to the World Bank from the revised ...

Banking system's NPLs surge Rs19b

Banking system's NPLs surge Rs19b

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Total volume of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) of the banking sector has increased by Rs 19 billion during second quarter ...

Foreign investment falls by 12pc to $195.6 million

Foreign investment falls by 12pc to $195.6 million

August 18, 2009

KARACHI (Reuters) - Net foreign investment in Pakistan fell 12 percent to $195.6 million in the first month of the 2009/10 fiscal ...

Leather policy demanded

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - Exports of leather sector can get five times boost to cross the figure of $ 5 billion if the government announces ...

KSE sheds 78 points as SBP rate cut disappoints investors

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Selling pressure grabbed the bourse on Monday and the stocks fell nearly one per cent after the SBP announced on ...

Oil prices slump as equities slide

August 18, 2009

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices sank on Monday, extending heavy pre-weekend losses and mirroring slumping stock markets as traders eyed ...

Call to boost Pak-Ukraine trade ties

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Ukrainian Ambassador in Pakistan Ihor Pasko has urged the Pakistani business community to make concrete efforts to ...

Depleting PNSC fleet puts seamen future in jeopardy

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Some 7,500 seamen are at the dearth of financial constraints as Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) will be ...

Business promotion essential to reduce unemployment

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), Altaf Muhammad Saleem has said that the ...

Japan limps out of recession

August 18, 2009

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan on Monday became the latest major economy to escape from recession, lifting hopes that a fledgling global ...

Politics
Gilani a powerful PM, says Zardari

Gilani a powerful PM, says Zardari

August 18, 2009

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Yousuf Raza Gilani is a powerful Prime Minister, and reports that PPPs popularity graph ...

Talks likely with moderate Taliban

Talks likely with moderate Taliban

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities and the Special US Envoy, Richard Holbrooke, have discussed the prospects of dialogue with the ...

Govt again seeks drone technology

Govt again seeks drone technology

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has welcomed US President Obamas initiative to form a joint task force for ...

No sugarcane crushing if crackdown not halted: millers

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - Sugar Mills Association Punjab Zone Chairman Javed Kiyani has said that sugar mills owners will not reduce the sugar ...

Moodys ups Pak rating

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Pakistans credit rating outlook was lifted to stable from negative by Moodys Investors Service on Monday, which quoted ...

Obama to chair FoDP moot

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - US President Barack Obama will preside over the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) moot being held in New York on ...

Seven perish in Charsadda car blast

August 18, 2009

WAJID ALI AFRIDI and IBRAHIM KHAN KHAIL CHARSADDA - At least seven persons were killed and nine others got injured due to a bomb ...

Ministers brother-in-law gunned down in Quetta

August 18, 2009

QUETTA-Unidentified gunmen killed three people including a doctor, a man and his son and injured another in Quetta in two ...

'Lawyers' unity helped restore free judiciary'

August 18, 2009

NEW YORK - Pakistani lawyers succeeded in their long struggle to restore independent judiciary because of the complete unity in ...

Afghan war 'worth fighting

August 18, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Monday called the conflict in Afghanistan a war worth fighting as public support for the ...

UN warns of food shortages

August 18, 2009

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations experts are warning of a possible food shortage in Pakistans northwest following widespread ...

President to decide LG system fate: PM

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday reiterated that President Asif Ali Zardari had the final word on the ...

Charity sues UK govt over rendition of 2 Pakistanis

August 18, 2009

LONDON (AFP) - A British legal charity is suing the British government over the rendition of terror suspects from Iraq to ...

Humayun's PML-Q membership cancelled

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Monday cancelled the basic party membership of like-minded groups leader ...

Isaf chief lauds Pak Army's role

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Host of issues came under discussion between the visiting ISAF commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, ...

20 dead in Russia suicide bombing

August 18, 2009

NAZRAN, Russia, (AFP) - A truck packed with explosives rammed through the gates of a police compound in southern Russia on ...

Terror war ruined world peace, Fazl tells Holbrooke

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Monday said that he had made it clear to the US Special ...

Mehsud aide arrested

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Capital police have arrested two alleged terrorists involved in various suicide attacks and terrorist activities in ...

FIA to probe Benazir murder

August 18, 2009

RAWALPINDI (Online) - The federal govt has issued orders for initiating a probe into the brutal assassination of Benazir Bhutto. ...

3 terrorists held

August 18, 2009

QUETTA - Law enforcement agencies on Monday arrested three suspected terrorists and recovered explosives and a hand grenade from ...

Punjab bans inter-province flour supply

August 18, 2009

Punjab government has banned inter-province supply of wheat and flour in order to stop flow of subsidised wheat and flour, ...

Kabul rapped over Dostum return

August 18, 2009

KABUL (AFP) - The United States expressed serious concern to the Afghan government on Monday over the return of a feared warlord ...

India arrests 9 Pakistani fishermen

August 18, 2009

NEW DELHI (PPI) - Nine Pakistani fishermen were arrested and their boat was seized by Indian police from Sir Creek international ...

Entertainment
Kristen Stewart escapes the paps

Kristen Stewart escapes the paps

August 18, 2009

KRISTEN Stewart goes to extreme measures to avoid the paparazzi - she switches cars in underground car parks. The Twilight star ...

Im a changed woman: Fergie

Im a changed woman: Fergie

August 18, 2009

BLACK EYED Peas star Fergie says shes a changed woman after marrying Josh Duhamel earlier this year. The Boom Boom Pow hitmaker ...

Lopez doesnt feel the need to make music

Lopez doesnt feel the need to make music

August 18, 2009

JENNIFER Lopez is in no rush to release another album. The singer - who gave birth to twins Max and Emme in February last year - ...

Alien debut lands box office gold

August 18, 2009

A FILM about extra terrestrials by a first-time director and a cast of unknowns has topped the US box office. District 9, ...

DNA 'organises itself on silicon

August 18, 2009

SHAPES of DNA have been used to enhance the production of circuits for next-generation computer chips. Researchers reporting in ...

Underwater cage in Maldives offers hope for worlds coral reefs

August 18, 2009

An underwater cage used to propagate coral in the Maldives is offering hope for the worlds threatened reefs. The 40ft-long flower ...

Islamabad
Body to monitor food items prices activated

Body to monitor food items prices activated

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABADIslamabad Capital Territory Administration has fixed the prices of food items for the holly month of Ramadan. The rates ...

Garbage site defies judicial order

Garbage site defies judicial order

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The garbage site in Sector H-10 still exists causing health hazards for the residents including those of G-10 ...

Probe into removing deserving youth names from list starts

Probe into removing deserving youth names from list starts

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Youth Affairs is conducting inquiry to probe into the matter of favouritism in removing the names of ...

Tom, Dick and Harry

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - Shah Sharahbeels play Tom, Dick and Harry had a packed audience doing complete justice to the term 'laugh out loud, ...

Tourism Ministry to hold exhibition on Islamic museums

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Ministry of Tourism is planning to organise an exhibition with regard to Islamic museums, showcasing the rare ...

Prices of 22 daily use items surge ahead of Ramazan

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - The prices of as many as 22 daily commodities have surged even before the advent of the holy month of Ramazan, ...

PTF cancels affiliation of Balochistan, PIA

August 18, 2009

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) has terminated the affiliation of PIA over non-payment of annual subscription ...

National
Junior boxer Ali dies in festival match

Junior boxer Ali dies in festival match

August 18, 2009

HYDERABAD (APP) - Ali Haider, a junior boxer and nephew of Olympian Asghar Ali lost his life during fight in a festival match ...

Karachi
Provinces asked to utilise all resources

Provinces asked to utilise all resources

August 18, 2009

KARACHI (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari Monday called for strengthening of forest monitoring system to stop illegal cutting of ...

SHC grants bail to minister in murder case

SHC grants bail to minister in murder case

August 18, 2009

KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh High Court Monday granted protective bail in sum of Rs 100,000 to Balochistan Minister for Communication & ...

Labour policy only after consent of stakeholders

Labour policy only after consent of stakeholders

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Labour, Amir Nawab Khan, has said that the government is keen to formulate a policy with the consent ...

Jatropha plant a substitute to diesel

August 18, 2009

KARACHI - When country is going to observe National Tree Day on August 18 (today) across the country, Pakistan Army has already ...

DCOs asked to check price-hike

August 18, 2009

KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh Minister for Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Engineer Mohammad Rafique has directed all DCOs of the ...

CM condemns Haideri killing

August 18, 2009

Karachi (PPI) - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Monday strongly condemned the killing of noted religious leader Ali Sher ...

Lahore
Miandad advises seniors to take rest

Miandad advises seniors to take rest

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain and batting maestro Javed Miandad has advised the senior players having a bad patch to take rest ...

Sugar vanishes from retail market

Sugar vanishes from retail market

August 18, 2009

LAHORE-The sugar has disappeared from the retail market in the aftermath of the government crackdown against the hoarders as ...

Kazakh girl arrested for rumpus on road

Kazakh girl arrested for rumpus on road

August 18, 2009

LAHORE-Johar Town police, in the wee hours of Monday, arrested a drunk girl,Amalia, who belongs to Kazakhstan and a Karachi based ...

Govt granted 15 days to file reply in Aafia's case

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday granted more time to the federal government to file its reply on a petition seeking ...

SC relieves victim of peeri-murdi dispute

August 18, 2009

LAHORE- A matter about recovery of arsh amount as diyat emanated from a dispute over gaddi nasheeni came before the Supreme Court ...

Bar opposes reappointment of PCO judges

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Bar Association through a unanimous resolution has strongly opposed an idea to pick some of the ...

LDA Enforcement Directorate back to life

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - The Directorate of Enforcement of the LDA, which had been made defunct last month, is going to get new leaf of life as a ...

Successful operation big achievement of Army: Shahbaz

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that successful military operation in Malakand, Swat and Dir is a ...

PU to establish two schools for Swat affectees

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - Vice-Chancellor Punjab University Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that the university will establish two schools for ...

Artists depict nature in art

August 18, 2009

LAHORE - The artist aimed to introduce the most vibrant work using the techniques of oil and light colour in their art pieces on ...

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