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AWARAN, Pakistan (AP) - Two rockets fired by militants in Pakistan's quake-struck region narrowly missed a government helicopter on Thursday as survivors complained that aid was not reaching far-flung areas and the harrowing death toll climbed to 355. |
The bodies of two teenage girls were recovered from a nulla near Madan Chak on the outskirts of a village in Gujranwala. - File photo. |
President Mamnoon Hussain has urged academic institutions to play their role in nation building and meeting the multifaceted challenges adding that universities should offer solutions to the some of the major challenges. |
Managing director Ian Ayre believes the controversies that have dogged Luis Suarez's Liverpool career have damaged the club's brand. |
Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers inched closer to a UN resolution enshrining the agreement. |
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American lifted off early Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, soaring into the night sky for a six-hour trip to the International Space Station. |
image BAGHDAD: Bombings hit two markets in Baghdad province on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, while gunmen shot dead five members of one family south of the capital, officials said. |
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to meet President Barack Obama on Friday as the U.S. and India look to deepen military relations and increase cooperation on nuclear energy, hoping to invigorate their bond at a time when economic ties are ... |
Edginess, not enthusiasm, coloured the response of German business leaders to Chancellor Angela Merkel's commanding election victory. |
Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Civic unrest over a spike in gas prices roiled Sudan for a fourth straight day Wednesday, with gunshots ringing out around the capital of Kharthoum and elsewhere as government forces tried to clamp down. |
While Washington was busy watching Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz bloviate during his not-really-a-filibuster, Secretary of State John Kerry was in New York at the U.N. |
Terrorists dressed in army fatigues have killed at least 12 people in a police station and an Army cantonment in Jammu and Kashmir this morning. |
Karachi: Expressing deep grief over the loss of life and property due to the earthquake in Balochistan, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah directed provincial Chief Secretary Muhammad Ijaz Chaudhry on Wednesday to immediately send four trucks of ... |
PESHAWAR: Inspector General Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said Thursday that the police had been given permission to access the data of mobile phone calls. |
The decision was taken in a meeting by the Chief Secretary of Sindh, Aijaz Chaudhry. The Sindh government has instructed to submit illegal weapons by 11th October. |
LAHORE: Minister of State for Water and Power Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali has directed the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) to ensure that the Neelum Jhelum hydropower project starts generating electricity by the end of 2015 in line with the ... |
KARACHI: Pakistan's main stock exchange closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark 100-share index of the Karachi Stock Exchange falling 1.21 percent or 280.08 points to close at 22,780.82 points. |
image ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday said the present government would give special attention to the education sector, especially higher education. |
image PESHAWAR: Federal Minister for Pakistan Railways (PR) Khawaja Saad Rafique Thursday said that Pakistan Muslim League-N Government has initiated several goal-oriented reforms to revamp railways and make this state organisation profitable. |
KARACHI: Nishat Mills Limited (NML) announced its FY13 earnings on Wednesday, posting a growth of 66 percent on year-on-year basis to Rs5.8 billion (earnings per share of Rs16.63). |
The name Saleem Elahi may not a ring bell for too many people but for Pakistani fans who witnessed his debut against Sri Lanka in 1995, the batsman was another of a long list of players who showed great promise before fading away. |
TOKYO - Montreal's Eugenie Bouchard was unable to continue her string of big wins at the Pan Pacific Open Thursday when she faced American star Venus Williams in the quarter-finals. |
KARACHI: Pakistan colts were off to a poor start when they went 0-2 down against spirited United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their Group E opener of the 2014 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-16 Championship Qualifiers at the Punjab Stadium in ... |
Pravin Tambe, whose superb effort of four for 15 was instrumental in Rajasthan Royals' 30-run win over Highveld Lions, said he used variations and concentrated on bowling wicket to wicket. |
Ambassador of Brazil Alfredo Leoni on Saturday inaugurated the event 'Sounds and Flavours of Brazil', a Brazilian music and food festival, being held in collaboration with the Islamabad Marriott Hotel. |
After listening to testimony since spring, jurors in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial are expected to be handed the case Thursday and asked to decide whether entertainment giant AEG Live is liable for the pop singer's overdose death. |
ISLAMABAD: On the directions of Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Nadeem Hassan Asif, the Health Services Directorate has constituted four teams for surveillance, larviciding, spraying and fogging. |
The software giant has changed the insides of its tablet, though the designs is essentially the same as before. Shara Tibken. by Shara Tibken. |
In view of the recent wave of stealing of sensitive official data by US National Security Agency (NSA), the National Telecom & Information Technology Security Board (NTISB) has framed guidelines/techniques for protecting government business from possible ... |
On the eve of the next major United Nations assessment of climate change, senior Australian scientists have said the world needs to increase its ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions. |
Stanford scientists have built a nanotube computer, an engineering feat that points to continuing advances in computational performance. |
(Newser) - Tuesday's earthquake in Pakistan gave rise to an island roughly half a mile off the coast; yesterday, locals set off to explore it, and what they describe is an oval-shaped mass no more than 300 feet long—which is emitting some kind of flammable ... |
A new discovery finds 419 million years old fossil of fish that has the same jawbones as modern vertebrates. Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
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