QUETTA: Accountability Court Wednesday awarded 10 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50 million to a former clerk of Quetta Development Authority (QDA). According to prosecution, the NAB had received information that Akthar Muhammad. a clerck of QDA, had made assets of millions of rupees beyond ...

NEW YORK - Admiral Michael Mullen late Wednesday afternoon confirmed the existence of a secret memo alleged to have been sent by President Asif Ali Zardari that the top US military officer had earlier not recollected receiving, a dispatch posted on Foreign Policy magazine said. The confirmation led ...

SAN FRANCISCO- Facebook games giant Zynga is getting medieval with a CastleVille title set for release in the coming weeks on the worlds leading social network. On the cusp of an initial public offering of stock, San Francisco-based Zynga is expanding its offerings and spicing up play. The game ...

ISLAMABAD - The voices of anti-capitalism protests being held throughout the world under the banner of Occupy Wall Street on Thursday echoed in the Senate when PPP senior stalwart Mian Raza Rabbani, raising the issue on the floor of the house, opposed the privatisation of state-owned entities like ...

LAHORE Dr Salman Malik Kamboh gets his MPhil degree in the field of Physiotherapy. He is also first MPhil Graduate of King Edward Medical University in all disciplines. KEMU Vice Chancellor Dr Asad Aslam Khan, Principal College of Physiotherapy and other senior doctors and professors have ...

AUCKLAND (AFP) - The International Rugby Board responded to a possible New Zealand withdrawal from the next World Cup by saying everyone is replaceable on Tuesday as Samoas Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu was banned from rugby. Meanwhile France became the first team to name their side for this weekends ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE BISE Chairman Dr M A Kashmiri on Sunday constituted a committee to probe the issue of wrong posting of marks in a subject in the Inter Exam part II 2011. According to a BISE?clarification, the board mistakenly declared Sara Zahid R/N 518527, of Ghazali College for Women, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Venice film festival has rediscovered its movie mojo this year, putting high costs and growing competition from Toronto aside to provide a line-up full of hotly anticipated titles and big Hollywood stars. George Clooney, a regular favourite on the Lido island where the worlds ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - American actor Danny DeVito, known for his Emmy-winning role on Taxi and his turn as Batmans nemesis The Penguin on the big screen, was honoured Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 66-year-old actor, who divides his time between films and television and is ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The classic 1987 film Dirty Dancing is getting a remake, adding songs from the 1960s and brand new compositions to some of the original music, film studio Lionsgate said on Monday. The beloved coming of age movie, starring the late Patrick Swayze as smouldering dance teacher ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie was close to tears as she received a special award during an unannounced visit to Sarajevo's film festival Saturday with partner Brad Pitt. "I will start crying if you don't stop," Oscar-awarded Jolie told the audience who gave her a standing ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government finally gave in to the Punjab governor to fulfil the requirement of Article-131 of the Constitution, which binds it to brief the governor about any matter according to his desire. A high-level team of the Punjab government, led by Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Sheraz Kayani on Monday dismissing an application seeking addition of Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 to the FIR registered against DSP Riasat Bajwa and three other policemen for staging a fake encounter, ...

PARIS(AFP) - France left Liza Minnelli awestruck on Monday when it presented its Legion of Honour medal to the veteran American entertainer in Paris. What Im really, really so honoured about is to be a part of France, to be a part of the city and the country of my dreams, said the 65-year-old ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Jennifer Aniston, the A-list actress who shot to stardom on the hit comedy show Friends, joined the ranks of Hollywood royalty Thursday with her handprints on a storied sidewalk. Aniston imprinted her hands and feet at a ceremony outside the iconic Graumans Chinese Theatre ...

LAHORE- Additional District and Sessions Judge Ma Rukh Tarrar on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 500, 000 to one drug-peddler on finding him guilty of possessing and trafficking around 80 kilograms of hashish. Police had nabbed Amir Nawaz near Shahdra, who was trying to ...

LAHRORE Rizwia Trust Lahore has got released five prisoners after paying their fine worth over Rs 36000, says a press release. The released were included as: Mumtaz Khan, Mohammad Akhtar, Safdar Hussain, Muhammad Anwar and Ghulam Rasool. According to the spokesman of the trust, the ill-fated ...

LAHORE The Punjab government has allocated Rs 69.244 billion for the law and order under head of Public Order and Safety Affairs in the fiscal year 2011-12 as compared to the last years allocation of Rs 63.017 billion. According to the budget document, expenditures of courts of law, police, ...

SHAKARGARH - The District Bar Association organised a farewell party in honour of outgoing Additional District and Sessions Judge Nadeem Gulzar upon has transferred to Bahawalpur from Shakargarh the other day. A large number of lawyers, judicial officers and members of the District Bar Association ...

ISLAMABAD In a rare development, Pakistan gave five years extension to a state-owned Chinese firm in its Saindak mining project after it agreed to pay five percent additional shares to Balochistan government, sources said on Monday. The multimillion dollar gold and copper deal with Metallurgical ...

KREMS, Austria (AFP) US writer and academic Ruth Klueger, a Holocaust survivor, late Friday received Austrias important Theodor Kramer literary prize, which honours resistance and exile writers. The award, which carries prize money of 7,300 euros ($10,360), was handed over in Krems near Vienna. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama was worth millions of dollars in 2010, mostly due to royalties from the sale of his books, financial disclosure forms showed on Monday. Obama had between $100,001 and $1,000,000 from Audacity of Hope, a book tied in with his run for the White House ...

KATE Middleton has had Princess Dianas engagement ring resized to stop it from falling off. The brunette beauty is set to marry Prince William on April 29 and while she was thrilled when he presented her with his late mothers band when he popped the question last year, Kate decided to make the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United star Wayne Rooney has been banned for two matches following his expletive-laden tirade at a television camera, the FA confirmed on Thursday. Rooney will now miss United's upcoming Premier League clash with Fulham as well as their FA Cup semi-final clash with ...

VETERAN chat show host David Letterman has picked up the highest honour at the first annual US Comedy Awards. Letterman, 63, was presented with the Johnny Carson award for comedic excellence at the event in New York. Modern Family was named best series while 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin and Saturday ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Grammy-winning Canadian singer Bryan Adams was honored with a star on Hollywoods storied Walk of Fame on Monday with a little help from fellow countryman and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky. The pair braved an unseasonal Los Angeles downpour to celebrate the 51-year-old being ...

LAHORE (PR) Renowned poetess and journalist Arifa Subha Khan was awarded with a Gold Medal on her services for literature, journalism and women issues by Institute of Educational Promotion on the occasion of International Women Day at Alhamra here the other day. On the same day, she was also ...

LAHORE Sher group panel has won the annual election of Civil Services Academy Employees Association (CSAEA) held here on Sunday. The elected office bearers include Rana Jafar Hussain president, Waheed Ahmad senior vice-president, Muhammad Hanif vice president, senior vice president Waheed Ahmed, ...

LAHORE - PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has appointed a prominent campaigner of his release during his seven years in jail and his spokesperson at the time, Mian Shams, as the partys new Central Deputy Secretary Information after Haider Zaman Qureshi resigned on Monday. He was chief campaigner ...

LAHORE Chairman Board of Management Fatima Jinnah Medical College and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Justice (r) Mian Mehboob Ahmad on Saturday inaugurated newly-constructed dermatology in-door unit at the hospital. The unit is constructed at cost of Rs 5 million, donated by various philanthropists. The ...