Raza Murad to launch ‘Sarabjit Bachao Adolan’
January 1st, 2012 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 1 (IANS) Veteran Bollywood actor Raza Murad, who has just returned from Amritsar, has decided to launch a campaign to rescue Sarabjit Singh, who has been sentenced to ... Read more...
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`Kids rescued from Pakistan seminary scarred for life’
December 14th, 2011 - 12:44 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 14 (IANS) The 50 boys who were rescued from a dungeon in a madrassa in Pakistan's Karachi city will bear the scars for life, said a daily as ... Read more...
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Pakistan to decentralise issuing of passports
December 12th, 2011 - 12:38 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) Pakistan has decided to decentralise the printing and issuing of passports within two months.Passports would now also be issued at provincial headquarters and even in districts, ... Read more...
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Three Pakistani policemen gunned down
December 1st, 2011 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 1 (IANS) At least three policemen were killed and two others injured Thursday when unidentified gunmen ambushed a police vehicle in Pakistan's Punjab province, a media report said.The ... Read more...
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4 injured in Karachi grenade attack
November 26th, 2011 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 26 (IANS) At least four people were injured when unknown miscreants attacked a shop with handgrenade and guns in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi Saturday night, reported ... Read more...
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Six held with 25,000kg explosives in Pakistan
November 10th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 10 (IANS) Six militants along with 25,000 kg explosives have been arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province, a media report said.They were arrested Wednesday in the suburbs of the ... Read more...
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Guerrillas attack paramilitary camp in Sopore
September 14th, 2011 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Sep 14 (IANS) A day after the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) divisional commander was killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, separatist guerrillas Wednesday attacked a paramilitary camp in the town ... Read more...
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18,000 registered madrassas in Pakistan
September 13th, 2011 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 13 (IANS) There are over 18,000 registered madrassas for men spread across Pakistan, a minister said.The National Assembly was informed that Multan has 1,144 madrassas, followed by Lahore ... Read more...
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Use computerised rolls for local polls: Gilani
September 1st, 2011 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that it would be appropriate for the provinces to hold elections to local bodies on the basis of ... Read more...
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Pakistani hurt as flight hits turbulence
August 13th, 2011 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 13 (IANS) A passenger, who had not fastened his seatbelt, got hurt when the aircraft he was travelling in on a domestic flight in Pakistan dropped several ... Read more...
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Fates of Sarabjit, Chishty figure in Rajya Sabha (Lead)
August 11th, 2011 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The fates of an Indian prisoner in Pakistan and a Pakistani jailed in India were raised in the Rajya Sabha Thursday as the upper ... Read more...
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India asks Pakistan to release Sarabjit
August 11th, 2011 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) India Thursday asked Pakistan to free Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row who was convicted for alleged involvement in multiple blasts in ... Read more...
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Power cuts darken Pakistan in Ramzan
August 4th, 2011 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 4 (IANS) Power cuts continued in several cities and towns in all four provinces of Pakistan despite the government's assurances not to resort to load-scheduling during the holy ... Read more...
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Time for mid-term polls has passed: Gilani
July 4th, 2011 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 4 (IANS) The time for mid-term polls in Pakistan is over and the opposition should prepare for the next elections, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said."The ... Read more...
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Three killed in Pakistan suicide bombing (Lead)
June 26th, 2011 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 26 (IANS) At least three policemen were killed in a suicide bombing near a police station in Pakistan's Multan city Sunday, an officer said.A suicide bomber riding a ... Read more...
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VHP opposes release of Pakistani prisoner
June 24th, 2011 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, June 24 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has opposed the release of Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khalil Chishty, who is serving life sentence in Ajmer jail, and ... Read more...
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Reopen case, allow me to prove my innocence: Sarabjit
June 17th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 17 (IANS) Sarabjit Singh - an Indian on death row in Pakistan after his conviction for bomb attacks - has appealed for the commutation of his death sentence ... Read more...
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Sarabjit to meet sister — after 21 years
June 16th, 2011 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, June 16 (IANS) For a long time to come, the memory of this Thursday will remain with Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner lodged in a Pakistan jail since 1990, ... Read more...
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Have come with hopes of brother’s release: Sarbjeet’s sister
June 7th, 2011 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 7 (IANS) Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh - an Indian who is on death row in Pakistan after his conviction for bomb attacks - said she has ... Read more...
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Gilani gifts cameras to journalists
June 6th, 2011 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 6 (IANS) All 52 members of the Photo Journalists Association in Pakistan's Multan city are to get a digital camera each, courtesy Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.The ... Read more...
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Pakistani women bust stereotypes - with business
May 5th, 2011 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) Silently suffering behind a burqa, reduced to an inferior gender in a conservative society and confined to an anonymous existence....women from Pakistan are breaking many such ... Read more...
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Benazir’s ‘assassin’ being made Pakistan’s Deputy PM: Qureshi
May 1st, 2011 - 12:20 pm ICT by ANI
Multan, May 1(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi must not be made the country's Deputy Prime Minister, as former premier Benazir Bhutto had alleged before her assassination that ... Read more...
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Pak must revisit policy on war against terror in light of US censure: Qureshi
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:56 am ICT by ANI
Karachi, April 23(ANI): Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad must review its counter-terrorism strategy, following a discouraging statement given in this regard by the US Joint Chiefs ... Read more...
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Mukhtaran Mai verdict a disappointment: Sherry Rehman
April 22nd, 2011 - 9:43 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 22 (IANS) Former Pakistani information minister Sherry Rehman has said she was disappointed over the Supreme Court verdict acquitting five of the six men accused of raping Mukhtaran ... Read more...
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Pakistan’s apex court acquits five in Mukhtaran Mai rape case
April 21st, 2011 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 21 (IANS) Upholding a Lahore High Court verdict, a three-judge bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court Thursday acquitted five of the six accused in the Mukhtaran Mai rape ... Read more...
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Captured 14-year-old suicide bomber unrepentant after Sunday’s terror attack in Pakistan
April 5th, 2011 - 12:05 pm ICT by ANI
Multan, April 5(ANI): The 14-year-old suicide bomber, who was captured after his explosives failed to detonate during Sunday's terror attack on a shrine in Pakistan, remains unrepentant as he tells police ... Read more...
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Toddler killed, body sent to parents after property row
February 3rd, 2011 - 1:31 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS) A one-and-a-half year old girl in Pakistan's Punjab province was shot dead by her relatives and the body sent back to her parents following a property dispute, police ... Read more...
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Pak situation can’t be compared with events in Egypt, Tunisia: Gilani
January 31st, 2011 - 3:17 pm ICT by ANI
Multan, Jan 31(ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the current situation in Egypt or Tunisia cannot be compared with that of Pakistan, as the country's "institutions are working ... Read more...
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FIA freezes foreign currency accounts of Pak’s former Religious Affairs Minister
January 25th, 2011 - 2:52 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan 25(ANI): Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) has sealed off the foreign currency account of former Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi.According to sources, Kazmi has many foreign currency accounts ... Read more...
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Tremors in Himachal after Pakistan quake
January 19th, 2011 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Jan 19 (IANS) Tremors were felt in several parts of Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday after an earthquake hit a sparsely-populated mountainous region of Pakistan's Balochistan province, the weather office here ... Read more...
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Houses collapse in Pakistan quake (Lead)
January 19th, 2011 - 6:34 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 19 (IANS) At least 10 houses collapsed or were damaged after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit a sparsely-populated mountainous region of Pakistan's Balochistan province early Wednesday, media reports said.According to ... Read more...
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No adequate security for Aasia Bibi: Report
January 13th, 2011 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
Lahore, Jan 13 (IANS) The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has not taken any extra security measure to protect Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death on blasphemy charges, despite increasing ... Read more...
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US drone attack counter-productive: Pakistani PM
December 26th, 2010 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday condemned US drone attacks in the country's restive northwest, terming them counter-productive in the fight against terrorism.Gilani said that the ... Read more...
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The ‘real’ Sarabjit has been arrested, claims family
December 16th, 2010 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 16 (IANS) Family members of Sarabjit Singh - the Indian who is on death row in Pakistan - say a criminal arrested here Thursday is the one responsible for ... Read more...
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India, Pakistan to sign four-nation gas deal
December 9th, 2010 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS) India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan will sign two cooperative pacts Saturday on a $7.6-billion gas pipeline project linking the four countries, a media report said Thursday.The presidents of ... Read more...
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