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10 killed, 40 injured in suicide attack
MINGORA: At least 10 persons were killed and 40 others injured, when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security forces check post in Sangota area in scenic Swat valley on Monday. Dead bodies and injured were rushed to the Saidu Sharif hospital, where emergency has been announced owing to the situation. Security forces [...]
Continue reading...Opium trade finances Taliban: UNODC
28. November 2008
New York: The opium industry is largely funding the Taliban’s war budget and is a major source of revenue for criminal groups and terrorists in Afghanistan despite becoming less important to the country’s overall economy, according to a United Nations report released in London today. This year has witnessed a decrease in the amount of land [...]
Continue reading...Customs officials seize 372kgs drugs
26. November 2008
Islamabad: Directorate General Intelligence (DGI) and FBR Customs officials have seized charas and opium weighing 372 kgs and taken possession of a truck being used to smuggle the drugs from Peshawar into Punjab, says a press statement issued on Wednesday. The raid was conducted by officials of the Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation of the FBR [...]
Continue reading...International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
24. November 2008
ISLAMABAD: Oxfam launched ‘We Can’ campaign to end violence against women to mark the ‘International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women’. Country Director of Oxfam, Iftikhar Khalid said that Oxfam is launching the campaign that would spread over 127 days (Nov 25, 2008 to Mar 31, 2009) by holding1,000 events per districts covering two [...]
Continue reading...Qazi for Aaffia’s repatriation
24. November 2008
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Qazi Hussian Ahmed demanded of the government to take immediate steps for repatriation of Dr Aaffia Saddique. He in his letter to President Asif Ali Zardari said that the government should give it to the first priority as it is not only the matter of Dr Aaffia’s honor alone rather of [...]
Continue reading...Husband slaughters his wife
19. November 2008
In a most brutal manner one Muhammad Farooq, resident of Central Punjab City of Okara slaughtered his wife Shagusta jabeen Tuseday morning. According to his neighbours Muhammad Farooq married Shagufta 2 years ago but their married life remained turbulent on several accounts. Local District Police Officer stated, “lady was killed in very brutal manner. She was [...]
Continue reading...A night in Lock Up
3. November 2008
Remembering Golden Days of life is a great experience. The golden are those days in a person’s life when he or she had spent their best times of life with friends, colleagues or family. I consider my golden days when I was studying my chemistry honors in my college. Our college was a pretty famous [...]
Continue reading...Aafia rebuffs her links with Al-Qaeda; Mushahid demands immediate release
9. October 2008
Terming accusations against herself as baseless, Dr Aafia Siddiqui said she has no relations with Al-Qaida. She said this during a meeting with a four-member delegation of Pakistan senators at an institute of psychological diseases in Texas. It may be recalled that Dr Aafia has been shifted to the institute of psychological diseases for medical [...]
Continue reading...20 killed, 62 injured in suicide bomb blast in Bhakkar
6. October 2008
BHAKKAR, Oct 6 (APP): Twenty persons were killed and 62 others including MNA Rashid Akbar Niwani injured in a suicide bomb blast at Niwani House on Monday afternoon. According to DPO Muhammad Ahmad Kamal, the blast occurred at Niwani House at about 4.45 p.m where an Eid Milan party was underway. As a result, 20 [...]
Continue reading...Karzai’s brother denies drug trade links
6. October 2008
NEW YORK: Assertions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother is involved in the country’s booming heroin trade have U.S. officials worried, according to The New York Times Sunday. Ahmed Wali Karzai, chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council and the president’s brother, denies any ties to Afghan drug traffickers, despite claims to the contrary from some [...]
Continue reading...Malegaon Bomb Blast: The Smell of Blood is Still in My Head
5. October 2008
The deadly bomb blast which ripped apart bodies of the believers on September 29 has left a deep scar on the psyche of the town. Without losing any time, I was at Bhikku chowk, the epicentre of the blast, which resembled more like a battlefield than an ordinary chowk in a Muslim neighbourhood. The members [...]
Continue reading...Suicide attack at Wali Khan’s house kills 4
3. October 2008
ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber blew himself up as he tried to storm the house of a member of Pakistan’s ruling coalition yesterday, killing four people but missing the politician, officials said. The blast in the troubled northwestern town of Charsadda highlighted the threat posed by Taleban and Al-Qaeda militants to Pakistan’s new government in the [...]
Continue reading...PM assured security of EU Diplomates; sympathised with Polish Ambassador
28. September 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed commiseration and sympathy with the Polish Ambassador Dr. Krzysztof Debnicki over the abduction of a Polish engineer working in Attock. The Ambassador called on him at the Prime Minister House Sunday evening. French Ambassador Daniel Jounnaeu, who is also President of EU group of Ambassadors also [...]
Continue reading...Six injured in Quetta blasts - PM and President condemned
28. September 2008
QUETTA : At least six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two blasts occurred after brief succession, in a CD Center and a Shopping Plaza, here in main commercial area, on Sunday afternoon, in jurisdiction of city police station, police said. The first blast took place when a home-made explosive device went off [...]
Continue reading...Female student killed, 23 injured in suicide blast in Quetta
24. September 2008
QUETTA : A suicide bomber blew himself up near Frontier Corps’ vehicles killing a female student and injuring 23 people including 15 FC men and six students on Wednesday noon. The blast occurred here opposite Askari Park on Airport Road, adjacent to Quetta cantonment, CCPO Quetta Muhammad Akbar said. The suicide bomber walked up towards two [...]
Continue reading...UNSC stressed to bring justice to culpables of Marriot attack
23. September 2008
The Security Council today strongly condemned the weekend’s terrorist attack in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, which claimed more than 50 precious lives when a bomb rocked the Marriott Hotel, with foreign diplomats among the casualties and several dozen injured. The 15-member body stressed the importance of bring those behind the bombing to justice, calling on all [...]
Continue reading...Marriott targeted for becoming hub of International spies
23. September 2008
It has been confirmed that deadly suicide attack on Luxury Marriott hotel was a well designed surgical operation against secret agents of US and its allies countries. “It is obvious that Marriott had become the main hub of international spies now a day”, An Islamabad based analyst disclosed. She told that two floors of the Marriott [...]
Continue reading...Suspected terrorists involving in Marriot blast arrested
22. September 2008
GUJRANWALA: In connection to Marriot hotel blast that left at least 60 dead and 250 injured, five suspected terrorists were arrested in separate raids late on Sunday night. A private TV channel reported that the two suspected persons were apprehended in Gujranwala. It was reported that one of the men was the Imam Qari of a local [...]
Continue reading...Locals rescue abducted 300 children in Dir
18. September 2008
UPPER DIR: The local residents rescued on Thursday more than 300 school children who were earlier abducted by the militants. According to sources, militants kidnapped more than 300 children at a government school in upper Dir area. The locals, after receiving the reports, reached the scene and tried to rescue them, resulting in an exchange [...]
Continue reading...How Central and UP State Government HELPED terrorists bomb A’bad, Jaipur, and Delhi!
15. September 2008
I had talked of the pusillanimity of the Indian government authorities in dealing with terrorism. Now, there is proof that indeed Indian state governments are ACTUALLY helping the terrorists and helping them remain active due to a consistent appeasement policy! There is now evidence that the UP authorities had clearly obstructed the arrests of three SIMI [...]
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