Tag: Chicago

Britain’s Farah wins at Chicago in third marathon start

CHICAGO: Britain's Mo Farah won the Chicago Marathon with a spectacular finishing surge Sunday, shattering the European record to serve notice his distance-racing dominance...

New book about Sikh legacy in Pakistan launches in Chicago

CHICAGO: A book that tracks Sikhism's cultural footprint in Pakistan was launched in Chicago at a ceremony at which Pakistani Consul General Faisal Niaz...

Las Vegas shooter also considered Boston and Chicago: reports

CHICAGO: The Las Vegas gunman who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history also had scouted possible locations in Chicago and...

Tributes paid to Edhi at a Pakistani consulates’ event in Chicago

High tributes were paid to Abdul Sattar Edhi’s life and mission in the service of humanity at an event organised by the Pakistan Consulate...

Chicago-area imam charged with sexual abuse, faces civil suit

A prominent Islamic scholar and longtime head of a suburban Chicago school has been charged with sexually abusing a 23-year-old woman who worked at...

Pakistani student shot dead in Chicago

Mutahir Rauf, 23, and his brother were walking through 1300 block of West Albion Avenue in the Rogers Park neighbourhood of Chicago, just a block from the university campus, when they were intercepted by two men

Nine dead in weekend surge of shootings in Chicago

CHICAGO- At least nine people were murdered in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend in an explosion of gun violence branded "simply unacceptable" by...

Sindh CM returns from Chicago

Sindh Chief Minister (CM), Qaim Ali Shah, landed at Quaid-e-Azam International Airport after a week-long visit to Chicago (USA). On arrival at the Airport,...

Chicago Marathon says Armstrong can’t run

Chicago Marathon director Carey Pinkowski confirmed Friday that the ban meted out to Lance Armstrong by the US Anti-Doping Agency means the cyclist can't...

Something Wilde: Book returned to Chicago library after 78 years

A Chicago-area woman wanted to return an overdue copy of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to the Chicago Public Library, but first she wanted...

The standoff continues

It’s helping nobody but the militants By the time the Chicago summit started, Pakistan’s relations with the US had already hit the nadir. Now these...

From ally to adversary

Tensions aggravating Within a period of two years, relations between the US and Pakistan have taken a 180 degree turn. While Islamabad may have serious...

Obama ‘briefly’ met Zardari twice in Chicago

US President Barack Obama met “briefly” with his Pakistani counterpart twice on the sidelines of NATO summit in Chicago, the White House said. According...

At Chicago, Pakistan retrieves some lost negotiating space

First the facts on Pakistan-US relations and the Chicago summit. Clearly the summit fell in the middle of hard negotiations between two troubled allies and...

US-Pakistan tensions deepen

The rift between the US and Pakistan deepened on Monday as the NATO summit in Chicago broke up without a deal on Afghanistan supply...

US should apologize: Hina

Foreign Minister Hina Ranbbani Khar has said Pakistan still seeks apology from Washington for killing 26 Pakistani soldiers while clearing that it does not...

Pakistan to seek $1b in Chicago summit: Farhatullah Babar

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar on Sunday said President Asif Ali Zardari would demand one billion dollars in Nato's Chicago Summit and the reimbursement via...