ISLAMABAD  - The case of accusation of a lady estate officer of ministry of housing & works against a joint secretary of ministry of petroleum and natural resources took as sharp turn on Thursday, as investigation into the case revealed that allegations leveled by lady officer were not ...

NEW YORK: Investigators are looking into claims made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged after allegedly throwing a marijuana bong out of the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. The 27-year-old former child star ...

PARIS -French anti-terror investigators on Sunday probed the stabbing of a soldier in Paris in an attack that echoed the grisly killing of another soldier in London, where British police were holding three new suspects.French soldier Cedric Cordier was in hospital in a stable condition after the ...

GENEVA - China’s Premier Li Keqiang has slammed the European Union for plans to probe the country’s telecom products and impose taxes on its solar panels, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.Cited by the Xinhua news agency, Li said the planned measures would “not only cause ...

Geneva - China’s Premier Li Keqiang has slammed the European Union for plans to probe the country’s telecom products and impose taxes on its solar panels, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.Cited by the Xinhua news agency, Li said the planned measures would “not only cause ...

MUMBAI- Indian police have arrested the son-in-law of the country's cricket chief in a spot-fixing probe as the government announced Saturday a new law to crack down on cheating in sport. Gurunath Meiyappan, part of the management team of Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings, ...

MADRID : A Spanish judge Friday ordered an investigation into the tax affairs of King Juan Carlos's youngest daughter, Princess Cristina, adding to the woes of the scandal-hit royal family.A judge in Palma de Mallorca demanded the tax authorities provide him with a report on Cristina's property and ...

islamabad - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has ordered inquiry under section 18(C) of NAO-1999 against Dr. Ahmad Nadeem Akbar, former Registrar of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), and others.According to a statement issued by the PMDC here on Thursday, Dr. Ahmad and others were ...

NEW DELHI - A lawyer for one of the Indian cricketers accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing said Wednesday that police were seeking to tarnish her client's reputation. Rebecca John said police involved in the corruption probe were "deliberately planting leaks" in the ...

lahore -  The Punjab government on Friday formed a one-man inquiry tribunal to ascertain the facts linked with the death of Indian terrorist, Sarabjit Singh. Lahore High Court Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi is the head of the tribunal which will commence its proceedings at the LHC principal ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is seemingly still in the state of shock over its election defeat in Rawalpindi as the would-be Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed his surprise over the party defeat in the city where people used to shower flowers on their leader ...

Ankara Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday firmly rejected a Syrian proposal to hold a joint probe over a twin car bomb attack that killed 51 people.“The administration in power in Damascus is illegal ... how can we recognise a structure that isn’t even recognised by ...

  ISLAMABAD National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigators had to wait patiently for three hours in the morning hours on Tuesday for the former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to appear in person in the Rental Power Projects (RPPs). They were, however, communicated from NAB Chairman's ...

karachi Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct thorough investigation into massive rigging in elections. Addressing a reception in honour of newly-elected MNAs and MPAs from Sindh through video link at Bilawal ...

    ISLAMABAD Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday disposed of former president Pervez Musharraf's escape case after Additional Secretary Interior submitted a letter before the court about the appointment of an inquiry officer to probe the matter. IHC judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ...

DHAKA - Bangladesh should hold an independent probe into a police crackdown on Islamist protests in which dozens died earlier this week to prevent future “bloodbaths”, a global human rights body urged Saturday.There are varying death tolls but an AFP tally from police and medical ...

MOSCOW British PM David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sought to forge a joint approach to the crisis in Syria, as a row over Moscow’s weapons deliveries to Damascus showed up the divisions between the Kremlin and the West.Cameron’s rare call on Putin at his ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi has constituted an inquiry committee headed by Communication and Works Secretary Abid Javed to probe the LDA Plaza fire. The committee will submit its report to the Chief Minister within three days. Nayyar Ali Dada, Akbar Ali, Haroon Rafique, Ghulam Sarwar, Prof ...

ISLAMABAD  - Expressing apprehensions over growing prison violence against Pakistani inmates in Indian jails, Islamabad has called upon New Delhi to penalise culprits responsible for death of Sanaullah Haq, who succumbed to his wounds early Thursday, following an attack in a jail in ...

PESHAWAR  - The Frontier Printers and Publishers Association (FPPA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has rejected the allegations of printing fake ballot papers and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court to probe the matter.Speaking at a news conference here at press club on Tuesday, ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for National Regulations & Services Shahzada Jamal Nazir has expressed concerns over the sudden removal of Secretary Imtiaz Inayat Elahi and the appointment of Farooq Awan as Secretary of the Ministry.Addressing a press conference here on Friday, the minister said ...

moscowKazakhstan said on Thursday it condemned any form of terrorism and was cooperating with the United States after two of its citizens were charged with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing.Students Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19, were charged by US ...

NYC : Three more suspects have been arrested in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation, Boston Police said Wednesday. The Boston Police Department tweeted the information, but did not give more details. The tweet said more details were coming, ABC News reported. Three people were killed and ...

London - Secret agencies are probing five prisoners for allegedly plotting attacks on army convoys and senior military officers, BBC reported on Wednesday.A civilian intelligence agency has shifted the five prisoners, detained at Bahawalpur and Adiala prisons for the past three years, to ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered an investigation into the closure of a popular restaurant after the daughter of the country’s consumer watchdog was denied a table. In a bizarre episode worthy of Mexican telenovela, Pena Nieto has waded into the furore ...

ISLAMABAD  -As the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), probing the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, has broadened its scale of investigations, it has decided to investigate more high profile personalities in the case including PML-Q leader Chaudhry ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON :USauthorities said Saturday they have arrested a man as part of a probe into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and other public officials. Special agents took James Everett Dutschke into custody “without incident” at his home in Tupelo, Mississippi, around ...

ISLAMABAD - Amnesty International called on Pakistan on Thursday to investigate a wave of attacks and threats against politicians and election workers that have marred the run-up to key polls next month.At least 26 people have been killed by bombers and gunmen since April 11, including 16 mown down ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice over issuance of more than 1,400 CNG licences by the PPP-led government, despite imposition of ban, the Supreme Court has directed the Director General FIA to assign an honest and competent officers’ team to investigate the matter and submit the report within six ...