LAHORE: Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Munawar Hassan has demanded of the supremo of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain to withdraw his statement regarding military takeover. Talking to media here Thursday, Munawar Hassan said... Read more »
LAHORE: Youngsters at Punjab Youth Festival has broken nine records for Guinness Book of World Records,Tribune International reported on Wednesday. Mohammad Arbab, Captain in Pakistan Army set the new world record after... Read more »
Two leading Ukrainian rabbis have warned of the danger facing Ukraine’s 200,000-strong Jewish community from the upsurge of neo-Nazi violence that toppled the government on the weekend (22-23 February). Proving that the... Read more »
A Coffee Table book titled “1975- 2014 Sri Lanka” was launched on Tuesday, 25th February 2014 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) in Colombo, attended... Read more »
by David Usborne Source: independent.co.uk Fresh plans are being drawn up to erect a modern complex on the site of what scholars of Islam contend is the birthplace of the Prophet Mohamed as... Read more »
A MUSLIM extremist convicted of hacking British soldier Lee Rigby to death on a London street has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars, while his fellow killer... Read more »
MUMBAI: Two sailors were missing and another seven were injured after smoke was detected aboard a submarine off Mumbai on Wednesday, Indian navy officials said, in the latest accident to hit the... Read more »
A respiratory virus that has killed dozens of people, mainly in the Middle East, is widespread in camels and may be jumping directly from camels to humans Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or... Read more »
LONDON: Pakistan has the highest rate of first day deaths and stillbirths in the world at 40.7 per 1,000 births, followed by Nigeria (32.7), Sierra Leone (30.8), Somalia (29.7), Guinea-Bissau (29.4) and... Read more »
NEW DELHI: Reaching out to Muslims ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asked the community to not go by the ‘propaganda’ spread by Congress and promised... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will hold long-awaited auctions for 3G and 4G telecoms licences this April, the finance minister said on Friday, a step that could help boost the cash-strapped country’s foreign reserves. A... Read more »
NEW DELHI: India’s navy chief resigned on Wednesday after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai saw two sailors missing and another seven injured, the defence ministry said. “Taking moral responsibility... Read more »
MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday warned Saudi Arabia against supplying Syrian rebels with shoulder-launched missile launchers, saying such a move would endanger security across the Middle East and beyond. The Russian foreign ministry... Read more »
WASHINGTON: The United States has intensified its drive against the Taliban-linked Haqqani network in an attempt to deal a lasting blow to the militants in Afghanistan before foreign combat forces depart this... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday noted with serious concern the statement by the Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli that Iran would send forces into Pakistan to free five border guards who were kidnapped... Read more »
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday condemned leaked recordings of him and his son allegedly discussing how to hide large sums of money as a “vile attack” by rivals,... Read more »
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly adopted a resolution expressing solidarity with the armed forces here on Tuesday MQM’s member of provincial assembly Faisal Sabzwari had presented the resolution in the Sindh Assembly. The... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The government informed the Senate on Monday that the draft of a bill for curbing cyber crimes had been finalised and would soon be presented before the cabinet for approval. Winding... Read more »
Suspected Boko Haram fighters kill unknown number of pupils in dormitory in Yobe state, military says. Suspected Boko Haram fighters opened fire on secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory in... Read more »
Suicide bombing near council headquarters and attack by gunmen on police checkpoint kill seven, as violence continues. Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing near the Anbar provincial council headquarters, have killed seven... Read more »
KARACHI: The Pakistan Exploration Limited has found a new reserve of oil and gas in district Badin, Geo News reported. According to a statement issued here on Tuesday, with the new exploration... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf finally appeared before the special court on Tuesday but was not indicted. Musharraf in his stance before the court maintained that the jurisdiction of the... Read more »
The right to settle in Britain should be auctioned off to wealthy foreign investors, government advisers say. At present migrants can gain entry by investing £1m or more in the UK.... Read more »
KIEV: Ukraine was set to unveil a new prime minister and cabinet on Tuesday as top Western envoys rushed to Kiev to try to find a lasting solution to the crisis rocking... Read more »