June 28, 2012
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KARACHI: Oscar winning Pakistani documentary filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, refuted Rukhsana’s claims and has forwarded her response clarifying her position with respect to the mainstream trend on twitter #JusticeforRukhsana. Sharmeen, while talking to Aaj TV, stated that Rukhsana’s claims are baseless and do not carry any weight. Regarding the house claims, Sharmeen said that no legal [...]
June 28, 2012
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QUETTA: A bomb attack took place in a bus carrying almost 40 Shia pilgrims on Thursday. Officials have reported 15 casualties and 25 injuries as a result of the blast. According to the preliminary reports of the bomb disposal squad, the bomb was remote controlled and almost 18kg of explosive material was used for the [...]
June 28, 2012
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Burma will enforce a law against child soldiers and allow the U.N. access to military units to check for underage recruits, the U.N. said on Wednesday, following the signing of an agreement in Naypyitaw, the capital. The Joint Action Plan said Burma would halt child soldier recruitment and discharge existing recruits under age 18. The [...]
June 28, 2012
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WASHINGTON- US senators said Wednesday they planned to move quickly to confirm the first US ambassador to Myanmar in two decades, as they pushed to allow investment in the country’s oil and gas sector. President Barack Obama on May 17 nominated Derek Mitchell, a veteran US policymaker on Asia, as ambassador to the country after dramatic reforms including the [...]
June 28, 2012
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LONDON: Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of alcohol, a study has revealed. – According to French Magazine. Paris based, National Institute of Consumption reported more than half of leading colas contain traces of alcohol, including Pepsi and Coca Cola. Only the locally produced versions are alcohol free. However a spokesman for Pepsi admitted,” some [...]
June 28, 2012
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ANKARA: Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons alongside its border with Syria, state television reported on Thursday, days after the downing of a Turkish militaryjet by Syrian forces heightened the tensions between the two countries. A small convoy of military trucks, towing anti-aircraft guns, entered into a military outpost in the border village of Guvecci, which faces a Syrian military [...]
June 28, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Malik Riaz to stay in Pakistan and appear in all hearings of the case and deferred till July 4, Aaj news reported. The court also rejected the plea of Malik Riaz to exempt him from the hearings and directed to submit his reply till July 2. Earlier, today property tycoon Malik Riaz, [...]
June 28, 2012
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The Burma Army have recruited and used children as soldiers consistently for more than 20 years, the recruitment is ongoing, as listed by the United Nations Secretary-General in consecutive reports to the United Nations Security Council, but still they do nothing to bring the Generals to justice. Burma has the highest number of child soldiers [...]
June 28, 2012
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LAHORE: Ex-Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said, he achieved all what he wanted during the four years of his premiership except being disqualified from the NA speaker. Talking to media at Lahore airport, Gilani said that he had accepted the Supreme court verdict. Prime ministers keep coming and going, but the assembly should complete its [...]
June 28, 2012
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DAMASCUS — Peace envoy Kofi Annan is proposing a transitional government for Syria including members from both sides of the country’s war, diplomats said. The call came after UN investigators reported on atrocities committed inside the country, where rights groups say more than 15,000 people have been killed since an uprising began against President Bashar [...]
June 28, 2012
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Robots bringing up food, doing dishes and preparing food, doesn’t it remind you of a cartoon from the 90s called ‘The Jetsons’? What if the very same concept is no longer fiction but something real? A restaurant in downtown Harbin, China, Owned by the Harbin Haohai Robot Company, has 18 types of robots, each sliding [...]
June 28, 2012
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WASHINGTON: Seventy-four percent of Pakistan consider the US as their enemy, a figure which is higher than the previous years and the approval rating of US President Barack Obama is exceedingly low in this regard, a new survey released today said. Following a year of tensions between their country and the US, Pakistanis continue to [...]
June 28, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday increased power Distribution Companies’ (Discos) tariff by Rs1.51 per unit across the board, except for lifeline consumers, for May 2012 under its monthly fuel adjustment formula. This increase will also affect the rate of 700 megawatts of electricity being purchased by KESC from NTDC. The [...]
June 28, 2012
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LAHORE: A section of recently constructed bridge of Lahore Ring road in Harbanspura area collapsed on Thursday which caused deaths of two persons travelling in a truck passing under the bridge at that time. According to Rescue 1122 the collapsed portion of the bridge has been removed and efforts were underway to retrieve bodies of the two deceased [...]
June 28, 2012
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LAHORE: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh at Wagah border accepted that he was a Spy in Pakistan upon which he had been in jail for the last 27 years, sources said. During his last talks with media Surjeet confessed that “I was a spy for India” but soon-after he completed his sentence Indian authorities stopped him. Singh who has served a life term following [...]
June 28, 2012
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The Leader of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed was detained for over five hours at the Houston airport after he landed in the city on Wednesday afternoon. According to the sources, Sheikh Rasheed was questioned for some five hours but was not given a reason on why he had been detained, but later on the Pakistan Ambassador for [...]