April 24, 2012
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President Asif Ali Zardari’s daughter, Bukhtawar, vowed to support PM Yousuf Raza Gilani during his troublesome period. Bakhtawar has further recommended the PM, not to breach the constitution of Pakistan as he is already facing contempt charges. “You will not desecrate the graves of our martyrs. You may lose your office. You may lose your [...]
April 24, 2012
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The new upcoming Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 8 release preview will be available in the first week of June 2012. The company revealed this at its Windows Developer Days conference held in Japan late on Monday. Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 8, is available on Microsoft’s official website as a free download-able Consumer Preview since February [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Babar Awan’s contempt case, to be heard on Tuesday, was adjourned till April 26 as the former Federal Law Minister’s counsel was absent from the court. The two-member bench of the apex court, hearing Awan’s case, included Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Athar Saeed. The bench was to frame contempt charge against Babar [...]
April 24, 2012
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Three Syrian military officers were killed inDamascus on Tuesday, state media and opposition groups said, and at least three people were wounded in a car bomb blast in the capital in further blows to a ragged U.N.-monitored ceasefire. Observers from the fledgling United Nations mission visited the central province of Homs, hotbed of a 13-month-old uprising against President [...]
April 24, 2012
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SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue slide in at least two years, a sign that the social network’s sizzling growth may be cooling as it prepares to go public in the biggest ever Internet IPO. The company blamed the first-quarter decline, which surprised some on Wall Street, on seasonal advertising trends. “It was a [...]
April 24, 2012
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According to Aaj News correspondent, a blast has rocked the Lahore train station early evening on Tuesday. Sources say that the blast took place on Platform number 2, where people were waiting for their respective trains to arrive. As per the reports of Aaj news correspondent, the blast resulted in 2 casualties and several injuries [...]
April 24, 2012
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Veteran Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf took part in a fitness test on Tuesday to try to revive his international career, insisting he could still compete at the highest level. The 37-year-old played the last of his 90 Tests against England at Lord’s in 2010 – a match marred by the spot-fixing scandal involving three of [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan Muslim League (N) MPA, Shumaila Rana, who was supposedly indulged in a credit card scandal, made a re-entry within the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday. Shumaila Rana, the former MPA, had left her seat vacant in July 2009 after a female MPA blamed her for stealing and using her credit card. Rana asserted [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: “Sorry Juliet! Romeo Loves Paaro”, a Desi parody of romantic hit tale Romeo Juliet enthralled the audience of twin cities here late Monday at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). Regular shows of the play will continue till April 29 at PNCA with musical comedy that fills the ambiance with laughter on situational [...]
April 24, 2012
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Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, an Amnesty International report said. The report, titled “Choice and Prejudice: Discrimination Against Muslims in Europe” issued on Monday, details the problem, with a focus on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Amnesty International raised the issue, as it has done before, of [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Former leggie Abdul Qadir on Tuesday backed the idea of launching Pakistan Premier League (PPL), saying it would attract foreign players and thus end the drought of international cricket in the country. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is planning to launch the PPL in October and wants to use the Twenty-20 competition to show the world that [...]
April 24, 2012
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MADRID: Spanish police have arrested 22 people and broken up a ring that allegedly smuggled people from Iran to Britain, often via Spain’s Canary Islands. Police also said Tuesday that the traffickers also used an overland route, with people hidden in the luggage holds of buses or in freight containers on trucks. The ringleader was [...]
April 24, 2012
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Comedian Russell Brand says “love and compassion” are the key to weaning addicts off drugs. Brand testified to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday about his own experience of addiction, and said society should not “discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines.” During a 30-minute appearance, Brand said he believed drugs should be legalized. He [...]
April 24, 2012
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QUETTA: Unknown armed men have blown up a 16-inch diameter gas pipeline in Dera Bugti district. Levies sources said on Tuesday that unidentified men has planted explosive material with gas pipeline in Pir Koh gas field area and detonated it with remote control. Resultantly, gas supply from the well to purification plant was suspended. Law [...]
April 24, 2012
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James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father’s scandal-tarred British newspaper arm Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. Speaking under oath at Lord Justice Brian Leveson’s inquiry into media ethics, Murdoch repeated allegations that the tabloid’s then-editor Colin Myler and the company’s former in-house lawyer [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Former Ambassador to US, Mr Hussain Haqqani’s video statement application has been forwarded to the judicial commission as per the instructions of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Asma Jehangir, Hussain Haqqani’s advisor, had earlier requested in the apex court to have his client’s statement recorded via video link, just like Mansoor Ijaz’s was recorded in [...]
April 24, 2012
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KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari holds a meeting amid the violent situation in parts of Karachi particularly Lyari, Aaj news reported. The reports says that, President ordered to eradicate all the gangs and extortionists prior to the elections and directed to shut down all the spots of gambling and drugs smuggling in lyari. During the meeting President said that, [...]
April 24, 2012
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A pulled muscle, especially involving the thigh, is a common injury among runners and people who play basketball, hockey or football. And while the injury can’t always be prevented, there are factors that increase your risk. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says you’re more likely to pull a muscle if: You have tight muscles that haven’t been properly [...]
April 24, 2012
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The president of newly independent South Sudan, in Beijing lobbying for economic and diplomatic support, toldChina’s president on Tuesday that attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country. There has yet to be a formal declaration of war by either of the Sudans, and Salva Kiir’s remark, made during talks with PresidentHu [...]
April 24, 2012
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A feud over the riches of South Korea’s Samsung business empire has erupted in public as family members prepare to take an inheritance battle to court. Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., which is the flagship company of the Samsungconglomerate, is facing off against his older brother, a sister and a nephew’s wife who all want a bigger piece of [...]
April 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court will announce its verdict in a contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Gilani was charged with contempt by the country’s highest court in Februaryfor refusing to write to the Swiss authorities to ask them to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali [...]
April 24, 2012
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Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party. The mutilation occurred not in Africa, where the practice is most prevalent, but in India where a small Muslim sub-sect known as the Dawoodi Bohra continues to believe that the removal of the clitoris is the [...]
April 24, 2012
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Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing industry. Before Sundback’s intervention, the idea for a fastener based on interlocking teeth had circulated among [...]
April 24, 2012
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This year’s summer movies just won’t let up. There’s Joss Whedon’s Avengers, Chris Nolan’s third Batman film, and Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to space horror. Plus maybe a dozen other movies that look like they could be totally fantastic. Here’s our complete list of 32 movies coming out between now and September — including superheroes, [...]
April 24, 2012
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ROSEAU: Shane Shillingford celebrated becoming the first Dominican to play Test cricket in his home country in style on Monday as the West Indies off-spinner took four Australian wickets on the opening day of the third and final Test at Windsor Park. Australia finished the day on 212 for seven, in some trouble after winning [...]