ROME - A Slovak street performer dressed in white papal vestments has been detained and fined by the police in Rome for bearing too close a resemblance to the late John Paul II, the police said. “The problem was that he looked a lot like Karol Wojtyla. He was detained for usurpation of title ...

PESHAWAR  - The Frontier Printers and Publishers Association (FPPA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has rejected the allegations of printing fake ballot papers and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court to probe the matter.Speaking at a news conference here at press club on Tuesday, ...

Lower Dir - Police claimed to have recovered 90,000 ballot papers from a vehicle in Chakdara area of Lower Dir District on Sunday.DIG Malakand Range Obaidullah Khan told a private news channel that the police team recovered and confiscated the National Assembly ballot papers during the search of a ...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (R) Fakhruddin G Ibrahim has said that investigations have started into the seizure of 90,000 fake ballot papers recovered by police in Lower Dir.Talking to media persons here in Islamabad on Monday, Fakhruddin G Ibrahim said that ECP was investigating the ...

Police claimed to have recovered 90,000 ballot papers from a vehicle in Chakdara area of Lower Dir district on Sunday.DIG Malakand range Obaidullah Khan told a private news channel that the police team recovered and confiscated the National Assembly ballot papers during the search of a vehicle and ...

LONDON: A British businessman was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million ($76 million, 59 million euros) from ...

Our youth has great capacity for inventions and has been getting attention from several countries for their new praiseworthy work in IT. Now new software, which can detect a fake photo within a second, has been developed. It has been introducing in Pakistan made by two brothers; they also ...

The district and sessions courts of Kasur and Sahiwal on Thursday sentenced two more PML-N leaders former, MNA Rao Mazhar Hayat in fake degree case and Zahid Iqbal in dual nationality case.  Sahiwal sessions court sentenced PML-N worker Zahid Iqbal to 15-month imprisonment in dual nationality ...

    KARACHI After tickets distribution, a fresh rift emerges within the PML-N Sindh as party’s Provincial General Secretary Saleem Zia questions the ticket’s validity of the party’s nominee for NA-239 (Karachi). Saleem submitted an application with the returning officer, ...

LONDON: A British millionaire is facing jail after he was convicted on Tuesday of selling fake bomb detectors toIraqand other countries. James McCormick, 56, was found guilty of three counts of fraud atLondon’s Old Bailey court for selling completely ineffective devices based on an American ...

AFPMANILA A top Philippine newspaper Saturday was taken in by a spoof cover of Time magazine depicting President Benigno Aquino with his mouth agape, running the picture on its front page.“We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake,” said a short statement issued by the ...

our staff reporter bahawalpur  - The CIA Police raided a factory preparing substandard and unhygienic beverages and seized a huge cache of substandard juices, bottled water and chemicals, and also found that four children were working there as forced labourers. CIA Police’s In-charge ...

The All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran has asked the Punjab interim government to arrest the cough syrup companies’ owners responsible for deaths of dozens of people, taking them to justice for spurious drug manufacturing.A group of traders also flayed the role of LCCI to support such criminal ...

KARACHI – The general public has been warned against a number of misguiding, misleading advertisements about medicines for treatment of arthritis, such as Ayurvadic medicine Sandhi Sudha; this medicine has even been rejected by the Indian Medical Association, said College of Family Medicine ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has de-notified 11 former parliamentarians for possessing fake and invalid degrees.The Commission has directed to register cases in lower courts against these members. However‚ they can take part in polls until convicted.These former parliamentarians will ...

ISLAMABAD - Circulation of fake currency notes valuing Rs 1,000 is continuing unchecked in Karachi company market.  Inflow of these fake notes make rapid way in rush hours particularly in the evening time when all the shops are thronged by the consumers. The cloth shops are the easy targets of ...

The unfolding of the scandal of the parliamentarians managing to reach to the highest corridor of the power with fake degrees has sent a wave of shock to the nation and undermined the democratic profile of the country in comity of the nations. We should be eternally grateful to Dr Tahirul Qadri for ...

SARGODHA - Chaudhry Rizwan Gill, who had absconded from the court after he was sentenced to three years in prison in a fake degree case one week ago, voluntarily surrendered himself to the police. Former MPA Rizwan reached the district court in a crowd of PML-N activists and presented himself to be ...

SARGODHA - Chaudhry Rizwan Gill, who had absconded from the court after he was sentenced to three years in prison in a fake degree case one week ago, voluntarily surrendered himself to the police. Former MPA Rizwan reached the district court in a crowd of PML-N activists and presented himself to be ...

QUETTA - Former provincial minister and PPP leader Ali Madad Jattak on Monday lodged a petition in the Balochistan High Court, challenging the sentence he got in a fake degree case.Jattak was given a two-year sentence and Rs10,000 fine for holding a fake degree. The BHC approved the petition for ...

Peshawar  - Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted the bail plea of three former Parliamentarians including ex-Provincial Minister Syed Aqil Shah in fake degree and dual nationality cases.  In other cases of dual nationality and holding fake degree, the court awarded punishment to former ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday declared fake/invalid the degrees of eleven former MPs including three ex-senators and eight MPAs and ordered the respective Sessions Courts to initiate criminal proceedings against them.The eleven former MPs included Rehana Yahya ...

LAHORE – PIA management fired a pantry man after his educational credentials were found fake, said sources in the airlines on Saturday. They said that Amanullah was serving in catering department of PIA at Lahore and his secondary school certificate after verification was found fake, on which ...

ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has informed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that the Bachelor’s degrees of former Federal Minister Sheikh Waqas Akram and former Punjab Assembly member Yasir Raza are fake.In a letter to ECP on Saturday, the HEC stated that the ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Returning Officer for the Pk-75 (Lakki-II) Zaeem Ahmad on Friday rejected the nomination papers of JUI-F candidate Malik Imran over fake degree.A local lawyer Inamullah Khan had raised objections over Malik Imran’s nomination documents with the returning officer. Imran had ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Returning Officer for the Pk-75 (Lakki-II) Zaeem Ahmad on Friday rejected the nomination papers of JUI-F candidate Malik Imran over fake degree.A local lawyer Inamullah Khan had raised objections over Malik Imran’s nomination documents with the returning officer. Imran had ...

GUJRANWALA - A local Magistrate again summoned former MNA from NA-100 Mudassar Qayyum Nahra for Saturday (today) to clear himself of fake degree allegations in an application filed by Deputy Election Commissioner Ch Sarwar.The former PML-N MNA, who was disqualified on charges of holding fake ...

BAHAWALPUR - A family has accused the Samasatta City Police SHO of killing a man in a fake shootout following his alleged denial to pay him bribe.The protesters gathered outside the District Police Officer office and chanted slogans against the SHO. The victim’s relatives including Abdul ...

LAHROE – The number of fake Islamic Modaraba companies is increasing in the country, which are depriving their depositors of billions of rupees while registered Islamic banking industry also following the footsteps of conventional financial market in Pakistan, is heavily investing in federal ...

The Additional Sessions Court Quetta on Friday sentenced former Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Provincial Minister Ali Madad Jattak for two years in jail and imposed Rs10,000 fine for possessing a fake degree.Additional and Sessions Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar had reserved its verdict over the ...