June 19, 2012
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KARACHI: Renowned Pakistani all-rounder, Shahid Afridi, hinted towards quitting One Day International 50 over format of cricket on Tuesday. Shahid Afridi returned back home after playing the T20 and the ODI series within Sri Lanka. The Pakistani team lost the ODI series and Shahid Afridi, along with many other senior players, were criticized for their [...]
June 19, 2012
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Renowned Pakistani singer, Adnan Sami, was granted divorce from UAE citizen, Sabah Galadari, by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The divorce had remained a controversial issue for Sami and Galadari for several years. Adnan Sami had married Sabah Galadari in 2001, divorced her in 2004 and later married her again in 2007. Even after the [...]
June 19, 2012
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During summers when the temperature rises, it becomes quite difficult to imagine what people do without air conditioning; hand-held fans, prickly heats and putting ice cubes down your back only work if ever, you have to return to the confines of some stifling domicile that badly needs frosty air. A normal air-conditioner just cannot provide [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari cancelled his Russia tour following Supreme Court’s verdict when ended up disqualifying Yousuf Raza Gilani from being the Prime Minister of Pakistan. According to sources, the tour has been cancelled in order to control the domestic crisis that had emerged as a result of the SC’s verdict. Sources have also [...]
June 19, 2012
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ANKARA: Kurdish rebels attacked Turkish military units with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades Tuesday in southeastern Turkey, sparking clashes that killed 18 rebels and eight soldiers, authorities said. The attack drew a strong condemnation from Turkey’s leader. Another 16 soldiers were wounded in the attack in the Daglica area of Hakkari province, which borders northern Iraq’s Kurdish areas, the governor’s office in [...]
June 19, 2012
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Approximately 7:30 pm today, the weather in Karachi turned cloudy and in a blink of an eye it started raining. This occurrence might fall into the rare list of weather forecasts that actually came true. According to a local news channel, traffic was jammed all over the city and the rain fell heavy in neighborhoods [...]
June 19, 2012
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Panasonic’s first Android-based computer tablet designed for tough environments such as battlefields was unveiled Tuesday at a major regional telecom fair in Singapore. It was the first time the “Panasonic Toughpad A1″ was showcased inAsia, where company officials said there is a huge demand for such a rugged device. It has already previewed in the United [...]
June 19, 2012
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Pakistan’s longest serving Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani has been disqualified by the country’s apex court today. The case was being heard by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry. Supreme Court issued a short order stating that the seat of Prime Minister of Pakistan has been vacant since 26 April, the date when it all started. [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party’s General Secretary, Jahangir Badar, has stated that their party would give a decision after consulting its coalition parties following the Supreme Court’s verdict on Tuesday. Jahangir Badar was addressing a press conference along with Qamar Zaman Kaira and Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday. The press conference was conducted following the party’s [...]
June 19, 2012
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Karachi – 19th June, 2012: “The City School” today announced the launch of “The Smart School” – a School Franchise Project based on e-learning and holistic educational development for tomorrow’s generation bringing, not only, progressive entrepreneurs but also futuristic educationists on board. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Jehangir Firoz, COO, The City School said, “We [...]
June 19, 2012
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The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death. According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing [...]
June 19, 2012
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KABUL: The Afghan government on Tuesday accused neighboring Pakistan of involvement in a bloody attack last year on minority Shi’ite Muslims, one of the worst sectarian killings in Afghanistan for years. The December 6 attack, in which a suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of Shi’ites marking the Ashura rite on a Kabul street, [...]
June 19, 2012
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After been disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani marked a history, as he is the first head of government around the world ever to be formally punished for insulting the Supreme court in any state. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stood disqualified since his conviction for contempt and asked President [...]
June 19, 2012
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NEW YORK: The cryptic title of Akash Kapur’s book, “India Becoming,” is deliberately ambiguous. Becoming what? Raised in India but educated from age 16 in the United States, Kapur has earned degrees from Harvard and Oxford. He moved back to India in 2003, an optimistic time when the country’s modernization was accelerating. An economic boom has had [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: In yet another drastic event within Pakistan’s history, Supreme Court disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani from his office on Tuesday. The SC’s verdict ruled Gilani to be disqualified in the “contempt of court” case further adding that there was no PM since SC gave its first verdict on April 26. According to reports on Tuesday, [...]
June 19, 2012
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan has given its order on the Speaker’s Ruling on PM Gilani’s disqualification. The three judge bench of the apex court announced the office of Prime Minister of Pakistan as vacant since 26 April, disqualifying Yousuf Raza Gilani from Parliament and Premiership. Below is the copy of a short order released [...]
June 19, 2012
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Ghazala Javed a famous singer of the North coming out of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was shot dead in a targeted killing incident on 18 June. Ghazala was a renowned artist with a massive fan base of Pakhtun origin, mainly because her songs were in Pashtoo language. She started her career around 2004 and at [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Supreme court in its verdict declared the convicted PM Gilani as disqualified from April 26 after the judgement of seven members bench, aaj news reported. The three-member Bench heard the case headed by CJP, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry including Justice Chaudhry, Justice Jawad S Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif. According to our correspondent, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry announced [...]
June 19, 2012
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KABUL: Afghan officials say a mine laid in a road has killed eight civilians in the country’s south, including women and children. The governor’s office in Helmand province says the eight were driving Monday in Musa Qala districtwhen their car hit the explosives. The United Nations says 579 civilians were killed in the first four months of this year. [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The meeting of Central Executive Committee of Pakistan Peoples Party is underway at Awan-e-Sadr on Tuesday. The Co- Chairperson of the party, President Asif Ali Zardari presided over the meeting and PM Yousaf Raza Gilani is also present in the meeting. The on-going meeting at the Presidency also to review the post-Supreme Court verdict situation. [...]
June 19, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme court reserves the verdict in the speaker’s ruling case and is likely to announce it shortly which will decide the fate of convicted Prime Minister of Pakistan. Earlier today, Supreme Court resumed hearing of Speaker National assembly’s ruling over issue of contempt of Court case against Prime Minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. The three-member Bench heard [...]
June 19, 2012
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LAHORE: Angry masses are protesting against energy crisis across Punjab for so many days after observing load shedding for more than 20-22 hours. Frustrated protesters took to the roads across the country to voice their exasperation, with many cities in the Punjab witnessing ransacking, looting and widespread vandalism. Earlier, today DPO Kamalia went to the [...]
June 19, 2012
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Saudi King Abdullah named his half-brother Prince Salman as heir to the throne on Monday following the death of crown prince Nayef, state television Al-Ekhbariyah reported. The monarch appointed Salman “crown prince and deputy prime minister” while also keeping him on as defence minister, it said, adding that Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz would take over [...]
June 19, 2012
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HYDERABAD: The office bearers of Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association Badin and Hyderabad Chapters as well as Liaquat University Hospital Wing Tuesday went on hunger strike here in front of Hyderabad Press Club for acceptance of the demands of paramedics of Sindh. Those who went on hunger strike included Allah Dino, Zahid Hussain Thebo, Fazal Ellahi, [...]
June 19, 2012
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The science journal Nature reported claims on Monday that Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta had plagiarised large parts of his 2003 PhD thesis which he denied, hinting at a political plot against him. In a news article, Nature said it had seen documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta’s [...]
June 19, 2012
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The military says vandals have torched and scrawled graffiti on a Palestinian mosque in the West Bank. Suspicion has fallen on Jewish settlers angry over the government’s plans to demolish 30 illegally built apartments in the West Bank. The military said a blaze was set in a mosque in Kfar Jabaa early on Tuesday. The [...]