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Blast in Tirah mosque kills 30

Blast in Tirah mosque kills 30

PESHAWAR - At least 30 worshippers were killed and over 100 others got injured when a powerful bomb exploded inside a mosque in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday. Sources informed that some 150 worshippers were offering Zohr prayers inside the mosque at the time of the explosion. The ...


International News
Iran has begun enrichment at higher levels: IAEA

Iran has begun enrichment at higher levels: IAEA

VIENNA (AFP) - Iran has started enriching uranium at higher levels, according to a new restricted UN atomic watchdog report obtained by AFP. Iran provided the (International Atomic Energy) Agency ...

Man crashes plane into Texas building

Man crashes plane into Texas building

Passenger jet diverted after bomb threat

Passenger jet diverted after bomb threat

Entertainment News
JK Rowling rejects Harry Potter plagiarism claims

JK Rowling rejects Harry Potter plagiarism claims

JK Rowling has hit out at plagiarism claims against her Harry Potter series as 'unfounded and 'absurd. On Wednesday the multi-millionaire writer was named in a lawsuit claiming she stole ideas for ...

Americans are 'most attractive' people in the world, poll finds

Americans are 'most attractive' people in the world, poll finds

Happiness wards off heart disease

Happiness wards off heart disease

Business News
MOL resumes exploration from Dallan

MOL resumes exploration from Dallan

PESHAWAR (APP) - MOL Pakistan, a Hungarian oil and gas exploration company is all set to resume exploration of gas from Manzalai-III from Friday, while Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) would ...

RCCI criticises PR for fixing container rates

RCCI criticises PR for fixing container rates

Samba Bank to issue right shares

Samba Bank to issue right shares

Regional News

Punjab govt mulling to send reminder to governor

LAHORE The Punjab government is considering to send a reminder to Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer with respect to signing Punjab Local Government Bill, so that administrators could be appointed in ...

Air Force can face all challenges: Rao

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Air Force on Thursday achieved another major milestone when first squadron of indigenously manufactured JF-17 Thunder formally joined its fighter aircraft fleet. The first JF-17 ...

Speedy justice must for good governance, says CJ

ISLAMABAD Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that a country cannot claim to have good governance without providing easy, affordable, speedy and impartial justice to the people. The ...

PBC transfers harassment victim

ISLAMABAD In what can be termed as a frustrated move of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), its top management has transferred Senior Producer PBC Anila Saleem from Lahore to Faisalabad ...

UK women rally today in favour of Aafia

LONDON Hundreds of Muslim women from across the UK are to gather outside the Pakistan Embassy in London on Friday (today) to protest against the horrific kidnap, abuse and sham trial of Dr Aafia ...

Journalists walkout from Parliament

ISLAMABAD Journalists, Thursday, staged walkout from the National Assembly and Senate proceedings against the murder of a journalist Ashiq Ali Mangi in Sindh. Minister of State for Information and ...

India's buildup plan against China

ISLAMABAD (APP) Taking the concept of a two front war with Pakistan and China a step further, India has launched an ambitious military buildup plan along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) ...

Spring festivity sans kite-flying starts from March

LAHORE - The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has announced to celebrate Jashn-e-Baharan from March 1-14, excluding the event of kite flying, in the City. The festival was to be celebrated from ...

Pune blast probe 'smokescreen of propaganda'

LAHORE - Analysts and experts on Indo-Pak relations on Thursday said due to the strong opposition of Hindu hardliners to resume the composite dialogue, Indian media and New Delhi have started ...

Muslims should unite like EU: Shahbaz

LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan and Iran are brotherly Islamic countries bound together in strong religious, cultural and linguistic ties. He said joys and ...

Cut-throat contest between Qaddus, Khawaja in Bar polls

LAHORE - Lawyers of the Lahore High Court predict a cutthroat contest between Mian Abdul Qaddus and Khawaja Mehmood Ahmed for the slot of LHCBA President in the bars annual elections 2010 scheduled ...

Cracks appear in Qaumi Tajir Ittehad

LAHORE - The traders and shopkeepers of the City will observe shutter down on Friday (today) against skyrocketing increase in the prices of petrol, gas, CNG and electricity tariffs by the government. ...

'Free media, parliament can promote good governance'

LAHORE - Former chief secretary Punjab AZK Sherdil has said that independent media, parliament and civil society can play a crucial role in the effective monitoring of government performance to ...

Shoaib dreams of captaincy before hanging his shoes

LAHORE Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who is always in the news for controversial reasons, still dreams of captaining the national squad, though he has not played any international cricket for more than ...

POA meets to discuss Pakistan SA Games performance

LAHORE The general council of the Pakistan Olympics Association met here Thursday and discussed the Pakistan players performance in the recently-held South Asian Games in Bangladesh. The meeting ...

All Lahore News

400 City villages to be regularised

KARACHI - The government will regularize all the 400 villages fall under the purview of Goth Abad Scheme of Sindh Revenue Department, however ownership documents to be handed over to the villagers ...

PA passes Public-Private Partnership Bill 2010

KARACHI - If a brief verbal spate between a PPP legislator and an angry MQM minister at the floor of the Sindh Assembly on Thursday is any indication of things to come, it looks the coalition ...

Judgment reserved in Durrani case

KARACHI - Accountability Court on Thursday reserved the judgment on National Accountably Bureau (NAB) corruption reference against Sindh Local Government (LG) Minister Agha Siraj Durrani, till March ...

Growing mistrust between patients, doctors regretted

KARACHI - Pakistan Society of Anaesthesiologists (PSA) has registered its deep concerns about growing trust deficit between public, patients and doctors. Dr Amin Suleiman, President of PSA Karachi ...

Eid Milad arrangements reviewed

LARKANA - District Co-ordination Officer(DCO) Larkana Syed Hassan Naqvi presided over a meeting regarding to finalize the arrangements regarding the celebration of Eid Milad-u-Nabi (PBUH) (12th ...

Road encroachment by car dealers major cause of gridlock

KARACHI (PPI) - Illegal encroachment of car showroom owners, who routinely park their vehicles in double and triple lanes on roads and pavements, is one of the major causes of crippling traffic jams ...

RBS Cup: Sharyar, Azam steer Karachi Dolphins to victory

KARACHI Sharyar Ghanis fiery 86 in 76 balls and four-wicket haul from spinner Azam Hussain gave Karachi Dolphins easy 45 runs win over Hyderabad Hawks in the fifth round match of the RBS National ...

All Karachi News

A glorious facade

ISLAMABAD Tanzara Gallery, Thursday, exhibited the solo show of Karachi-based artist, AQ Arif, whose breath-taking pieces of art are in harmony with his soil. Initially, his paintings focusing ...

FDE finally nods to release hiring for employees

ISLAMABAD After the involvement of the Supreme Court and strike threats by the employees of Federal Directorate of Education the Finances Ministry has at last approved the release of paltry amount ...

Fun-starved Islooites demand cinema in Capital

ISLAMABAD (Online) The movie-loving people of the federal capital have no place to go for enjoying movies at big cinema screens as there exists not a single cinema in the Capital city of the ...

Monitoring of hospitals urged

ISLAMABAD (APP) Citizens have asked the high-ups of Ministry of Health to hold surprise visits to government hospitals in the federal capital to monitor the services being provided to the ...

Swindlers deprive two persons of cash

ISLAMABAD Gangs of swindlers deprived two persons of cash in two separate incidents occurred at the branches of the Standard Chartered Bank and UBL in the city, police said on Thursday. In the first ...

'Kids in transport sector exposed to sex'

ISLAMABAD Speakers on Thursday urged the government to allocate resources for implementation of the National Plan of Action against commercial sexual exploitation of children in the transport sector ...

India retain top spot in ICC Test rankings

ISLAMABAD India have retained the number-one spot in the ICC Test rankings after winning the Kolkata Test by an innings and 58 runs that has helped them to draw their two-Test series with South ...

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