OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - As many as one and half months have passed, but the Sialkot police still remain unable to prove the allegation of forced rape of a female client by a local lawyer at his chamber in District Courts. Talking to the newsmen at his office here Monday, SP (Investigation) ...

KIEV (AFP) - A Ukrainian court on Wednesday dropped a criminal case against former president Leonid Kuchma into accusations he ordered the brutal murder of critical journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000. The Pechersky district court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev annulled the criminal probe after an ...

LAHORE - Following special directives of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Police Training School DIG Major (r) Mubashir Ullah has reinitiated the inquiry in connection with Basharat torture case, which took place inside Sabzazaar police station three weeks back. During his first visit to the ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday referring the missing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) containers issue to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) directed to initiate criminal proceedings against persons involved in the scam. Chairman Federal Board of ...

As the climax to a leaking frenzy in Western corporate media that bordered on - literally - nuclear hysteria, United Nations inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) finally released a report essentially charging that Tehran had tried to design a nuclear weapon to fit in a ...

aOur Staff reporter WARBURTON - The Warburton Police have registered a case against Maulana Jameel Ahmad, a local scholar, for violating Loudspeaker Act during Juma sermon here the other day. According to detail, Maulana Jameel Ahmad used loudspeaker for sermon in Juma prayer in Masjid ...

Our staff reporter SHAHKOT - The local Magistrate on Wednesday extended remand of the main accused in the Saba Rai rape case for four day. As per detail, main accused Shamroz was produced in the court of Magistrate Javed Iqbal Thathia wherein Investigation Officer Ghulam Rasool Warraich requested ...

PESHAWAR (INP) - An Accountability Court in Peshawar on Monday acquitted former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General (IG) Malik Naveed and three Frontier Constabulary (FC) officials in an illegal recruitment case. It had been alleged that Malik Naveed made millions, misusing his powers while ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The police have arrested the main accused in Saba Rai rape case. The police arrested Shamroz Rai involved in Saba Rai rape case registered with the Shahkot Police Station the other day when he was coming back to Shahkot after cancellation of pre-arrest bail on non-prosecution by ...

VIENNA (AFP) - Two Hungarian men were placed in custody Sunday after trying to smuggle 32 Afghan and Pakistani refugees into Austria, the sixth such case of trafficking in just two weeks, local police said. The two men, aged 37 and 45, were arrested early Saturday after crossing the border from ...

LAHORE A New Zealand citizen was arrested Sunday by Ghalib Market Police shortly after his car hit a bike, leaving two brothers injured. Paul George, who was driving a car with his wife, was taken into custody minutes after his car collided with a motorbike at Phuar Chowk, severely wounding the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday declared the degree of PML (Q) MPA Syeda Majida Zaidi as fake and ordered the relevant District Police Officer (DPO) to lodge first information report (FIR) against her. ECP heard a total of five cases of fake degree holders on Thursday ...

LAHORE - District and Sessions Judge Lahore will take up hearing of National Insurance Corporation Ltd (NICL) land scam case today against PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi, the son of former Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Judge Malik Abdul Rasheed on last July 5 had refused to continue ...

ISLAMABAD - Pronouncing verdict in a 13-year old reference first filed in 1998 and popularly known as the SGS case, the Accountability Court Rawalpindi Judge, Mian Altaf Hussain Mahar, on Saturday acquitted the accused under trial declaring there was no substance in the prosecution tale and it had ...

LAHORE A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday resumed hearing of an appeal, filed some 15 years ago, to question allotment in 1993 of plots in Lahores Johar Town scheme to some 28 judges by then Nawaz Sharif government. The Bench, comprising Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan and Justice ...

LAHORE (APP) - Anti Corruption Establishment, Lahore Region has summoned suspended deputy director, agriculture, water management Muhammad Tahir Faizi for extorting Rs 300,000 graft from a person against a promise of providing job to him. ACE sources told APP here Friday that complainant Abdul ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Banking Court Special Judge Malik Abdul Rasheed on Wednesday held cross-examination of prosecution witness FIA deputy director Basharat Ali in NICL scam and one Hina Rabbani. The court adjourned the hearing and summoned two prosecution witnesses on the next ...

CHICAGO (AFP) - US jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman accused of helping to plot the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks. Rana, a 50-year-old Canadian citizen, is charged with providing material support to terrorists by acting as a messenger and providing ...

LAHORE - FIA can take action against the witnesses and employees of Allied Bank Limited (ABL) who have backed-out of their witness against Moonis Elahi in NICL case, said a senior FIA officer seeking anonymity on Thursday. The FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) on Wednesday failed once again to ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE City police have arrested a hairdresser in connection with the killing of two beauticians, who were found slaughtered inside a beauty salon situated in Barkat Market on Sunday last. The barber identified as Munir Ahmed has confessed to the police investigators that he ...

LAHORE Justice Azmat Saeed of the Lahore high Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of a petition which seeks reopening of 82-year-old case of Ghazi Ilamuddin Shaheed who killed a Hindu, Ram Pal, in 1929 on finding that the latter has written a book derogatory to the respect and status of the Holy ...

LAHORE A former Chief Law Officer of the Punjab has said that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was exonerated in the murder case of Nawab Muhammad Khan Kasuri by the Judicial Commission headed by Justice Shafiur Rehman. But record of that inquiry is missing in the Lahore High Court archives. Former Advocate ...

RAWALPINDI - An Accountability Court (AC) Rawalpindi No 4 exonerated former Chief Commissioner Islamabad Saeed Mehdi in the Polo Ground Reference here on Friday. According to details, AC Rawalpindi Number 4 Judge Chaudhary Abdul Haq acquitted the former Chief Commissioner Islamabad Saeed Mehdi in ...

LAHORE A constitutional petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to seek reopening and re-adjudication upon the case of Indian Spy, Sarbajit Singh, who has been condemned to death for killing dozens in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in early 90s. Singh is imprisoned at Kot ...

THE Indian Supreme Court Friday asked BJP leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray to spell out their stands on a CBI plea for rest-oration of charges of hatching a criminal conspiracy to demolish Babri Masjid in 1992 against them, reported India media. A bench ...

LAHORE High-handedness of Baboos is not just restricted to the hapless ordinary souls, fellow colleagues at times receive its sting as well. On Wednesday, Zaman Wattoo, a PCS officer, got a flavour of bureaucratic arbitrariness when he was given only three hours to vacate the official house ...

LAHORE - An Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday ordered the prosecution witnesses to record their statements in murder case of Arif Amir alias Tipu Truckanwala and adjourned the hearing till March 3. Earlier, the court had recorded statements of two private witnesses and provided case record to Khawaja ...

LAHORE Through an application the Lahore High Court has been requested to implead the US Ambassador in Pakistan Cameron P Munter as necessary party on the behalf USA to a pending petition on the question of immunity to Raymond Davis and the possible approach to the International Court of Justice ...

Never before has an American Presidents fear of offending the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress been so exposed as it was by Obamas decision to veto the Security Council resolution condemning continued, illegal Israeli settlement activities on the occupied West Bank and demanding that ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Englands Test cricketers may be re-interviewed by police as the Crown Prosecution Services prepares its case against the three Pakistan players banned for spot-fixing by the ICC early this month, according to a report. They could even be asked to appear as witnesses to events ...