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Pakistan slaps down Cameron in terror row
Jul 29th
Pakistan on Thursday slapped down remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron that it is guilty of exporting terrorism, saying close ally London knows the menace has no borders.
Floods wash 3,000 chemical barrels into China river: reports
Jul 29th
Floodwaters have washed 3,000 barrels of explosive chemicals into a major waterway in northeastern China, state media said Thursday, much more than originally reported.
Pakistan has its own battle to fight – by Syed Saleem Shahzad
Jul 29th
Source: Asia Times
ISLAMABAD – Some of the 92,000 American classified military documents released by WikiLeaks at the weekend point to Pakistan’s intelligence service backing the Taliban, an issue that has been seized on by the international media, although Islamabad’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani said the release More >
Sardar Atique elected AJK’s PM unopposed
Jul 29th
MUZAFFARABAD: The Muslim Conference leader Sardar Aatique Ahmed Khan has been elected as Leader of the House Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) after he got 39 votes in his support here at AJK legislative assembly on Thursday morning, Geo news reported.
The house caste vote of confidence on Sardar Atique as More >
Pakistani HC denounces Cameron’s remarks
Jul 29th
NEW DEHLI: Pakistan’s ambassador to Britain accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of “damaging the prospects of regional peace” with his remarks on Wednesday in the southern Indian IT hub of Bangalore.
Pakistani High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan voiced his government’s deep disappointment, saying Cameron had chosen to ignore Pakistan’s “enormous More >
Dr Aafia’s lawyers appeal for reduced sentence because of mental illness
Jul 29th
Pakistani scientist Dr Aaifa Siddiqui’s lawyers have appealed to a US court to reduce her sentence to 12 years as she is mentally ill.
Lawyers for Aafia Siddiqui made the request in a filing in US District Court in Manhattan, where she was convicted in February.
The lawyers said Siddiqui was driven to her crime More >
Seven killed 40 hurt in Bahawalpur accident
Jul 29th
BAHAWALPUR: Nearly seven people have died including a child and forty others suffered injuries as a bus carrying devotees overturned due to over speed near Bahawalpur on Thursday morning, Geo News reported.
According to rescue sources, three busses carrying pilgrims set out from Manchanabad place to addend Urs ceremonies at shrine More >
Pakistan mourns as rains hamper black box search
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan observed a day of mourning Thursday for the 152 people killed in the country’’s worst aviation disaster, as heavy rains delayed the search for the aircraft’’s black box.
The Airblue passenger jet from Karachi crashed in a ball of flames, killing everyone on board and disintegrating in the More >
Confusion and panic reigned at Pims
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: As news of the plane crash broke, families, relatives and friends of the passengers started gathering at the emergency ward of the largest hospital in the city, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).
All were hoping that the names of their loved ones would be in the list of those More >
US recovery concerns weigh on dollar
Jul 29th
The dollar lost ground in Asian trade Thursday after a warning from the US Federal Reserve that the world's top economy was slowing in some areas, adding to the view that recovery was stalling.
Pakistan’s status Post-WikiLeaks leakage – By Sehrish Khan
Jul 29th
Source: PICTURES BEYOND THE PICTURE
As the week ends, the most controversial and conflictive details of the Afghan war come to surface, marking the greatest information leak-out of the US military. The details were provided to The New York Times, The Guardian and German Weekly Der Spiegel by the tattling More >
58 killed in rain-related incidents in KP
Jul 29th
PESHAWAR: Nearly 58 people have died all across Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa as unprecedented rains, thunderstorms, land-sliding, electric shocks and floods and other rain-inflicted incidents have wrecked deadliest havocs all across province on Wednesday, Geo news reported.
Hundreds of (Kachay Makanat) mud-made houses have been washed away by floodwater and by heavy downpours More >
Off The Record 28 Jul: Why flight 202 crashed PII
Jul 29th
PART II: Why JetBlue flight 202 crashed in Margalla Hills outside Islamabad today. PII: Guests: Mohammad Zafar (Eye Witness), Dr. Shahid Masood (Anchorman Views On News), Mazhar Abbas (Anchorman Do Tok), Capt Shuja (Pilot)..
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Fourty-six bodies of crash victims identified
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: At least 46 bodies of the Islamabad plane crash victims have been identified and handed over to their families while many charred bodies are still kept at PIMS Hospital for DNA testing to obtain matches for proper identification.
Federal Interior Minister Abdul Rehman Malik said that the DNA tests would More >
WikiLeaks founder defends release of documents
Jul 29th
LONDON: The founder of WikiLeaks on Thursday defended the whistleblower site’s decision to release tens of thousands of classified US military files, amid fears the move has put Afghan informants at risk.
The site at first claimed the documents were vetted to ensure names of informants were not released, but reports More >
Al-Qaeda group claims blast at TV offices in Iraq
Jul 29th
WASHINGTON: An Al-Qaeda group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for this week's deadly car bomb attack on Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad that killed four people, US monitors said.
“The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the Al-Qaeda-front in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the July 26th suicide bombing that struck the offices of More >
Pakistani envoy to Britain criticises Cameron’s remarks
Jul 29th
LONDON: Pakistan's envoy to Britain Thursday accused Prime Minister David Cameron of “damaging the prospects of regional peace” after the premier warned Islamabad against promoting the export of terror.
Cameron made the comments Wednesday on a trip to India. “One would have hoped that the British prime minister would have considered More >
Off The Record 28 Jul: Why AirBlue flight 202 crashed
Jul 29th
Why Air Blue jet crashed in Margalla Hills in capital Islamabad. Was it pilot error? Or was it fatigue? Or was it bad weather? Or was it a combination of all these factors. Guests: Dr. Shahid Masood (ARY), Mazhar Abbas (ARY), Sohail Baloch (Pilot's Assoc)
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Six members of ‘Youth Parliament’ among victims
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: Six members of a ‘Youth Parliament’ were among the victims of Wednesday’s air crash in Islamabad. They were coming here to attend the final session of the ‘Youth Parliament’, a project of the Pakistan Institute for Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat). The six are ‘Youth Prime Minister’ Hasan Javed, ‘Information More >
Taliban capture a NATO plane in Kunduz
Jul 29th
This is the first time that Taliban insurgents captured a NATO plane over the past nine years..
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Tragedy in the Margallas
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: Wednesday brought a picture perfect day to hilly Islamabad. But the low clouds hanging over the green Margalla hills hid in their midst a catastrophic accident. Airblue Flight 202, which took off from Karachi at ten minutes to eight in the morning, had before the end of the next two More >
Of Yore and Of Hope
Jul 29th
On the 4th of June 2009, I was in Pune, about 170 kilometres away from the suffocating humidity of the furiously sweating city, Bombay, and it was warmly cold i...
Capital Talk 28 Jul: Crash of AirBlue Flight 202
Jul 29th
Crash of AirBlue flight 202 in Margalla Hills of Islamabad. Guests: Nazar Muhammad Gondal (PPP), Sen. Prof. Muhammad Ibraheem (Jamaat Islami), Azhar Saeed Butt (Chairman APTA)..
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UN boss extends condolences over deadly air crash
Jul 29th
UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday sent his condolences to Pakistan’’s prime minister over the deadly crash of a Pakistani airliner with 152 people on board.
“The Secretary General is deeply saddened by the tragic air crash today near Islamabad in which many people lost their lives,” a More >
Breastfeeding practice ‘lowest in Pakistan’
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: Experts at a seminar on Wednesday revealed that in Pakistan, 72 infants die out of 1000 live births every year. But out of these 72 deaths, 53 are those who die before reaching the age of one month due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, respiratory infections and malnutrition.
A major source of More >
Rumoured survivors stretch hope in agonising wait
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: “Just tell me one thing, is my brother alive or death?” A middle-aged woman standing outside the emergency ward of Pims cried out. She went around, outside the hospital, pleading everyone to give her information. Her brother, a student, was on the ill-fated Airblue flight ED-202, when it went More >
Resolute locals rush to the crash site
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: The news of the tragic plane crash in Margalla Hills left Islamabad devastated and confused. Two hours after the incident, locals trekking up the site of the crash had swelled up to seven hundred. Some were there for signs of their relatives who were on the fateful flight of More >
Balochistan faces more torrential rain
Jul 29th
QUETTA: At least three people – including two children – were killed while five others suffered injuries when heavy rains hit the already flood-affected districts in Balochistan on Wednesday.
Babo, nine, and Fariza, five, were killed in Ghot Pyara Khan Umrani, a village in Usta Mohammad, when their mud house collapsed. More >
Merger of FIA, NAB proposed
Jul 29th
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is likely to establish a new autonomous anti-corruption institution for accountability in public sector enterprises, sources said.
A study commissioned by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on accountability of public sector has suggested merger of anti-corruption functions of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) with those of National More >
Travel agency files case for ‘discrimination’
Jul 29th
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued a notice to the religious affairs ministry on Wednesday for alleged discriminatory registration of private Hajj tour-operator agencies for quota allocation.
The two-member SHC division bench also issued a notice to the Sindh deputy attorney-general to file comments at the next hearing date.
The petitioner, More >
