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Soch band nominated in Best Music Direction category for IIFA 2015
Pakistani band Soch have made it to the nominations for the IIFA awards 2015 in the Best Music Direction category. The band compromising Adnan Dhool and Rabi Ahmed made their Bollywood debut with the...
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‘I could have been the first martyr of APS massacre’
Akif Azeem would have been the first to fall when Taliban militants stormed an Army Public School in Peshawar, killing over 150 people, most of them students. The second year student, however, had...
View ArticleZimbabwe suspends planned tour to Pakistan owing to security concerns
HARARE: Pakistan cricket suffered yet another major setback as Zimbabwe suspended their upcoming tour of Pakistan due to security concerns. Zimbabwe Cricket’s (ZC) security team travelled to Lahore...
View ArticleTerror backlash: FC claims killing 8 suspected militants in search operations
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps in Balochistan launched a search operation, a day after the deadly attack on the Ismaili community in Karachi, resulting in the deaths of eight suspected militants were...
View ArticleViolation of ECP rules lands NA deputy speaker in hot water
ISLAMABAD: Alleged violation of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) code of conduct for local bodies elections has landed the deputy speaker of the National Assembly in hot waters. Murtaza Javed...
View ArticleFirst woman who contested Aligarh Muslim University polls found dead in India
ALIGARH: Asma Javed, the first woman who had contested student polls at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in India four years ago, was found dead inside her apartment on Wednesday. The 28-year-old,...
View ArticleEnglish Premier League: Wenger tells Arsenal to make United ‘statement’
LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has challenged his side to make “make a symbolic statement” by winning away to Manchester United on Sunday and so secure their place in next season’s Champions...
View ArticleJundullah’s claim of Islamic State funding deeply exaggerated: intelligence...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The militant group that said it was behind Wednesday’s massacre of 45 commuters in Karachi is a dangerous outfit with ties to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but intelligence...
View ArticleFIFA chief Blatter seeks Israel concession in Palestine dispute
ZURICH: FIFA leader Sepp Blatter said Friday he hopes to head off a Palestinian call for a vote to expel Israel from football’s governing body but that Israel must make a concession. Blatter said he...
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After Priyanka, Nargis Fakhri debuts in Hollywood
Looks like Bollywood is slowly making a move to Hollywood. After Priyanka Chopra’s debut in American TV show Quantico, Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri too will be making her Hollywood debut in film...
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10 most controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners
KARACHI: Controversy has rarely escaped the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, presented each year since established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel, who was Swedish by origin, was a...
View ArticleJohnny Depp’s dogs fly home after quarantine wrangle
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Johnny Depp’s pet dogs Pistol and Boo flew out of Australia late Friday to escape threats to put them down, after a complex and often comical quarantine wrangle. Agriculture Minister...
View ArticleFawad Khan charms Alia and Sidharth on the sets of ‘Kapoor and Sons’
The shooting of Fawad Khan’s upcoming Bollywood film Kapoor and Sons began earlier this week. On day one there was not much action, except for a few light-hearted sequences, but there was plenty of...
View ArticleArmy chief hails intelligence agencies’ achievements
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif heaped praise for the country’s intelligence agencies during a visit to the Inter-Services intelligence headquarters on Friday. The army chief said...
View ArticleHindu Marriage Bill, 2015: Government all set to pass landmark legislation
ISLAMABAD: The government is all set to pass a landmark legislation, which will lead around two million members of Hindu community to get their marriages registered for the first time in Pakistan....
View ArticleEmbassy bombings: Former Osama Bin Laden accomplice sentenced to life...
A New York court sentenced an aide of Osama Bin Laden, Khalid al-Fawwaz, to life in prison Friday over his role in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of US embassies in East Africa which killed 224 people....
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Over 11m extra ballot papers printed in 2013 general elections: ECP
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday informed the Inquiry Commission that 11,725,728 extra ballot papers were printed in the May 2013 general elections. Read: Testimony:...
View ArticleEnglish Premier League: Play-off worry stalks Man Utd-Arsenal clash
LONDON: Manchester United and Arsenal’s players will be hoping to avoid the encumbrance of a Champions League play-off tie when they meet at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Sunday. Two points...
View ArticleSadio Mane fires fastest hat-trick in Premier League history
SOUTHAMPTON: Southampton’s Sadio Mane blasted the quickest hat-trick in Premier League history as the Senegal winger netted three times in less than three minutes against Aston Villa on Saturday. Mane...
View ArticleUS special forces kill senior IS leader in Syria: White House
WASHINGTON: US special forces killed a senior Islamic State group leader and captured his wife in a daring raid in eastern Syria, the White House announced on Saturday. The raid was carried out at the...
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