New Delhi: At least twenty people have been injured in a serial blast that took plce at different areas of the city this evening. The first blast took place at 6.15 pm in and auto rickshaw in the Gaffer market of Karol Bagh area followed by a series of blast in M block market of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
CAIRO: Thirty-one people were killed and 23 injured when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, security and medical sources said. Tumbling rocks destroyed many buildings in the Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo near the Moqattam plateau, its close-packed houses [...]
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At least 30 people, five of them policemen, were killed and 79 wounded after a suicide car bomb ripped through a police checkpost and nearby markets on Saturday. The explosion was so powerful that it left the checkpost and two markets in the Zhangali area of the provincial capital in ruins. A number of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that pulling out of Afghanistan, where 10 French troops were killed by the Taliban last month, would amount to abandoning Pakistan. “If we abandon Afghanistan we will be abandoning Pakistan, which doesn’t need that. I want to remind you of one thing: that Pakistan has the nuclear bomb,” he [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 17, 2008
WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan “sooner rather than later,” signaling a shift in priorities from Iraq amid warnings of an accelerating Taliban threat. Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also said Pakistan needed to do more to stop [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 10, 2008
TEHRAN :Iran test fired nine long- and medium-range missiles on Wednesday, state media said, including one which it has said could reach Israel and US bases in the region. The tests occurred at a time of increased tension between Iran and Israel over Tehran’s nuclear programme, which the West fears is aimed at making bombs. Iran, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
KARACHI: 2 person was killed and 50 others injured in a series of 6 blasts that ripped through different areas of the busiest city of country on Monday. Two explosions occurred here in Banaras area. One of the blasts happened in a pile of garbage while the other one at a footpath near Banaras chowk, injuring [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The police of Federal Capital Islamabad on Tuesday raided on a guesthouse and apprehended six women and eleven men on charging with adultery here in Islamabad. Police made raid on being informed pertaining to illicit activities in guesthouse located at Ibn-e-Sina road and arrested the accused red-handed with alcohols’ bottles. Police have filed FIR after the preliminary [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 1, 2008
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has increased fares on its flights for international routes and Umrahs. According to sources, private airlines including the PIA have increased fares for their international routes and Umrahs due to rapidly increasing prices of oil. After the increase, the PIA’s two-way farse for London will be Rs 58,770, for New York [...]
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
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