ISLAMABAD - Tarnol police on Saturday foiled a bid of drugs smuggling and recovered 285 kilograms of hashish being transported from Peshawar to Gujrat.Addressing a press conference, SP (Saddar Zone) Jamil Ahmed Hashmi said special information was received regarding a possible attempt of smuggling ...

JAKARTA  - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Customs officials on Thursday foiled a bid of smuggling injections and tablets of different kinds in huge quantity at Benazir Bhutto Islamabad International Airport (BBIIAP) and arrested a smuggler.A case has been registered against the smuggler, identified as Muhammad Jamil ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson seemed "loopy" and out of it at rehearsals for his doomed last tour, and was particularly groggy after visits to his dermatologist, a witness testified.Travis Payne, choreographer for the "This is It" series of shows in London, made the comments at the trial pitting ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s make-up artist warned in the 1990s that the star could die due to his drug addiction, she testified Friday, adding that people were initially lying after his 2009 death. Karen Faye, who worked for the self-styled King of Pop for 27 years, said she voiced concern ...

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 ...

DUBAI : A UAE court on Monday jailed three Britons for four years each on drugs charges, amid calls for their release and claims they have been tortured in prison. The sentencing of Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerth, all 25, came a day ahead of a visit by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa ...

STOCKHOLM - Swedish police said Thursday they had found a “small amount” of drugs on Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s tour bus while he was performing in Stockholm.“We conducted a search of Justin Bieber’s bus and found a small amount of drugs,” Stockholm police ...

RAWALPINDIThe residents of Dhamial, a thickly populated area of National Assembly constituency NA-52, are fed up with drugs and crimes in their area and are stood up against the drug peddlers with requesting Rawalpindi police to conduct raids at the drug dens to purge the locality from narcotics. ...

LAHORE – Drug trafficking by the PIA crews has risen to alarming level, as two such incidents within last 10 days has put the national flag carrier’s reputation at stake, statistics gathered by this scribe reveal.A couple of days ago, a PIA airhostess was arrested by UK customs ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police on Saturday claimed to arrest 19 accused from various areas of the city and recovered 3.735 kilograms heroin, stolen car and wine bottles from them, a police spokesman said.According to a press note issued from office of SSP Islamabad police on Saturday, a team of ...

MUMBAI Wayne Parnell, the South Africa and Pune Warriors bowler, has been granted bail by a Mumbai court after surrendering before it on charges of testing positive for recreational drugs, following a police raid on a party in the city last year. Leg spinner Rahul Sharma, who also tested positive ...

MIAMI (AFP) - Indian hotelier and playboy Vikram Chatwal was arrested at a Florida airport this week after trying to board a flight with heroine, cocaine and other drugs, local media reported. Chatwal, who owns Dream Hotels in South Beach Miami and New York, was stopped at the Fort Lauderdale ...

HOLLYWOOD actor Brad Pitt has denounced America’s controversial war on drugs, branding it a failure and a charade.The Fight Club star, who is an executive producer of new documentary The House I Live In, about US officials’ long-running battle to stamp out the drugs trade, has written a ...

Islamabad Capital Territory Police (ICTP)Sunday apprehended 12 outlaws and recovered 1.9 kg charas, five pistols,one carbine and looted booty from their possession.SSP Islamabad has already issued directives to SHOs to enhance vigil at barricades, ensure persistent patrolling across the city, so ...

LAHORE – In a country where pharma industry produces around half of its production fake and where almost all types of forged medicines are being sold openly and without any restrictions, the pharma industry representatives have called for withdrawal of case against Reko Pharmacal and end to ...

RAWALPINDI - Thousands of poor patients in Rawalpindi division have been facing a lot of troubles in getting free of cost medical treatment in the Allied Hospitals (AHS) mainly due to the regular shortage of medicine.While the Punjab government and Provincial Health Department (PHD) are doing ...

STATINS are taken by millions of Britons, yet nearly half of patients are resistant to their cholesterol-lowering effects.  Now scientists think they have pinpointed the cause - a protein called resistin. A team from McMaster University in Canada said their research suggests high levels of ...

BRITNEY Spears' mother has claimed her daughter's former manager crushed drugs into the singer's food.Lynne Spears has told a US court that Osama 'Sam' Lutfi admitted to her that he did it five years ago to help the star sleep. At the time, Britney was going through a public meltdown where she ...

Some Afghan forces that are being trained by the US military to take over the mission by 2014 have been found dealing drugs to American soldiers, according to a report.Judicial Watch, a conservative US watchdog group, found that that between January 2010 and December 2011, the Army investigated 56 ...

 The investigation team has made some progress in Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) drugs reactions deaths case and arrested 11 persons involved in the scandal.According to details, a committee constituted by Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and head by DIG Zulfiqar Cheema ...

EVERYONE knows that a spoonful of ice cream leaves you wanting more but research indicates that it may truly be addictive as illegal drugs. Researchers concluded that cravings for the dessert were similar to those experienced by drug addicts. They found that the brain was left wanting more while ...

Multan - The Anti Narcotics Force Multan region has busted an inter-provincial ring of drug paddlers as a special raiding party recovered huge amount of charas and opium from a truck and arrested two accused during a roadside cordon off near Kabirwala on Sunday.“We’ve succeeded to ...

KARACHI - Excessive increase in the prices of life-saving and other drugs echoed in the Sindh Assembly on Friday. Expressing grave concern over and condemning the exorbitant increase ranging between 80 to 100 percent in the prices of life saving and others drugs, Sindh Minister for Health Dr Saghir ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution to authorise the Parliament (National Assembly and Senate) to legislate on regulating drugs throughout the country.The 34th session of the provincial assembly, presided over by Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, passed the ...

LAHORE – After a day’s break, three more heart patients, including a woman, lost their lives in the City on Saturday. With the new deaths, the PIC-affected death tally has reached 130. Shahida Bib (60), a resident of Rang Mehal, and Ghulam Ali (55) of Kasur breathed their last at ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly Friday went through a worst kind of clash between the opposition and the treasury wherein the members had a free fall to accuse, abuse, taunt and grill each other, creating a whole time rumpus throughout the proceedings.The situation became so serious at a time that ...

LAHORE - Five more heart patients lost their lives in the City on Thursday due to reaction of medicine provided free from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.Syed Abbas Shah (55), a resident of Shadbagh and Zafar Ali (74) of Sodiwal breathed their last at the Services Hospital. Muhammad Anwar (70) ...

LAHORE – Hamza Shahbaz has no investment, control or involvement in the affairs of the pharmaceutical business currently under investigations on account of deaths by PIC medicines. This was said by his spokesperson.The spokesman stated that Hamza Shahbaz  absolutely has no business or ...

LAHORE – Deeply saddened by the deaths of those patients who became victims of spurious drugs provided by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, PML(N) President Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday sought exemplary punishment for the makers of these drugs.Addressing an informal meeting attended by top party ...