HAFIZABADA 25-year-old villager was tortured to death allegedly by the Kaleke Police and following protest by the villagers, the police have registered a case against three policemen and a villager and arrested Muharrir Umar Draaz while the other managed to escape. According to Muhammad Rafique, a ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice of the excessive loadshedding across the country, caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso directed the Ministry of Water and Power to take immediate measures to bridge the widening gap between the electricity demand and supply. The premier gave these directions while ...

The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists.Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular Resistance Committee. He was killed ...

OKARA - Protesters blocked the GT Road by setting fire to old tyres in the wake of deaths of three motorcyclists in a road accident near Toll Plaza. The protests suspended vehicular movement for hours. The infuriated protesters also pelted stones at many vehicles and broke their windscreens. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SADIQABAD - Hundreds of students and relatives of a student, who was allegedly molested by the principal of a school, held a protest demonstration and blocked the Shahbaz Road for hours by setting fire to old tyres, while the supporters of the principal resorted to aerial firing ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER FAISALABAD - Dozens of students of University of Agriculture Faisalabad staged a protest demonstration against the university administration for increasing prospectus price from Rs 300 to Rs 1,500 and announcing a test for M Sc, M Phil and MS admissions. They demanded immediate ...

ISLAMABAD - Leaders of important political parties, for expediency or the other reasons known to them, refused to condemn or offer any comment on a celebration of the US Embassys hosting of Pakistans first ever lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) 'Pride Celebration, however, religious ...

ISLAMABAD - The lawmakers in the Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday demanded of the Chairman Senate Farooq H Naek to initiate action against PML-N member of the National Assembly, Anusha Rahman, for writing an article in a newspaper that had disgraced the chair as well as Parliament. ...

THE mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular. Discovered in 2004, the icy rim is as much as 20km high and runs fully 1,600km from end to end. No explanation for its existence has yet won total support; it is a puzzle. Dr Andrew Dombard ...

China celebrated its rise to a world power over 60 years of Communist rule on Thursday, staging its biggest-ever parade of military hardware with over a hundred thousand marching masses in a display that stirred patriotism -- and some unease. Police blocked off a wide area around central Beijings ...

BIRMINGHAM (Reuters) - Taunted by racists as a Paki and terrorist, Haroon bin Khaled spent his teenaged years feeling rejected by mainstream Britain and increasingly drawn to Al-Qaeda extremism. But the young Muslim of Pakistani descent found an unexpected answer to his alienation the day he heard ...

LAHORE - A hoax call about the presence of a bomb in the Fortress Stadium Saturday created wave of terror and fear among its management, visitors and the shopkeepers. Heavy contingent of the police followed by the bomb disposable squad officials and senior police officers rushed to the Stadium. ...