PESHAWAR The PML-N Central Senior Vice President and losing candidate from NA-9 Mardan-I, Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, has accused the caretaker government and Election Commission of Pakistan’s officials of favouring his opponent former chief minister Haider Hoti in the general election, and ...

In an emergency press conference Saturday, the Jamaat-e-Islami announced that it was boycotting elections in protest against what they called the threatening and scaring of voters in several constituencies of Karachi and Hyderabad.Party chief Syed Munawar Hasan, accompanied by former Mayor of ...

BANGKOK   Myanmar has waged ‘a campaign of ethnic cleansing’ against Rohingya Muslims, a top rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement affecting tens of thousands. The Rohingya, who are denied citizenship by the country also known as Burma, ...

DAMASCUS  A Syrian government daily on Sunday accused the United States of having "thrown oil on the fire" of the country's conflict by doubling its aid to the opposition."The meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' held in Istanbul yesterday has thrown oil on the fire of the Syrian ...

BLANTYRE- Malawi has launched a stinging attack on US pop icon Madonna, accusing her of expecting “gratitude” and VIP treatment during a visit last week to her charity work in the southern African country.It was “strange and depressing” that the singer seemed to want ...

RAWALPINDI – A 24-year-old man, who is suspected to be a drug peddler, sustained multiple head injuries and bone fractures by jumping from a plaza, probably to get away from policemen during a raid.However, the suspected drug peddler accused police officials and a man, whom he borrowed Rs ...

LONDON - Britain accused Iran on Sunday of blocking a website days after it was launched by the British government to reach out to Iranians, in the latest spat over media censorship. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the “UK for Iranians” website which he launched on ...

DHAKA  – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia of receiving money from Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ahead of 1991 general elections in the country.“You (Zia) sold the country (interest) by ...

LONDON  – Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns, who is suing former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi over a twitter libel case in the UK, on Monday alleged that two Indian cricketers were involved in match fixing during the now defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL).According to Cairns, TP ...

ISLAMABAD - Sher Afgan Niazi, one of the country’s seasoned politicians, accused Inspector General of Islamabad Police on Tuesday of helping high profile accused and appealed to the Chief Justice of Supreme Court to take notice of unjust done to him.“Despite the orders of the apex ...

JUBA  - South Sudan on Monday accused its former foes in the Khartoum government of arming gunmen who killed 79 people in a cattle raid, as the UN warned tensions between the two sides risk regional peace."A militia group from Unity state penetrated into Warrap state... and attacked people in ...

PESHAWAR - Former federal minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, leader Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti has warned the government that if it takes any step against the judiciary, the PTI ‘tsunami’ will take to roads. “We will throw the rulers out of ...

NEW YORK - A former senior US official has questioned the motives of Mansoor Ijaz, the Pakistani-American businessman behind the 'memogate scandal, saying it was highly likely that any one in Pakistan had prior information about the Abbottabad raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Its ...

NEW DELHI - It is possible that the Pakistani authorities examined an Indian Army helicopter that strayed into their territory a month ago and was returned the same day, Defence Minister A.K. Antony informed the Rajya Sabha Wednesday. It is possible that the Pakistani authorities may have examined ...

LONDON (Agencies) - The lawyer of M Asif accused the player's former captain and fellow defendant at the alleged spot-fixing trial, Salman Butt, of "pressurising him" before he bowled his infamous no-ball at the Lord's Test last year. Earlier in the trial that is now into its tenth day, Aftab ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Pakistan accused United States on Thursday of a slander campaign against Islamabad over the arrest of a man accused of acting as a Pakistani government agent in the United States. Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a Kashmiri-born US citizen detained Tuesday, is suspected of links to a ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Kashmir Affairs Minister Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo on Sunday accused the Punjab government of casting bogus votes in connivance of police and local administration in AJK elections on various refugees seats. Addressing a press conference here, the federal minister said that ...

LAHORE PPP Punjab president Imtiaz Safdar Warriach has criticised the Punjab chief ministers statement in which he said that a highly unjust attitude was being meted out to the province in terms of supply of electricity, gas and petrol. He said Punjab was not the personal property of Shahbaz ...

LONDON (AFP) - FIFA presidential hopeful Mohamed Bin Hammam launched a blistering attack on rival Sepp Blatter on Thursday, accusing the Swiss official of sullying the organisation "beyond compare". Bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, criticised Blatter's decision this ...

GOOGLE has accused Bing - the search engine from Microsoft - of cheating. The accusations are the result of a sting operation undertaken by Google to prove their charge. However, Microsoft has as strongly denied their claim. Googlers have gone to town explaining the charge of cheating. There is a ...

AHMAD AHMADANI ISLAMABAD - Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has accused the industrial sector that contrary to the signed agreements, it is blackmailing and influencing the government to get more gas and as a result, domestic and CNG consumers are suffering. With the start of the winter ...

KABUL (AFP) - Al Jazeera television on Thursday accused NATO of trying to suppress its coverage of the war in Afghanistan after arresting two of its cameramen this week. The Doha-based television network, which has been critical of NATO and the Afghan government, said the two Afghans were detained ...

ISLAMABAD Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) has leveled serious allegations against Chairman Transparency International of Pakistan (TIP), Syed Adil Gillani, for alleged blackmailing and harassing the important government and non-government organisations and warned to stage sit-in before Parliament if ...

LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that activities of Federal Minister for Law Babar Awan show that he has been assigned the special task of levelling accusations against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the Punjab government. He said that the Federal Minister ...

ISLAMABAD A day after peace talks collapsed, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Friday took a dig at his Indian counterpart, stating that the latter was receiving foreign policy directions from New Delhi repeatedly during their meeting held on Thursday. Qureshi's criticism came hours after ...

NEW YORK Faisal Shahzad, who is accused of attempting to detonate a car bomb in New Yorks Times Square on May 1, defiantly told a New York court on Monday evening that he considered himself a 'Muslim soldier avenging the deaths of Muslims killed by Americans overseas, including the drone attack ...

LONDON (AFP) Harry Redknapp has accused Manchester City of using their financial muscle to intimidate rival clubs in the transfer market. The Tottenham boss claims he was forced to drop a January 2009 attempt to sign Craig Bellamy from West Ham after City made it clear they would sabotage his bid ...

LAHORE - The controversy involving Pakistan drug-tainted fast bowler Muhammad Asif and showbiz star Veena Malik seems to be getting worse as the model has approached the court which in turn has summoned the fast bowler to appear before it on April 19. Asifs ex-girlfriend Veena has also accused him ...

BEIJING (Agencies) - Miffed over US President Barack Obamas maiden meeting with the Dalai Lama, China on Friday accused the US of double-speak on Tibet and seriously undermining bilateral ties by conniving with anti-Beijing separatist forces and summoning the American ambassador in Beijing. The ...

NEW YORK - The Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying the US-made missiles to expand its ability to hit land-based targets. Citing senior administration and Congressional officials, The New York Times made the accusation in a dispatch that also said the altered missiles ...