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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has vowed to launch a counterattack against those who alleged the organisation is corrupt unless they present hard evidence of...

Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has termed the attack on the PNS Mehran, Karachi ‘well organized terrorism’ and has alleged the involvement of...

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was due to be released on bail Friday, but it remained unclear exactly when or how he would escape...

Protesting workers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Wednesday turned down the truce offerings made by the power utility’s chief executive officer,...

Al Qaeda has appointed an Egyptian militant as temporary leader and named a new head of operations following the killing of Osama bin Laden...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced growing pressure to quit as head of the IMF on Wednesday after his arrest and detention in a New York jail...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent a third night in a New York jail, prompting expressions of shock among some in France that the IMF chief had...

The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that 80 percent of agriculture farms located in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) were being misused and...

IMF chief and possible French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged with an alleged sexual assault, including an attempted rape, on a...

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday seeking court orders for the federal government to make the chief of...

A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) said on Thursday that President Asif Ali Zardari should “disassociate” himself from the political office...

The Supreme Court (SC) told the government on Tuesday to explain on May 13 why it was not appointing the chairman and prosecutor general...

LONDON - Several of the world's top tennis players are likely to avoid leading tournaments in Britain because of the UK government's policy of taxing their endorsement income, according to the man who runs Wimbledon. Wimbledon organisers said on Tuesday that this year's prize fund would be 14.6 million pounds ($23.81 million), an increase of 6.4 percent on 2010, while the singles champions will each pocket 1.1 million pounds -- up 10 percent. Those numbers and the kudos of the

GENEVA - The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed the Libyan regime for the alleged use of cluster bombs in Misrata, saying such attacks on densely populated urban areas could be international crimes.
In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay "condemned the reported repeated use of cluster munitions and heavy weaponry by Libyan government forces in their attempt to regain control of the besieged city of Misrata."
She noted that one cluster bomb

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's cricket chief has denied there is any corruption at the city's high-profile Sixes tournament after New Zealand players said they were approached and offered gifts, a report said Tuesday. Dinesh Tandon said the Hong Kong Cricket Association was investigating after players told the ICC a man who called himself a Middle Eastern diamond dealer made the offer during the tournament in November. "We have been made aware by the ICC that an incident happened and we are

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan welcomed on Tuesday Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's announcement of troops' withdrawal from Sui and Gwadar and termed it a step in the right direction. He said General Kayani's statement that the army would be withdrawn from Sui and Gwadar within two months and it would not take part in any operation in Balochistan in the future indicated the realization that issues could not be resolved by force and military operation, adding