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October 18 anniversary
Four years have passed since October 18, 2007, and the truth about the massive bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto’s caravan on Karsaz road that killed at least 180 people, remains as hidden and rusty as the armoured truck that saved her life that day. Wrapped in a marquee at the Aziz Bhatti police station, the [...]
Continue reading...Sherry Rehman’s bill
17. October 2011
ISLAMABAD: The new Right to Information (RTI) bill introduced in the National Assembly will make it legally binding for public and private sector organisations to disclose their official records to the general public — unlike its predecessor bill which is serving as a “vehicle for denying information instead of making it accessible”, according to Sherry [...]
Continue reading...Railway pensioners unpaid for 5 months
17. October 2011
SIALKOT: Salma Bibi, the widow of a retired Pakistan Railways employee Mushtaq Hussain Gillani who survives on her late husband’s pension, is on the verge of starvation. Reason: the Pakistan Railways has not paid her the pension money for the last five months. She told that she and her family are suffering serious financial crisis [...]
Continue reading...Committee formed to provide emergency funds to IPPs
11. August 2011
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has formed a three-member committee to provide emergency funds to Independent Power Producers (IPP) in order to help them overcome their financial crisis, reported on Thursday. The committee, headed by Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar, has been asked to submit a report on the issue within 72 [...]
Continue reading...Race relations on knife edge after three Pakistanis killed in hit-and-run
11. August 2011
Police in Birmingham were struggling to contain swelling anger within the Asian community after a hit-and-run by suspected rioters killed three Pakistani young men, two of them brothers. Despite appeals for calm from senior officers, young Asian men vowed to defend their streets once more following an attack which has plunged a community into mourning [...]
Continue reading...7 killed, more than 20 injured in Peshawar twin blasts
11. August 2011
At least seven persons including four police personnel and a child were killed and more than 20 others injured in twin acts of terrorism including a suicide blast at police check post and a planted bomb blast near police van here in Peshawar on Thursday. According to police two female suicide bombers blew themselves up [...]
Continue reading...3 Pak vigilantes dead in UK riots
11. August 2011
BIRMINGHAM (Agencies) – Three Pakistani nationals were killed here on Wednesday while protecting their community from the rioters, British police said. The trio was struck by a car which mounted a pavement in Dudley Road on Wednesday morning. According to Birmingham police, the men had been drawn into a fight with looters as they defended [...]
Continue reading...Monsoon Monday: Lahoris struggle to cope with 12 hours of rain
9. August 2011
LAHORE: Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) workers spent all day clearing the roads after heavy monsoon showers left parts of the city up to three feet under water on Monday. Some 600 workers and 52 pumps were deployed in the city in the morning to drain the water from the streets. Lakshmi Chowk and surrounding [...]
Continue reading...Saudi Arabia recalls Syria envoy as Assad defends crackdown
9. August 2011
Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Syria in a major escalation of international pressure Monday after security forces killed more than 50 people and the regime defended its crackdown on “outlaws.” The surprise move by Riyadh, the Middle East’s Sunni Muslim heavyweight, followed condemnation by Pope Benedict XVI and the Arab League over the continuing [...]
Continue reading...US stocks plummet as uncertainty grips world markets
9. August 2011
NEW YORK: Fear and mass selling triggered after the US rating was downgraded from AAA continued across stock markets in the US and around the world. Despite US President Barack Obama claiming to the counter and promising better times, Dow Jones fell almost 500 points on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 4.5 percent, [...]
Continue reading...Load up on guns: Nadra to issue arms licences from August 31
9. August 2011
KARACHI: The government has decided to stop issuing manual armed licences and directed the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to issue computerised licences by August 31, said Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He was talking to reporters on Monday after presiding over a meeting on law and order situation at Crises Management Cell. Dozens [...]
Continue reading...NICL scam: Fired probe chief put back in saddle
9. August 2011
ISLAMABAD: As the government-judiciary tussle seemed to draw to a close, the Supreme Court has again reinstated Zafar Ahmed Qureshi as the lead investigator in the National Insurance Company Limited land scam. The outspoken Qureshi, who has been restored to his post as additional director-general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was suspended on July [...]
Continue reading...US warns of terror attack on utility plants
21. July 2011
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Homeland Security has warned thousands of US utility plants that they could be the targets of “violent extremists,” according to a report Wednesday from ABC News. On Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security sent out a terror alert titled “Insider Threat to Utilities” that said “violent extremists have, in fact, [...]
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17. October 2011
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