Afghan govt fails to satisfy German MPs on prisoners
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: A four-member delegation of human rights committee of German parliament on Wednesday said Taliban and Al Qaida prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay should be treated according to...
Brahimi pleads for expanded force
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7: United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi on Wednesday asked the security council to urgently consider expanding the current UN-mandated international force from Kabul to rest...
Lahore graveyards searched
LAHORE, Feb 7: Intense confusion continued here over the fate of the kidnapped US journalist....
Three die as avalanche blocks Salang Pass
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: United Nations on Thursday said more than 100 people, whose vehicles were stuck in the Salang tunnel near Kabul as a result of an avalanche, were rescued and...
Two remanded in police custody
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Judicial Magistrate Malik Abdul Qayum remanded two accused, allegedly involved in the abduction of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, to the I-9 police for three days on Thursday....
British MPs slam HR abuses in Kashmir
LONDON, Feb 7: British parliamentarians have expressed their concern over continuing human rights abuses in held Kashmir and promised to plead Kashmir cause till its solution in line with the struggle...
3 Afghan civilians die in US strike, says report
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Three Afghan civilians were killed by a missile fired by remote control from a pilotless CIA aircraft in the southeast of the country, a Pakistan-based news agency said...
Italy concerned over tension
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Italian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Mrs Margreta Boniver on Thursday called on her Pakistani counterpart Abdul Sattar and expressed her country’s concern at the tensions between Pakistan...
Ord on CEC’s perks creates confusion
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The government on Thursday withdrew the ordinance which it had issued in the morning increasing the salary and privileges of the chief election commissioner....
CPNE to boycott pressure groups
KARACHI, Feb 7: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has decided to boycott those political and non-political organizations which resort to any form of terrorism against any newspaper or magazine....
Varsity NOC withdrawn
QUETTA, Feb 7: The Balochistan University has withdrawn no objection certificate issued to Alkhair University, Quetta, the BU registrar announced on Thursday....
Drugs seized
QUETTA, Feb 7: Frontier Corps Balochistan seized 76kg of morphine and 3kg of heroin in operations near the Pakistan-Afghan border, said an FC press release on Thursday....
Multan college awaits PEC accreditation
MULTAN, Feb 7: The Bahauddin Zakaria University’s constituent engineering and technology college will soon be accredited by the Pakistan Engineering Council....
PPP, PML & JI to support lawyers
FAISALABAD, Feb 7: The PPP, the PML and the Jamaat-i-Islami announced on Thursday to support the lawyers agitating against the promulgation of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2002....
Delay in shifting of cattle pens
MULTAN, Feb 7: The shifting of cattle pens to the colonies on the outskirts of the district has been postponed four times due to lethargy by the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA)...
PPP leader, his father arrested
GUJRANWALA, Feb 7: PPP city president Chaudhry Khalid Humayun and his father Chaudhry Muhammad Ishaq were arrested and sent to jail on Thursday when the district and sessions judge rejected their...
One killed, 24 hurt in accident
VEHARI, Feb 7: A man was killed while 24 others sustained injuries in an accident on the Multan-Bahawalnagar Road here on Wednesday night....
Seven killed, 10 injured on road
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 7: Seven people were killed while 10 others sustained injuries, six of them serious, when a commuter wagon rammed into a tree on Thursday night....