August 13, 2012
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Rebels in eastern Syria said they had captured the pilot of a government fighter jet after shooting down his aircraft on Monday. The downing of a warplane would be a rare event for lightly armed rebels faced with the superior weaponry of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. State television said the plane crashed due to technical [...]
August 13, 2012
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Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said only democracy and a federal party with its roots in all provinces, together can keep intact the nation. “If a federal party is weakened which represents all provinces, it weakens the state thus creating divides in the name of religion, politics and language,” he said while addressing [...]
August 13, 2012
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Federal Minister for Finance, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh here on Monday was informed that National Logistic Cell (NLC) has paid all of its loans, liabilities and become a debt free organization. A meeting of the National logistic Board Members (NLB) held here and discussed various financial matters of the organization, said a statement issued by [...]
August 13, 2012
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President Asif Ali Zardari while calling for elimination of all forms of bigotry, extremism and militancy stressed strengthening of democratic system and urged that political choices be made by ballot, and not imposed through bullet. In a message on the Independence Day the President urged the nation to rededicate itself to the democratic ideals and [...]
August 13, 2012
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A man whose jet ski failed him in New York’s Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system. Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate system of motion sensors and [...]
August 13, 2012
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After years of breathless anticipation — at least on the part of the tabloids — Jennifer Aniston is finally ready to wed again. Her representative, Stephen Huvane, confirmed Sunday night that the actress is engaged to her boyfriend of more than a year, Justin Theroux. “Justin Theroux had an amazing birthday on Friday, receiving an extraordinary gift when his [...]
August 13, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: Chairman Parliament Special Committee on Kashmir Maulana Fazlur Rehman asked India not to stop Pakistani water by constructing dams on Pakistani rivers. In a statement issued here on Monday, Fazlur said that this step will badly affect our agriculture sector and disrupt the peace of sub-continent. He said under the Sindh Tas agreement, rivers [...]
August 13, 2012
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KARACHI: The 65th Independence Day of Pakistan will be marked in a befitting manner in the port city, Karachi The nation will pay tributes to its founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah who single handedly attained this motherland by sheer hard work and struggle. Pakistan’s appearance on the map of the world was his great [...]
August 13, 2012
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The Indus River System Authority (IRSA) on Monday released 262,560 cusecs water from various rim stations with inflow of 256,831 cusecs. According to the data released by IRSA, the maximum water level in River Indus at Tarbela was 1494.23 feet which was 116.23 feet higher than its dead level of 1378 feet. Water inflow in [...]
August 13, 2012
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The growth in bilateral trade registered 64.30 per cent between Pakistan and Indonesia since January 2012 with our exports moving upwards at the rate of 15 per cent. “All indications are that the growth trend will multiply in coming months”, says a message received here from the Pakistan Embassy Jakarta (Indonesia). Major increase has been [...]
August 13, 2012
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MULTAN: A woman who allegedly killed her two children managed to escaped from the police custody disguised in a police uniform. On August 6th, A woman Asiya, resident of Dera Arbi had killed her two children a week ago and had buried them in the room of her house. She was in custody of police on judicial remand. [...]
August 13, 2012
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CAIRO: Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday ordered the surprise retirement of his powerful defence minister and scrapped a constitutional document which handed sweeping powers to the military. In a move that drew thousands of Islamist supporters to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in celebration, Morsi effectively dismissed Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who ruled Egypt for [...]
August 13, 2012
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Twin earthquakes that devastated rural villages in northwest Iran on the weekend killed a total of 350 people — most of them women and children — and injured 3,037, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi said on Monday. The official toll, presented in a report to lawmakers and published on the parliament’s website, was a big [...]
August 13, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice Of Pakistan slammed NAB at failure to arrest Ex-chief Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq, Aaj news reported. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S Khwaja and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing the case. The Chief Justice inquired that despite Sadiq’s name on the exit [...]
August 13, 2012
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KARACHI: Fans remembered an iconic pop singer Nazia Hasan, the girl who introduced pop singing and raised the status of Pakistani singing all over the world. Fame came early in her life and she grew in stature as a singer with her brother Zoheb by her side. Together, they became the darlings of the young generation [...]
August 13, 2012
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Pakistan Under-19 have defeated Scotland Under-19 in the ICC Under-19 World Cup group match, played at Buderim in Australia. Pakistan achieved the target set by Scotland with 9 wickets to spare and 14 overs remaining. Babar Azam scored a steady 106 runs in Pakistan’s chase of 201 runs set by Scotland U-19. The team captain [...]
August 13, 2012
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QUETTA: Two Pakistanis were killed in an attack by Nato helicopters in an Afghan area close to the border with Pakistan on Sunday evening. According to sources, Two people identified as Ghulam Farooq and Abdul Rashid entered into Noshki was attacked by Nato helicopter gunships in Safaar near the border with Chagai district. “The helicopters fired rockets [...]
August 13, 2012
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Fidel Castro, who led Cuba for a half century and became known worldwide for decades of Cold War-era clashing with the United States, celebrates his 86th birthday Monday far from the limelight. Officially, there are no plans to publicly honor the communist country’s one-time “commander-in-chief,” who tightly orchestrated public life there from January 1959 until he suffered a [...]
August 13, 2012
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LONDON: The Spice Girls reuniting to perform at the closing ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games was not really a secret. They regaled the audiences by singing two hits from their whirlwind two-album career in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm and Melanie Brown — aka Posh Spice, Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, [...]
August 13, 2012
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LONDON: The Mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, formally received the Olympic flag from London counterpart Boris Johnson here Sunday during the closing ceremony for the London Olympics. The handover of the flag marks the symbolic transfer of responsibilities for organising the next Olympic Games, to be held in Rio in 2016.
August 13, 2012
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LONDON: The London Olympics closed in a blaze of music and colour Sunday after a two-week sporting festival that electrified the host nation and was watched by billions around the world. Olympics President Jacques Rogge praised the Games as “happy and glorious” before the sporting spectacular was brought to a close in a three-hour ceremony [...]