KOCHI - Even while Mumbai and Delhi police departments are betting big on their catch of bookies including IPL cricketers in IPL spot-fixing scandal, top police officials of Kerala Police are of the opinion that the cricketers like Sreesanth might be small players and many big shots are involved in ...

NEW DELHI - Indian police said Sunday they had widened their probe into cricket spot-fixing after the arrest of three players and 11 bookmakers, warning that more teams were under the microscope. Test discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was among a trio of players from the Rajasthan Royals arrested on ...

KARACHI - The Shirazi group said that President House was influencing the government officials to rig the elections in favour of PPP candidates in the Thatta district.They appealed to the Election Commission and the Supreme Court to take notice of the partial role of caretaker government of the ...

LAHORE –Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday claimed to have arrested two accused allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 22 millions. In first case, Imran Rafique was arrested for getting loan of Rs 20 millions fraudulently. Imran’s father and others were also ...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Karachi and Quetta are being targeted through organized campaign and more terror activities are expected in the coming days across the country.Talking to media persons here in Islamabad on Monday, Rehman Malik pointed out that a third party was ...

QUETTA - While rejecting the number of missing persons, Inspector General Frontier Corps (IG FC) Balochistan, Major General Ubaidullah Khan Khattak has said those people who were listed as missing were hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or India.He expressed these views while laying a foundation stone ...

KABUL - US authorities are looking into allegations that some Afghan Air Force (AAF) officials have been using aircraft to transport narcotics and illegal weapons across the country, a US official said on Thursday.“At this point allegations are being examined,” said Lt. Col. Tim ...

ISLAMABAD – JUI-S leader Maulana Samiul Haq on Saturday said Darul Uloom Haqqania, the seminary he manages, has no involvement in the assassination of former premiere Banazir Bhutto, declaring a report in this regard as a conspiracy.A government report said the officials had given lists of ...

QUETTA - The Balochistan government on Sunday strongly denied reports that some provincial ministers were involved in kidnapping for ransom and smuggling cases.A spokesman in an official handout, while reacting to the news item published in some newspapers, said those having reservations should ...

ISLMABAD - All Pakistan CNG Association has demanded of the government and Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to not to become party in propaganda against the CNG sector.“CNG sector is neither involved in gas theft nor gas consumption in this sector is significantly higher than other ...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that fugitive militant commander Maulana Fazlullah was sending terrorists from Gilgit to Karachi for targeted killing. The minister told media on Saturday that a group identified as Death Squad was involved in sectarian killing in Karachi and the law ...

QUETTA - Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani has said that foreign elements were involved in deteriorating law and order situation in Balochistan who through local agents were destabilising the province.‘These elements are creating rifts between Balochs and settlers which is ...

The security personnel have arrested five militants involved in Chamalang attack from a private hospital here  in Dera Ghazi Khan on Friday.According to details, the nabbed terrorists had attacked and killed 14 security personnel, including a Major rank official, while they were going to take ...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that exotic powers are involved in conspiracies to destabilise Balochistan and joint efforts are needed to deal with the situation. Talking to media persons here in Quetta on Saturday, Rehman Malik said that due to negligence of past governments, Balochistan ...

CHANDIGARH (APP): The names of three Major Generals, six Brigadiers and three women figure in the list of 113 persons "involved" in the sale of weapons that were procured at concessional rates from Indian Army's Central Ordinance Depot. The weapons, meant for personal use, were later sold in the ...

Sindh Police chief has said violent incidents at Katti Pahari area of Karachi were not ethnic based and the land mafia was involved in violence. Talking to media after Police Darbar in Sukkur I.G. Sindh Wajid Ali Durrani said that a terrorist was arrested in Karachi with an Israel-made gun. In a ...

A secret cable of 2006 has revealed some serious problems within the local community being instigated by Mukhtaran Mai's family in her home district of Mianwali. The cable was written by US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and sent to Washington on 07-12-2006. The cable by the US ambassador refers to a ...

LAHORE About 255 accused, allegedly involved in dozens of felony acts, were arrested by the Mujahid Squad during the last 15 days of the current month, a police handout said on Tuesday. It said 27 proclaimed offenders and 31 court absconders are also among the arrested accused, while 182 cases ...

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has not been held responsible for the death of even one American for the past five years, yet the US continues to play the al-Qaeda card and provide the countrys regime with military aid. In an interview with Press TV, Ali al-Ahmed, director of Intitute (Persian) Gulf Affairs ...

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir on Monday again made it clear that if more names are disclosed in Agosta Submarine scam then undoubtedly we will take provocative action against them. Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir expressed these views during a quick chat with Media ...

LAHORE - During preliminary inquiry, FIA sources on Saturday revealed that former director of Centre for Applied Molecular Biology (CAMB) and Centre for Excellence Molecular Biology (CEMB), Prof Dr Riazuddin was involved in misuse of authorities in financial matters. Sources quoted an investigator ...

About 141 prisoners escaped from a jail in Nuevo Laredo, a town in northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, probably with the help of the chief warden, officials said on Friday. Police sources earlier told Xinhua over the phone that 148 had escaped in the incident that took place Thursday night, but ...

LAHORE - Pakistan cricket Tuesday plunged into new crisis as bookie Mazhar Majeed claimed that four more players were involved in fixing international matches besides the suspended trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. Mazhar Majeed, the UK based bookie who was at the centre of ...

Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi said that the parliamentarians involved in breaching of safety dykes along rivers should be expelled from the House added that he would distribute funds in his constituency on Eidul Fitar among the flood victims. Talking to a private TV ...

PML(N) has submitted the Adjournment Motion with the signature of seven Parliamentarians including Hanif Abbasi, Mohammad Asad, Mrs. Nisar Tanvir, Sherin Arshad Khan, Nazhat Sadiq and Nighat Perveen in National Assembly Secretariat against the National Cricket Team Players involved in match fixing. ...

The Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) has sent two accused, involved in attacks on worships of Qadianis, to jail on 14-day judicial remand and adjourned the hearing till July 12. According to media reports, the two accused Maaz and Abdullah, who were arrested for attacking on Qadiyani worshipping places ...

KARACHI - Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief, Sheikh Rasheed on Sunday claimed that Punjabis were involved in majority of suicide attacks but Pathans are wrongly being maligned. Addressing a Press conference here in Karachi, Sheikh Rasheed said that extremist trends were on the rise in urban areas of ...

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said development funds be released to parliamentarians timely and their utilization be monitored and if it is observed that respective parliamentarian is committing corruption in the funds then a report to this effect be sent ...

LAHORE - The Chairman Punjab Cooperatives Liquidation Board (PCBL) Nazar Chohan has been found involved in financial embezzlement and moral corruption, as the Intelligence Bureau has sent a confidential report to the Punjab government, sources revealed here on Saturday. The report (a copy of which ...

QUETTA - Police on Monday claimed to have arrested two persons in connection with the incidents of kidnapping for ransom from the provincial capital. According to official sources, SHO Civil Lines Police Station Abdul Rahim Khokar and Additional SHO Iftikhar on a tip-off raided a hideout at Sariab ...