Quetta: Explosions killed at least 10 members of Pakistan's minority religious communities on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding. A blast at a Shiite procession killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Quetta at a rally calling for solidarity with Palestinians. Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior police official, said at least 40 people were wounded. Some Shiite youths ... Read More

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010 Several others were wounded in the suicide blast in the worship place in the northwestern Mardan town. PESHAWAR: A suicide attack on an Ahmedi worship place killed at least one person and wounded several others in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said. Police official Ahsanullah Khan said the bomber in Friday's attack appeared to have detonated himself after he was prevented ... Read More

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010 DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan's Taliban on Friday took responsibility for triple bombings at a Shia Muslim procession in the city of Lahore that killed 33 people. Wednesday's blasts in the eastern city was the first major militant attack in Pakistan since floods waters tore through the country over the past month. “It's revenge for the killings of innocent Sunnis,” a spokesman for Qari Hussain ... Read More

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Outbursts of grief and anger over natural and man-made disasters marked the opening of a session of the National Assembly requisitioned by the opposition on Thursday, but the main agenda for a debate on flood devastation was put off for a day to mourn a minister’s death. The Pakistan Muslim League-N which has requisitioned the special session, and the ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 QUETTA: A blast in Youm-al-Quds rally at Meezan chowk in Quetta has injured many while casualties were feared,BNA reported. News cameraman Imran Mukhtar has also been injured, correspondent Salman Ashraf told anchorperson. Correspondent also said that several casualties were feared because of high intensity blast. Rescue teams have reached the spot and the injured were being shifted to the hospitals. Police have earlier tried to stop the rally at ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 LARKANA: Deluge has kept its devastating pace maintained in separate parts of Sindh province as in the latest development, the raging flood torrents have entered Khairpur Nathan Shah city of Dadu district to wreak havoc with many Kutchi settlements besides inundating government boys’ college, police station, many houses, parks and grid station,BNA reported Friday. Eight-kilometer portion of National Highway was underwater cutting the city off with ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 BERLIN: German General Egon Ramms, chief of operations of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, criticised Thursday Afghan President Hamid Karzai for failing to support NATO forces in the war against the Taliban. Ramms said in an interview with the daily economic newspaper Handelsblatt that the president "looks at things from a point of view that, in no way, we can like." Karzai, speaking in Kabul, had said the ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 LONDON: Pakistani High Commissioner in London Wajid Shamsul Hassan has strongly criticized ICC following its ruling of suspension of Pakistani cricket trio: Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamer and Mohammed Asif, alleged cricketer of spot-fixing allegations,BNA reported Friday. In his statement, he said ICC Chief Haroon Logart has betrayed Pakistani High Commission (PHC), by telling a lie. He said: “Logart visited PHC at 5:30pm and stayed there for an ... Read More

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010 WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have agreed to jointly provide more aid to flood-hit Pakistan during the current fiscal year but both also insisted that the country needed to continue its economic reforms, officials said on Thursday. “In response to this (flood), I will ask the IMF Board to approve $450 million in emergency assistance to be made ... Read More

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010 KARACHI: Reiterating his stance that the country needs a revolution similar to that of the French Revolution, Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has asked the Pakistan army and the country’s “establishment” to support the masses that, he said, are compelled to bring about a “change” to weed out corruption and feudal system. He said his party would lead ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 KARACHI: Metrological Department has forecast heavy downpours within next 3 days in flood-hit areas of country, anticipating multiplication in grievances of ill-fated people stranded in deluge-ravaged parts,BNA reported Friday. According to met office, Kashmir, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Hazara, Malakand Division, Peshawar, Lower Sindh and North Eastern Balochistan have been anticipated to receive heavy rains with thunder storms within next 24 hours. Syed Pur District received ... Read More

Friday, September 03, 2010 JAFFERABAD: Most parts of Jafferabad city in Balochistan, left flooded after deluge wreaked devastation there, have remained disconnected with other parts of country for 23 consecutive days,BNA reported. Meanwhile, many other parts have worn look of lake due to stagnant floodwater with water 9 to 12 feet dept still staying around residential areas, multiplying the sufferings of people who are in a bid of rehabilitate themselves. Tens ... Read More