JALALABAD - Unknown gunmen dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials said on Wednesday. Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the team in March, confirmed that his father, Khobai Isakhel, had ...

LAHORE  - An Accountability Court on Wednesday sentenced Muhammad Falik Sher, father of former DG Haj Rao Shakeel to 5-years jail in illegal land allotment case. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had moved a reference against Falik Sher and his son by submitting that the accused had ...

ATLANTA: A man and his son graduated together from Morehouse College in Georgia, with the son saying he is “proud of his dad as a man” for going back to school. Dorian Joyner Sr, 46, was a student at the college in 1988 when he decided to take some time off. He pursued a career in ...

LAHOREA court Saturday directed the Model Town police to submit a progress report on the next hearing-May 24 in the case of girl kidnapping.Allah Ditta, a resident of Okara, filed his petition through his counsel Irfan Tarar, telling the court that his daughter Samina was kidnapped from a house in ...

BEIJING : A school pupil was arrested in China for hiring hitmen who killed his father and sister because of the pressure they put on him to study, reports said Monday, highlighting educational stress in the country.The teenager was detained in the central province of Henan following the death of ...

LAHORE - Dacoits shot dead a father of four children on offering resistance during a road robbery in the Sundar area, police sources claimed on Wednesday. A bakery worker, identified as Abdul Karim, was on his way home after closing the shop late Tuesday night when two motorcyclists stopped him ...

ALASKA: A dad has been hailed a hero after he fought off a 25-stone bear by punching it repeatedly when it tried to attack his family. Toby Burke threw himself between his wife Laura, his three children and the wild animal. The 48-year-old, who was on a bird watching trip inKenai PeninsulainAlaska, ...

KABUL In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist - a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.Halima, aged between 18 and 20 and a mother of two children, was killed for bringing ...

  NEW DELHI   An Indian businessman who let his nine-year-old son cruise around in his Ferrari has been arrested after posting footage of the youngster at the wheel on YouTube, police said on Monday. Mohammed Nisham, from the southern state of Kerala, uploaded the 88-second clip of his ...

ROME: An Italian man hid the body of his father for two years in a walled-up cubbyhole in his house nearRomein order to pocket his pension payment, Italian media reported on Friday. Police in the town ofSubiaconearRomearrested a 44-year-old man on Friday who allegedly hid the body of his dead ...

LAHOREA father-of-seven ended his life by setting himself on fire in the Defense-A police limits on Friday. His family told the police that Koray villager Ramazan had been facing financial constraints for the last several months. Police investigators said clashes between the deceased and his wife ...

LAHORE – Two people including a girl were killed in separate accidents, police said on Sunday. A teenage girl was killed while her father wounded critically when a recklessly driven van bumped into the motorcycle, they were traveling on, near the Suggian Bridge, police said on Sunday. The ...

LAHORE –A tot was kidnapped by the rivals of his father in the Gujjarpura area, police said on Friday.  Muhammad Altaf told the police that his opponent Mannan along with his accomplices kidnapped his son, Noman Ali, at gunpoint as they had an old enmity with him.  According to him, ...

RAHUL SINGHThere have been several defining moments in India’s political history since its independence from British rule in 1947.Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination by a Hindu fanatic was one, as were the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and that of her son, Rajiv. I believe the speech that ...

LAHORE – Father of Professor Dr Zafar Ali Chaudhry, Principal of Government Khawaja Safdar Medical College, Sialkot and former Additional Director General Public Relations Safia Imran Malik passed away. His funeral prayer will be held today (Friday 25th Jan) at 1pm at Doctors Colony Jinnah ...

Father of Malala Yousafzai, a teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by Taliban, was given a diplomatic post in the United Kingdom.Malala has been recovering at a hospital in Birmingham, England, after she was shot in October in Swat Valley. The Taliban have vowed to target her ...

LAHORE – A poverty-hit father of two children committed suicide at his house locate in Liaqatabad area, police said on Thursday.  The 30-year-old resident of Behar Colony, Sajid, committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan at his house in Chand Street. The family told the ...

LAHORE – A salesman has appealed to Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to order the police to recover his 12-year-old daughter, who was kidnapped by unidentified men three months ago. Muhammad Nawaz told the Islampura police that his daughter, Malayka, went to fetch some ...

KHAIRPUR – Two persons were killed while another injured in a road accident near Baberloi on Tuesday. According to details, one Chhanchhar and his 8-year-old son were riding a motorcycle, and collided with a oil tanker as they reached near Baberloi at the National Highway. Both the father and ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Rustam Khan Durrani, father of Murtaza Khan Durrani, Adviser to AJK government on Information, was laid to rest at H-11 graveyard in Islamabad late the other day.Rustam Khan Durrani, 58, had succumbed to cancer in a UK hospital. His body was brought for burial to Pakistan.Senior ...

LAHORE – A father of seven was found hanging from a tree close to an under-construction factory located at Defense Road in Chuhng police area, police and eyewitnesses said. It was not clear whether the deceased, later identified as Zameer Ahmed of Okara district, committed suicide or ...

PARIS  - The father of extremist gunman Mohamed Merah plans to sue the elite French police force which shot his son dead in a shootout last week, his lawyer said. The legal action will not be taken against the French state "but against RAID (the elite police unit) who are responsible for the ...

ISLAMABAD  - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday approved conferment of Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam on Sister John Berchmans Conway, Principal Convent of Jesus & Mary Karachi, and Father Robert McCulloch, Religious Priest Procurator General.Sister John Berchmans Conway, Principal Convent of ...

Fathers are special, particularly for their daughters. It is an endearing bond that lasts for a lifetime and one that colours the first impressions of a girl about the opposite sex. As somebody said that, in actual fact, girls seek their father’s attitudes in their husbands and are so often ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - A girl who contracted marriage against the wishes of her parents was abducted by her father and later put to death. She had eloped with her paramour and contracted court marriage with him.Saeed Ahmed, the husband of the victim, told media that he was the resident of Chak 46 NP. He ...

ROME - An Italian man threw his 16-month-old son off a bridge into the river in Rome in a fit of rage following a row with his partner over custody, Italian media reported.The man, 26, admitted to  police that he had thrown his son into the freezing waters of the Tevere river after arguing ...

LAHORE – Gunmen shot dead a father of three, in broad daylight here in Shahdara area and fled away, police said on Saturday. Police investigators believe that the motive behind the killing was old enmity. Resident of Qalandar Colony, Dilawar Malik, 30, was on his way to supply milk to some ...

Rafia Naheed IkramLAHORE – The illness of 16-year old Microsoft certified professional degree holder Arfa Kareem Randhawa, who astonished the whole world at age 9 to get that milestone, could not be diagnosed till her death. The doctors at the CMH Hospital could not succeed to know what had ...

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed deep sense of grief and sorrow over the death of Muhammad Iqbal Langrial, father of Muhammad Ahsan Waheed, District Coordination Officer of Kasur. In a condolence message, he prayed that may Allah Almighty rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant ...

LAHORE – A 40-year-old shopkeeper committed suicide by drinking poisonous chemicals here in Shahdara area, police said on Monday. The deceased’s family told the police investigators that Abdul Razzaq committed suicide because he suffered huge financial loss in his business. He was ...