karachi - At least six people including a cop and an ANP activist were gunned down in separate incidents of violence here Sunday.A cop came under attack of armed assailants at Sultanabad within the remits of Manghopir Police Station. SHO Aslam Joya said 32-year-old constable Fida Hussain sustained ...

LOS ANGELES (UPI): - A Los Angeles attorney said he has kept an Excel spreadsheet documenting his experiences at 6,297 Chinese restaurants in the United States and elsewhere. David Chan, 64, said the Springfield Cashew Chicken he sampled at Leong’s Asian Diner in Springfield, Mo., marked his ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - A directive issued by the caretaker Punjab chief minister reveals that the Punjab government “violated” rules and regulations while awarding seven labour contracts regarding wheat purchase to its blue-eyed contractor.The directive (vide No ...

A six-year-old boy is in trouble in the US after he took the family car for a 6am drive - because he wanted a Chinese takeaway. The unnamed youngster, who could hardly see over the dash, was stopped by police three miles from his home near Detroit, Michigan. He told officers he wanted more of the ...

At least six suspects have been arrested during targeted operation of Rangers in Kunwari Colony of Karachi on Sunday.The paramilitary troops conducted a search operation in Kunwari Colony after closing entry and exit points of the locality.Commandos and women officials were accompanying the Rangers ...

KARACHI - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $10,353.92 million in the first nine months (July–March) of the current fiscal year 2012-13 (FY13), showing a growth of 6.35 percent or $617.95 million when compared with $9,735.97 million received during the same period of last ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday on the advice of the prime minister approved the appointment of Shoaib Saeed, Atir Mahmood, Shahid Bilal Hassan, Aalia Neelum, Shezada Mazhar and Abid Aziz Sheikh as additional judges of the Lahore High Court for one year.Spokesperson for the ...

LAHORE – Article 6 of the Constitution and the High Treason (Punishment Act) 1973 imposes a very heavy responsibility on the Federal Government to decide whether or not to file a case of treason against any person and also to decide who shall be the appropriate person to file and proceed with ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

DOHA  - A Darfur donor conference has raised $3.6 billion in pledges to finance the development of war-ravaged Darfur in west Sudan, mostly from Khartoum itself, host country Qatar which contributed $500 million announced Monday."These pledges cover more than the $177 million needed for ...

KANDAHAR  – A female American diplomat and six NATO personnel were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said, in the deadliest day for foreign forces this year.Three US soldiers and two American civilians were among the dead, a US security source said, ...

Parts of upper areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab including the federal capital was rattled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning.The jolts were felt in Islamabad and areas in its vicinity, Swat, Dir, Chitral, Malakand division. The tremors were recorded in today’s wee ...

QUETTA – Unidentified gunmen shot dead six labourers in tehsil Pasni of Balochistan Saturday night.Pasni Assistant Commissioner Naeem Gichki said the labourers were working on the Makran Coastal Highway in Gwadar district’s Shadi Kaur area, some 25 kilometres from Pasni ...

BANNU - At least six suicide attackers, said to be Uzbeks, were killed and a policeman got injured on Thursday when law enforcement agencies repulsed a pre-dawn attack on a police station in Bunnu district.At around 5:30am a group of armed militants attacked Maryan police station, some 14 ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - At least six people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up amongst a group of security officials outside the Somali prime minister’s office on Tuesday, army officials said. “I saw the dead bodies of six people and several others were injured,” said ...

LAHORE – The Punjab University has awarded 6 PhD degrees to the scholars in which Khawar Sultana D/o Abdul Saeed Khan in the subject of Islamic Studies after approval of her thesis entitled “Seerat-e-Rasool (S.A.W) Rawayat-e-Shabiat-(RA) Takhreej-o-Tahqiq”.The university also ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police have arrested 16 outlaws from various areas of the city including six women for their alleged involvement in immoral activities and recovered 1.550 kilogram hashish, six pistols and wine from their possession, a police spokesman said on Saturday.According to details, ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 29 : Federal Capital’s post F-6 sector faced worst type of load shedding the whole day on Saturday as the electricity continued to play hide and seek.Starting from 9 in the morning till 6 PM, not a full hour of power supply was available to the F-6 super market, and offices in ...

SWABI - Six persons of a family, including four women and a child, were killed over a family dispute in the far-flung village of Sara Cheena on Tuesday, police said Tuesday. The tragic incident occurred in the jurisdiction of Yar Hussain Police Station at night when their rival relatives ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Six seriously ill prisoners, languishing in district jail Sheikhupura, could not be taken for medical examination due to unavailability of police guard for the last several days. According to details, the Anti-Terrorist Court number-4 Lahore, the District and Sessions Court ...

ISLAMABAD - The cash-starved government of Pakistan has spent huge amount of $6.5 billion on oil import during five months (July-November) of the ongoing financial year 2012-13 as petroleum products demands increase in the country due to severe gas shortage.According to the figures of Pakistan ...

MAILSI - Vehari DPO Shakir Hussain Dawar transferred and posted six SHOs with immediate effect.According to the notification, Gago Mandi Police SHO Rai Akram has been transferred and posted as CIA staff in-charge, Tiba Sultanpur SHO Aslam Ghuman has been transferred and posted as the Gago Mandi ...

KARACHI – An activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement among six people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence here on Tuesday.A former Unit Incharge of MQM was gunned down at Jamshed Road within the remits of Jamshed quarter police station.Police said the victim namely Nadeem Abbasi, ...

LAHORE - Lahore Development Authority on Monday declared six private housing schemes as illegal and informed citizens that operators of these schemes had illegally developed societies in LDA’s controlled area.The general public, prospective buyers and the investors have been cautioned that as ...

KARACHI – Six more fall prey in the ongoing wave of target killings in the country’s commercial hub here on Tuesday. According to details, an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Siddiq, 35, Allah Rakha, was shot dead in an attack near Guru Mandir within Jamshed Quarters police remits. ...

SADIQABAD - The superintendent of police (investigation) has suspended  the Saddar police officials who allegedly tortured PML-N leader Mian Farhad Ali and also ordered registration of cases against the cops. SP Sheraz Nazir suspended Station House Officer Muslim Zia, Head Constable Manzoor ...

SADIQABAD - The superintendent of police (investigation) has suspended  the Saddar police officials who allegedly tortured PML-N leader Mian Farhad Ali and also ordered registration of cases against the cops. SP Sheraz Nazir suspended Station House Officer Muslim Zia, Head Constable Manzoor ...

SANTIAGO  - Six members of the same family, three of them children, died in a fire that gutted their home in southern Chile on Wednesday. A 17-year-old escaped the blaze that destroyed the wooden house in Carahue in the Araucania region, but two men, aged 70 and 27, a woman of 30 and her three ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has spent $6.78 billion on oil and food imports during the first four months (July-October) of the ongoing financial year 2012-2103, revealed the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday.According to the PBS figures, country imported petroleum products of ...

JHANG/KASUR - At least 10 people including a couple and their two children and 15 others sustained critical injuries in road accidents, land disputes and mishaps occurred here in different parts of Jhang and Kasur districts over the past 24 hours. As per detail, four people including two brothers - ...