ISLAMABAD - The Finance Ministry has issued a notification for cancelling the secret funds of sixteen ministries. The notification issued on June 11, 2012 will enable the federal government to save Rs6 billion of the national exchequer. The ministries whose secret funds have been abolished are: ...

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon investigation has found ex-CIA director Leon Panetta spilled some secret details to a Hollywood screenwriter behind the film "Zero Dark Thirty," a watchdog group reported Wednesday.The findings of the Pentagon's inspector general are contained in a draft report that has not ...

From videos of US military blunders to Guantanamo detainee files, Bradley Manning is accused of slipping 250,000 diplomatic cables and 500,000 classified military documents to WikiLeaks.Washington is still investigating whether Assange encouraged Manning to disclose more details, in which case the ...

WASHINGTON: A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that the federal government is not required to release photos that were taken of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after he was killed by special forces.The Al-Qaeda leader was slain at his Pakistani compound in May 2011 by US Navy SEAL commandos, who took ...

islamabad -The Intelligence Bureau (IB) director general has denied a news item before the Supreme Court that the department had given Rs 3 million to a journalist during the PML-N regime in 1998-99.The IB chief, denying the news story that Rs 400 million secret fund of the department had been used ...

PARIS: Actress Keira Knightley kept her wedding so secret she didn’t even tell her bridegroom’s parents. The star and her hubby James Righton wanted the ceremony in southern France to be low-key. So they told guests they were just coming to a party to celebrate the couple’s plans ...

LAHORE - The PPP would keep the whereabouts of its Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari secret due to security reasons, said former Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday. “Bilawal is facing life threats and would not come into the public during the electioneering”, Malik told a news ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has admitted that his office received secret payments from the United States.He was responding to a New York Times report that alleged the CIA sent suitcases stuffed with cash to the president's office on regular basis.In a statement‚ Karzai said that the money ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir, counsel for two journalists, on Thursday contended that the apex court’s unverified uploading of unaudited accounts sent by the Ministry of Information had in effect defamed the good repute of the petitioning ...

Islamabad - The list made public by the Supreme Court on Monday was being anticipated to contain details of journalists supposed to have been lending their pen in favour of monetary benefit from the government. Instead, it was a laundry list of mostly routine expenses by the ministry of ...

ISLAMABAD:- The Pakistan Cricket Board planned to send a group of secret monitors to keep an eye on its cricketers during their May-June tour to England in an effort to stop players from getting involved in any scandal. Official sources said the PCB had devised a strategy to avoid any scandal or ...

COLOMBO:- Jayantha Dharmadasa and Nishantha Ranatunga won uncontested elections for the posts of Sri Lanka Cricket president and secretary on Tuesday in the national governing body's first secret ballot.  The election, which lasted eight hours, was held under tight security with several ...

According to Harvard University Scholar Linda Bilmes whose study released to the press stated that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will cost the United States between $4-6 trillion in the long term and nearly $2 trillion has already been spent. Due to which the government will have constraint on its ...

LAHORE – Former Punjab chief minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that the rivals of the PML-N are spending the secret funds, granted by the last government of the PPP, on maligning the PML-N and to carry out character assassination of its leaders.Talking to the media team of his party ...

LOS ANGELES (GN)Michael Jackson reportedly had a secret medical implant to help him battle addiction to prescription drugs. The ‘Beat It’ hitmaker - who died in June 2009 after being administered a lethal dose of Propofol by his doctor, Conrad Murray - was allegedly fitted with the ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf acknowledged his government secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first time a top past or present Pakistani official has admitted publicly to such a deal.Pakistani leaders long have openly challenged the drone program and insisted they had no part in it. ...

A secret deal between the ISI and the CIA over drone strikes is the subject of a new book by Mark Mazzeti, “Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth”. The Pakistan army would agree to the strikes but first the CIA had to kill their enemy ...

NEW YORK - A new book claims that the CIA made a deal with Pakistan that allowed the United States to begin its drone assassination programme in exchange for the murder of an enemy of Pakistan.In an excerpt in Sunday’s New York Times, journalist Mark Mazzetti outlined how Pakistan, which was ...

LONDON - Scion of the Chaudhrys of Gujrat, Moonis Elahi’s name appeared on Thursday among a list of fresh names of owners of secret offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, The Guardian reported on Thursday.Moonis Elahi was named as the owner of an offshore company, Olive Grove ...

IT may sound like a something a Bond villain  would propose, but these amazing picture reveals the secret plans drawn up by the German army to create a mile-wide ‘space gun’ powered by the sun.The giant mirror could be used to focus the sun on a target - rather like the magnifying ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to US President Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the “only person” who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed on Friday.Newly declassified files from 1982 ...

WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was buried at sea from a US warship amid high secrecy that included his body being referred to as "the package" delivered by "Fedex", an American courier delivery services company, secret military emails reveal. "Any sailors watch the burial?" a Navy commander asked the ...

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Vatican police testifying Wednesday at the trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler said they had found documents in code, research on spying and papers the pope had marked “Destroy” in his apartment. More than 1,000 documents - including copies and ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the ‘death squads’ of secret agencies have to be abolished, the missing persons recovered and the displaced Baloch rehabilitated, vowing that the Supreme Court will go to any extent to restore peace in restive ...

ISLAMABAD - Although Ministry of Capital Administration and Development (MoCAD) restored the director general of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) following the directives of the Supreme Court, underhand efforts are under way to remove her from the post and prove her incompetent.Different ...

ISLAMABAD  - President PML-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has denied any 'secret deal' between the government and the Supreme Court.However, he has advocated for reconciliation between the government and the Supreme Court.According to details, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, on Tuesday, reached the ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing of the case pertaining to allegations of journalists taking bribe, till Sept 27 Talking to media persons outside the Supreme Court building‚ the lawyer of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the court Monday gave a ...

Though glamorous, a celebrity’s time at the top can be short. Luckily, a host of stars are already prepared for a life outside of the limelight,  boosting their skill set with a weird and wonderful array of hidden talents. –MSN   1 Colin Farrell Rugged good looks, a ...

People who find themselves on the verge of yelling at queue-jumpers or crafty colleagues could be helped by a simple - if slightly odd - exercise.Right handers should get into the habit of using a computer mouse, stirring a cup of coffee or opening a door with their left hand - and left-handers ...

Iran says it will allow U.N. inspectors access to a secret military complex where the U.N. nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work has been carried out. A statement issued by the country's permanent envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran says it will allow U.N. officials to visit ...