LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid, Nawaz Sharif, has stressed upon Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to ensure the implementation of verdicts of the judiciary and to remove all the hurdles in its way. Talking to the media at the Ganga Ram Hospital on Monday where he visited the victims of the bomb blasts [...]

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — The Taliban said Tuesday they would continue to target Pakistani security forces with suicide attacks as they claimed responsibility for the latest blast that killed 19, its spokesman said. “We are targeting Pakistani security forces because the government has allowed America to launch drone attacks on us,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam [...]

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The death toll from a suicide attack in southwestern Pakistan has risen to 73, police said Saturday. At least 206 people were wounded in the Friday attack that the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for. Officials on Friday reported that 59 people were killed in the attack. Qari Hussain, a senior member [...]

KARACHI: Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Dr Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu said on Tuesday that member countries had mobilised pledges of $1 billion for Pakistan’s flood victims. Talking to President Asif Ali Zardari at the Sindh Chief Minister House in Karachi on Tuesday, Dr Ihsanoglu said that the OIC will allocate funds for Pakistan’s flood [...]

GENEVA, August 31 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has appealed for greater public support for efforts to provide humanitarian relief to the millions of people whose lives have been devastated by the floods inundating much of Pakistan. In a video message released today, the actress points to the sheer scale of the disaster. [...]

President Asif Ali Zardari has held out an assurance to the flood affectees that the government will not rest till their rehabilitation, adding all the resources are being utilized to help flood stricken people and the entire international community stands with Pakistan at this crucial time. This he said while talking to the affectees at [...]

News of the World smashes multi-million pound cricket match-fixing scandal By Mazher Mahmood & Amanda Evans, 29/08/2010 THE News of the World has smashed a multi-million pound cricket match-fixing ring which RIGGED the current Lord’s Test between England and Pakistan. In the most sensational sporting scandal ever, bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif delivered THREE [...]

PESHAWAR: Suspected militants attacked army buildings near the US consulate in Pakistan’s northwestern capital Peshawar on Saturday, police said. Police said a number of armed fighters tried to get into a secure area close to the consulate and army buildings early in the morning and that exchanges of fire between the attackers and security forces [...]

THATTA: Floodwaters made another break Saturday in the levees protecting the southern city of Thatta, as thousands of residents fled for high ground and left the city nearly empty. Both sides of the main road were crowded with people – from Thatta and nearby flooded villages – fleeing the floodwaters. Many had spent the night [...]

LAHORE: The trust deficit between the Centre and the Punjab government seemed to be widening when PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif expressed reservations over the procedure of distribution of aid by the federal government. PML-N leader feared that the federal government may bypass provincial governments in disbursement of Rs 20000 of aid per person. He was [...]