LONDON :-The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain is ill, according to a statement issued from the party's office in London. The MQM chief made several speeches prior to the elections to advocate his party and continuously performed organisational tasks which took a toll on his ...

Tearful counsel of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, Ahmed Raza Kasuri on Tuesday said that his “poor client” could not see his sick mother.Talking to media after hearing of high treason case against Musharraf, Kasuri became emotional and with wet eyes said that putting the ...

SHANGHAI - Lewis Hamilton was taken ill at the Shanghai circuit Thursday, just three days before the Chinese Grand Prix, forcing him to miss media engagements. The Mercedes driver, a popular figure with the crowds in Shanghai, returned early to his hotel in the city. He is reported to have suffered ...

HYDERABAD - David Warner was a notable absentee from Australia's practice session in Hyderabad on Thursday, struggling again with a bout of gastro. Warner also suffered from gastro during Australia's second innings of the first Test in Chennai and batted at No.3 instead of taking his regular ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Six seriously ill prisoners, languishing in district jail Sheikhupura, could not be taken for medical examination due to unavailability of police guard for the last several days. According to details, the Anti-Terrorist Court number-4 Lahore, the District and Sessions Court ...

LAHORE – Millions of children are enthusiastically celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr today except 14-year-old Asad Ali, who lives with his seven siblings and parents in a single-room accommodation in the provincial capital. Courageous and ever smiling, Asad is a patient of brain-tumour and looks much ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s former ambassador to the Unites States Husain Haqqani has expressed his inability to appear before the commission investigation memogate scandal citing health reasons.Through a plea moved Wednesday by his lawyer Sajid Tanoli, Haqqani said he won’t be able to ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar - Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill on Saturday as she addressed the largest crowd of her election campaign so far in the second biggest city of Mandalay.More than 100,000 people gathered to cheer on the tired-looking Nobel Peace Prize laureate as she ...

LOS ANGELESJessica Alba pulled out of the Academy Awards because she was sick with a cold. The ‘Little Fockers’ actress was due to attend the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theatre but only hours before the ceremony she posted a message on twitter announcing she was too ill to go. ...

MILD eccentrics, oddball romantics and the lonely, shy and sad could find themselves diagnosed with a mental disorder if proposals to add new conditions to the world’s most widely used psychiatric bible go ahead, experts have warned.A major revision of the 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical ...

ISLAMABAD - Though the cash-starved government is not even in a position to approve sufficient amount for the damaged infrastructure due to flash floods, it allegedly wasted Rs249.14 million in only seven development projects in term of escalation cost. In most of these seven development projects, ...

DUBAI (Online) - Chief of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Pervez Musharraf has said he would arrive in Lahore before upcoming election. He expressed these views while meeting a delegation of Tehreek-i-Insaf (Insaf group) under the supervision of Farooq Malik in Dubai. Talking to the ...

LAHORE/KARACHI - The government of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani lost its majority in the National Assembly on Sunday as Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which has 25 MNAs, decided to sit on Opposition benches on account of differences with the ruling PPP. However, the prime minister told ...

HOUSTON (Texas) (AFP) Disgraced financier Allen Stanford appeared ill in court Wednesday but declined a speedy trial despite being held in solitary confinement after he was badly beaten in a jailhouse brawl. Stanford, who was briefly hospitalized in September and underwent surgery for a non ...

LONDON (AFP) - British scientist Stephen Hawking, the author of A Brief History Of Time, is very ill in hospital, Cambridge University said Monday. Hawking, 67, has achieved international fame despite being wheelchair-bound because of motor neurone disease and having to communicate through a ...

ISLAMABAD - The practice of selling birds in the name of "Sadqa" (Charity) is on the rise in the twin cities. The shrewd bird sellers provoke the sentiments of customers to set the birds free after paying money. TheNation has learnt that such callous bird-sellers could easily be found in most of ...