News Alerts

KARACHI - Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmaker Manzar Imam was assassinated in Karachi along with three of his body guards. Sources said Imam was gunned down in Orangi Town area of Karachi. Rescue personnel claimed that the murder took place near Nishan-e-Haider Chowk of the area. All the markets in Orangi Town...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that no operation will be carried out against participants of the long march. Taking notice of the statement of Interior Minister Rehman Malik‚ the President expressed the hope that Tahirul Qadri and his followers would remain peaceful. Meanwhie‚ talking to media in Islamabad Information...

A high-level meeting in Islamabad today discussed the ongoing situation in the country Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira and Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Syed Sumsam Bukhari chaired the meeting. The meeting was also attended by the information secretary and the media chiefs.

Two people died when a helicopter collided with a crane close to Vauxhall train station in central London during the morning rush hour, reports Scotland Yard. Nine people were also injured in the incident and have been taken to hospital. Authorities have confirmed that one of the dead was onboard...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man in the eastern Khubar province on Wednesday after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced. Arshad Mohammed was arrested for smuggling heroin and hashish into the kingdom, the ministry was quoted as saying by the official SPA news agency. His execution...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the suo motu case over the murder of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan to Jan 29 after Karachi police sought two weeks to submit a comprehensive report on the case. A three-member bench of the apex court was hearing the suo motu notice...

Karachi : Pakistani rights activist and former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir has said that the timing of Supreme Court's verdict to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in rental power scam and the 'Million March' of Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief, Dr Tahirul Qadri is not a coincidence. She alleged the military establishment and Supreme Court's...

KABUL: Afghan police say a suicide bomber has struck in the center of Kabul near the headquarters of the intelligence service and the interior ministry. The explosion sounded about noon local time on Wednesday and could be heard throughout downtown. Gunshots continued to ring out throughout the heavily guarded neighborhood about half an...

Karachi : There was a total chaos in several areas, traffic jammed and hardly people getting a way to reach back home in the evening time, when the Supreme court ordered to arrest Prime Minister riots break out on the streets. Shahrah-e-Faisal was completely block, tyres burn't, fire a fire...

ISLALAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) Tuesday ordered the authorities to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in rental power case along with 33 other accused in the case. Ashraf was accused of receiving commissions in the rental power projects and various other scams Earlier on March 30, the court had directed...

Moeen Pirzada , Islamabad - Is there a method to this madness? Perhaps there is; crowd stopped short of the D-Chowk. Remember D-Chowk is not Parliament but is the point where offices of GEO and many other banks lie, many many processions and Lawyers Long March under Aitzaz had gone...

FATA : Militant attacks on  Arjali and three other check posts in Shalobar area of Khyber tribal regions Bara Tehsil claimed the lives of six security personnel and injured 28 others on Tuesday. Security sources, that four  FC and two Khasadar personnel died during the night-long skirmishes. The militants attacked...