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The public call offices (PCOs) in provincial prisons have been closed by the orders of the NWFP Inspector General (IG) Prisons. The orders were given after it was found that jailed Taliban were using these PCOs to stay in touch with their...
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A strong earthquake shook Pakistan on early Friday morning (October 23, 2009), and scared many people. The quake was also felt in Afghanistan and, by some reports, in the Indian capital Delhi, and measured 6.1/6.2 on the Richter Scale.
The quake’s...
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Hayatab’s popular Swan Restaurant was hit by a bomb blast on Friday morning, leaving at least eight people wounded. The area has been cordoned off and details of the blast and its impact are yet to come.
A car parked in front of the...
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One of the heart-winning photos, by Ijaz Muhammad for the Associated Press, shows a pet dog snuggled amidst luggage and accompanying his owner family, sitting next to a little girl with a cherubic face as the family moves out of South Waziristan on...
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Dazzling beauty and world-famous Oscar winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman has pointed to Hollywood movies as fueling violence against women and testified before the US Congress in the efforts to pass legislation for tackling violence against women...
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The Bank of Punjab scam, which is reported to have eaten away some 13 billion rupees, had led Pakistan into requesting international assistance for capturing Hamesh Khan, the lead accused in the scam. Pakistan has requested both the Interpol and the US...
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Ambassador Haqqani has been appearing on many fora in the US before and after he became ambassador for Pakistan. A study of his remarks reveals an interesting perspective he has on Pakistan and the Muslim World.
In a most terrifying incident of terrorist violence, two suicide bombers blew themselves one after the other at the new campus of the International Islamic University in Islamabad, on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The blasts killed six people, including...
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With the autonomy of the Gilgit-Baltistan area and the cry for making Bahawalpur a separate province, a group in NWFP’s Hazara district has raised its demand for making Hazara Pakistan’s fifth province. In a convention, held on Saturday (October...
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After several months of rough travel from Hangu to Kohat/Peshawar and back, through the hilly and mostly unmetalled alternate road of Sumario, the passengers traveling to and from Hangu-Kohat-Peshawar have finally found relief as travel along the...
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