CHINIOTA Pakistani activist was honoured with 'Woman of the Courage Award.' Rubina Feroz Bhatti, a Pakistani social activist, working for peace and harmony, has been conferred upon 'Margrett Magney Mara/Woman of the courage Award' by the World Bank. Rubina has become first Pakistani to get this ...
KUALA LUMPUR : A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a Pakistani security guard with the murder of a US pastor, who was found strangled at his home in Kuala Lumpur last month, a report said. David James Ginter, 62, was found dead in his home on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital in May, his ...
The US handed over control of Afghanistan’s Bagram jail to the Kabul government three months ago. But nothing has changed for dozens of foreign inmates still locked up inside ‘the Afghan Guantanamo’.In what has been described as a “prison within a prison”, the US ...
ISLAMABAD - The first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women of her troubled country that they can achieve their dreams.Samina Baig last month became the first woman from the South Asian country to reach the 8,848 metre ...
KARACHI - Consul General of Malaysia Abu Bakar Mamat has proposed that Pakistan can use Malaysia as a central point of market access to ASEAN countries and enjoy trade/ distribution of Pakistani products to ASEAN/ Far East countries as Malaysia is the signatory of ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.He ...
LALAMUSAThe Norwegian Police have arrested three members of a Pakistan-born Norwegian family in connection with triple murder case of Mauza Daydar of Gujrat district.Those arrested included Muhammad Ashraf Gujjar, his wife and son. As per details, on May 18,Ghulam Haider Gujjar and his son Bashir ...
LALAMUSA- The Norwegian Police have arrested three members of a Pakistan-born Norwegian family in connection with triple murder case of Mauza Daydar of Gujrat district.Those arrested included Muhammad Ashraf Gujjar, his wife and son. As per details, on May 18,Ghulam Haider Gujjar and his son Bashir ...
JeddahWaqt TVIn the memory of Alama lqbal, an informative event was held the other day at the premises of the Pakistani International School, Aziziah (PISJ-Aziziah) Jeddah.The Pakistan Studies Forum at the PISJ-Aziziah in cooperation with Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust (Ideology of Pakistan) Trust ...
US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson said holding dialogue with Taliban is prerogative of Pakistani government.Talking to media here on Wednesday, Olson said holding dialogue with Taliban is prerogative of Pakistani government. However‚ he said‚ any reservations regarding these ...
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan.Midwest Fertilizer Corp, which has ...
BANTEN, Indonesia : An Indonesian court jailed an Australian and a Pakistani for six years each after the men were caught organising an asylum-seeker boat toAustralia, their lawyer said Wednesday. Ali Qaseem, a 57-year-old from Sydney described by prosecutors as part of an "international ...
UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned in “the strongest terms” the killing of a Pakistani peacekeeper serving the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A statement issued late Tuesday by the Secretary-General’s Spokesman Martin ...
A Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in an Indian jail died on Thursday, hospital officials said."His condition was extremely critical. He died early morning," a senior doctor at a government hospital in Chandigarh told AFP on condition of anonymity.Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head injuries ...
Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan has said that his party would endeavour to make one solid Pakistani nation who will have cheap justice.Addressing a public meeting at Kasur Monday he said that if any society which could not get justice‚ it would be bifurcated.He bitterly criticized the ...
The Spokesman for Foreign Office Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry has said the condition of injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah is still critical.In a media interview‚ he said that officials of Pakistani High Commission have visited Sanaullah Haq and the team of doctors on Sunday in the hospital.He said ...
Lahore - In what appeared to be a tit-for-tat assault, a 52-year old Pakistani prisoner, Rana Sanaullah Haq, serving a life term in a jail in Jammu, was brutally attacked by Indian inmates on Friday.There is outrage across Pakistan over the horrific assault on Sanaullah, as protests erupted in ...
Pakistan has urged India to ensure protection of Pakistani prisoners languishing in their jails.Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Chaudhry in an interview Saturday asked India to arrange safe return of those prisoners who have completed terms of their punishment.He said Pakistan is considering ...
We defiantly are the strangest nation on the face of this earth. We profess to love our country and are ready to die for it but we would all like to go for studies to UK, and after that we would like to work in any European country or USA or even UAE, we would like to settle down in any foreign ...
ISLAMABAD Physically Challenged Indian Cricket League (IPCL) would be launched from August 29 at Raja Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad, in which 15 Pakistan handicapped players would also be seen in action. Ravi Chauhan, secretary Physically Challenged Cricket Association of India told ...
NEW YORK - SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT - The punishment inflicted on former President Pervez Musharraf shows how quickly Pakistan's democratic institutions, most notably an independent judiciary and free Press, have matured over the past five years, an article in a major US newspaper said."An alert media ...
ISLAMABAD:- The Pakistan Cricket Board planned to send a group of secret monitors to keep an eye on its cricketers during their May-June tour to England in an effort to stop players from getting involved in any scandal. Official sources said the PCB had devised a strategy to avoid any scandal or ...
LAHORE - Every 9th countryman is suffering from liver diseases, putting the number of patients at 1.2 million in which around 300,000 patients are in a dire need of liver transplant.This was stated by Prof Amir Latif who is one of two professors of liver diseases and transplant in the country ...
KARACHI - Pakistani Deputy Ambassador to Nigeria Ahmed Ali Sirohey said that Nigeria was a big market for the country’s Pharma Products.He was addressing at a reception arranged in honour of leading Nigerian Pharma Industrialists delegation led by Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai.Chairman South Pakistan ...
RIYADH - Saudi authorities executed on Friday a Pakistani man convicted of rape and murder, in the northwestern town of Tabuk, the interior ministry said. Amjad Ali Kol was convicted of raping and strangling a woman, before stealing her money, the ministry said in a statement carried on ...
PESHAWAR - One Abdullah, resident of Peshawar, on Tuesday announced to leave for a ‘Peace Tour’ of ten countries via bicycle, aims to dispel the negative impression about Pakistan and promote a soften image of the motherland across the world. Addressing a news conference here at press ...
NEW DELHI - The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has given one month extension to Pakistani Hindus, who have refused to go back to their country due to terror incidents there. Reports Tuesday claimed that the Indian ministry gave one month extension to the Pakistani Hindus after their ...
The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former president Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile.Speaking to a private TV channel, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the group had set up squads of suicide bombers to assassinate ...
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded by the sword a Pakistani man convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said. Aqeel Khan Mohammed Riyad was convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin into the Muslim kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA. He ...
LAHORE – A group paintings exhibition of Pakistani artists is in progress at the Indonesian National Gallery Central Jakarta and drawing good crowd including Pakistani community members. According to a message received here from Jakarta, the group art show titled ‘A Glimpse into ...
A soldier of Pakistan Army, who had mistakenly crossed the Line of Control (LoC) along disputed Kashmir region on Thursday was killed in firing from Indian side.Security sources said the soldier, identified as Ikhlaq, lost his way and inadvertently crossed the LoC in Ratta sector in Jammu and ...






