DAMASCUS Israeli air raids on Syria at the weekend killed at least 42 soldiers, a watchdog said Monday, fuelling international concern over a spillover of the conflict, as Damascus warned it would strike back.UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte, meanwhile, said that rebels have used the ...

SEOUL North Korea on Tuesday threatened the South with “sledge-hammer” military action over anti-Pyongyang protests in Seoul and rejected the idea of entering into a “humiliating” dialogue with the United States.Both statements came a day after US Secretary of State John ...

LAHORE – Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali has said he will bring a lawsuit against the Election Commission of Pakistan if any of his party members or activists is killed now. In an interview with BBC on Sunday, the ANP chief said security had been withdrawn from him and his party ...

ISLAMABAD – Many thousands of families from Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency have been forced to leave their homes following heavy fighting between rival militant groups. The displacement has resulted in significant unmet humanitarian needs. The Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Disaster ...

In a tit-for-tat reply to PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s call for Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has threatened Long March to Lahore against Nawaz League.Nawaz Sharif had appealed to the nation to rise up against what he called ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the Ali Baba and 40-thieves of Islamabad were trying to flee but they would not be given the opportunity. He was addressing a public gathering at Wazirabad, on Friday.He said that Zardari claims that trial of Benazir Bhutto murder ...

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened in a key election rally Sunday to pull France out of Europe’s 26-nation visa free zone unless the EU does more to keep out illegal immigrants.Sarkozy, who this week said France had too many foreigners, made the threat at a mass meeting which he ...

TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Wednesday he would defend national unity “with force” if necessary, after tribal leaders and politicians declared autonomy for the eastern region of Cyrenaica. “We are not prepared to divide Libya,” Abdel Jalil said as he ...

OKARA - The Punjab Paramedical Alliance staff from the DHQ Hospital Okara took out a rally in favour of their demands. PPA President Okara Syed Najaf Ali Shah and Rana Shahid Latif led the rally which passed through different roads and culminated at the Press Club Chawk where Mr Najaf addressed the ...

KARACHI - All Pakistan Oil Tanker Owners Association (APOTOA) has called for a strike and abandoned the supply of oil and petroleum products across Pakistan against dispute on the transportation of edible oil as deadline of 72 hours has been lapsed.APOTOA Vice chairman Shams Shahwani told TheNation ...

LOS ANGELES (BBC) Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has threatened to pull out of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) over a film rating given to the documentary Bully. The R rating means children under the age of 17 will not be able to watch the film, about bullying in US schools, without ...

LAHORE- The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tuesday out rightly rejected the SRO 821(I) 2011 and threatened to agitate if a forced implementation of widely-opposed and controversial SRO was made.In a statement issued here, the LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Seikh said that the LCCI is ...

MALE - The ousted leader of the Maldives, who claims he was deposed in a coup, called for fresh elections on Friday and threatened street protests over the detention of his party members.Mohamed Nasheed, who says rebel police and army officers forced him to resign Tuesday, claims up to 350 people ...

ISLAMABAD - The members in the Upper House of the Parliament on Thursday severely condemned the US for discussing the Balochistan issue in its Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs for what they termed interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and against the country’s ...

DUBAI (Agencies) - Success can become an impediment to change when you reach the top as the England Test team did on the back of playing a settled XI. But that side have just been whitewashed 3-0 by a rejuvenated Pakistan in the UAE, a humiliation that appears to have strained the bonds of loyalty ...

A MANCHESTER man who turned a Ferrari into the world’s fastest limousine may no longer be able to use the famous Italian name. The Italian supercar manufacturer is threatening legal action against Dan Cawley unless he removes all Ferrari insignia from the car They argue that because he ...

MULTAN - The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has hurled a threat that ginning factories will stop purchasing cotton from January 10 if the government does not start buying cotton through Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).Talking to the journalists here, PCGA Chairman Aman Ullah ...

MIRANSHAH (Reuters) - The most powerful militant leader in North Waziristan border region has threatened to tear up a peace accord and turn his fighters against the Islamabad government. Hafiz Gul Bahadur has an unofficial non-aggression pact with the military, focussing instead on attacking US ...

SADIQABAD - An ex-Punjab minister for revenue has started hurling threats at a social worker for getting a case registered against the former for allegedly plundering development funds in tehsil Sadiqabad, and urging the petitioner to withdraw the case. However, Rana Izharul Hassan, a resident of ...

FAISALABAD - The Academic Staff Association of University of Agriculture Faisalabad launched a weeklong protest against non-payment of annual pay increment to the university employees despite a lapse of three months of its announcement. In this connection, a large number of academic as well as ...

LAKKI MARWAT PML-N MPA Munawar Khan has warned to quit the party if Nawaz Sharif accepted the turncoats return into PML-N. The party workers and leaders who rendered sacrifices during Pervez Musharrafs regime will not be silent spectators if PML-N chief allowed the deceivers to rejoin the ranks of ...

MULTAN - The countdown to the launch of a crackdown on such tyre and puncture shops, where tyres are placed outside in the open, has begun as the district administration has decided to start action after 48 hours. Sources said that the SHOs of all police stations of Multan have been issued ...

LAHORE (PR) - Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami Hakoomat (JPJMH) Tuesday threatened to launch a movement against price hike and unemployment in the country. JPJMH Chairman Daniyal Aziz announced this after chairing a consultative meeting with provincial presidents of the movement. He said if the ...

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene swept just north of the Dominican Republic on Monday after pummeling Puerto Rico, and forecasters saw the storm strengthening to a major hurricane off the Southeast US coast by the weekend. The US National Hurricane Center's forecast showed the first ...

MULTAN - The Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) warned the government on Wednesday that a province wide protest drive would be launched if the notification for service structure of paramedics was not issued till August 1. He threat was hurled by AD Kanwal, senior vice chairman of the Alliance while ...

BAHAWALPUR The central leaders of the newly-formed Bahawalpur National Party (BNP) threatened civil disobedience, saying the government should give the due right of the depressed people of Bahawalpur and restore the provincial status of the former princely state under law and the constitution ...

LAHORE Justice Sh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court, taking a serious view of the ambiguous stand taken by the Town Municipal Officer of the Shalimar Town on the establishment of a food street on the greenbelt in the Shadbagh Scheme II, on Friday directed him to submit a statement on oath to ...

LAHORE - The PML-Q Likeminded is yet to decide its future course of action for its political survival, especially when the parent party has joined the PPP-led ruling coalition and temptation for power is creating further rifts. PML-Q leadership challengers are divided into two groups on question of ...

LAHORE Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Imran Khan has threatened to obstruct the NATO supplies if the rulers failed to stop the drone strikes in the tribal areas. Addressing a mammoth rally at Qartaba Chowk on Friday, he said the PTI would stage a sit-in for three days on the route of NATO ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali's rebel group al Shabaab threatened on Sunday to attack neighbouring Kenya for training Somali government forces and allowing Ethiopian troops to operate from its towns. The group, which is aligned to Al-Qaeda, has said before that it would attack Kenya but so far has ...