Category archives for: Pakistan

President, Prime Minister enjoy complete immunity: Farooq Naek

Islamabad: (Saturday, July 28, 2012) Farooq H Naek, the federal minister for Law, said here today that all the actions taken by the President, the Prime Minister and the ministers have complete constitutional immunity under article 242 of the constitution and that they cannot be challenged. Talking to the journalists here outside the Sindh High […]

NADRA to obtain Asad’s fingerprints from UK

Islamabad: (Saturday, July 28, 2012) NADRA has contacted the British Immigration office and requested for Mohammad Ali Asad’s finger prints. Asad has been the main character in the Olympics visa scam. Meanwhile, the federal investigation agency (FIA) will soon present its report on the issue to the Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik. Yesterday, while […]

Accountability court reissues notices to Sharif Brothers

An accountability court on Saturday reissued notices to Sharif Brothers, the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), in cases pertaining to reopening of three corruption references. The court resumed began hearing of an application filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against two-time former premier, Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif. The accountability […]

Man dives from 18 miles and survives

Man dives from 18 miles and survives On Wednesday, Baumgartner took another stratospheric leap, this time from an altitude of more than 18 miles (28.96km) — an estimated 96,640 feet, nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. He landed safely near Roswell, New Mexico. His top speed was an estimated 536 mph, said Brian Utley, […]

Ansar Burney to sue Maya Khan over live conversion stint on live

Former Expert Advisor to the United Nations (UN) on Human Rights, Ansar Burney, has said that he would sue Maya Khan and ARY Digital for creating a drama and using his worker Sunil without his permission for a Television show. He tweeted, “The ‘Burney Legal Solicitors’ London is going to send legal Notice to Anchor […]

Maya Khan once again in trouble…

Everything is fair in love, war and ratings between television channels. There is a vigorous competition between television channels for higher ratings and ultimately higher revenue in the holy month of Ramazan. The month is a roll-over prize for religiously-oriented programming on the Pakistani airwaves. The trend of this year was to hire controversy magnets […]

President Asif Ali Zardari to attend extraordinary OCI Summit in Saudi Arabia

President Asif Ali Zardari is going to attend an extraordinary summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) scheduled to be held in second week of August in Makkah, the city of Saudi Arabia. In order to discuss the current situation facing the Muslim world, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz invited leaders of Muslim countries […]

Sherry Rehman urges US to end drone attacks

Ahead of intelligence summit between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has called for a halt to drone attacks in tribal belt. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, the Pakistani envoy said the drone strikes succeeded in damaging Al-Qaeda network but are also forming new terrorists in the region. She […]

Presidential spokesperson lashes out at judiciary

Expressing concerns over the remarks made by the Supreme Court judges about the parliament, the rulings party defended the opposition against perceived criticism. Senator Farhatullah Babar, who is also spokesperson to the presidency, said that the judges of the apex court should also know limits. In his view, the ruling of the National Assembly speaker […]

Karachi: Grenade attack on a departmental store

Karachi: (Friday, July 27, 2012) At least one person is reported to be injured in a hand grenade attack on a departmental store in Karachi. Apparently, the incident seems having its roots in the rampant extortions where business community is forced to pay extortions or in failing to do so they attacked by the miscreants. […]

Govt. plans to appoint women judges

Islamabad: (Friday, July 27, 2012) President Zardari said here today that after passing women rights bills, now the government is planning to appoint women judges in the judiciary at apex level. The president said this while addressing a ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr where he signed and concluded the one million signature campaign. President Zardari said that […]

Fake visa scandal: British immigration not to trust FIA investigation

Lahore: (Friday, July 27, 2012) British immigration, that has been independently has been independently probing into the visa scandal issue, has dismissed the FIA investigation of the Olympic visa scandal. According to details, the British Immigration Liaison Manager for Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan has sent a formal reply in which he has dismissed the […]

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