May 12, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: A ray of hope has emerged with respect to the restoration of Pak-US ties. Sources have reported that a work plan has been built for the Cabinet’s Defence Committee, in accordance with the Parliamentary guidelines. The news came out late on Saturday. Reports have indicated that the work plan has been prepared by the [...]
May 12, 2012
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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and the Like-minded group have reached an agreement on seat adjustments policies on Saturday. According to the seat adjustments, the Like-minded group would receive 11 seats. This decision came up when Like-minded group’s leader, Hamid Nasir Chatta, met Nawaz Sharif on Saturday. During the meeting, a conclusion was [...]
May 12, 2012
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OBARO: Pakistan People Party addressed a public gathering in order to display their power to their opposition parties in Obaro on Saturday. The public gathering in Obaro were addressed by Chief Minister Sindh, Qaim Ali Shah. The Sindh Chief Minister (CM) stated that, “Politics is not Nawaz’s cup of tea,” further stating that the PML-N [...]
May 12, 2012
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KABUL: Insurgent attacks killed three NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday while a fourth died of non-battle related injuries, the international coalition said. A roadside bomb in the northwest killed four Afghan policemen. All four members of the US-led military coalition died in southern Afghanistan, where much of the fighting in the more than 10-year [...]
May 12, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Secretary Industries Aziz Ahmad Bilour urged South Korean Ambassador to enhance Korean investment in Pakistan. “The Korean investment in Pakistan is much lower than its potential which in 2010-2011 stood at $ 7.7 million”, Aziz Bilour stated in a meeting with Ambassador of Korea in Pakistan, Choongioo Choi, on Friday. Both the bureaucrats discussed [...]
May 12, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan all-rounder Sohail Tanvir will be replacing off-spinner Saeed Ajmal for Worcestershire club after his Pakistan Twenty-20 international commitments in Sri Lanka in early June. Director of cricket Steve Rhodes believes new overseas signing Sohail to be the ideal replacement for Saeed. The Royals have landed the left-armer for the duration of the Friends [...]
May 12, 2012
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KHUSHAAB: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) continued their protest against the government by addressing a public gathering within Khushaab, Punjab on Saturday. Nawaz stated that the government is totally incompetent and was unable to address people’s issues during their tenure. “PPP received 15 years of ruler ship and yet they did not do anything [...]
May 12, 2012
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KASHMORE: Former Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) MNA, Saleem Jan Mazari, has joined the Pakistan Peoples Party. The announcement was made late on Friday when the former MNA along with his close associates changed his allegiance from PML-N to PPP. Mazari made this announcement in the presence of several ministers and cabinet members including [...]
May 12, 2012
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A shocking video of a Malaysian woman beating her toddler baby, has emerged on social media sites provoking an outrage from people on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. The video is brutally disturbing and contains graphic material and could offend any one because of the depressing content of it. In the video, a 19 year old [...]
May 12, 2012
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KHUSHAAB: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) have continued their protest against the government and Saturday saw the Nawaz led party address a public gathering in Khushaab. Talking to a Public gathering in Khushaab on Saturday, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan stated the country is being ruled by burglars and dacoits. “Pakistan is governed by burglars [...]
May 12, 2012
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JAKARTA: Body bags containing the victims of a Russian jet crash arrived in the Indonesian capital Saturday as Russian investigators flew in to probe how the new aircraft smashed into the side of a dormant volcano. Rescuers said the bodies of those who perished when Sukhoi’s new Superjet 100 hit Mount Salak in western Java [...]
May 12, 2012
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A dying mother’s wish list for her two young sons inspired a best-selling book in the U.K. that is now making its way over to the U.S. Kate Greene was an inspiring mother and wife, whose courage, passion and love for her family are chronicled in “Mum’s List: A Mother’s Life Lessons to the Husband [...]
May 12, 2012
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MADRID: Novak Djokovic’s frustration with the controversial blue clay at the Madrid Masters reached new heights after the world number one was beaten 7-6 6-3 by fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic in the quarter-finals on Friday. Djokovic and world number two Rafa Nadal, who was dumped out by Spanish compatriot Fernando Verdasco on Thursday, have complained [...]
May 12, 2012
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LONDON: After the American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton revealed her country’s beliefs about current Al-Qaeda Cheif, Amyn-al-Zawahiri being inside Pakistan. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani in an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, denied his presence in Pakistan. “Why should I think he [Zawahiri] is in Pakistan?” he [...]
May 12, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The appointments of new Secretary Narcotics and Director General for the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) were halted on Saturday. DG FIA, Javed Iqbal, and Secretary Narcotics, Zafar Iqbal Haq, were both issued notificfaion with respect to their new posts. Their respective notifications had been issued yesterday but were not properly implemented since their joining [...]
May 12, 2012
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In a bizzare piece of news, Taiwan will run a lottery scheme to keep its city streets clean by offering gold in return for dog poo. Taiwan’s New Taipei City, located around the capital, are going to offer a lottery scheme in July, where residents who pick up after their dog’s will get a chance [...]
May 12, 2012
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After being continuously snubbed by the Champions League stakeholders. Pakistan is said to be included in the Champions League Twenty 20 for the first time in the tournament’s history. Sources suggest, that BCCI, in an unprecedented manner, has announced that it will recommend the event’s governing council that the Indian board has no objection over any Pakistani team’s inclusion in the [...]
May 12, 2012
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The British minister due to oversee the London Olympics this summer has insisted he will stay in his role amid fresh pressure for him to quit over alleged collusion with Rupert Murdoch’s companies. A spokeswoman for Jeremy Hunt, whose role as minister for culture, media and sport includes responsibility for this year’s Olympic Games in London, said he [...]
May 12, 2012
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An Israeli envoy will submit a letter to the Palestinian president regarding the possibility of substantive peace talks, a senior Palestinian official said Saturday. The modest exchange is the highest-level communication between the two sides in months. Yitzhak Molcho, a representative of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will meet President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday evening in the West Bank city of Ramallah, [...]
May 12, 2012
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Strutting across the stage wearing red stilettos, red lipstick and a flower in her hat, Samara Chopra was always going to be a hit with the inmates of Tihar high-security jail in New Delhi. The audience of about 1,000 male prisoners whooped with delight as Chopra, lead singer of the Ska Vengers, ran through a high-energy one-hour set [...]
May 12, 2012
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Pakistan is once again on the search for a venue to play their one day series against Australia, scheduled later this year. In a recent turn of events, Sri Lanka has refused to host the series because of their engagements in Sri Lankan Premiere League (SLPL). Aaj News reported. The SLPL will start from the [...]
May 12, 2012
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WASHINGTON: Race car driver and automobile manufacturer Carroll Shelby, who created the best known US sports cars of the 1960s — the AC Cobra and the Shelby Mustang — has died at age 89, his company said Friday. Carroll Shelby International hailed its founder as “a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry.” It said he died [...]
May 12, 2012
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VIENNA: World powers will on Monday be closely following Iran’s first talks with the UN nuclear agency in three months, for clues on whether Tehran means business at an upcoming crunch meeting in Baghdad. The last time that Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, and chief inspector Hermann Nackaerts met officially was [...]
May 12, 2012
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LONDON: The Internet is not a law-free zone, the British government’s top law officer warned Twitter users Friday, adding that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts. Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the government’s chief legal advisor in England and Wales, spoke out following a series of high-profile court cases involving postings made on the micro-blogging site. [...]
May 12, 2012
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BEIJING: China has denied it is increasing combat readiness in response to a tense territorial row with the Philippines in the South China Sea which has dragged on for more than a month. The stand-off erupted last month after Philippine authorities detected Chinese ships fishing near the Scarborough Shoal. They tried to arrest the crew, but were blocked [...]
May 12, 2012
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WASHINGTON: Alleging that Pakistan has leveraged radical terrorist groups to carry out attacks in India and Afghanistan, a US lawmaker has introduced a bill that proposes to deduct $50 million (Rs 2,681 crore) from the US aid to Islamabad every time an American is killed on its territory. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher introduced the bill ” on [...]