25 Pak soldiers killed in cross-border attack
Taliban fighters killed 25 Pakistani troops in a cross-border raid Saturday, the military said, blaming alleged inaction by Afghanistan and NATO in the latest flaring of tensions between the...
View ArticleWarning by nine IPPs: a dark Eid?
Pakistan faces around 4,500 MW of shortfall in electricity. This is quite serious given the fact that in recent years, increased load shedding has led to many businesses closing down, not to mention...
View ArticleShabe Qadr observed with religious fervour in city
LAHORE: Shabe Qadr, the 27th night of the month of Ramazan, was observed with due solemnity and religious fervour in the city. Hundreds of mosques in the city were filled for offering prayers. The...
View ArticlePresident Zardari assures China fullest cooperation in defeating evils of...
President Asif Ali Zardari while reiterating Pakistan’s commitment to fighting and rooting out terrorism and extremism from its soil Tuesday assured China his country’s fullest cooperation in defeating...
View ArticleNation celebrates Eid today
Whatever has been done by terrorists, politicians and military rulers to this nation, the people of this land of the pure have certainly not lost the zeal for Eid-ul-Fitr, which will be celebrated...
View ArticleGilani inaugurates Rs 12 billion Islamabad-Murree Expressway
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday inaugurated the over Rs 12 billion Islamabad-Murree Expressway, terming it a new strategic link with Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Gilani unveiled the plaque of...
View ArticleIrene floods: Supplies airlifted to Vermont towns
Soldiers have been airlifting storm-relief supplies to Vermont towns which remain cut off after the trail of destruction left by Irene. More than 200 roads are blocked or washed away in Vermont,...
View ArticlePrime Minister moves in Lahore without protocol, meets party workers
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday visited various areas of Lahore without protocol during more than two hours of drive in a four vehicle motorcade. It was raining when the Prime...
View ArticleFeds warn of small airplane terror threats
The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Authorities say there is no...
View ArticlePilgrims Stone Devil with Ease
MINA: Nearly 3 million pilgrims chanting “Labbaik” stoned the devil in a symbolic rejection of temptation after streaming into the sprawling Jamarat Complex on Sunday.The first day of the four-day...
View ArticleBig Names in Close Contact with Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD – Mesmerised with the popularity of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), politicians unhappy with their respective political parties are in close contact with PTI Chairman Imran Khan, but are...
View ArticleLand Of The Matadors
Spain is a country I became familiar with on various counts; during my early life it was bull fighting that caught my fancy. Visiting my grandfather’s farm and seeing the live stock there, always made...
View ArticleRoyal Palm Stormed and Taken Over by Railway Police
The Royal Palm management and the honorable members have been thrown out of their club not through any court order but through something far more effective: the might, hitherto unknown, of the Railways...
View ArticleRoyal Palm Excellence Curbed
Royal Palm is in the news lately for the infamous take over by the Railway Pakistan Police acting as the warlords. They obviously seem to have come out of obscurity to simply destroy a world class...
View ArticleA Star That We Lost
He was not a man but an angel for the kids, he was not a man but a blessing for the poor, he was not a human but humanity in itself! He was none other than Abdul Sattar Edhi who devoted his life for...
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