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Most child deaths preventable
Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts have said. A US team, writing in the Lancet, looked at mortality figures from 2010. They found two-thirds of the 7.6m children who died before their fifth birthday did so due to infectious causes – and pneumonia was found to [...]
Continue reading...Afghan gunman kills Nato soldier
Saturday, May 12, 2012
A Nato soldier in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar has been shot dead by a man in an Afghan army uniform, officials say. Nato says the incident is under investigation. There have been a growing number of cases where Afghan soldiers have killed Nato colleagues. At least 20 foreign troops have been killed in [...]
Continue reading...PPP, PML-N to show political strength today
Saturday, May 12, 2012
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will show its strength in Kammu Shaheed area of district Ghotki while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will hold rally in Khushab city of Punjab. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Syed Khursheed Shah and various other central and provincial leaders of PPP will address the public gathering. Chief Minister [...]
Continue reading...PTI can break the status quo: Asad Umer
Saturday, May 12, 2012
KARACHI: Asad Umer, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engro Corporations who joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf last month has said that his party is committed to breaking the status quo. Speaking in Geo News programme Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath on Friday, Asad Umer said the reason why he joined Imran Khan’s PTI was his belief in [...]
Continue reading...India-Pakistan Siachen talks in June: Foreign Ministry
Friday, May 11, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the next round of talks with India over the disputed Siachen Glacier on June 11-12 in Islamabad, said foreign ministry spokerperson Moazzam Ahmad Khan on Friday. Troops from India and Pakistan have faced off on the glacier, high in the mountains of disputed Kashmir, since the 1980s but calls for the [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan unlikely to attend NATO summit in Chicago
Friday, May 11, 2012
Pakistans chances of attending the forthcoming NATO summit in Chicago, on May 20 and 21, have almost died down following a deadlock in Pak-US relations. Both countries have adopted tough positions on their respective demands and a resolution in the immediate future appears highly improbable.The US administration had previously termed Pakistans participation in the Chicago [...]
Continue reading...Zardari directs to resolve power crisis
Friday, May 11, 2012
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday directed Minister for Water and Power to take effective measures for elimination of unscheduled loadshedding and suggested that a central control room be also set up in the Ministry of Water Power for this purpose, if necessary. The President gave the directions while chairing an emergency meeting on [...]
Continue reading...Protest against worst power crisis
Friday, May 11, 2012
LAHORE: Power crisis took a bad shape across the country on Thursday as the shortfall reached 8,200 MW, prompting enraged citizens to take to the streets to vent their anger in violent fashion. Loadshedding up to 14 hours is being undertaken in major cities as a result of the power shortfall reaching, according to the [...]
Continue reading...Suicide bomber kills two in China
Friday, May 11, 2012
A woman has blown herself up in protest over the demolition of her house in southern China, killing two people, Chinese state media say. At least 14 people were injured in the blast at a local government office in Yunnan province. The woman also died. The woman had been negotiating compensation for the loss of [...]
Continue reading...ICRC suspends Pakistan city work in
Friday, May 11, 2012
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended humanitarian activities in two of Pakistan’s largest cities, Peshawar and Karachi. The move follows the killing of Khalil Dale, a British nurse working for the group. His beheaded body was found on 29 April, after he was abducted four months ago. Humanitarian groups say they [...]
Continue reading...Indian media propaganda exposed
Thursday, May 10, 2012
LAHORE: The Indian media news report, claiming five members of Lahker-e-Tayyaba (LeT) have entered Mumbai and wanted to destroy installations, was found fake on Wednesday when the three among the five suspects approached a police station in Lahore, requesting protection. The Mumbai Police released photos of five men belonging to LeT on Wednesday, who had [...]
Continue reading...Gilani rejects claims Pakistan sheltered Osama Bin Laden
Thursday, May 10, 2012
LONDON: Prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Pakistan had not been complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden. In an interview with British media, Gilani said the reason Bin Laden was able to live undetected for so long inside Pakistan was down to a universal intelligence failure . Gilani intimated that he didn t [...]
Continue reading...Faisalabad land dispute 5 killed
Thursday, May 10, 2012
According to the police, the incident took place when armed men attacked the tabernacle of Muhammad Ashraf, located in the jurisdiction of Saddar Samandari police station, resultantly Ashraf’s son died on the spot while he himself, his another son and a minor girl sustained injuries. On retaliation, attackers Waseem and Moazzam were shot dead. Injured [...]
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