CHIANG MAI, Thailand Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned Monday.From Central to Southeast Asia, regional efforts to secure water have sparked tensions between neighbours reliant on ...

tando muhammad khanThe unavailability of vaccines for children in public sector healthcare facilities mainly due to the indifference and negligence of the District Health Department has been posing threats to newborns across the district, complained the health experts and parents.“Most of ...

STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

KARACHI - The demonstrators vowed on the anniversary of Nakba Day on Tuesday that Pakistani nation would continue to fight for the oppressed Palestinians including their legitimate right to return their homeland. Hundreds of protestors attended the demonstration that was staged outside Karachi ...

The COAS, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, said: “The armed forces remain fully prepared to defeat any external direct threat.” This was, indeed, an apt, timely and direly needed statement. Undoubtedly, its primary task is to defend Pakistan from external threats. This threat from 1947 ...

BAGHDAD The United Nations warned on Friday that Iraq is at a ‘crossroads’ and appealed for restraint, as a bloody four-day wave of violence, including multiple attacks at mosques, killed 195 people."I call on the conscience of all religious and political leaders not to let anger win ...

LEIDEN,Netherlands: Dutch police arrested a former pupil at a British school in theNetherlandson Monday in connection with a threat to go on a shooting spree that saw armed police deployed and schools closed. Police in the university city of Leiden, just northeast of The Hague, confirmed one person ...

islamabad - Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, addressing a passing-out parade at Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Kakul on Saturday, said Pakistan was fully capable of responding effectively to any external threat.Gen Kayani congratulated all the graduating cadets on completion of their ...

LOS ANGELES  - A Los Angeles college campus was evacuated on Thursday after the university received a telephoned bomb threat, but no explosives were found during a search of the campus, police said.Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Commander Andrew Smith said the college made the ...

Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani says Pakistan is a peace loving country but it should not be considered its weakness.Addressing Cadets Passing Out Parade at PMA Kakul on Saturday‚ he said Pakistan is facing internal and external challenges which would be met through ...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after US troops complete their combat mission next year, reported a private TV channel quoting US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey in an ...

ISLAMABAD – Top political leaders of the country are under serious life threat, Caretaker Interior Minister Malik Habib disclosed on Saturday after a meeting with Director General Military Operations (DGMO).PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, PTI Chairman Imran Khan and some other top leaders are under ...

ISLAMABAD - It is a significant achievement for Pakistan’s democracy that political parties have agreed on a code of conduct for the upcoming elections, and it is crucial that they adhere to it to ensure free and fair polls.This was the opinion of participants at a seminar organised on Friday ...

RAWALPINDI - Threat of water shortage in the twin cities, despite lack of rains, has been diverted, according to WASA officials.MD WASA Shaukat Mehmood told that despite low water in all three dams which supply water to the twin cities, Simly Rawal and Khanpur Dam, enough water exists to cater to ...

ERIC S MARGOLIS - Mali is a huge, arid nation extending from the Sahara Desert and Algeria’s border in the north to the steamy south along the Niger River. Most of Mali’s 14.5 million people eke out an existence farming and fishing.France used to rule Mali as part of its West African ...

HYDERABAD  - Federal Minister Mola Bakhsh Chandio has said there is no threat to the country’s democracy as it has become strong enough to undo undemocratic moves. The minister was addressing a reception hosted in honour of film star Mustafa Qureshi and his wife Rubina Qureshi at ...

Former Foreign Minister and central leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Shah Mehmood Qureshi Monday indicated that there was no threat to democracy and government is taking democracy as a cover to hide its corruption.Talking to the media while arriving to the Multan airport he marked the ...

RAWALPINDI  – Dilapidated buildings in the markets of Purana Qilla are posing life threat.Purana Qilla is historical place and it consists of 7 bazaars. All the buildings are historical and ancient. They are so dilapidated that they can collapse any time, said a group of traders. Shops ...

 Women can play a vital role to control use of hard and soft narcotics in the society. Narcotics supply and demand are growing rapidly. Sheesha Cafés are just like “Drug Consumption Rooms.”  This was stated by Anti-Narcotics Campaign consultant Syed Zulfiqar Hussain. He ...

ISLAMABAD - As the judicial commission, probing into the memogate resumed hearing on Thursday to kick-off cross-examination, the main character of the episode, Mansoor Ijaz, carried on dropping bomb shells and accused influential Pakistani and American officials of harassing him in connection with ...

MEXICO CITY : The rise in US public debt is a serious threat to the whole world if Washington fails to rein it in, the head of the Institute of International Finance warned Saturday."You look at the US budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday said there is no threat to Pakistan as it is strong, stable and powerful country and its defence is in strong hands. Talking to newsmen here at Prime Minister House, he said, “There is no threat to Pakistan, no danger to Pakistan as it is a ...

A DEADLY parasite spread by a foreign species of fish may be threatening Britain's salmon and fresh water fish, researchers have found.  Biologists say they have found the rosette agent, a disease that has caused widespread damage in the United States, in a UK waterway for the first time. They ...

THE HAGUE - Dutch military police said Monday an unidentified man who locked himself in a toilet after making a bomb threat at Europe's fifth-largest airport had no explosives when he was arrested. "We did not find any explosive device on him," military police spokesman Robert van Kapel told AFP, ...

NEW YORK - A new study released by a US research group Wednesday shows that the number of Muslim-Americans who were arrested for plotting terrorist acts declined sharply over the past two years, and said they pose little threat to public safety.  The study, “Muslim American Terrorism in ...

SYDNEY  - Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has alerted police to an online stalker — a “deluded weirdo” issuing threats over Twitter, she wrote on the micro-blogging site on Tuesday. The diminutive singer told her more than one million followers on the site that she adored ...

Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were ...

Nearly nine months after the death of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Islamist terror group is still "a real threat" to the US.In an excerpt from a "60 Minutes" interview on CBS, to be broadcast this Sunday, Panetta was asked which countries the US was ...

LAHORE  - The medieval walled city of Lahore is under threat from a construction ‘free-for-all’ ruining centuries of heritage, as an ambitious Pakistani restoration project to protect it stalls. Rapid and illegal growth is crowding out the “old city” - the section of ...

ROME  - Militants from Italy's far-right Forza Nuova party hung "suicide puppets" outside tax collection offices on Friday, in the wake of a letter bomb explosion by the far left and other foiled attacks. Marco Forconi, party head for the Abruzzo region in central Italy, claimed responsibility ...