LAHORE - A 30-year-old mum ended her life after a clash with her husband over a domestic dispute, police said on Wednesday. Shabana Bibi consumed poisonous pills and was rushed to hospital where she died.The family told the police that Shabana exchanged harsh words with her husband, Khalil, at ...

RAWALPINDI - A woman gulped acid over a domestic dispute in the Airport police limits on Monday. Gul, her, husband told police that Rubina gulped acid after clash with him. Police said the woman survived after getting medical aid. It was a suicide attempt, police added and launched investigation ...

MINCHINABAD Six supporters of the PML-N including a woman sustained critical injuries in a clash between the workers of two political parties. The incident happened at Mungopura and Hasal Sarho polling stations in PP-277and NA-188 constituency of Tehsil Minchinabad. The polling process was ...

rawalpindi - Four political workers sustained severe injuries during firing and stone pelting between two political groups - PML-N and PTI - in election related violence at Benazir Bhutto Road (BBR) here on Saturday.The injured were immediately shifted to Holy Family Hospital (HFH) by Rescue 1122 ...

MADRID - The world's two top female players, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, will battle it out for the number one ranking when they meet in the Madrid Open final on Sunday after both came through Saturday's semi-finals in straight sets.Current number one Williams sealed her place in the final ...

rawalpindiAs many as 3 people were injured when clashes broke out between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers outside a polling station in Dhoke Mangtal here on Saturday.Some eyewitnesses told The Nation that the enraged political workers also resorted ...

QUETTA - At least five people were shot dead and another wounded seriously in an armed clash, in Jhal Magsi district, on Tuesday.According to Levies sources, the clash erupted between two groups at Saifabad area of Jhal Magsi when two groups of Magsi tribe exchanged hot words over a bargaining that ...

peshawar - One security personnel and four militants were killed in a clash when militants ambushed a security check post in Ladha area of South Waziristan tribal region on Friday.According to security sources, one security personnel was killed during the attack whereas retaliatory action by ...

Four persons including two militants and two policemen were killed in exchange of fire when miscreants attacked police here on Thursday. The three remaining attackers were arrested.According to details, militants stormed police party that was on routine patrol in Barbara's Banda Daud Shah area when ...

Clashes on Tuesday in north Iraq between security forces and anti-government protesters allegedly infiltrated by militants left 27 people dead and about 70 injured, top army officers said.The clashes are just the latest violence between security forces and demonstrators in recent months, and will ...

MONTE-CARLO Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal on Saturday set up their third final meeting at the Monte Carlo Masters, with the Serb top seed the last obstacle to more clay-court history for Spain's Nadal. Nadal is one win away from a record ninth straight trophy at the Mediterranean venue and has ...

WASHINGTON - Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison fired non-lethal shots to quell prisoner unrest Saturday as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said.Officials at the US-run prison met with resistance from some inmates as they moved before dawn to relocate inmates ...

LAHORE – Two people, including a mother-of-four committed suicide, in two separate incidents in the provincial capital, sources said on Saturday.Reportedly, a 35-year-old woman swallowed poisonous pills after a clash with her mother-in-law over a domestic dispute in the Satu Katla police ...

LAHORE – As in many other constituencies in the country, a neck and neck contest is expected in NA-109 Mandi Bahauddin among three titans of Gondal clan, representing the PML-N, PTI and PPP. The three Gondals after getting confirmation of their candidature from the PML-N, PTI and PPP have ...

SILWAD - Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers for a second day in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after locals accused Jewish settlers of beating a man with steel pipes. Youths heaved rocks at Israeli army jeeps as smoke from blazing tyres mixed with tear gas a few hundred ...

KARAK - The enraged residents of Mithawal, Tehsil Karak, blocked the Indus Highway near Jail Chowk after a clash between the Pesco personnel and the local people, which also left three persons injured. Eyewitnesses informed here on Wednesday that the Pesco Karak personnel along with police party ...

Ali Tahir Mughees - THE Punjab government and the Young Doctors Association had reached a ‘conclusion’ on the salary and service structure issue. After years of immoral warfare, the brawl came to a timid end which was just not digestible – to be honest – the public knew that ...

Mohammad Jamil Speaking to officers at the Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said: “As a nation we are passing through a defining phase…Weakening of the institutions and trying to assume more than one’s ...

VIENNA  - Iran and Israel clashed at the annual meeting of the UN atomic agency on Thursday, further throwing into doubt a hoped-for 2012 conference on creating a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear weapons.In lively debates at the International Atomic Energy Agency gathering of its 155 ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Wednesday that a confrontation with the judiciary had been averted.“I had gone to the court after consultation with the allies and the judiciary was assured that letter would be written to the Swiss authorities. This step brought an end ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Tuesday that the people who had been talking of confrontation among institutions have finally faced disappointment following the government's stance before the Supreme Court in NRO case.Talking to media outside the ...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said that those who want clash between the institutions are disappointed after the Supreme Court adjourned the NRO case till September 25th. Kaira happily said that Prime Minister presented the government’s stance before the ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said Thursday that the government had no clash with any institution and was serious in holding free, fair and transparent elections. Addressing a gathering after inspecting the Thar coal project, Prime Minister Ashraf said he would accept the decision of the ...

LARKANA – At least five people were killed and several others wounded in a clash between two rival groups in Madeeji area of Shikarpur district. According to police officials, the clash between Sadhayo and Dahani tribes ensued at around 8am, leaving four people, including two children, dead. ...

An FBI instructor at agent trainees’ program in Virginia was telling his students, “The more devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent”. This statement was reported by Wired.com in the last September. And now on 11th of this May, the US newspapers reported the ...

KARACHI - An armed clash between two groups over a land dispute claimed two lives, besides wounding four others in the limits of the Al-Falah Police Station on Saturday.According to police and rescue sources, the incident took place in Siddique Goth, Rafa-e-Aam Society, where area people entered ...

KARACHI - A clash between two students’ organisations at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) on Tuesday left seven people, among them two security personnel, wounded. Besides MA examinations, all other educational activities came to a halt, when workers of the ...

KARACHI - The Old Golimar area engulfed in tension as clash between two war gangs left one person killed and two other injured here in the remits of Pak Colony Police on Monday.According to police, two criminal groups, Anwar kojack and Sajid-Shahid, started armed scuffle over some unknown issue at ...

At least four militants were killed and three others injured in an armed clash between two banned organizations here in Bara on Monday.According to local sources armed men of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Islam traded fire in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency. The militant ...

Tariq Osman HyderThe incineration by Nato troops of copies of the Holy Quran two weeks ago led to violent protests in Afghanistan, protests in Pakistan as well as condemnation in other Muslim countries. At least 30 Afghans have been killed, and six American soldiers, two of them officers in the ...