Austin, US BBC The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in theUS. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defence Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the ...

BEIRUT A ground-to-ground missile was fired on a town in northern Syria at dawn on Sunday and killed at least four civilians, two of them children, a watchdog reported.Anti-regime activists of the Aleppo Media Centre said the missile, which slammed into a residential area of Tal Rifaat, was a Scud, ...

lahore - All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Punjab acting chairman Mehmood Ehsan has strongly condemned the government plan of suspending gas supply to captive power plants, claiming that assertions about inefficiency of textile industry’s CPPs were based upon absolutely false facts. ...

LONDON (SS):  Khloe Kardashian has been booted off of The X Factor. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star - who was co-host with Mario Lopez on Season 2 of the TV talent show - will not be coming back next season, though the Extra host will be back in action. “Khloé Kardashian ...

UPI AVIGNONA worker for a French water-supply company said he was fired for refusing to shut off water for people who couldn’t afford to pay their bills.The man, identified only as Mark, said he was let go by Veolia Eau in Avignon after 20 years on the job in an April 4 letter citing his ...

LAHORE - The Independent Power Producers (IPPs) of the country are in huge debt because of WAPDA’s default on its contractual obligations. Contrary to the Power Purchase Agreement, WAPDA has released meager or in some cases absolutely no payments to the gas-fired IPPs over past few months, ...

KALAT - Unknown men fired rocket on a building housing the office of Election Commission Kalat here on Sunday.Police sources said that unidentified armed men fired rocket from an unknown destination that landed and exploded near the office premises of district Election Commission."Apparently, the ...

PESHAWAR - At least 12 persons were injured when militants fired five rockets from Khyber Agency into Hayatabad Phase 6 area of Peshawar on Tuesday.Police said that out of the total six rockets, two of the rockets fell near houses in a street and two landed in a empty plot on street 17. The rockets ...

Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga's tenure as the head of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) came to be short-lived because of his opposition to IPL, a report has claimed. 'The Island', quoting SLC documents said Ranatunga was removed "after the BCCI applied pressure on the Sri Lankan ...

Two persons were killed and several others injured in separate incidents in different localities of Karachi on Friday. Miscreants’ fired rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) at security forces during search operation in Lyari.According to details, unidentified armed motorcyclists shot dead a ...

MALE  - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between police and angry supporters.Police tried to break up the protests with tear gas and baton ...

SADIQABAD - The PML-N has decided to remove the newly-appointed Rahim Yar Khan district president who was replaced with Chaudhry Mehmoodul Hassan by party chief Nawaz Sharif, as the officeholders and activists protested and passed a unanimous resolution against the appointment. The party ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - The district police officer on Sunday suspended all the officials of CIA Sialkot police - three sub-inspectors, two ASIs and seven constables - for allegedly torturing a youth to death on Friday here. Talking to the newsmen, DPO Bilal Sadiq Kamiyana said that a ...

QUETTA - Two rockets fired by unidentified people landed on the outskirts of Quetta on Thursday night. Official sources said two rockets landed in an isolated place in Killi Khali area with huge explosions, smashing windowpanes of nearby buildings. However, nobody was hurt in the attack. The rocket ...

QUETTA (INP) - Unknown miscreants fired 13 rockets at FC forts in Kalat, Turbat and Kahan districts in Balochistan on late Thursday night but no loss of life or injury was reported. The rockets smashed an electricity transformer in Kalat disrupting the power supply to the area. According to Levies ...

LAHORE The DIG Operations Rao Sardar Ali Khan dismissed five police officials including two SHOs on charges of corruption, inefficiency and negligence while discharging their duty. The dismissed police officers included in-charge strong room SI Gulzar Ahmad, ASI Muhammad Amir Hussain, Head ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) Red Bulls Mark Webber might still be favourite to clinch the Formula One drivers title, but Fernando Alonso has other ideas after his stirring victory in the Singapore Grand Prix. The Ferrari star scored a vital win under the lights of the Marina Bay street circuit, holding off a ...

LAHORE - Secretary Higher Education, Punjab, Ahmed Khan Cheema has dismissed as many as 602 college lecturers, 319 females and 283 males, for their prolonged absence from duty. According to the Secretary Higher Education, Punjab, these lecturers were not performing their duties for the last many ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan-The Pakistan Embassy in Washington continues to convey a wrong picture to American officials and politicians on the uproar in Pakistan over the condescending language in the Kerry-Lugar bill. Embassy 'sources are feeding a consistent line to US officials and media that the ...

PESHAWAR - Unidentified persons fired two projectiles in the congested area of the University Town Thursday morning resulting in the damage of a government office, however, no human loss was reported. Police sources said that one of the fired rockets hit an office in the University Town, which ...

LANDI KOTAL - Political administration Khyber Agency sacked as many as 358 Khasadar personnel after the expiry of 24-hour deadline given to them to resume their duties. Sharing details, Political Agent Khyber Agency, Tariq Hayat, said that after expiry of the deadline on Saturday noon, the ...

MUMBAI (Agencies) - The first eyewitness in the Mumbai terror attack case on Wednesday told the special court that he had seen prime accused Ajmal Kasab firing from AK-47 rifle at Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Tukaram Omble, who fell to the bullets at Girgaun Chowpaty on November 26 last year. The ...

CHICAGO (AFP) - Iraq has fired 62,000 employees accused of corruption and is dismantling sectarianism among its police - signs that it has turned a corner en route to eventual self-rule, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani wrote in a US newspaper Sunday. He wrote in the Chicago Tribune newspaper that ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Friday has terminated the contractual appointments of 488 public prosecutors, while 394 prosecutors will keep on working till further orders. The terminated 488 prosecutors included Punjab Prosecutor General who had already resigned, three Assistant Prosecutor ...

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday dismissed his controversial, corruption-busting attorney general, one day after he announced his intention to stand in presidential polls due next year. Abdul Jabar Sabet, appointed two years ago, criticised Karzai's decision, telling reporters ...

LAHORE - The federal government has removed as many as 30,000 interns from service recruited in June 2007 under the National Internship Programme (NIP) launched in 2007 by President Musharraf. The next badge of 10,000 interns which was likely to get internship in June 2008 has not so far ...