BAHAWALPUR - Because of alleged negligence of the doctors at Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur, a child died leading to a protest demonstration by the deceased’s family members.The protesters blocked the Circular Road in Bahawalpur by setting fire to tyres. The road remained closed for two ...

The Afghan government and businessmen have suffered huge losses as a result of a two-month Iranian blockade of hundreds of fuel trucks, officials said. Following a series of protests in the country, traders announced cutting all commercial links with Iran. They warned that the boycott would stay ...

A top U.N. official has portrayed as "a drop in the bucket" the recent easing of some Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods into Gaza when compared to the needs of the 1.5 million Palestinians living ikn the Strip. A drop in the bucket, of course, is not a half-full glass, said John Ging, ...

A key route for NATO supply trucks through southwest Pakistan into Afghanistan reopened Wednesday five days after tribesmen blocked it over the killing of a man in a drugs raid, police said. Hundreds of trucks and tankers have been stranded since Friday along the highway between Quetta and the ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday renewed his call for an end to the Israeli blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, regretting that his earlier pleas had gone unheeded. "The secretary-general continues to express his concern at the humanitarian situation in Gaza," a statement from his office said. ...

Residents of Kurram Agency facing food shortage as Peshawar-Par Central High Way and other roads remain closed for eight months now.Sources say, ongoing tribal fighting has caused the closure of Peshawar-Para Highway remain from the last eight months. People of Parachinar, Boghra, Pewar and ...

Al- Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has called on Muslims to help lift the Israeli blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, in an audio message purportedly recorded by the Al-Qaeda chief and posted on the Internet. Bin Laden called on Muslims, especially those in Egypt, to work to break the "unjust ...