Court grills police for transferring case to FATA
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) reprimanded police on Thursday for transferring to Fata Secretariat the case against a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief. Justice Shaukat...
View ArticleProof of irregularities: Re-polling ordered in over 250 K-P stations on July 5
ISLAMABAD: Election authorities have decided to hold fresh polling at hundreds of polling stations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) that witnessed large-scale irregularities in the May 30 elections. On...
View ArticleIn session: Balochistan Assembly debates power shortage
QUETTA: Balochistan should generate its own electricity to overcome its acute power shortage, Zamrak Khan Achakzai said in the Balochistan Assembly on Thursday. The ANP parliamentary leader, speaking...
View ArticleBBC reporter stands by MQM funding story
Journalist Owen Bennett-Jones, whose story on MQM receiving funds from India has created a political in Pakistan, said on Thursday that his sources are authentic and he stands by every word of his...
View ArticleSSC results: Girls outdo boys in Abbottabad
ABBOTABAD: Girls have once again outdone boys in the SSC examinations in Abbottabad. According to results announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, the district’s top three...
View ArticleHazardous travel: Three killed, 55 injured in Muzaffargarh bus-truck collision
MUZAFFARGARH: At least three people were killed and 55 others were injured when a passenger bus collided with a luggage truck on the National Highway, early Friday morning. According to reports, the...
View ArticleDutch motogp: Yamaha’s Rossi on pole in Assen
ASSEN: World championship leader Valentino Rossi will start on pole position at Saturday’s Dutch MotoGP in Assen after recording the fastest time in qualifying on Friday. The Italian, on a Yamaha,...
View ArticleAsia-Oceania Zone Group II: Aqeel Khan confident of success in second round
KARACHI: Pakistan’s most decorated Davis Cup player Aqeel Khan is confident of Pakistan’s chances in the Asia-Oceania Group II round-two tie against Indonesia, which will start on July 14 at the Gelora...
View ArticlePortugal face Germany for a place in the final
Group B winners Portugal take on Group A runners-up Germany in their semi-final in Olomouc as they look to claim their first-ever UEFA Under-21 Championship. Portugal have only once reached the final...
View ArticlePakistan’s new motto: Yasir Shah-l deliver
COLOMBO: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed 5-95 as Pakistan halted Sri Lanka’s march towards a big first-innings lead in the second Test at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Friday. Yasir made up for the...
View ArticleWahab fractures bowling hand, out for three weeks
KARACHI: Pacer Wahab Riaz has been ruled out of the ongoing tour of Sri Lanka with a hairline fracture that will see him on the sidelines for three weeks. The selectors will wait before deciding...
View ArticleTunisia gov’t says to close 80 mosques for inciting ‘violence’
TUNIS: Tunisia plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that remain outside state control for inciting violence, as a countermeasure after the hotel attack that killed 39 people, Prime Minister...
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Japanese women go gaga over Shabani, the ‘good-looking’ gorilla
Shabani the gorilla, who now lives in Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya southwest of Tokyo, has attracted a large following of admirers, usually women, who visit him because he is so...
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Daily chocolate dose may fend off heart disease – but don’t bet your life on it
A new study suggests that people who eat as much as 100g of chocolate per day – around two bars – may be less likely to die from heart disease, reported The Guardian. Unfortunately, anyone thinking...
View ArticleSingle close friendship can help overcome adversity
LONDON: A single supportive close friendship can help young people from low-income backgrounds to thrive in challenging circumstances, says new research. “Boys’ and girls’ best friendships are an...
View ArticlePakistan condemns attack at Kuwait mosque
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque in Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers, resulting in the loss of 27 lives and injuries to about 227 people, an...
View ArticleUnhcr Figures: 1.6m Afghan refugees in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is hosting almost 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees — the largest protracted refugee population globally — according to an official of the United Nations High Commissioner for...
View ArticleDevelopment Agenda: UN ambassador stresses on child rights
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, has called for children to be “front and centre” of the post-2015 development agenda while opening the annual session of...
View ArticleEconomic Corridor: PTI seeks opportunities for all provinces
ISLAMABAD: Equal development opportunities should be provided to all provinces through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, adviser to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former...
View ArticleKarachi woes: Two grid stations catch fire, swathes of city without power
KARACHI: Bearing blistering heat and prolonged power outages, the people of Karachi suffered another tragedy when two grid stations in the Federal-B Areal locality caught fire on Saturday night....
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