CAIRO  - Egypt’s public prosecutor on Saturday ordered the arrest of popular satirist Bassem Youssef over alleged insults to Islam and to President Mohamed Morsi, in the latest clampdown on critical media. Judicial sources told AFP that several complaints had been filed against Youssef, ...

The Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday rejected property tycoon Malik Riaz’s request pertaining to lack of confidence on a judge and to quash an arrest warrant against him. A two-judge bench of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench heard Riaz’s request pertaining to ...

A local court issued arrest warrants of Makhdoom Shahabuddin and Ali Musa Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in ephedrine case.Rawalpindi’s local Magistrate Shafqatullah issued the arrest warrant of Makhdoom Shahabuddin, tapped for the post of ...

NICOSIA  - A European arrest warrant was issued Monday against former Cyprus army chief Petros Tsalikides, charged in connection with a deadly munitions blast, after he failed to appear in court, officials said. Tsalikides’ seven co-defendants were in court on Monday but did not have the ...

JANI Lane, the former lead singer of the heavy metal band Warrant, has died in Los Angeles. Officer Sara Faden said Lanes body was found Thursday in a Woodland Hills area Comfort Inn. She had no immediate information on the cause or circumstances of his death. Alcohol and prescription drugs were ...

LAHORE - Employees and Associations of PIA have termed latest MoU between PIA and Turkish airline a death warrant as the managements recent secret step to terminate airline operations in Istanbul is tantamount to shut down the operations of an international airline. Pakistan Airlines Pilots ...

TOKYO(AFP) - Police in Japan issued an arrest warrant Friday for pop star Noriko Sakai who disappeared after her surfer husband was arrested for possessing illegal stimulants earlier this week, media reported. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department plans to arrest Sakai on the same charge when ...

DOHA (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied an international arrest warrant by travelling to Doha on Sunday for an Arab summit, where the decision of Egypt's leader to stay away dimmed unity hopes. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, who has also flown in to the Qatari capital, will still ...

JEDDAH (AFP) - Islamic countries urged the UN Security Council on Monday to stall any move by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir. Ministers from member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference "urged the UN Security ...