GHULAM MURSALIN LAKKI MARWAT – The elders of Begukhel family have started flexing their muscles to give a tough time to JUI-F candidate Munawar Khan Marwat with the support of Eesakkhel family headed by Haji Muhammad Aslam Khan on the PK-76 (Lakki-III).After being ignored by JUI-F high ...

The Lesco team in an operation against power theft on Wednesday caught 76 people involved in electricity pilferage in Samanabad division of the company. Lesco Saidpur sub-division SDO Rana Abid conducted the raid on the direction of Additional SE Engineer Anwar Qaseem Qureshi. FIRs against 13 ...

KARACHI - Set up by the former city district governments, seventy-six public sector dispensaries have completely been closed down owing to the negligence of the KMC.During the tenures of Naimatullah Khan and Mustafa Kamal, the former city district governments had set up dispensaries in various ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Kader Asmal, a respected veteran of the struggle against apartheid who then fought to ensure South Africa lived up to its democratic ideals, has died at the age of 76, his family said Thursday. Asmal was admitted to the Constantiaberg Medi Clinic on June 17 to treat a stomach ...

Charlie Wilson, the former US congressman, whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie ''Charlie Wilson's War,'' died in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday. He was 76. Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing ...

In Afghanistan they would call it a shura, the traditional tribal way of listening to elders views before reaching a consensus. In Washington, where President Barack Obama has now held five war councils, they are starting to call it dithering. With another council on the Afghan war scheduled for ...

LONDON (AFP) - The price of oil surged to a one-year high close to 76 dollars on Thursday as the US currency tumbled, equity markets soared and following more strong company earnings, analysts said. In early morning Asian trade, New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November ...

Oil prices reached a fresh one-year high near $76 a barrel Thursday in Asia on a weaker U.S. dollar and growing investor optimism about an economic recovery. Benchmark crude for November delivery was up 72 cents to $75.90, the highest since October 2008, by midday Singapore time in electronic ...

Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a people power'' revolt and sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76. The uprising she led in 1986 ended the repressive 20-year regime of Ferdinand Marcos and ...

An operation by international forces in western Afghanistan on Friday killed 76 civilians, mostly women and children, the Afghan interior ministry said. "Seventy-six people, all civilians and most of them women and children, were martyred during the operation by coalition forces in Shindand ...