KANDAHAR:Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid ...

NEW YORK:New Yorkpolice said Friday that they have found a fragment of one of two airplanes that slammed into theWorldTradeCenteronSeptember 11, 2001. The huge chunk of aircraft was found wedged between two office buildings in lowerManhattan. Police said the plane fragment appeared to be "part of a ...

ISLAMABAD : The gold imports during first nine months of current fiscal year surged by 33.49pc as against the same period of last year. According to data revealed by PBS, during the period under review, 2,942 kilogram of yellow metal worth of $159.172m was imported as compared to the import of ...

Mardan - The Mardan city expected to witness as a tough contest for NA-9 Nardan where several heavyweights including former chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, Shazia Aurangzeb of PPP, Nawabzada Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti of PML-N and Maulana Shujaul Mulak of JUI-F are flexing their political ...

There are not many unsung heroes in the Syrian war, but Khaled Erksoussi and his 9,000 volunteers have got to be among them.Convoying food and medical aid across the front lines of this tragic conflict, arguing and cajoling and pleading and negotiating their way between enemies must place you ...

baqaul mohsinbahawalpur  - Nine persons were killed and 50 others injured when a speeding air-condition bus rammed into a tree while saving a motorcyclist here near Chak 5/BC on Hasilpur Road. The injured included the bike-riders.According to details, the Bahawalpur-bound bus coming from ...

islamabad - The cash-starved government spent a huge amount of $14.429 billion on food and oil imports during nine months (July to March) of the current fiscal year (2012-2013).According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country spent $14.429 billion on importing food ...

LAHORE - Pakistan’s tennis star Aisamul Haq has earned yet another laurel for his country by gaining the world number nine Doubles ranking. According to the recent released ATP World ranking list, Aisam with his personal ranking of No 9 in the world is the top Asian tennis player on the ATP ...

BOSTON - At least four people were killed and over 100 wounded when three explosions went off in this US on Monday evening, sparking scenes of panic.Two explosions struck near the finish line of Boston Marathon followed by a third one near the John F Kennedy Presidential Library while police ...

ISLAMABAD  – Sunday Car Bazaar in Karachi Company (G-9 Markaz) may be a good business for buyers or sellers of vehicles, but it has made life miserable for traders and shoppers, visiting the market.The Car Bazzar creates disturbance in and around the market - leaving no space for ...

PESHAWAR - Workers of PTI Peshawar demanded of the party central parliamentary board to review the decision of awarding party ticket to a candidate at provincial assembly constituency PK-9.Addressing at a news conference on Friday here at press club, Malik Sheraz hailing from union council ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.5 per cent. The decision was taken by the Central Board of Directors of SBP at its meeting held here with Governor Yaseen Anwar in chair on Friday.The decision to keep the policy rate unchanged was taken in ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s trade deficit contracted by 4.86 per cent to $15.40 billion in first nine months (July to March) of the current financial year on the back of healthy growth in exports and continuous decline in imports. Country’s trade imbalance shrank to $15.40 billion in the ...

At least nine people were killed and several others wounded when a bomb went off here on Saturday.According to police, explosive material was placed in a passenger van, which exploded near a hospital in Matni Bazaar.The dead and injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, where emergency was ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.5 percent. The decision was taken by the Central Board of Directors of SBP at its meeting held under the chairmanship of Governor, Mr. Yaseen Anwar in Karachi Friday.The decision to keep the policy rate unchanged was ...

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 ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A red bowl with a lotus pattern broke the world record for Chinese Kangxi ceramics on Monday, fetching over $9 million after a bidding war won by a Hong Kong ceramics dealer at the last day of spring sales for global auctioneer Sotheby’s.The five days of sales in wine, ...

GHAZNI  - A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said.The bus bombing in the flashpoint province of Wardak came as Afghanistan endures a bloody few days ...

Islamabad - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Punjab, Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adjoining tribal belt and Azad Kashmir. The tremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, Swat, Azad Kashmir, Chitral, Kurram Agency Lower Dir, Battagram, Mianwali, Shangla, Mardan, ...

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY (AFP) - Five accused 9/11 plotters boycotted their pre-trial hearing Tuesday in a Guantanamo courtroom, a day after authorities censored part of the proceedings. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other ...

ISLAMABAD – Sarfraz Baig’s novel ‘Pas-e-Ayena’ was launched at Pakistan Academy of Letters on Saturday.Sarfraz Baig has been settled in Italy for the last 12 years. He has written five books in Urdu including Insaniyat Ki Duya (poetry book), Sanyeen Internet (novel), ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chief prosecutor for Guantanamo’s military tribunals recommended Wednesday dismissing one of eight charges against five prisoners accused over the September 11 attacks. Brigadier General Mark Martins has asked the Pentagon official who oversees the military commissions ...

WASHINGTON  - US lawmakers finally approved emergency disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy on Friday, but only after a delay that sparked East Coast Republican outrage against their own party leadership. Lawmakers voted 354-67 to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency with ...

KARACHI – Nine people, including political activists, were gunned down in separate acts of violence in different parts of the metropolis on the last day of the year 2012. A Pakistan People’s Party activist was shot dead near Aisha Bawani School within the remit of the Saddar Police ...

KHYBER AGENCY - At least nine persons, including children and women, got injured when a stray mortar shell hit a moving vehicle on Kalanga Road Aka Khel of tehsil Bara, official and local sources said on Monday.They said an ill-fated vehicle carrying passengers returning to Peshawar after an ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A Canada-bound bus crashed through a guard rail on an icy road in Oregon on Sunday and careened into a ravine, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 26 others, state police said.The bus fell a couple hundred feet before stopping, Oregon State Police said on its ...

GUJRANWALA - Nine more people were fell prey to the 'poisonous' cough syrup here on Thursday, taking the death toll to 11 in couple of days while another affectee has been referred to Lahore in critical condition. As per detail, the 'deadly' syrup is still available in medical stores of the city ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN - At least nine people including four children were killed and 30 others including a police cop injured in a bomb blast near an Imambargah here on Saturday.The remote-controlled bomb packed with ball bearings exploded on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...

The deadly trend of targeted killings in Karachi shows no sign of abating as nine more people were gunned down in the city on Sunday.Despite the claims of security high alert after Saturday night killings, three more people including father and his two sons were shot dead by unknown assailants at ...

BAGHDAD  - A series of attacks struck Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad early on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding 26, according to Iraqi officials.The attacks came as Iraqis prepare to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins later this week.Although violence has ebbed ...