DOHA : The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, is preparing to hand control of the gas-rich Gulf state to his son, Qatari diplomats and officials said. A cabinet reshuffle is also expected in which powerful Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani may lose his post, or at least ...

ISLAMABAD - Sheer negligence on part of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) costs Raja Imtiaz, an employee of Pakistan Sports Trust (PST) working under the PSB, life of his brilliant son. According to details Imtaiz’ son, who won gold medal in Mathematics, lost his battle against blood cancer at the ...

GUJRANWALAA man threw acid on his wife and two-year-old son over a minor issue here on Thursday.According to police sources, the incident occurred on Nowshera Sansi Road when the man identified as Mustaqeen, threw acid on his wife, Samina and son Luqman after his wife refused to give him money for ...

RAHIM YAR KHANThrough a video message, the kidnappers of a doctor, his son and driver who were kidnapped one and a half months ago from Multan, have demanded the release of their accomplices from police custody and threatened to kill the victims if their demand was not accepted till June 5.Dr Khan ...

NEW DELHI - The son-in-law of India's cricket board chief was on Sunday suspended from "any involvement" in the sport pending an inquiry into his role in a spot-fixing scandal, officials said. Gurunath Meiyappan, part of the management team of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings, was ...

DHAKA - A Bangladeshi court Sunday issued an arrest warrant for the eldest son of former prime minister Khaleda Zia on charges of laundering three million dollars in Singapore, a lawyer said.Bangladesh’s anti-graft watchdog in July 2010 charged Tareque Rahman and one of his business partners ...

MUMBAI- Indian police have arrested the son-in-law of the country's cricket chief in a spot-fixing probe as the government announced Saturday a new law to crack down on cheating in sport. Gurunath Meiyappan, part of the management team of Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings, ...

ATLANTA: A man and his son graduated together from Morehouse College in Georgia, with the son saying he is “proud of his dad as a man” for going back to school. Dorian Joyner Sr, 46, was a student at the college in 1988 when he decided to take some time off. He pursued a career in ...

Bhopal - In another horrific incident, a 15-year-old Dalit girl was set afire by a youth’s father whose son was arrested by Indian police on molestation charges filed by the victim.Reports indicate the Dalit girl suffered 90 percent burn injuries and is battling for her life at a hospital in ...

LAHORE - Former Punjab Chief Secretary Salman Siddique’s son and newly-elected MPA from Shaikhupura Ali Salman has joined the PML-N, The Nation has learnt. Ali Salman, contesting election as an independent candidate, had defeated PML-N aspirant during recently held general polls. Ali ...

KARACHI  - PPP Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the abduction of Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, and demanded his immediate recovery and steps for the protection of candidates and their families. Shocked over Ali ...

multan - Unidentified armed men kidnapped Syed Ali Haider Gilani, the youngest son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, and killed two of his companions here on Thursday.Haider Gilani is a PPPP candidate from PP-200 constituency and he was on his election campaign in Farrukh Town when ...

Gunmen on Thursday kidnapped the son of a former prime minister on the last day of campaigning for elections and shot dead one of the son's aides, police said.Ali Haider Gilani, a candidate for the Punjab provincial assembly, was seized in a hail of gunfire on the outskirts of the city of Multan in ...

  CAIRO : An angry Egyptian mob has lynched the teenage son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, accusing him of killing a man over Facebook comments critical of the Islamist movement, security sources said Saturday. The violence that took place on Thursday in the Nile Delta was the latest in a ...

  TAIPEI   Hollywood star Will Smith said Friday that he will probably shoot a comedy with his son Jaden when they team up for the third time in film-making. Smith, who arrived in Taiwan on Thursday on a promotional tour, said it was “fantastic” to work with the 15-year-old in ...

Karachi - Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Sadiq Zaman Khattak, contesting for NA-254 Karachi, was gunned down along with his four-year-old son by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Bilal Colony on Friday.Following the killing, the Election Commission postponed polls in the constituency while ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Thursday declared illegal the detention of Maulana Muavia Azam Tariq under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and ordered the Punjab government to release him.On February 17, the Punjab government detained him under 16 MPO after declaring him threat to peace. Maulana ...

ZINTAN,Libya: Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town ofZintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in November 2011. Saif al-Islam, at the centre of a legal tussle betweenLibyaand the International Criminal ...

  NEW DELHI   An Indian businessman who let his nine-year-old son cruise around in his Ferrari has been arrested after posting footage of the youngster at the wheel on YouTube, police said on Monday. Mohammed Nisham, from the southern state of Kerala, uploaded the 88-second clip of his ...

LAHORE  A 50-year-old man died as he suffered from heart attack after watching his 20-year-old son in critical condition at hospital, police sources said on Friday.Residents told the police that the man, identified as Muhammad Asghar, rushed to hospital to see his son, Mumtaz who was admitted ...

SARGODHA Four persons including a woman and her son died and eight others injured in separately mishaps occurred across the district on Thursday. As per detail, an uncontrolled heavy dumper crushed a motorcyclist namely Muhammad Sajjad and his mother Haleema. The deceased were resident of village ...

lahoreMian Omar Mansha, son of Mian Muhammad Mansha, Pakistan’s richest man, was arrested Thursday on the charge of display of weapons and interfering in official affairs following a scuffle with a policeman at a police picket in Lahore’s Nishtar Colony, officials sources said. A case ...

At least four people including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Balochistan chapter’s President Sanaullah Zehri’s son, brother and nephew were killed in a blast near the leader’s convoy in Khuzdar district of the province, officials said on Tuesday.According to Lavi’s ...

SWABI – A hand grenade attack on ANP candidates contesting the polls here on Friday resulted in injuries to one of the workers while the target was former MNA Haji Rehmanullah and his son, former MPA Ameer Rehman who survived the attack here on Friday. Rehmanullah will be contesting election ...

KARACHI - In compliance with the orders of the Election Commission of Pakistan, the caretaker Sindh government on Friday made a great shuffle in the provincial bureaucracy.On the complaints of the opposition candidates in Sindh, the ECP two days ago sent a list of the 65 bureaucrats, instructing ...

HAFIZABAD - A police Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) thrashed a woman when her son plucked a guava from his tree here in suburban Chhanni Ghulla village.  According to villagers, Sardara'an minor son had plucked a guava from the tree owned by ASI Bashir Sabri which was resented by him. The ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

NEW YORK  - Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman was due back in a US federal court in New York Monday, a month after he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, reportedly a 47-year-old Kuwaiti and allegedly a senior propagandist in the Al-Qaeda network, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) declared former premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s son-in-law Shahnawaz Mehmood’s appointment in Pak-China Investment Company Limited (PCICL) illegal and directed the authorities concerned to revoke the appointment.The government of Pakistan ...

RAWALPINDI - The son, driver and security guard of former Nazim Union Council Dhaman Syedan and PML-N leader Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas mercilessly thrashed a poor welder and injured him critically on Thursday by firing bullet into his leg at Jarahi area on Adyala Road over welding the broken bumper ...