TBILISI :  Georgian authorities have detained former prime minister Vano Merabishvili, one of the top allies of President Mikheil Saakashvili, and another senior ex-official on corruption charges, local prosecutors said Tuesday. Prosecutors in the region of Georgia's second largest city ...

NEW YORK A leading American newspaper on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to invite PML-N President and Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif to Washington for an "early visit" in a bid to repair the "badly damaged" US-Pakistan relations."Nawaz Sharif faces staggering challenges," The New ...

LAHORE - Top Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to people to sink their differences concerning general elections and work hand in hand for a progressive and self-reliant Pakistan. “We all have to work together for welfare and well being of our people,” said ...

  NAIROBI : A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranians to life in prison on terror-related charges, including the possession of explosives allegedly to be used in bomb attacks. “I shudder to imagine the amount of damage that could have been seen,” judge Kiarie Waweru Kiarie ...

  SYDNEY: An Australian is being detained on terrorism-related charges in Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr revealed Thursday, with the man’s brother claiming he has been tortured. Shayden Thorne, 25, has been held in a jail outside Riyadh for almost 18 months, reportedly after a ...

The Supreme Court Monday resumed hearing of five petitions seeking framing of charges against former president Pervez Musharraf under Article six for imposing emergency in 2007 and abrogating the Constitution.During, the three-member bench, headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, rejected request of ...

CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters but he will remain in custody pending investigation into fraud charges, state media reported. The Cairo Court of Appeal ordered Mubarak’s release after the expiry of ...

KARACHI – The National Accountability Bureau has arrested a secretary of the Sindh government on charges of corruption of million of rupees. According to NAB spokesman, an intelligence team of NAB conducted a raid on Sajjad Haider Shah’s residence in Block-2 Clifton and arrested him. ...

ISLAMABAD - AHMAD AHMADANI - The US government has written a letter to Government of Pakistan asking it to withdraw additional charges - International Clearing House (ICH) on incoming call to Pakistan, sources said on Friday. The sources in telecom sector disclosed that US government in its letter ...

KARACHI - Stakeholders of different trades and professions on Monday objected to the proposal of 76 paisa per unit hike in electricity on account of fuel adjustment charges by Karachi Electric Supply Company.  During a hearing of Nepra, the stakeholders rejected outright the increase in power ...

Islamabad - As a major setback to Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Islamabad police have recently booked one of the advisors of Imran Khan on charges of allegedly raping wife of his business partner. The case that is currently under investigation of Islamabad police somehow could not draw attention ...

LAHORE – While rejecting the allegations of loans’ default against the Sharif family, former Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Friday challenged the NAB to prove the charges within 24 hours or be ready to face the defamation law. He also sought an apology from the NAB in ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday constituted a three-member bench to hear treason charges against the former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.The three-member bench will be headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. The court will hear the case on Monday.The ...

LONDON - British prosecutors said Friday that two Australian DJs will not face charges over a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine, after which a nurse was found hanged.The Crown Prosecution Service said there was no evidence to support a charge of ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli prosecutors have decided to toughen charges levelled against ex-foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of fraud and breach of trust, the justice ministry said on Thursday. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced on December 13 that he would be charging Lieberman with the two ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's ruling party has accused Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake of 14 counts of financial corruption and misconduct in an impeachment motion which was published on Tuesday."She has plunged the entire Supreme Court and specially the office of the Chief Justice into disrepute," ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said good governance of the PML-N government in Punjab and the strict implementation of the policy of merit and transparency in development projects were being highly appreciated at the international level. Talking to the workers of PML-N in ...

MANILA- The Philippine government ombudsman called for graft charges to be filed against former president Gloria Arroyo on Monday for alleged diversion of state lottery funds in the latest accusation to hit her. Arroyo remains confined in a government hospital while facing charges of vote-rigging. ...

Central leader of the PML-N and spokesman for the Punjab Government, Senator Pervez Rashid has refuted the allegations leveled by Younus Habib saying that the party has no link whatsoever with Mehran Bank scam and the court verdict would clear everything.Talking to media persons at the Parliament ...

PESHAWAR - The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday stayed collection of fuel adjustment charges in the electricity bills from consumers of KP, directing the Pesco and Nepra to deduct the charges from electricity bills within 10 days.A two-member PHC bench, comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and ...

A former Essex county cricketer Mervyn Westfield has been sentenced to four months in prison after confessing a spot-fixing charge. Former Essex bowler was jailed Friday after admitting taking $9,200 to intentionally concede runs during a 40 overs match against Durhan in 2009. Westfield’s ...

ISLAMABAD – The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Tuesday conducted search and inspection of Pakistan Banks’ Association (PBA) in Karachi to impound proofs of the association’s suspected role in providing a platform to banks for collusively determining uniform ATM ...

OKARA - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Okara chapter chief Dr Shamimul Haque said on Wednesday that only an honest and a sincere leadership can steer the country out of the present crises. The country was under massive debts due to the absence of a better leadership and good governance, he said, and ...

AMMAN  - A former Jordanian intelligence chief was charged Thursday with money laundering, embezzlement and abuse of power, judicial officials said, the latest move in a widening anti-graft campaign propelled by popular protests against corruption. The officials said General Mohammad ...

Former Indus Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah has termed the allegations of treason against him as baseless and said he is ready to face judicial or ministerial forum to defend himself.Talking to a private TV channel Friday he said his performance spanning over 18 years was considered fair and some ...

ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan has not yet decided whether to try a Pakistani doctor for high treason for assisting the United States in gathering intelligence ahead of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, CNN reported quoting a senior Pakistani government official on Monday.“It’s ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was under house arrest Friday awaiting possible trial on charges of genocide during his 1982-83 military government. A ruling Thursday by Guatemalan judge Patricia Flores opened the way for the prosecution of the 85-year-old former ...

LAHORE  - Pakistan Railways has increased the fares of goods trains by 30 per cent in view of increase in POL prices and to get out of the financial woes of the organisation. On the other hand, delay in train services due to shortage of diesel and engines continued to create problems for the ...

Pakistan Railways has increased the fares of goods trains by 30 percent in view of increase in POL prices and to get out of the financial woes of the organisation. On the other hand delay in train services due to shortage of diesel and engines continued to create problems for the passengers. ...

ANKARA - Turkish prosecutors have charged Britain's Duchess of York for secretly filming a documentary critical of conditions in Turkish orphanages, the Turkish media reported Thursday.The Anatolia news agency said the duchess, better known in Britain as Sarah Ferguson or simply as Fergie, is ...