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Terrorist attacks on volunteers of anti-polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday, which claimed lives of five women and a male in only 24 hours, have raised serious concern about the success of the campaign in Pakistan. All law enforcement agencies have miserably failed to apprehend the culprits who fled […]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and two United Nations agencies have condemned the killing of at least six people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan in the past 24 hours. The six – reportedly five Pakistani women and one man – were shot dead in the city of Karachi in Sindh province and in […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a classified document last week, giving details about Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen, who was appointed to gather information about Pakistan’s nuclear program. The CIA had prepared the report, titled “The Jonathan Jay Pollard Espionage Case: A Damage Assessment”, on October 30, 1987, Dawn, reports. […]
Strongly condemning the firing incident at anti-polio campaigners and seeking arrest of the culprits, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has reiterated the resolve of the government that it would not rest until the country is rid of polio. While chairing a meeting of Polio Task Force in Islamabad, he said seeking a polio-free life […]
The one-man Judicial Commission on Tuesday asked the general public to provide information or evidences about the 2007 military operation, which had resulted in nearly 100 deaths, mostly students of the religious school ‘Jamia Hafsa’. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered a judicial commission earlier this month to probe the matter, observing that police have […]
Shooter (2007) – Movie Review Muscles bulge and heads explode in “Shooter,” a thoroughly reprehensible, satisfyingly violent entertainment about men and guns and things that go boom (heads, mostly). Did I mention the exploding heads? It is an admittedly primitive pleasure, but I do love watching stuff blow up in movies (heads, not so much). […]
In another setback to the country’s polio eradication efforts, at least five anti-polio campaigners, four of them women, were gunned down in Karachi in an hour in two separate incidents on Tuesday. Reports said two women campaigners were on their duty in Gulshan-e-Buner area of Landhi when they were shot at and killed. Only […]
At least eleven persons including security officials were injured on Tuesday in a grenade blast that occurred in Risalpur. According to media reports, unknown attackers riding a motorbike hurled hand grenade that caused the blast at main GT Road near PAF Engineering Centre gate no.3 that hurt eleven persons, including five security men and […]
Pakistan has been listed among four countries where combat-related deaths and targeted murders are the driving forces behind a sharp rise in press fatalities in 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ year-end analysis of journalists killed in the line of duty. At least 67 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to […]
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has sought opinion from his party workers whether he should continue to lead the party or quit politics. Addressing MQM Rabita Committee, lawyers and other activists in Karachi, the MQM chief said ,”If my clear stance on the issue is creating problems than the party workers and […]
Provincial Information Minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mian Iftikhar has said that tattoos were a form of identification amongst terrorist organizations. He was referring to the Skull and Horn tattoo on the back of one of the terrorists killed during the attack. Speaking to the media he said the terrorists were aiming to take over […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that consistent economic policies will be ensured in the country. While addressing 36th Export Award Ceremony in Karachi on Tuesday night, he said that the PPP led government made constitutional reforms and is continuing war against terrorism throughout the country. He said we will make Pakistan more […]
