CAIRO -Kidnappers on Wednesday freed Egyptian police and soldiers seized in Sinai, as President Mohamed Mursi vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice and appealed to residents of the lawless peninsula to disarm.The conscripts, seized at gunpoint last week as they were returning from a leave of ...

CAIRO - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and the military have closed ranks to deny charges that soldiers had killed and tortured protesters, following leaks of an inquiry report implicating officers. Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who is also army chief, denied in a statement aired on ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s prosecution is probing complaints of “threatening public security” against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, who is already on bail facing charges of insulting the president and offending Islam. Judicial sources and Youssef said the public prosecutor ordered ...

BAHAWALPUR - A delegation of Egyptian Qaris visited the Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) and mesmerized a huge gathering with their unique Qirat style during Husan-e-Qirat Mehfil here the other day.The delegation, headed by World Qirat Council Director General Qari Abdul Aal Matwali visited the ...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will pay a state visit to Pakistan on March 18 (Monday) on an invitation extended by President Asif Ali Zardari.It should be mentioned that President Morsi will be the first democratically-elected president of Egypt to visit Pakistan.President Morsi’s visit to ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi reshuffled his cabinet on Sunday, reports said, in the face of an economic crisis and ahead of fresh talks with the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8-billion loan.Ten new ministers were sworn in, including Finance Minister Al-Mursi al-Sayyed ...

CAIRO  - Leading members of Egypt's Islamist movement unveiled a new political party on Tuesday, pointing to new rivalries that could split the Islamist vote in an impending parliamentary election.The creation of the al-Watan ('Homeland') Party is part of a political landscape that was ...

CAIRO (AFP) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced an Egyptian Coptic Christian to three years in prison for posting online parts of a US-made anti-Islam film blamed for deadly unrest in the Muslim world. Albert Saber, 27, was convicted of “denigrating religions,” a court official said. ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s powerful military put its foot down on Saturday in the crisis dividing the nation by demanding the Islamist-led government and political foes start dialogue and warning it would not permit events to take a “disastrous” turn.But there was no immediate sign of ...

CAIRO - An Egyptian panel was rushing through on Thursday approval of a new constitution at the centre of a political crisis pitting the Islamist president against his opposition, which has threatened new protests.By late afternoon, the constituent assembly, which has been boycotted by liberals and ...

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of businessmen from Egypt visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) for B2B meetings with Pakistani entrepreneurs having common interest in various fields.These delegates were on visit to Pakistan for attending four-day 8th summit of the Developing 8 ...

KARACHI  - Gunmen wounded an Egyptian working for the United Nations Children’s Fund when they fired on his vehicle in Pakistan’s largest city on Sunday, police said.The motive for the attack was not entirely clear, but police said it may have been a robbery gone wrong. On Sunday ...

CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced Ali Wanis, a Muslim cleric and ex-lawmaker, to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of committing an “indecent act” in a car with a female university student. Wanis, however, can avoid jail by paying 1,500 Egyptian pounds ($250) ...

THE faces of ancient Egyptians have gone on show in Manchester. The portraits painted on to panels that covered the heads of mummies form part of an exhibition at the city’s John Rylands Library. The panels, which have rarely been shown in public, were bequeathed to Manchester Museum by ...

CAIRO - Salafist politician Hazem Abu Ismail will probably be disqualified from his bid for Egypt’s presidency because his late mother was a US citizen, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Under the country’s electoral law, all candidates for the presidency, their parents wives ...

KARACHI - Chief Justice of Egypt, Justice Muhammad Hassam Elddin along with Sindh High Court Chief Justice Mushir Alam here on Wednesday visited the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He laid floral wreath and offered fateha.Later talking to media persons, the Egyptian Chief Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - Egyptian Chief Justice Mohamed Hossam Elddin El-Gheriany visited the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) where he was received by the DG of the Academy, faculty members and Hashim Abro, spokesman of the Academy on Monday.The Chief Justice of Egypt who is also the Chairman of the Supreme ...

CAIRO  - Student activists held strikes in Egypt on Saturday to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military in charge.The call for strikes in universities and work places comes after a series of protests pressuring the military to ...

Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood has agreed to start talks with the Egyptian authorities to discuss the public's right to protest safely and the departure of embattled President Hosni Mubarak. The talks between the leadership of Egypt's banned movement and Vice President Omar Suleiman are to ...

Egypt's state-run newspaper Al-Ahram has come under fire for doctoring a photograph to suggest that President Hosni Mubarak had led US President Barack Obama and other Middle East leaders into historic peace talks in the White House earlier this month. The picture showed the Egyptian president ...

Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said on Sunday that a Van Gogh painting worth over $50 million stolen from a Cairo museum was still missing. The work of art, known as both Poppy Flowers and Vase with Flowers was stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum on Saturday. Hosni earlier said police ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has waded into Egypts niqab controversy, saying that the full-face veil wipes out a womans personality, the official news agency MENA reported on Wednesday. The niqab cancels the personality of a woman, he said. The Prime Minister said the niqab was ...

KARACHI - Showing its interest to acquire the major shareholding of RBS-Pakistan, EFG-Hermes, Egypts premier investment banking firm and brokerage services provider, has requested State Bank of Pakistan to grant permission for conducting the due diligence of RBS Pakistan, the central banks official ...

A Somali pirate says the crews of two Egyptian fishing boats being held by pirates overpowered their captors, killing two of them, and escaped. The pirate, who gave only his nom de guerre of Miraa, says the crew attacked the pirates with machetes on Thursday and seized some of the pirates' guns ...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will not be among 3,000 people to attend U.S. President Barack Obamas historic speech shortly after noon Thursday. The official reason for his absence is the death of his 12-year-old grandson, but the child died in mid-May after health complications. Mubaraks eldest ...

THE 13-inch high ornament with its distinctive pharaoh headdress was originally designed to hold the internal organs of the dead as part of the mummification process. The canopic jar, complete with cover, was left outside in a garden in north Dorset until its owner decided to have it ...

Egypt's state-owned press opened fire on Saturday on U.S. President George W. Bush as he arrived for talks with regional leaders at the conclusion of a five-day Mideast tour. The newspapers, whose management are all appointed by the government, criticized Bush's speech Thursday in front of the ...