Archive for June, 2012

QUETTA: A powerful bomb blast targeting pilgrims on Thursday claimed the lives of 13 people, including a cop, and injured 30 others here in the Hazar Gunji area.Hospital sources feared that the death toll may rise, as many of the injured are in a critical condition. Emergency was declared in all the hospitals of the [...]

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Thursday reserved judgment in the matter of presidential pardon to a terrorism convict after counsels from the both sides completed their arguments.   The petitioners, Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem Ali and Umar Khayam, through their counsels Chaudhry Ashraf Gujjar and Barrister Zafar Ullah advocates [...]

SUKKUR: Robbers looted the passengers of a coach in Khairpur on Thursday. Reports said armed men forced a Karachi-bound passenger coach on the National Highway, Khairpur, in the limits of Kot Diji. Later, they looted all the passengers at gun point. They snatched jewellery from women passengers, mobile phone, cash and then escaped.   share: [...]

SUKKUR: A man was killed while his wife sustained bullet injuries in an attack by a police constable in Khairpur on Thursday. Police said the couple Mir Muhammad Qureshi and his wife Irshad Khatoon were on the way to city for some medical assistance, when Constable Nadeem Sial fired upon them and fled. Qureshi was [...]

ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Afghanistan Muhammad Umer Daudzai called on Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar here at Foreign Office on Thursday.   The foreign minister informed the ambassador that the prime minister of Pakistan had accepted the invitation of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and was expected to visit Kabul in the near future. She also informed [...]

PESHAWAR: A bomb blast on Thursday damaged the shrine of Haji Mian Gee Nika Baba in the suburban Surizai area and injured a female visitor, police said. An official of the Badaber Police Station told The News that a device planted near the walls of the shrine went off at around 12pm. Officials of the [...]

Shafqat Abbasi says PCP striving to create awareness about code of ethics   ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira Thursday said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government has firm belief that responsible and independent media was imperative to sustain and nurture democratic norms in the country.   Addressing as chief guest [...]

RAWALPINDI: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) here on Thursday granted interim bail till July 03 to the former PPP candidate for the slot of prime minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin. The LHC’s Rawalpindi bench comprising JusticeIjaz Ahmad and Justice Ali Baqir Najafi granted bail to Makhdoom Shahab against surety bonds of Rs100,000 and [...]

ISLAMABAD: The leader of the opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says no body should have any misconception that an incompetent, corrupt and failing government has the capacity or the right to strike at the only institution which enjoys massive popular support – the Supreme Court.   The opposition will not let that happen, come what [...]

ISLAMABAD: After the recent admission by top government officials that the electricity crisis was a self-created phenomenon and a consequence of bad governance, Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) has now revealed that the private power producing companies are allegedly involved in adding fictitious production costs to the expenses to avail additional income amounting to Rs100 billion [...]