Tuesday, 07 Sep, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie Tuesday visited Pakistan to draw world attention towards the plight of 21 million people affected by the country’s worst-ever floods, the UN refugee agency said. “UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie arrived in Pakistan today to meet people affected by the floods and to highlight the continued urgent need for help,” the agency said in a statement. Jolie, the 34-year-old actress and roving ... Read More

HAVANA: Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance. The revolutionary leader wore the olive-green cap and uniform — minus the star and laurels he held as commander in chief — at a speech on Friday to students at University of Havana. The clothing ... Read More

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

Redwood Shores, California: A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people. The plane belonged to the founder of a local steel company who too is believed to be among the dead. An employee of RE Borrmann's Steel Co says the twin-engine Beechcraft Queen Air was owned by company founder 92-year-old Robert Borrmann. Employee Charlene Marshall says Borrmann, the pilot and a ... Read More

Thursday, September 02, 2010 LAHORE: Thirty-seven people were killed and over 150 others injured in three back-to-back explosions, occurring in Lahore when processions of Yaum-e-Ali were on their way to conclude at the Karbala Gamay Shah in the city on Wednesday. The first blast of a cracker occurred in front of the gate of Lower Mall police station, opposite Karbala Gamay Shah building, at 6:55 pm. It caused panic among ... Read More

Wednesday, September 01, 2010 PESHAWAR: The death toll from security force air strikes on militant hideouts in a northwestern tribal area Wednesday rose to 55, with reports of some civilian deaths, security officials said. "Militants were using civilians and their families as human shields and there could be some civilian casualties but we do not know how many," a senior security official told media, confirming the new toll in the ... Read More

Residents walk across a flooded area in Thatta on August 29, 2010. THATTA: A torrent of water threatening to deluge Thatta has begun to recede, officials said on Monday, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus river. Pakistani troops and workers have been on a “war footing” over the weekend, battling to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the 300,000-strong population fled ... Read More

Updated: Gwalior: An inconsolable Yasmin Khan alleges her husband and a veteran of the Kargil war, Lance Naik Amjad Khan was shot dead by the police in a fake encounter for promotions and glory. Police allege he was a dacoit, but on August 19, the family alleges, the Bhind police picked up Amjad along with three other young men on the pretext of questioning in a petty case. Three days ... Read More

August 28, 2010 Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled. It said 13 insurgents were killed — four of whom were wearing suicide vests — and five captured. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry put the insurgent death toll in ... Read More

Aug 28, 2010 ISLAMABAD: In move that blocks the information highway across Pakistan and comes as a rude shock to the people, Pakistan's supreme court on Friday directed the electronic media regulatory authority to stop all cable operators from airing TV channels without landing rights in Pakistan. The stations off air as a result are predominantly Indian news, entertainment and sports channels, as also a clutch of other foreign and ... Read More

Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 PESHAWAR: A bomb blast at a restaurant in the northwestern town of Mansehra killed one person Friday, local police chief Mohammed Sajjad said. He said the police were investigating who planted the bomb and why. ... Read More

Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 Obama pressured Karzai earlier this year to do more to root out corruption, which Washington says complicates efforts to win over the population to the effort by foreign and Afghan forces to fight a widening insurgency. WASHINGTON: The CIA is making payments to a significant number of officials in Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s administration, The Washington Post reported on Friday. ... Read More