June 23, 2012
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CAIRO: Egyptians find out on Sunday whether their next president will be a former military officer or an Islamist from the army’s old adversary, the Muslim Brotherhood, after a long week’s wait since a vote to pick a successor to the deposed Hosni Mubarak. Impatient Brotherhood supporters have been out on Cairo’s Tahrir Square day [...]
June 23, 2012
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KARACHI:Three individuals were reported dead and ten were injured in different incident within the city over the last 24 hours. According to Senior Superintendent of Police – South, Asif Ejaz Sheikh, 3 individuals killed within the city were all as a result of target killing. He further added firing from miscreants resulted in 10 individuals [...]
June 23, 2012
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KARACHI: During the hearing of a petition filed by Nadeem advocate, against his arrest by NAB, the counsel for the petitioner, Shahab Sarki, referred to a photocopy of a printout obtained from the official website of National Accountability Bureau containing the following text: “senior judge of High Court had called the case in his chambers [...]
June 23, 2012
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The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) held its 24th Annual Convocation on June 23, 2012, in the Syed Maratab Ali Sports Complex at the sprawling LUMS campus. The University campus community came together in traditional, celebratory spirit to mark the graduation of 713 students in a ceremony that also featured as the largest Convocation [...]
June 23, 2012
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GALLE: Pakistani team was struggling at 48-5 at the close of play on Day 2. The Pakistani team started their batting on Saturday, in response to Sri Lankan’s mammoth total of 472. The batting line-up for Pakistan kept tumbling at regular intervals with no batsman showing confidence at the crease. Younis Khan (15*) and Mohammad [...]
June 23, 2012
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QUETTA: At least eight people, a police personnel among them were shot dead at Sariab Road area of Quetta on Saturday, police confirmed. Police sources said that unknown armed men opened fire on people sitting in a laundry shop adjacent to the Sariab Mill, injuring nine persons critically. The assailants managed to escape the crime scene. [...]
June 23, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered against Punjab Police officials, who were going to arrest Malik Riaz on Saturday. According to sources, a case has been registered by the Islamabad Police against the Punjab Police officials raiding Malik Raiz’s house in order to arrest him. Islamabad Police have mentioned that the case has been registered [...]
June 23, 2012
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The Lahor High Court has served a notice to President Asif Ali Zardari for holding two offices at a time despite of court’s ruling against it, Aaj News reported. Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Umar Ata Bandial took notice of the issue and directed President’s principal secretary to submit his reply in a week’s [...]
June 23, 2012
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India’s prime minister has welcomed the appointment of new counterpart in Pakistan and said that he was “confident” of strengthening ties between the two neighbours. Law makers elected Raja Pervez Ashraf as the country’s new prime minister Friday, seeking to end a political upheaval. India chose to refrain from commenting on Pakistan’s internal crisis, sparked [...]
June 23, 2012
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In the far north-east of India, cut off from the rest of the country except via a narrow land bridge, perhaps the only way to make yourself heard is loud, really loud, rock music. For White Fire’s drummer Elangbam Kumar, that explains why their cover version of the Guns N’Roses song “Welcome To The Jungle” [...]
June 23, 2012
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Veena Malik feels great as her debut film Daal mein kuch kaala hai is releasing on 29th June all over. She is also very excited as she has done double role in her first Hindi film. She has also done one item song in her first film.She feels great working with all great actors of [...]
June 23, 2012
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Nokia launched Nokia Pakistan website with an aim to provide modern and advance information for the business and none-business users. Nokia is already leading in the communication world; with the decision of launching its website in Pakistan will prove positive dynamics for the users of Nokia. This website will be solely dovetailing towards the market of Pakistan. [...]
June 23, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Majority of the members were assigned their old positions in the new federal cabinet and a notification has also been issued in the regard, Aaj news reported. The Ministry for Finance was retained by Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh , Information Ministery was assigned to Qamar Zaman Kaira, Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan got Communications Ministry and Haji Ghulam Ahmad [...]
June 23, 2012
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Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has called for an Energy Conference expressing his focus on the energy crisis in Pakistan, Aaj News reported. Following the footsteps of his predecessor Yusuf Raza Gilani, Raja has decided to highly prioritize the energy crisis and call upon members of the cabinet and other authorities related to energy sector for [...]
June 23, 2012
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Google on Saturday marked the celebrations of the 100th birth anniversary ofcomputer scientist Alan Mathison Turing with an attractive doodle. Turing, who is also known as the founder of computer science, played a significant role in breaking the wartime Enigma- enciphered messages. Alan Turing was born in London on 23 June, 1912 and from a very early age [...]
June 23, 2012
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GALLE: Prolific off-spinner Saeed Ajmal cut through Sri Lanka’s middle order to help Pakistan bounce back on the second day of the first Test in Galle on Saturday. The hosts, hoping to build on their overnight score of 300-2, lost three wickets in the morning session to move to 366 for five in their first [...]
June 23, 2012
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KARACHI: A Pakistani schoolgirl selected to take part in the Olympic torch relay spoke of her delight Friday and said she hoped it could improve the country’s tarnished image. Zainab Imran, 15, was selected to participate in the relay next week in Nottingham by the British Council. Council volunteers from 20 countries were chosen to [...]
June 23, 2012
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LAHORE: Pakistan suffered a loss of $1.198 billion in its July-May 2011-12 textile exports as compared to same period of FY2010-11 mainly due to gas and electricity shortages. According to the export data released by the Federal Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan exported textile products worth $11.273826 billion in eleven months as against $12.472255 billion of [...]
June 23, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is still pursuing a probe against the newly-elected Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, for his alleged involvement in the multi-billion rupees Rental Power Plants (RPPs) scam. “NAB has not yet cleared or given a clean chit in the RPP scam to Raja Parvez Ashraf,” a senior NAB official told [...]
June 23, 2012
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LONDON:Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria said Friday he will appeal the lifetime ban handed down to him by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for his role in a spot-fixing scandal. “I will definitely be doing an appeal. The people trust me. I’m an honest man. I’ve been playing cricket with passion and love. I have [...]
June 23, 2012
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BEIRUT: Turkey lost a warplane over the Mediterranean on Friday, but its prime minister said he could not confirm reports that Syria had shot it down and had apologized. If the Syrians did indeed bring down the Turkish F-4 jet, a new crisis could erupt between two prickly Middle Eastern neighbors already at bitter odds over a [...]