District administration Kohistan has recovered dead bodies of nine more persons who were swept away by flash floods some four days back. Search for 15 persons missing in the calamity was underway. According to DCO Kohistan Syed Imtiaz Shah, dead bodies of nine victims of floods in the streams of ...

Nine persons including eight members of a family were killed in a head-on collision between two cars on Chichawatni road, some 12 km from here Burewala on Sunday wee hours. According to police, Muhammad Yousaf of E-block Burewala along with his family members Muhammad Ashraf, Fozia Ashraf and six ...

It was Rudyard Kipling who was largely responsible for the myth-making about the clans of what was known as the North-West Frontier. His tales and poems of men who would be kings, Pashtun traders and barrack-room ballads spread the legend of time-trapped tribes who were noble and fierce, enmeshed ...

KABUL (AFP) - An Afghan ex-pilot opened fire after a row at a Kabul training centre Wednesday, leaving eight US troops and an American contractor dead in the worst attack of its kind in almost a decade of war. Although the killings appear to have stemmed from a disagreement rather than a rebel ...

The government has relieved nine contractual officials from their duties on Friday. The Prime Minister has relieved Deputy Director Intelligence Bureau (IB) Asghar Mehmood, Additional I.G. Railway Mian Akhtar Hayat, DIG Major (Rtd) Khurram Gulzar, Nadir Khan, Pir Mohammed Abbasi, MD PHA Mohammed ...

Nine members of a family slain in Makhdoom Abad area of Mandi Bahauddin including four women and two children. The incident can be result of family feud, local police sources said. The dead bodies have been transferred to the District Headquarters Hospital Mandi Bahauddin.

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Nine men arrested in police raids a week ago have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain and with plotting terrorism offences, police said on Monday.The nine were among 12 men arrested on December 20 in what police said at the time were counter-terrorism raids essential to ...

Experts working at the site of a Cuban plane crash have recovered flight recorders and nine bodies of crash victims, a Cuban newspaper reported. The plane carrying 61 passengers, including 28 foreigners and seven crew members, crashed Thursday night in Cuba's central Santi Spiritus province. The ...

SRINAGAR (Agencies) Nine more Kashmiris died on Sunday in Occupied Kashmir, sparking further rallies against rule from New Delhi and the tactics of Indian security forces. The deaths come ahead of a visit by a high-level Indian political delegation, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, that is ...

In an attack on the convoy of the vehicles carrying logistical supplies to the US-NATO invading troops in Marjah, killed 9 escort soldiers and destroyed two of their vehicles on Friday.

At least nine vessels and 95 Indian sailors are still being held captive by pirates off the coast of Africa, a government official in Mumbai said on Tuesday. Six Indian boats with 78 sailors and another three foreign boats with 17 Indians on board are in the custody of Somali pirates, director ...

LAHORE HSBC Bank beat Al Khan/Tip Moor by 11-7 on the opening day of the National Championship for the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Cup at the Lahore Polo Club here on Tuesday. Al Khan/Tip Moore made a brilliant start and hit as many as four goals with all being field goals, before HSBC could settle their ...

Former US president George W Bush has said that his country was still very nervous even after nine years of the terror attack in 2001. "We are still very nervous after 9/11," Bush said as he pointed out reasons for listing Nigeria as a country of interest after the failed bombing plot by Umar ...

LAHORE - Owing to the negligence of PHA staff, stray dogs on Sunday tore into pieces nine precious peacocks confined in shabby cages at Bagh-e-Jinnah. The visitors expressed grief and sorrow over the gruesome incident and held the PHA officials responsible for the terrible episode. Following the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Paceman Ian Butler and spinner Daniel Vettori shared seven wickets as New Zealand restricted Pakistan to 233-9 in the Champions Trophy semi-final here on Saturday. Butler finished with a career-best 4-44 and left-arm spinner Vettori with 3-43 to boost their teams hopes of ...

PESHAWAR - At least nine people, including five children, were killed and 50 others injured when a high-intensity bomb exploded in one of the busiest markets of Dera Ismail Khan during rush hour on Sunday. Some unknown saboteurs had planted the bomb in an animal-driven cart, parked inside Gillani ...

ISLAMABAD - The trade deficit went down by 12.51 per cent in first nine months (July-March) of the current financial year as compared to the same period of last year and re-ordered at $12.71 billion. The Federal Bureau of Statistics on Friday released the latest trade figures, which reflected that ...

Twenty-five people were seriously injured when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed Wednesday morning while attempting to land at an airport near Amsterdam, killing nine, a Dutch official said. "Of the 50 people injured, 25 were seriously injured," mayor Michel Bezuijen of the Haarlemmermeer ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday hanged nine people convicted of murder in a mass execution in a Tehran prison as well as a drug trafficker in the north of the country, the Fars news agency reported. The Islamic republic has stepped up its use of the death penalty in an unprecedented crackdown to ...

LAHORE - Nine ties were decided on the fourth day of the National Rugby Championship here on Sunday. Islamabad beat University of Lahore, Baloshitan beat NWFP, Punjab defeated Sindh, Pakistan Steel thrashes Islamabad, Balochistan beat Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, FATA downed Sindh NWFP beat Pakistan ...

Nine people were burnt to death when a fire engulfed their house in Morrkhanda area of Nankhana Sahib on Friday morning. According to reports, an electrical shout circuit was blamed for the fire which spread to the entire house within no time, causing death of nine people including UC nazim Shikh ...

Nine people were killed and several others injured as a result of an explosion that ripped through a local mosque during Maghrib prayers here in Badan area of Mamond on Thursday, sources said. The local officials said the blast could be a suicide attack in which four persons were killed on the ...

Karachi (PPI) - As many as 42843 cases of child abuse were reported in Pakistan during last nine years, reports Madagaar helpline run by Lawyers for Human Rights & Legal Aid LHRLA. Releasing the data on the occasion of Universal Children's Day falling on November 20, the Madadgaar said 20013 boys ...

KARACHI - Showing robust growth both in sales and profitability, the fertilizer companies' profit grew by 45 per cent during (January to September 2008) nine months of running calendar year 2008. The total profit (after tax deduction) of all the listed fertilizer companies increased to Rs11.489b ...

 An Iranian official says nine people were wounded after an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hit southern Iran.  The director of Hormozgan province emergency department, Yasser Hazbavi, says the quake shook the port town of Kong late Saturday evening. The quake is part of a series of ...

Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped near Sudan's disputed central oil district of Abyei, the Chinese embassy said on Sunday, with a Sudanese driver also feared missing. "Nine Chinese oil workers, they are kidnapped," an embassy spokesman told a foreign news agency, asking not to ...

A man opened fire at a college in southwestern Finland Tuesday, killing at least nine students, officials said. the emergency services gather outside the school in Kauhajoki, Finland. The emergency services gather outside the school. The shooter then tried to kill himself but was not successful, ...

Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban, authorities said. The fighting erupted at about 1:30 am when Afghan and international soldiers moved into a district without ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A civilian Mi-8 helicopter crashed in northwest Siberia on Wednesday killing at least nine people, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. "According to provisional information, there were 16 people on board, including three crew members. At least nine people died," ministry ...