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9 killed in Gojra riots

9 killed in Gojra riots

GOJRA (PPI/Reuters/AFP) - At least nine people were killed in armed clash between two groups and police firing on the mob here on Saturday. An angry mob marched towards a village of rival community in Tehsil Gojra District Toba Tek Singh where fierce clashes erupted between the two groups. At least ...


International News
Tehran starts moderates' trial for post-vote unrest

Tehran starts moderates' trial for post-vote unrest

TEHRAN (Reuters) - About 100 leading Iranian reformists went on trial on Saturday, accused of trying to topple the clerical establishment by orchestrating mass protests after the disputed ...

3 Americans held in Iran

3 Americans held in Iran

Peace will be main task after poll: Karzai

Peace will be main task after poll: Karzai

Sports News
Nirupama Rao new Indian Foreign Secy

Nirupama Rao new Indian Foreign Secy

NEW DELHI (APP) - Nirupama Rao, a senior diplomat took over the charge of new Indian Foreign Secretary on Saturday succeeding Shivshankar Menon, who retired on Friday. In a statement on assuming the ...

Spineless Pakistan continue love affair with defeats

Spineless Pakistan continue love affair with defeats

Pakistan says bookies' case reported to ICC

Pakistan says bookies' case reported to ICC

Entertainment News
State-of-the-art space image

State-of-the-art space image

IT looks like a catastrophic explosion in the latest sci-fi action thriller but this awe-inspiring image is actually based on the latest state-of-the-art space imaging. The artists impression, ...

Barrymore obsessed with dolphins

Barrymore obsessed with dolphins

Salma Hayek 'jealous of Aniston'

Salma Hayek 'jealous of Aniston'

Business News
Private sector credit off-take decline 95.58pc

Private sector credit off-take decline 95.58pc

KARACHI - The YoY growth in the private sector credit off-take by the scheduled banks witnessed a massive decline of 95.58 per cent during FY09 while credit to public sectors enterprises (PSEs) ...

5th Build Asia Exhibition inaugurated

5th Build Asia Exhibition inaugurated

Manufacturers term 'incentive' as eyewash

Manufacturers term 'incentive' as eyewash

Regional News

Boys excel in Matriculation examination

LAHORE - Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Lahore, Saturday announced the result of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) annual examination 2009 with overall pass percentage of 61.99. Seven ...

Position-holders honoured with awards

LAHORE - Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore distributed different prizes to the students who secured positions in the matriculation (SSC) annual examinations 2009 on ...

LHC short of judges after SC judgment

LAHORE - Following the Supreme Courts verdict Lahore High Court is facing acute shortage of judges that has brought judicial work to halt at its three territorial benches. Only nine judges would ...

Member AIMC board beats up senior medic

LAHORE - A senior member of the Board of Management (BoM) of Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC)/Jinnah Hospital attacked a professor of medicine with his walking stick on Saturday. The violent and ...

5 marla plots for teachers on excellent performance

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that teachers should fulfill their responsibilities for equipping new generation with education and the government will resolve all ...

City receives downpour

LAHORE - The City received downpour on Saturday, bringing the life to a standstill as the rainwater inundated on roads not only in low-lying areas but also in several posh localities. Lahore received ...

Kaira seeks media help to fight terrorism

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira, while and urging media, intelligentsia and students to play their due role in eliminating terrorism, has said the ...

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Death toll 21; more casualties feared

KARACHI - The death toll has reached to 21 including 9 women in Friday nights building collapse in Kharadar, while many people are still under the debris due to the slow pace of rescue work. Total ...

Russian Centre screens 'The Art of Betrayal'

KARACHI - Russian Centre of Science and Cultural screened a documentary film regarding the War in South Ossetia at Friendship House on Friday. The name of film is The Art of Betrayal with the ...

Educationist Reaz Ahmed to be long remembered

KARACHI - There is no doubt that the real heroes and the men of crisis of Pakistani nation are mostly remained out-screened but played decisive role in building the nation and also to put it out of ...

Probe into building collapse demanded

KARACHI (PPI) - Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister, Ms Sharmila Faruqui paid a visit to the site of building collapse at Meetha Dar here Saturday and sought immediate payment of compensation for victim ...

MQM worker among four dead in Karachi

KARACHI - An activist of the Punjabi-Pakhtoon Organising Committee of MQM was shot dead in an incident of target killing near his home located at Sheet No 27 in the limits of Model Colony police ...

Plunging into darkness

In a recent 'In Focus program on a private TV channel, the issue under discussion had been The Power Crisis. I had watched the program and was surprised and shocked when former senators Enver Beg of ...

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Plan to shift brick kilns from Capital

ISLAMABAD - Government is planning to constitute an enforcement committee for relocating smoke-emitting brick kilns from the Federal Capital aimed to make the residential areas pollution-free, ...

RBISE announces SSC results

RAWALPINDI - Boys outsmarted girls by clinching overall first three top positions in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual Examination 2009 held under the auspicious of Rawalpindi Board of ...

Citizens demand removal of check posts from 7th, 9th Avenues

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Police check points at 7th and 9th Avenues established for security reasons have irked the citizens, working class and the motorists of the federal capital who have urged the ...

'Education govt's top priority'

RAWALPINDI - The provincial government has increased 60 percent budgetary allocations in education sector as compared to that allocated in the previous regime, as the Punjab government had announced ...

Delegation of literary figures visit Heritage Museum

ISLAMABAD (APP) - An official delegation comprising renowned writers and intellectuals visited Lok Virsa Heritage Museum (Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology) here. Coordinated by Pakistan Academy ...

12 outlaw arrested, weapons recovered

ISLAMABAD - City police have arrested 12 accused involved in theft, selling of narcotics and keeping weapons and recovered 350 gram hashish, stolen property amounting to Rs 4,800, 8 tins of liquor, ...

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