KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Saturday claimed to have arrested three key accused of Lyari gangwar, recovering weapons during a raid conducted in Sher Shah area of the city, Geo News reported. According to Senior Superintendent [...]

GUJRAT: Funeral prayers for the children and a teacher, killed in Gujrat incident, have been offered while 10 bodies were buried in local graveyards amid sobs and tears. As many as 16 children and a teacher were killed when their school bus [...]

LONDON/KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said that it has yet to decide whether to join the government or opposition as party’s options were still open. The information cell said that one of the points of Hussain’s Friday [...]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has nominated Javed Hashmi for the post of prime minister. The decision was announced at a press conference on Saturday. Talking to media PTI senior leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Sheryar Afridi and [...]

RAWALPINDI: The Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said that Pakistan will continue to make all efforts to bring about peace in Afghanistan, DawnNews reported. International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) commander Gen Joseph [...]

NEW DELHI: Suspected Maoist rebels on Saturday attacked a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India’s ruling Congress party in a Maoist-infested area in eastern India, killing at least one party member and wounding [...]

BEIRUT: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned Saturday that the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a ”dark period,” and vowed his Shia militant [...]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has nominated Javed Hashmi for the post of prime minister. The decision was announced at a press conference on Saturday. Talking to media PTI senior leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Sheryar Afridi and [...]

KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested an alleged terrorist from New Karachi area of metropolis, Geo News reported. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) CID Chaudhary Aslam, his department [...]

Amid serious allegations of rampant corruption, multi-crore scandals, policy paralysis and poor economic growth, the ruling Congress-led coalition United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in India has completed four years in its second consecutive [...]

KHYBER AGENCY: A Khasadar force (tribal militia) in Khyber Agency have foiled a plot after having seized 1750 kilograms of explosives from a pickup on the main Pak-Afghan Highway near Jamrud. Three accused individuals have been arrested. The [...]

Amid serious allegations of rampant corruption, multi-crore scandals, policy paralysis and poor economic growth, the ruling Congress-led coalition United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in India has completed four years in its second consecutive [...]

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday announced its decision to appoint candidates for all parliamentary positions, DawnNews reported. A meeting of PTI’s parliamentary committee was held in Lahore and was chaired by the party’s [...]

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left to right, Firouz Naderi, Director for the Solar System Exploration, and John Brophy, Electric Propulsion Engineer, are shown during Bolden’s visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., [...]

NEW YORK: American actress Amanda Bynes appeared in court on Friday and denied charges of possessing marijuana and tossing a bong out of the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. The former Nickelodeon child star, who appeared in court [...]

HONG KONG: Having taken five Volkswagen Beetles and compressed them into spheres, artist Ichwan Noor was always going to grab attention at the inaugural Hong Kong Art Basel. Noor is known in his native Indonesia but is hoping the glittering, [...]

MEXICO CITY: The world’s top chefs say it’s only a matter of time before Latin America, home to Brazil’s black bean stew “feijoada,” Peru’s refreshing raw fish “ceviche” and Mexico’s street tacos, cooks [...]

CANNES: When actor Eliyas Qureshi swapped Bollywood for Hollywood 15 years ago, the only roles for Indian actors were “cab drivers, doctors and terrorists”. Since then, the 42-year-old New York-based actor says he has played every south [...]

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and the high command of his party have decided to elect Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch, President of the National Party (NP), as the Balochistan chief minister. Dr. Baloch has been an MPA in the Balochistan Assembly thrice, [...]

KARACHI: The 17th passing-out parade of Sindh Police Eaglet Force was held on Saturday morning at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Training Centre Razzaqabad, Karachi. According to Directorate Press Sindh statement, Inspector General of Police Sindh [...]

KARACHI: The city would be witnessing a mix of cloudy weather—partly partial followed by totally cloudy, Geo News reported. Met department has forecast maximum temperature at 36 degree Celsius, while humidity at 62 percent for the city today. The [...]

KARACHI: Shahbaz Sharif Saturday called on Pir Pagara at the Raja House here, Geo News reported. Sources said that Shahbaz Sharif formally invited Pir Pagara to join the federal government besides exchanging views on the obtaining political [...]

ISLAMABAD: Judicial Commission Saturday recommend one-year extensions in the services of Sindh High Court (SHC) six additional judges, while Additional judge Habibur Rahman Sheikh has been dropped, Geo News reported. Sources said that a Judicial [...]

LAHORE: Muslim League-Nawaz (ML-N) has finally decided to nominate National Party president Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch as Balochistan chief minister, Geo News reported. Sources said that Nawaz Sharif has taken into confidence the allied parties [...]

STOCKHOLM: Riots in Sweden spread beyond the capital on Saturday, the sixth straight night of unrest that flared in Stockholm’s immigrant-dominated suburbs. It has sparked a debate over integration in a country long seen as an oasis of [...]

MOSCOW: Twelve people were hospitalised and two of them were in a critical condition after a female suicide bomber blew herself up in Russia’s restive Dagestan region Saturday, in the second bombing attack this week, a police spokeswoman [...]

JAMSHORO: Five members of the same family, including a bride, were killed on Saturday in a fatal road accident on the Indus Highway near the Jamshoro toll plaza. The accident was caused when their car was hit by a speeding truck on the Indus [...]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic incident of school van explosion in which 20 children were killed in Gujrat. In condolence message, Chairman PTI said “saddened to [...]