KABUL In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist - a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.Halima, aged between 18 and 20 and a mother of two children, was killed for bringing ...

TOBA TEK SINGH:- A police constable namely Muzammal Hussain gunned down his wife Tahira here in Chak 301/GB on Sunday. As per detail, the accused fired gunshots on her after she insisted that she will go to see her father despite his refusal to allow her. She breathed her last instantly. The police ...

KARACHI  - Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has been denied permission by the government to hold its conference at Nishtar Park scheduled on Sunday (today) over security threats.On the other hand, MWM Karachi Secretary General Allama Sadiq Taqvi told The Nation that the gathering will be held on its ...

MULTAN - A wedding ceremony turned into mourning when the bride was shot dead by her disappointed lover during the Mehndi (Henna) ceremony here in Basti Maluk area the other night.According to details, the youth identified as Asghar along with his accomplice Allah Bakhsh entered the house of the ...

MULTAN - A wedding ceremony turned into mourning when the bride was shot dead by her disappointed lover during the Mehndi (Henna) ceremony here in Basti Maluk area the other night.According to details, the youth identified as Asghar along with his accomplice Allah Bakhsh entered the house of the ...

KARACHI – Big guns in the province, dominating vital positions in different political parties, are contesting on national and provincial seats like previous elections. Influential families, which have been dominating the country’s politics for a long period, are trying to keep their ...

DUBLIN (AFP) - Europe’s biggest countries gained ground Saturday in their bid to recover some of the one trillion euros lost each year to tax fraud and money laundering, despite hold-out Austria railing against government “snooping” into bank accounts.After a first day of talks ...

In a new report, entitled “Israel’s Worldwide Role in Repression“, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) endeavours to set the historical record straight by cataloguing “the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and ...

PINKY DANIELSHere in America it would seem there is a massacre a month. Remember the Wisconsin Gurdwara tragedy and the Colorado killing just weeks ago?And now in Connecticut a 20-year-old man shot his mother in the face then went to the elementary school where she taught, and proceeded on his ...

LAHORE - Selection committee led-by Iqbal Qasim announced very good squads for Twenty20 and ODIs formats for the short tour of India and included a few new faces over their superb show in the just-concluded National Twenty20 Cup. But the cricket circles were of the view that the new comers will be ...

As the country edges ever closer to the brink of a very dangerous precipice, and those who should know better simply stick their collective head in the sands of selfish futility, it is heartening to hear the voices of the young beginning to sound out, tentatively right now but certainly growing in ...

COLOMBO  - The World Twenty20 shifts to a higher gear in Sri Lanka on Thursday when the hot favourites begin an intriguing race for the semi-finals in the Super Eights round.The preliminary league, which ended on Tuesday, separated the men from the boys as lesser teams like Bangladesh, ...

KHAIRPUR - A man killed his brother and injured another over property dispute in Garhi More area the other day. Accused Badarruddin fired with pistols upon his younger brothers, killing Abdul Rauf on the spot while and Shahzad sustained severe injuries. The incident took place in the jurisdiction ...

 A man gunned down three including his real brother and two women over property dispute here in Karak late Friday night.According to police the accused hailing from Teri area, tehsil Bandha of Karak, who was in disputes with real brother over property barged into his house on late night and ...

SARGODHA - A person gunned down his relative for preventing him from aerial firing at village Chhani in the jurisdictions of Mela police. Naseer Abbas had opened aerial firing in front of the house of his relative, Zulifqar, three days ago. Zulifqar prohibited him from doing so. The accused held a ...

KARACHI - The drop scene of the politically-motivated Lyari operation seemed to have paved way for the escape of gangsters. The withdrawal of law enforcers from Lyari has raised several questions. The eight-day long cold-blooded operation, which claimed 38 lives failed to reach its logical ...

ISLAMABAD – Top officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) are out to save the skin of their blue-eyed - an accused of harassment of a female officer - and are allegedly pressurising the reported victim to reconcile with the accused, it is learnt reliably.Despite to carryout a free ...

LAHORE – A youth shot dead his 20-year-old classmate outside a private academy, shortly after he exchanged hot words with her over some issue in Nishtar Colony area, police said on Thursday afternoon. The police have arrested the killer and put him behind the lockup. Police investigators said ...

KABUL - Afghanistan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would dissolve a security company whose employees were detained in Kabul with 30 unregistered AK-47 assault rifles.The detained suspects, two Britons and two Afghans, were unable to provide documentation for the ammunition and weapons, and ...

A poverty struck man gunned down his mentally retarded sister here in Lahore on Wednesday as he could not longer afford her medical treatment and fled the scene. According to police the incident took place at Mall Road, Lahore behind a well known business centre in dilapidated residential quarter ...

SHAH KOT - A man killed his niece along with her paramour on suspicion of illicit relations here in nearby Kotla Kahlwan Village the other day. As per detail, Ghulam Haider, a resident of Kotla Kahlwan, got an information that his niece had gone to meet her boyfriend namely Ashfaq. He rushed after ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - A man killed his sister and her alleged lover on suspicion of illicit relations here in Kot Samaba, a town 22-km away from here. As per report, Shahbaz suspected that his sister Zarina had developed illicit relations with a youth namely Miraj. On the day of incident, Shahbaz fired ...

LAHORE - The row over appointment of Vice-Chancellor of Sargodha University between Governor Sardar Latif Khosa and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may lead to serious constitutional crisis if the two stick to their guns on the issue. The governor on Monday rejected chief ministers summary ...

JHANG - A woman gunned down her former husband with the connivance of her brother here the other day. As per detail, one Amjad Nawaz, a resident of Mauza Nika Doultana situated in the remit of Jhang Saddar Police, divorced his wife Mst Nazia and contracted his second with Iram Bibi some one year ...

ISLAMABAD - The disqualification of fake degree holder politicians is still a far cry as big guns, allegedly, still influence the degrees scrutiny process carried out by Election Commission of Pakistan, it is learnt. Apart from the 22 cases that have been sent by the ECP to the district police ...

Government cronies on Wednesday made an other effort to woo back JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazl ur Rehman into the fold of the government, however the JUI-F Chief has refused to review, his decision. According to sources Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Head of Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional ...

WENTWORTH (England) (AFP) Tiger Woods is more vulnerable at the top of the world rankings than at any other time, according to Englands trio of leading golfers. Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey, all at Wentworth ahead of the start of the European PGA Championship on Thursday, believe Woods ...

KARACHI-The US Army handed over Howitzer guns to Pakistan Army, at a simple but impressive ceremony held here on Saturday. Brigadier Michael K. Ngata, Deputy Chief ODRP handed over 115 pieces of Howitzer guns to Brigadier Farrukh Saeed, Commander Artillery Mechanised Division. This US made M109A5 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Almost as many donkeys as trucks will be used to take ballot papers to remote areas of Afghanistan for next months presidential election, which the UN chief envoy said on Tuesday was the most complicated hed ever seen. UN Special Representative Kai Eide visited a massive warehouse ...

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR - The Director General ISPR, Major General Ather Abbas, has said that the Frontier Corps (FC) with the help of Pakistan Army on Tuesday evening launched a full-fledged operation to eliminate and expel militants from Buner District. In a media briefing, the Army spokesman said ...