The present confrontation between the USA and North Korea is not expected to lead to an actual nuclear exchange, but does represent the first time since the Cold War that any country has threatened the US with nuclear attack.There is poignancy in the fact that it is the USA under threat, for it is ...

KARACHI - Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto said Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had given 20 percent share from the NFC Award to federation in 1970s and had vowed to reduce it further but previous regime increased it to 40 percent which was a bid to ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Tribesmen and political administration held a jirga wherein they agreed upon the procedure of distributing Rs 10 million among the heirs of 18 persons killed in Alam gudar area of Bara a few days back.Malik Waris Khan among jirga president Maqbali Khan, JI local activist Shah ...

KARACHI  – Bereaved family members of the polio workers, who have been killed recently, received compensation cheques worth Rs200,000 each, here on Monday, during a ceremony organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.Injured anti-polio workers and volunteers personally collected cheques ...

LAHORE – The heirs to ASI Muhammad Rizwan, who served the department over 25 years and died in the line of duty months back, are being forced from pillar to post to get the funeral charges of the deceased cop. The family has requested the Punjab Police Inspector General to place orders to ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has framed a policy for allotment of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Cell flats at Landhi Railway Station, Karachi. In first phase, houses/flats would be allotted to the families of victims who were martyred in October 18, 2007 bomb blast in the caravan of Benazir ...

GENEVA - Heirs of a Qatari prince who died in 2000 are taking HSBC Suisse to court to obtain $2.6 billion they say he had on deposit with the bank, the Swiss weekly Le Matin Dimanche reported Sunday. They allege that the Geneva-based bank refused them access to the account of Khalifa bin Ali bin ...

LAHORE – The heirs to martyred army men, police officers and law-enforcement agencies’ personnel pledged to serve Pakistan with zeal even at the cost of their blood. The bereaved families, mostly youth, expressed these views at a ceremony titled “Rangeela Memorial Award 2011 for ...

LARKANA - Chairman Sindh National Front Mumtaz Bhutto has alleged that Begum Nusrat Bhutto had been kidnapped from Karachi and was detained at Dubai for political objectives. He regretted that the heirs of Begum Nusrat Bhutto were not handed over the body. Speaking to the media men here at ...

Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that financial aid for Dengue victims would commence from Sunday. Addressing an emergency meeting regarding Dengue fever in Lahore, he announced Rs.500,000 for kin of each of victims, succumbed from Dengue fever, in a very transparent procedure ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - The aggrieved family of Hafiz Mughees and Muneeb, who were lynched in Sialkot on August 15, 2010, has demanded speedy justice as it was provided in Karachi Rangers killing case, saying that immediate provision of justice is the need of hour. Addressing a press ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER FAISALABAD The relatives of a patient, who was died on Friday in the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology allegedly because of dereliction of doctors, damaged the equipments in the Emergency Ward and threatened the hospital personnel of dire consequences. The police arrested two ...

Mianwali - MPA Ali Haider Noor Khan offered fateha for the deceased of the July 4 incident in Mianwali and expressed condolence on behalf of Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif to the bereaved families. He also handed over cheques of worth Rs300,000 to each of the heirs of Niamat Ullah Khan, son late Mehr ...

FAISALABAD - Dozens of local villagers took out a protest rally against police from district council square to DCO office. The protesters were holding placards and banners in their hands bearing slogans against the negligence of the police. Meanwhile, they told media persons that a child Noor Nabi ...

ISLAMABAD Federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik on Saturday announced allocation of five percent job quota for heirs of the martyred cops in police department as well as awarding of plots and loans on easy instalments to them. He announced this while inaugurating the National Police Martyrs ...

LAHORE - As millions of flood victims celebrated the Eid festival in donated tents and makeshift shelters on Saturday, most of the heirs of the martyred of Karbala Gamay Shah celebrated the festival in graveyards to remember their dear ones. On the first day of Eid, picking a bucket of flowers, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Government of Sindh to compensate adequately the heirs of three students who were gunned down by police in a fake encounter in Hyderabad district. A three-member bench headed by Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Ghulam ...