KARACHI  - Custom officials have handed over 31 seized pythons, imported from the US, to Karachi Zoo administration.Spokesman for the customs said, the reptiles were imported from US for a private farmhouse in Thatta, however, these were seized by the custom officials on lack of documents. The ...

LARKANA - Sindh Chief Minister’s Advisor on Relief, Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that at least 31,000 houses were damaged in 121 union councils during the rains and flood disaster in the province this year. Talking to reporters during a visit to the flood and rains affected areas of Larkana, ...

KARACHI - Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has finalized all arrangements for supplementary examinations of SSC part-II class X, starting from October 23.As many as 31000 students were registered for the supplementary examination and the board has set up 44 examination centres for boys ...

KARACHI - The police in their on-going drive against criminals, arrested 31 accused during the past 24 hours.A statement said that there were two police encounters with the alleged criminals and one gang of alleged criminals busted during the period. In all, 28 pistols and nine mobile phones ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday heard the contempt of court petition against President Asif Ali Zardari for not relinquishing the political office of PPP co-chairman.A larger bench of the LHC headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial heard the case.The petition that had been filed by Munir ...

karachi - The Karachi police in their on-going drive against criminals arrested and 31 accused during the past 24 hours. A police statement on Wednesday said that those arrested included four absconders. It said that there were three encounters of the police with the alleged criminals and two ...

ISLAMABAD - The devolved Ministry of Health allocated a total quota of 31,534-kg ephedrine to 63 different pharmaceutical companies during 2010 whereas M/s Berlex Lab and Danas Pharmaceutical were issued quota of 9,000-kg out of the total one during the same year, reveals the investigations of ...

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said that the police had arrested 31 people allegedly involved in extortion here. Extortion has been taking place since 15 years, however, the situation has been improving since the government took strict measures, he claimed. He also met CM Qaim ...

DAMASCUS  - Syrian forces killed at least 31 civilians on Tuesday, including 16 in shelling of neighbourhoods in Homs, monitors said, as regime forces massed around the flashpoint city.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three children and a woman were among 16 people who died in ...

LAHORE – Lahore City Cricket Association (LCCA) president Khawaja Nadeem Ahmad has allowed those clubs which have earlier boycotted the LCCA Super league to participate in the event showing a good gesture to safeguard the interest of club cricket. "I have taken this decision in the larger ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Interior Ministry has issued a fresh list of as many as 31 banned outfits, mostly having religious background or linked to the Baloch separatist groups, and barred them from collecting hides of sacrificial animals besides carrying out their organisational activities throughout ...

LAHORE (APP) - The FBR has agreed to defer the mandatory requirement to provide CNIC or NTN by manufacturers, importers and exporters until December 31, 2011. The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) acting president Khalid Tawab told APP here Friday that FBR Chairman ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) disposed of 31 identical petitions filed by employees of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) for restoration of their service against a judgment of Federal Service Tribunal and held that only civil servant could file appeal in FST. A two-member bench of the SC headed ...

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD-The Lyari gangsters were on a rampage on Thursday too as the unabated bloodbath in different parts of the city claimed another 31 lives, bringing the death toll to 51 in just two days. The violence, which began Wednesday morning after five dead bodies of Lyari residents were ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - An Indian court on Tuesday convicted 31 people of setting on fire a train with Hindu devotees in western Gujarat state in 2002 which had set off some of the countrys worst religious riots since independence. The court acquitted 63 other people of conspiracy and murder. The ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Rain and sandstorms that battered Egypt at the weekend killed at least 31 people, officials said Monday, adding the toll could rise as rescue workers were still sifting through two collapsed buildings. The bodies of six workers were pulled out Monday of the debris of a six-storey ...

PESHAWAR Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister has said that the flood death toll had reached 965, as 31 more people were killed in the province. Apart from this, 887 other people also sustained injuries as well. The total number of the affected people has risen to 4.2 million while 1.3 ...

Pakistans total foreign debt will climb to 59.40 billion US dollars after receiving two more instalments, amounting to $ 4.03 billion, of IMF loan by December 31, reported a private TV channel Monday. Although the move would raise Pakistans per capita foreign debt to Rs30,000, Advisor to the Prime ...

LAHORE The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Disciplinary Committee met under Chairmanship of Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat at AFC House to hear and decide on 31 disciplinary cases. The important decisions were taken by the committee on these issues. CS Kumar Singh of India was found guilty ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has provided final opportunity to banks/DFIs for regularizing accounts of their customers/clients without computerized national identity cards (CNIC) by December 31, 2009. In this regard, banks/DFIs have now been advised to adopt the following procedure: a) ...

KARACHI - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has directed all listed companies, their directors and more than ten percent shareholders to file their outstanding Annual Return on Form-A and Returns of Beneficial Ownership respectively by October 31, 2009. According to a statement ...

GENEVA (AFP) - Thirty-one countries still hold stockpiles of cluster munitions despite signing a treaty to ban them, according to a report by anti-arms lobby groups published on Friday. Britain, Germany and the Netherlands hold the largest stocks, said the report by Human Rights Watch and Landmine ...

KARACHI - The confrontation between the Pakistan Airline (PIA) and Pakistan Airline Pilot Association (PALPA) has been resolved and the working agreement will be signed on July 31, 2009, confirmed PALPA President Capt Imran Usman. The meeting was held between the PIA and PALPA after the Ministry of ...

LAHORE - The biennial election of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the apex body of chambers and traders, for the years 2009-2010, will commence from December 31 instead of December 26 and complete on January 31 next. The annual elections of all chambers of ...

LAHORE - Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), who never won the national title in their 13-year history, failed to go clear at the top of Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008 when their star forward line flopped against spirited KPT and suffered 1-2 defeat at KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi. PTV suffered yet ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India could thrash Australia 3-1 in the upcoming Test series if it is played on turning pitches, opener Virender Sehwag said on Monday. "If we play on spin-friendly tracks, the series might go 3-1 in our favour," the hard-hitting Indian batsman told CNN-IBN news ...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said on Thursday that provincial government is taking every possible step towards economic progress of the people and technical education is being paid special attention in this connection. This, he said, while talking to Sweden envoy in a meeting held in ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad City Police arrested 442 persons and recovered huge cache of weapons during the year 2008 including three kalashnikov, 31 rifles, 29 guns, 346 pistols, 12 carbines, 11 revolvers, 23 magazines, 24 daggers and 4146 rounds from them, the police spokesman said on Sunday. ...

Six members of the Thai air force were killed Wednesday when their military helicopter crashed while on a mission in the insurgency-hit far south, a spokesman said. The UH-1H chopper was on its return journey from Betong district, Yala province, headed to an air force base in neighbouring Pattani ...

LAHORE/KARACHI - All Pakistan CNG Association on Tuesday warned the government to withdraw the decision of 31 per cent increase in gas prices and rationalise the CNG price otherwise they will go on strike from coming Monday. They said that in the first phase the Punjab zone will observe strike ...