Friday, 24 May, 2013
NOWSHERA/PESHAWAR - At least seven persons were killed and 30 others injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded outside the venue of a public meeting of Awami National Party (ANP) in Nowshera.Those who died in Monday’s bombing near the city’s government high school in cantonment ...
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani inaugurated Prime Minister’s ...
KARACHI – Oscar-winning director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s mother Saba ...
LAHORE – The Punjab government is fully prepared to deal with any outbreak of ...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank will extend an assistance of upto $5.5 billion from FY ...
NOWSHERA/PESHAWAR - At least seven persons were killed and 30 others injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded outside the venue of a public meeting of Awami National Party (ANP) in ...
NEW YORK - Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy blazed onto world stage when her documentary “Saving Face” about acid attack victims won an Oscar award at the lavish Academy Awards ...
SANAA (AFP) - Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down after 33 years at the helm on Monday, making him the fourth veteran Arab leader to fall in a year of mass pro-democracy demonstrations that have rocked the region.Standing before a crowd of parliamentarians, tribal leaders and foreign ...
WASHINGTON - A student at an Ohio high school opened fire in the cafeteria early Monday as children prepared for class, injuring five classmates before fleeing and then turning himself in, police said. One report said at least three of those hurt were in critical condition following the ...
FAWAZ TURKIConsider the case of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian political prisoner held in jail by the Zionist occupation authorities without charge and without any semblance of due process since mid-December.Adnan, 33, had gone on a hunger strike for 11 weeks to protest his incarceration and that of ...
HOBART - Pushed to the very brink of elimination, a demoralised India face an arduous task of beating Sri Lanka with a bonus point to have any remote chance of qualifying to the final of the cricket tri-series when the two sides clash on Tuesday.Barely left standing on their feet after a ...
HOLLYWOOD - Silent movie “The Artist” crowned its spectacular awards season success by winning five Oscars including the coveted Best Picture prize at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.The French-directed black-and-white movie earned Oscars for best director for Michel ...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank will extend an assistance of upto $5.5 billion from FY 12-14 to support Pakistan’s poverty reduction and development agenda.According to Bank’s Country Partnership Strategy Progress Report, a mid-term review and implementation assessment, the bank has ...
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.......It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite ...
Adel SaftyRecently, Admiral Mark Fox, commander of the US Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain told reporters: “We’ve developed very precise and ...
The United States and its allies have attacked various Muslim countries on false pretexts in the past two decades. Each time the purpose was to ...
In one of my very early columns on the ‘Lahore of Yore’, I paid tribute to the Anglo-Indian sergeants of the city’s traffic police. ...
What Waheeda Shah did to the lady presiding officer of the polling station is highly deplorable and most unbecoming of ...
The Pakistani filmmaker and journalist, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, has won her first-ever Oscar Award for her marvellous ...
Balochistan is teetering on the edge of separation from the federation of Pakistan as did East Pakistan and our leaders ...
In a bid to pull the ailing Radio Pakistan out of a deep financial crunch, a National Assembly Standing Committee has ...
The Sindh Police has decided to upgrade its forensic department on modern lines to ensure standard investigation, ...
A drug smuggler was arrested by National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) after the vehicle he was travelling in met ...
LAHORE – The Punjab government is fully prepared to deal with any outbreak of dengue, said ...
LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Monday barred the Oil and Gas Regulation Authority and ...
LAHORE – The PML(N) has blamed the Sindh Government for impeding the party public meeting in ...
LAHORE - Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal on Monday declined a request by PPP legislator ...
KARACHI – Oscar-winning director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s mother Saba Obaid on ...
KARACHI - Pakistan People’s Party Women Wing Central President Faryal Talpur has ...
KARACHI - A clash between workers of the People’s Students’ Federation (PSF) and ...
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani inaugurated Prime Minister’s National ...
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday announced to honour Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, country’s ...
ISLAMABAD - Born in 1978 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an internationally acclaimed Emmy and Oscar ...
ISLAMABAD - Former member of National Assembly (MNA) and a social worker Marvi Memon on ...
