At least 13 militants were killed when Pakistani jetfighters bombed suspected positions of militants in the troubled Bajaur tribal region on Sunday. "KHAR: Fighter planes carried out fresh strikes on militants’ hideouts, killing at least 13 more militants in Tehsil Mamond...
"This is serious. If you know President Zardari, please take this article to him. Pakistan does not have to go to IMF and we do not have to service debt. This is an opportunity to spend our money rebuilding our economy and nation. Pakistan is trying to avoid defaulting so...
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"MANILA: Champagne corks popped across Asia as former schoolmates in Indonesia, the Japanese town of Obama and thousands of American expats Wednesday celebrated Barack Obama's historic election as US president.Bars were packed in cities from Beijing to Sydney as election...
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The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan that started after the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry last year turned into a mass movement after Pervez Musharraf ambushed judiciary on this day of...
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It was a sheer coincidence, albeit a most interesting one, that a wellknown Pakistani artist residing in California for some years now, was showing his plastic sculptures and drawings at an art gallery in Karachi...
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The place resounded with the sound of devotional songs, temple bells and loud firecrackers. All around, there was illumination. I attended the Diwali celebrations at the Swaminarayan temple a short while ago. It...
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Discussions about the effect colonialism has had on non-western and specifically Asian art dominated at ‘The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born’, a two day regional seminar on art that took place...
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Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, is in severe power crisis. Karachi is Pakistan's economic nerve centre of banking, industry and trade. Power supply to the entire city was disrupted on Wednesday morning following a tripping in both the circuits of the...
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"Sachin Tendulkar became the highest scorer in Test cricket after surpassing West Indian legend Brian Lara in the ongoing second Test in Mohali on Friday. India vs Australia 2nd Test - Live Score The Master Blaster needed just 15 runs today to overtake Lara’s Test match...
Every 20 second a mother mourns a dead child lost to diarrhea - a completely preventable and utterly inexcusable cause of death. Each year 1.5 million children under the age of five years die from...
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Monday, 6 October 2008 ( 7:28 PM Pakistan Standard Time )Pakistani Television News Channels Showed Two Breaking News Side By Side :-News 1 ( Suicide Attack ) = Bhakkar ( Punjab, Pakistan ) :Twenty people were...
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After a year-long campaign spearheaded by the Children's Museum for Peace and Human Rights run in schools to not only put pressure on the government to become a signatory of the United Nation's Convention for the...
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The terrorists active in Pakistan seem have adopted a new tactic to avoid arrest as three most wanted terrorists blew themselves up when police raided a home in the port city of the country on Friday. "Three most wanted terrorists, belonging to a banned outfit, blew...
Six persons were reportedly killed, including a woman and three children, and several others injured when a bomb ripped through two bogies of a train near Bahawalpur in southern part of Pakistan's Punjab province. "At least six persons have been killed while several...