JUBA - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir visited South Sudan Friday in a sign of easing tensions after the two states ended a row over crucial oil exports and put behind them bloody border battles last year.It was the first time Bashir travelled to South Sudan since attending the country's ...

Federal Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, elder brother of assassinated KP senior minister Bashir Bilour, on Monday said his brother’s assassination united the nation.Speaking at a public gathering in Peshawar, the federal minister said although the Pakistani Taliban had taken his ...

PESHAWAR – Awami National Party senior leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour, who was martyred in a suicide blast on Saturday, was laid to rest at Syed Hasan Pirbiri graveyard on Sunday amid national mourning.National flags were hoisted at half-mast on all the government buildings throughout Pakistan. A ...

Prominent politicians were among mourners Sunday paying their last respects amid tight security to a Pakistani provincial minister killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Taliban.Bashir Bilour, senior minister of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was killed along with eight other people ...

A bomb blast in the Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar killed Provinical MPA Bashir Ahmed Bilour along with eight others and injured at least 18 people on Saturday.Apart from him, his Personal Secretary Noor Muhammad and SHO Abdul Sattar were also lost their lives in the blast. The ANP leader ...

LAHORE - Former Rustam-e-Asia Bashir Bhola Bhala won ‘Dangal Kings’ title here at the Iqbal Park on Sunday. Bashir took 15 minutes to defeat Dahya Pahlwan and won the title over points. Dahya had no answers to the former Rustam-e-Asia’s tactics and techniques that entertained the ...

JAKARTA  - Indonesia’s top court on Monday upheld a 15-year jail term against Islamist militant Abu Bakar Bashir for terrorist acts, reversing an earlier decision to slash the sentence to nine years.Bashir is regarded as a spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia — the ...

LAHORE - Muhammad Yousaf Bashir has got 1st position in MS Communication Studies programme, session 2008-10, says a Press release. He has been awarded three gold medals, University Gold Medal, Hameed Nizami Gold Medal & Miskeen Hijazi Gold Medal in 120th convocation of University of the Punjab. ...

LAHORE–Lahore High Court Justice Mansoor Ali Shah on Wednesday sought reply from Punjab Governor on a writ petition challenging appointment of governor’s former advisor Zahid Bashir as Red Cross Society Punjab chapter chairman.Petitioners Liaqat Ali and Muhammad Munawar submitted that ...

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Foreign Affairs Salman Bashir left for Washington on Tuesday in an effort to bring Pak-US relations to normalcy, which have been in tatters following the Raymond Davis episode. Sources said that Bashir accompanied by two director generals was visiting US on special invitation ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday announced conferment of civil award of Hilal-e-Shujaat on Bashir Ahmad Bilour, Senior Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in recognition of his services and steadfastness in the war against militancy. The President said this in a meeting with Bashir Ahmad Bilour, ...

SIMON TISDALL Bashing Omar al-Bashir is a popular pastime in progressive circles, not least in the conscience-flaunting milieus favoured by actor George Clooney and other celebrity campaigners. Sudans President, demonised by the UN over Darfur, pre-judged by the international criminal courts chief ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese President, has siphoned as much as $9b out of his impoverished country, and much of it may be stashed in London banks, according to secret US diplomatic cables that recount conversations with the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, ...

Reiterating his strong stance that Pakistan Air Force is one of the best in the world and can tackle any nefarious design of the enemy, Pakistan Navy Chief Admiral Noman Bashir on Thursday underlined that with the induction of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, country's defence will be reinforced thus a ...

Pakistan Navy will continue to contribute both individually and as part of international coalition towards maintaining freedom of the high seas. These views were expressed by Admiral Noman Bashir, Chief of the Naval Staff while addressing the graduation of 39th Pakistan Navy Staff Course held at ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir called on Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday and handed over the latest Indian dossiers provided to Islamabad during the secretary-level talks on February 25 to the latter. Pakistans High Commission in India Shahid Malik also attended the ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday visited the residence of his teacher, late Prof. Bashir Ahmad Malik, and conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the family on the sad demise of the noted educationist. PM offered Fateha for the departed soul and prayed that may Allah Almighty rest his ...

The Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Noman Bashir, has made it very clear that Pakistan fully honours its international obligations, agreements and contracts. We do not violate these as this was our policy and principle in the past as is very much so today, he said while replying to a question ...

The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India met here late Tuesday night on the sidelines of NAM summit in a bid to start the peace process and resolve other issues of mutual importance. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir while briefing media after his one and a half hour long meeting with Indian ...

DOHA (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied an international arrest warrant by travelling to Doha on Sunday for an Arab summit, where the decision of Egypt's leader to stay away dimmed unity hopes. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, who has also flown in to the Qatari capital, will still ...

An Additional Session Judge on Thursday indicted four persons, including NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour, in Abdul Wahab murder case. During the hearing, the court heard the arguments of lawyers representing two sides and convicted them. The court ordered all the witnesses to appear before ...

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir has assumed the Command of Pakistan Navy in a graceful 'change of command' ceremony at the Naval Headquarters in Karachi today (Tuesday). Speaking on the occasion, Admiral Noman Bashir said that Pakistan Navy was fully prepared to protect maritime ...

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday sent an envoy to seek Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's support against legal moves over the conflict in Darfur, the state news agency JANA reported. Vice-President Ali Usman Muhammad Taha briefed Gaddafi on the legal action undertaken by ...

United Nations  - The world reacted cautiously on Monday after the International Criminal Court urged the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges, a move welcomed with glee by Darfur rebels. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he expects the Khartoum government to guarantee the ...