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Pak Turkey bound in religious cultural links Fehmida

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

IslamabadSpeaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza on Monday said Pakistan and Turkey were strongly tied in religious, spiritual, cultural and linguistic links as

One year on Three navy officials court martialled for neg

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

KARACHI: Exactly one year ago, a group of terrorists mounted a daring attack on an aviation base of Pakistan Navy in Karachi, killing 10 people and destroying two P3C Ori

IHC suspends PMs task force

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

ISLAMABAD, May 21: While suspending the notification to set up the prime minister"s task force to oversee the affairs of Capital Development Authority (CDA), Justice

House body summons Chaudhry Nisar again

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

KARACHI, May 21: The privilege committee of the Sindh Assembly on Monday gave "another chance" to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Kha

Slow progress in missing persons case annoys SC

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

QUETTA, May 21: Annoyed by slow progress in the recovery of missing persons, the Supreme Court has ordered the secretaries of defence and interior as well as principal se

PM makes mockery of his office Nawaz

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

IslamabadPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has said that nobody including the government has courage to stop the proposed long march of the part

Police doubt temple was attacked

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

PESHAWAR, May 21: A senior police official on Monday began inquiry into the reported ransacking of a Hindu temple in Gor Khuttri area amid serious doubts about trespass o

KPs concerns

in National - Tue May 22, 2012

PREPARING a comprehensive anti-insurgency strategy is one thing; implementing it quite another. The task is onerous, because the Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, are not a

Everest weekend death toll reaches 4

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) Climbers have reported seeing another body on Mount Everest, raising the death toll to four for one of the worst days ever on the world\'s highest m

Al Qaeda bomber kills 96 Yemeni soldiers

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

Yemen has vowed to fight "terrorism" regardless of the sacrifices as al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing that saw a soldier blow himself up in the midd

Obama making Europes mistakes

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

In the run-up to the weekend"s G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama"s economic policies.

Europea

Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

BIREH, Lebanon (AP)  Syria\'s war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly st

Mount Everest Death Toll at Four with One Missing

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

It was rush hour on Mount Everest this weekend with 150 climbers reaching the summit, including a 73-year-old woman, but the world\'s tallest peak also claimed the lives

To celebrate seizure of East Jerusalem

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

ISRAELI Cabinet held a special meeting on Sunday to celebrate Jerusalem Day, when the Jewish state captured the Arab East part of the historic city 45 years ago during th

Separatists Strike to Honor Slain Kashmiri

in International - Tue May 22, 2012

SRINAGAR, India An annual strike called by separatists in Indian-controlled Kashmir shuttered shops and businesses on Monday to mark a top Muslim cleric"s assassination 2

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

in National - Mon May 21, 2012

ISLAMABAD Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for several hours because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the cou

Protest over murder of journalist Razzaq Gul

in National - Mon May 21, 2012

QUETTA: Journalists in Quetta protested on Sunday against the murder of journalist Razzaq Gul whose bullet-riddled body was found dumped near his residence in Turbat a da

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya leaving unanswered

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many que

Strong quake kills 7 in Italy

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

SANT\'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing at least seven people, knocking down a clock tow

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya leaving unanswered

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

(Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions o

Gun battle in Beirut amid mounting fears of Syria spillove

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

A gun battle has erupted in Beirut as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria is bleeding across the border.

Lebanon"s National News Agency says

Europe faces difficult search for growth

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

WASHINGTON - (AP)  On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2.5year-old government d

Lockerbie bomber al Megrahi dies at 60 in Libya

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, died at home in Tripoli on Sunday nearly three years after passi

Diablo III comes to the Philippines

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

For non-gamers out there in Facebook world, I\'m sure you\'re wondering what the Diablo III hullaballoo is all about with some people raving (or ranting) about it a lot t

Donna Summer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: They worked har

in International - Mon May 21, 2012

The two singers, so different in so many ways, defined their music and their respective eras so precisely as to make it almost impossible for anyone else to fill their enorm