ISLAMABAD - Amid demands from certain political parties to verify the thumb impressions of voters on ballot papers to prove rigging allegations, higher authorities in the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Thursday conceded that the authority at the moment had no capacity to ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday has conceded that it has failed in conducting free and fair election in Karachi, home to at least 20 million people and commercial hub of the country.According to a statement came after some political parties decided to boycott the historic elections ...

New Delhi - India at last on Monday admitted Sarabjit Singh was an agent for Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Pakistan.According to an Indian intelligence official, Sarabjit Singh was sent to Pakistan for an operation managed by a senior RAW official, who later became the external intelligence ...

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been in an out of jail and rehab centres a couple of times, said she has taken drugs only four or five times. The 26-year-old actress has been on probation since 2007 when she was first caught for drink and driving. "Everyone thinks I've done it so many times. But ...

KABULAfghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday confirmed that his government received money from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), following reports of cash being handed over in suitcases and backpacks.“Yes, the NSC of Afghanistan has received money from CIA in the past 10 years. The ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has admitted that his office received secret payments from the United States.He was responding to a New York Times report that alleged the CIA sent suitcases stuffed with cash to the president's office on regular basis.In a statement‚ Karzai said that the money ...

NEW YORK: Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am has admitted infringing copyright with his new song, “Let’s Go.” The admission comes a week after he was accused of plagiarising the beats of “Rebound,” originally recorded by DJs Arty and Mat Zo. “LOL what?” ...

LOS ANGELES : AUSsoldier pleaded guilty Monday to killing five of his colleagues inIraqfour years ago, in a plea deal to escape a death sentence, a military spokesman said. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of the May 2009 murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

Islamabad High Court has admitted a petition challenging sub-jail status given to farm house of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.Petitioner Advocate Muhammad Ashraf Gujjar had challenged the notification issued by Chief Commissioner Islamabad, which declared the former president’s Chak ...

 MONACO - Rafael Nadal admitted Monday that his incredible 42-match, 10-year unbeaten run at Monte Carlo will end one day, but he is in no hurry to see that day.The 26-year-old Spaniard, who last lost on the clay of Monte Carlo as a fresh-faced 16-year-old when then-clay court king Guillermo ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf acknowledged his government secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first time a top past or present Pakistani official has admitted publicly to such a deal.Pakistani leaders long have openly challenged the drone program and insisted they had no part in it. ...

DAMASCUS - Al-Qaeda in Iraq admitted on Tuesday to long-held suspicions it is behind jihadists fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as Washington said it was mulling new ways to drive him from power.The mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army kept its distance from the jihadists, insisting its ...

MULTAN - A Division bench of the Lahore High Court Multan, comprising Justice Ijaz Ahmad and Justice Ibadur Rehman Lodhi on Monday admitted an appeal filed by former PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti against his jail sentence in fake degree case.Dasti, who was preparing for contesting elections against former ...

MULTAN - A Division bench of the Lahore High Court Multan, comprising Justice Ijaz Ahmad and Justice Ibadur Rehman Lodhi on Monday admitted an appeal filed by former PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti against his jail sentence in fake degree case.Dasti, who was preparing for contesting elections against former ...

LONDON (AFP) - A man pleaded guilty in London to attacking the Indian military leader of the contentious 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault, in which India’s army raided a shrine occupied by Sikh separatist militants. Retired lieutenant general Kuldip Singh Brar, the commander of Operation ...

The United States has admitted it lacks evidence to convict the Hafiz Saeed of terrorism despite slapping a $10m (£6.3 million) bounty on his head for his capture and conviction, Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. The decision to name Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, on the US State ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday admitted for hearing a petition seeking stay order against flight of training aircraft in residential areas and sought reply from  the Civil Aviation, federal and provincial government. The petition was filed by advocate Ishtiaq Ahmad Chaudhry.The ...

An Uzbek man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill U.S. President Barack Obama, the New York Daily News reported.Ulugbek Kodirov has been held without bail since he was arrested at a motel in the U.S. state of Alabama in July last year after buying a machine gun from an undercover federal agent. ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted a petition for regular hearing that urged the court to stop the government from sacking Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director-General (DG) Shuja Ahmed Pasha.A three-member bench headed ...

DUBAI : Andy Flower admitted England were simply not ready to take on Pakistan. "I don't think our commitment and our hunger to win has been down," he said. "But (we spent a) couple of months out of the game. Looking back now I don't think we were ready. I shoulder that side of the blame because it ...

LOS ANGELES Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the “Harry Potter” movies during a period in his life where he was drinking “nightly,” the young star said in an interview. “I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem. People ...

 The Lahore High Court (LHC) has formed a judicial commission to probe the medicine reaction deaths, a private TV reported Monday. The LHC has formed the commission after being approached by the Punjab government. The commission will comprise of Justice Ijaz ul Hasan. Prior to the formation of ...

NEW YORK - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says he is “very concerned” about a Pakistani doctor who was arrested for providing key intelligence for the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, while also repeating US claims that someone in authority in Pakistan knew about al-Qaeda ...

US Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a conference of House Democrats in Maryland today, and in discussing the SEAL Team raid that successfully took out Osama bin Laden, he admitted that he advised President Obama not to carry out the mission because “we have to do more things to see if ...

Islamabad - The Supreme Court on Thursday admitted a petition for regular hearing against Sharmila Farooqui’s eligibility for adviser to Sindh chief minister as well as member of  Cabinet. A 3-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, ordered removal of objections placed by ...

KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, appearing to assert his own role in a US-led bid for negotiations to end the country’s decade-long war.Karzai made the announcement hours before he ...

Nicole Kidman admits she’s “boring”. The Oscar-winning actress says not many people think she’s that fun because she no longer drinks alcohol and stays on the soft drinks when she goes out.Speaking at the Golden Globes, the mother-of-four - whose husband Keith Urban has a ...

KARACHI - Deputy Governor State Bank of Pakistan Kamran Shazad has said that the mortgage finance guidelines are being streamlined by the SBP.He stated this while addressing a seminar organized by the ABAD on ‘Role of construction and its allied industries in the economy’ at ABAD house ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted the petition of former ambassador of Pakistan to the US Husain Haqqani to review the court verdict in Memogate case.It should be mentioned here that Haqqani submitted the review petition on Monday through his counsel Asma Jahangir. The ...

FAISALABAD - The city police officer of Faisalabad has said that to control crime completely is impossible as hundreds of people visit the industrial city daily, adding that the police were trying their level best to ensure peace here.Talking at the Aiwan Waqt Faisalabad bureau office, Bilal ...