Seven-year old boy sexually abused in Haripur
HARIPUR: A seven-year old boy was sodomized in a remote village of Haripur on Saturday. According to the boy’s father *D, his son *B had gone to the shop in Bagra village no1. When failed to return...
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Sonam Kapoor tests positive for swine flu
Bollywood actor has Sonam Kapoor tested positive for swine flu, India Today reported on Saturday. She was admitted to a hospital in Rajkot after she complained of sore throat and high fever. The actor...
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Iraq reopens Baghdad museum 12 years after looting
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered. The...
View ArticleMan gets convicted as wife testifies against him
KARACHI: A district and sessions court sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Saturday for strangling a woman to death. Mehboob Ali was found guilty of killing his neighbour, Aliya, during a theft bid...
View ArticleShot dead: Three ‘gang members’ killed in alleged encounter
KARACHI: Three suspected gang members were killed during an alleged encounter with the police in troubled Lyari on Saturday. According to the police, the encounter took place at Sardar Sheikha Road in...
View ArticleIllegal advertisements: SC issues notices to civic, land-owning agencies
KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued notices to various land-owning and civic agencies within the city, including cantonment boards, the railways, the station headquarters, the navy and the...
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A taste of Americana in Karachi
KARACHI: International musicians have always been a rarity in Pakistan so whenever a group from overseas visits the country, it is bound to draw attention. Recently, the Americana group, Mary McBride...
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Reviving times of yore
LAHORE: Talented designer duo Saira Shakira has acquired a loyal clientele across Pakistan in a short span of time. They are the youngest of the eight designers, who showcased at this weekend’s PFDC...
View ArticleAisam optimistic despite Zimonjic split
DUBAI: The ever-changing dynamics of the doubles game have left Aisamul Qureshi without a partner mid-season. His pairing with Nenad Zimonjic, only about two months old, came to a tame end with a 4-6,...
View ArticleAkhtar offers Mohiuddin role in Bollywood film
KARACHI: Pakistani film actor, Ghulam Mohiuddin has been offered a role in a Bollywood film by renowned writer and lyricist, Javed Akhtar reported the Roznama Express. Akhtar in a telephonic...
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Moving on from Baby Doll
NOIDA: After getting recognised for her hit peppy numbers, singer Kanika Kapoor says she will now sing more of classical Indian numbers this year to popularise the genre in the Hindi film industry. “I...
View ArticleWoe to you, O’ fans of Pakistan
Pakistan bounced back to win but the problems remain as obvious as they had after the 150-run defeat to West Indies
View ArticleEliminating corruption
KARACHI: Today, corruption is a word so heavily ingrained in the culture of every Pakistani that no one bats an eyelid at it. It is understood by everyone that corruption is the quickest and easiest...
View ArticleTerrorists versus Islamophobia
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: One may presume that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar must have enjoyed the week-long break from office while attending the Counter-Violent Extremism forum at the White House, as...
View ArticleHenderson, Coutinho stunners silence Manchester City
LIVERPOOL: Spectacular long-range strikes by midfielders Jordan Henderson and Philippe Coutinho earned Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Sunday that seriously compromised the Premier...
View ArticleIslamic State releases 19 Christians, more than 200 still captive – monitor
WASHINGTON / BEIRUT: Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said. More than...
View ArticleTraders to observe shutter-down strike today
MANSEHRA: To protest the arrests of shopkeepers, traders in Mansehra would observe a shutter-down strike on Tuesday (today). This was decided at a meeting of Anjuman Tajran Mansehra on Monday....
View ArticleErdogan in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia seeks ‘Sunni unity’ against IS
RIYADH: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Monday in Riyadh for a visit at the king’s invitation in what is seen as a Saudi bid to unify Sunnis against Iran and Islamic State militants....
View ArticlePalestine to file war crimes case against Israel in ICC in April: PLO
RAMALLAH: The Palestinians are to lodge their first complaint against Israel for alleged war crimes at the International Criminal Court on April 1, said a senior official on Monday. “One of the first...
View ArticlePTI workers stage protest outside MPA’s house over alleged horse-trading
PESHAWAR: Around 150 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers staged a protest over horse-trading outside MPA Javed Nasim’s residence on Dalazak Road locality of Peshawar after he backed Senate election...
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