Police claimed to have recovered 90,000 ballot papers from a vehicle in Chakdara area of Lower Dir district on Sunday.DIG Malakand range Obaidullah Khan told a private news channel that the police team recovered and confiscated the National Assembly ballot papers during the search of a vehicle and ...

RAHIM YAR KHANThe police have recovered a huge quantity of hashish from a trailer on National Highway near Sanjarpur, 45-km from here.Addressing a press conference, District Police Officer Sohail Habib Tajik told that on the orders of the Punjab IG Punjab Police, the district police enhanced ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Monday called upon the people of tribal areas to actively participate in the forthcoming general elections, terming it a good opportunity for them to change their destiny.He was addressing a grand tribal jirga of notables from Fata here at the Aiwan-e- Sadr ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to immediately take into possession the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s documents and files regarding grant of 525 licences to set up CNG stations.A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

The Dubai police foiled a bid to smuggle 52kg heroin to Africa in fruit shipment and arrested four Pakistanis involved.According to Director Dubai Anti-Narcotics, Major General Abdul Jalil Mahdi Muhammad Al Asmawi, during the first week of month the force got secret information that a gang of ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Coast Guards seized a huge cache of hashish and opium from Panwan area near Jiwani Gwadar, Balochistan on Sunday. The PCG had been tipped off about the bid to smuggle narcotics into the coastline area. Acting on this information, a special PCG team, while carrying out a snap ...

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Institute of Cardiology’s medicines claimed three lives in Sialkot and one in Gujranwala.The administration has started making emergency plan to get back these fatal medicines from the PIC registered patients across the Gujranwala Division. The Gujranwala Division ...

BANI WALID, Libya  - Diehard supporters of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Gaddafi seized control Monday of Bani Walid in a brazen attack on his one-time bastion that killed five people, officials told AFP.The assault on a base of former rebels who helped oust Gaddafi was the first major ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER MIANWALI - Police on Wednesday took large quantity of arms and hundreds of cartridges into custody and arrested a suspect as well. Following the directives of District Police Officer Waqas Nazir Ahmed, the Sadar sub-divisional police officer commanded the an operation. Under ...

HAFIZABAD - The Sukheke police have seized a huge quantity of charas and arrested three drug-peddlers while two of their accomplices managed escape. DPO M Tariq Chohan while addressing a press conference on Tuesday disclosed that the SHO Sukheke Police, on a a tip-off, raided Dera Northern in ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates appear to have seized a Taiwanese-owned fishing vessel, the FV Shiuh Fu No 1, near the north east tip of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, the European Naval force said on Thursday. The EU force said on its website the vessel was operating near the island when it ...

KABUL (AFP) - A NATO reconnaissance drone crashed in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, allowing insurgents to seize its camera, the coalition force said. The lightweight, medium-range spy aircraft went down after it lost engine power over the restive province of Kan-dahar, a ...

GREENSBORO (North Carolina) (AFP) Indias Arjun Atwal fired a nine-under par 61 on Thursday to match the tournament record and seize a two-stroke lead after the first round of the US PGA Wyndham Championship. Atwal, who played his way into the field by firing a 67 at another course on Monday in a ...

NAIROBI (AFP) - Somali pirates have hijacked a small cargo ship with a crew of nine Indians, an NGO monitoring maritime activity in the region said Thursday. Ecoterra International said in a statement that the 40-metre ship, the Abdul Razak, was taken earlier this week before heading into the Gulf ...

ISLAMABAD - Police on Monday raided a house at 'Tumair and recovered 2190 bottles of wine. On a tip-off, police team headed by DSP CIA Bashir Noon comprising Sub-Inspectors Bashir, Pervez, Assistant Sub-Inspectors Darya Khan, Hiader Ali and other police personnel raided the house of Tariq Mehmud ...

GENEVA (AFP) - A UN agency on Thursday called on the worlds poorest countries to seize the financial crisis as an opportunity to reform chronically frail economies, days after Barack Obama urged Africans to demand change. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned the 49 least ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli settlers seized a house in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem Old Citys on Thursday after breaking in before dawn, the owners family and witnesses said. The house belongs to Nasser Jaber and was vacant, as there were works going on, they said. The settlers broke down the door ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged the United States in a prepared speech Wednesday to "seize the moment" and rally its partners and allies behind coordinated efforts to address the global economic crisis. "I say we should seize the moment - because never before have I ...

A Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia was carrying 33 tanks and other weapons, the Ukrainian Defence Minister has confirmed, reports BBC. Earlier, the country's Foreign Ministry said the ship had a crew of 21 and was sailing under a Belize flag to the Kenyan port of ...

PESHAWAR - Amidst militants' claim that they have seized control of the Loyi Sum town by repulsing the security forces offensive Saturday, the traditional tribal jirga of Bajaur Agency again initiated efforts for a ceasefire. The ceasefire aimed at recovering the bodies of both Taliban and security ...

LIBREVILLE (AFP) - Chadian rebels fighting their way towards the capital Ndjamena took control Saturday of a town near the Sudanese border as former colonial ruler France condemned the rebel advance. Rebel and humanitarian sources told AFP that the town of Goz Beida, about 75 kilometres from the ...