Terming drone attacks as against sovereignty of Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has demanded that government should make special arrangements so that the victims of drone attacks may be identified.He expressed these views while talking to PTI Lahore women wing’s ex-president ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN Thousands of people in flood affected areas are still without shelter and concrete efforts are needed to rehabilitate to avert any further calamity. This was stated by Pakistan Red Crescent Society Chairman Major General (r) Ch Muhammad Nawaz Khan while addressing the ...

SIALKOTA number of people from Sialkot district and its adjoining areas swarmed the Head Marala which is a famous picnic spot along the banks of River Chenab. Meanwhile, a Sialkot city-based youth has lost his life while taking a bath in the Upper Chenab Canal. Due to the sizzling hot weather and ...

LAHORE - Shortage of necessary drugs is adding to the woes of suffering humanity in general and to the measles patients in particular who are left with no other option except to purchase the required medicines from pharmacies outside the public sector hospitals. After disappearing from the indoors, ...

Physicist speculates that “there will be different histories for different possible states of the universe at the present time.” Why not? But that could be true at an ordinary level too. Each experience may be part of a different history at another level, depending upon the level it is ...

QUETTA  - Hundreds of earthquake victims on Friday took out a rally and staged demonstration in Mashkail tehsil of Washuk district against non-provision of daily-use items and blaming the government for failing to provide adequate relief.The protesters took out the rally at Mashkail Bazaar ...

quetta - Though the relief operation has been started in earthquake-hit Mashkail tehsil of Washuk district, the victims are not satisfied with the relief operation.“We have heard that tents and food have been distributed among the victims but we are still waiting for aid,” complains, ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday offered condolences to the Pakistani victims of the deadly earthquake that jolted the Iran-Pakistan border region, and said it was ready to provide humanitarian aid to them.“We have seen the reports of the earthquake near Khashkhail on the ...

JAIPUR - Video footage of a man being ignored as he begged for help following a road accident that killed his wife and child led to accusations of "shameful" public apathy in India on Monday. Police said Kanhaiya Lal's appeals were ignored for 40 minutes after a speeding truck rammed his motorcycle ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Pro-Palestinian activists said on Monday they would not withdraw a lawsuit against Israeli commanders for a fatal 2010 raid on their Gaza-bound flotilla, ahead of official compensation talks between Turkey and the Jewish state this week. “We will not discuss compensation or ...

RAWALPINDI  – The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Rawalpindi has rescued 3328 emergency victims in 3301 emergency operations during last three months and maintained its average response time of less than seven minutes. Out of total 3301 emergency calls received during previous ...

PESHAWAR - Chief Executive Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) Tariq Sadozai Thursday visited the damaged Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station and inspected the losses incurred due to sabotage activities at 500 KV Sheikh Muhammadi Grid the other day.During the visit Chief Executive Pesco Tariq ...

BERLIN - Families of victims of an air strike in Afghanistan that killed more than 90 people in 2009 have filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Germany, a lawyer said Friday.Karim Popal, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said 10 class action lawsuits were claiming 3.3 ...

SIALKOT - Begowala Village, Sambrial based grieved families of two slain victims Shamas alias Chamma and Waqas Nawaz have demanded that the government should take a stern legal action against the human traffickers.Both the youngmen were killed at Iranian border while they were crossing it ...

NEW BATAAN, Philippines  - Desperate families begged for food Sunday, days after a typhoon brought death and destruction to parts of a southern Philippine island, as the storm returned to the north of the country.Northern areas escaped with heavy rain after the storm weakened. But scenes of ...

Myanmar rescuers struggled Monday to bring help to outlying villages hit by an earthquake that aid agencies say has killed at least 13 and caused a bridge and mine to collapse.A series of powerful aftershocks rattled nerves after Sunday's 6.8-magnitude quake, which sent terrified people running ...

OAKLAND, California  - The gunman who killed seven people in a rampage at a California religious college lined up his victims and shot them one by one, Oakland police chief told CNN Tuesday."This was a calculated, cold-blooded execution in the classroom," CNN quoted police chief Howard Jordan ...

KARACHI - Rain-affected people of Mirpurkhas district are still waiting for government help to drain out rainwater so that they could cultivate Kharif season crop.They also deprived of agriculture input promised by the government for rain affected areas. According to analysis of Participatory ...

NEW YORK - The Oscar Award to Pakistani documentary ‘Saving Face’ has given the suffering acid attack-victims ‘a global voice’ as the film director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy told a cheering crowd at Asia Society where it was screened on Monday night. Speaking on the occasion, ...

ISLAMABAD - Struggling with the scares funds, the United Nations in collaboration with the Pakistani government has made another funding request of $440 million to the international community for the provisions of humanitarian assistance to the seemingly ignored affectees of the last years' monsoon ...

KARACHI - Six out the seven victims of a road mishap that took place late on Saturday evening near Chamra Chowrangi, were laid to rest in Korangi on Sunday.As many as seven people, including a couple and two children, were killed and over half a dozen wounded when a speeding bus they were ...

SADIQABAD - A 15-member delegation of Shia scholars accompanied by a peace committee chairman and a lawmaker, met with the Punjab chief minister in the wake of Khanpur blast which had left 18 people killed and 30 injured.During the meeting, CM Shahbaz Sharif thanked the Shia community for ...

Are we Pakistanis victims of fundamentalism, extremism, and intolerance at the hands of right-wing individuals, peoples, and religiously bent political parties? While the Governor of the most populous province in Pakistan may have been assassinated - a penance way beyond the crime of merely ...

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) has started a campaign to get back medicines from its registered patients residing in Gujranwala Division. The administration has been planning to compensate 33 victims of drug reaction in the division, while 1,680 patients could not be traced out ...

BERLIN  - The German government said Monday it had started paying compensation to victims of a far-right cell believed to be behind a seven-year-long serial killing spree. A spokeswoman for the justice ministry said it had received "a lot of applications", adding that payments of between 5,000 ...

With every passing day the miseries of this year's disastrous rain and last year's flood victims in the twenty one upper and lower Sindh districts are multiplying. They are dying of hunger, malnourishment, disease, non-availability of potable water and now chilly winter and wintry diseases. ...

RAJANPUR - As many as 41,139 flood victims will get Watan Cards, said Jampur Assistant Commissioner Wahid Arjamand Zia here Monday. He said that all the arrangements had been finalised for the distribution of cards as separate counters for old people and women ware also established at TMA Hall, ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General reviewed the performance of the service which shows that the Service has rescued 3,88,514 emergency victims in 3,67,053 rescue operations in 2011, while maintaining its average response time of less than 7 minutes and standard in ...

LAHORE – The ruthless dengue fever, re-emerging from a deceptive hibernation of a few weeks and defeating peoples’ perception that a peak winter will perhaps kill the virus forever, put to sword another two patients on Saturday. The deadly virus has surprised the experts who believed ...

GUJRANWALA - All those 14 killed over a feud on Thursday in Pipliwala, a hamlet of Gujranwala, were laid to rest amid tight security on Friday. PPP Punjab chapter President Chaudhry Imtiaz Safdar, who attended the funeral prayers for the dead - nine children, three women and two men - held the ...