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Some unidentified armed men killed three people over old enmity at Kala Shah Kaku Motorway Interchange and fled away. Reportedly, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

At least three people were killed while one was injured over an old enmity at village Hanjar Kalan in the jurisdiction of Sarai Mughal...

Football’s ruling body FIFA is investigating claims that over 300 matches on three continents were influenced by match-fixers, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. FIFA...

An Extraordinary General Meeting of APTMA held at its Punjab office focused on the ongoing severe energy crisis in the country. Those present at...

A teenager Kamran Raza lost his life at a local franchise of an international shoe brand situated at the GT Road when a rifle...

Former Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne said on Tuesday he was ready to share information on alleged match-fixing with the International Cricket Council, the...

Italian Roberta Vinci outlasted Czech Lucie Hradecka to capture her second Barcelona Open title in Saturday’s final. For the second straight match, Vinci dropped...

KARACHI - The land mafia has taken over a large portion of Gulshan-e-Sikandarabad, a precious land of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) worth billions of rupees that was reclaimed from the Chinna Creek, the KPT said in a press release issued on Wednesday. The KPT claimed that one Sikandar Jadoon is the leader of the land mafia that is controlling the area through Jadoon's influence. Only the KPT is authorised to reclaim land for development of the port and the surrounding area for cargo

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

NEW YORK - The publisher of U.S. author Greg Mortenson's memoir, 'Three Cups of Tea,' said on Monday it was reviewing the bestseller following claims that parts of the inspirational book were fabricated.
Television news program '60 Minutes' said in a Sunday broadcast that parts of Mortenson's account of a failed attempt in 1993 to climb the world's second-highest peak, K2, and being kidnapped in Pakistan in 1996, were untrue, citing several people interviewed. '60 Minutes' also

KARACHI - At lest five more persons were killed in different firing and torture incidents here in the city on Tuesday, police said.
A 40-year old man's bullet riddled body was found under a bridge in Lasbela's Gulbahar area.
The body of 21-year old Najmul Haq was found from Sirajul Dola College's ground near Karimabad area. The victim was a resident of Apsara Apartments.
Ziaullah, 32, was gunned down by unidentified people at Jogi Mour in Landhi.
A 22-year old

KARACHI - The target killing spree which had begun on 13th April entered its fourth intermittent day, targeting 8 including three women and 14 injured.
Majority of those killed are said to be political activists killed or abducted by 'unknown persons', while a suicide by a policeman has also been reported, bringing the toll to 38 in four days.
After the ousting of vociferous Provincial Home Minister Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, the 'coalition partners' have heaved a sigh of relief,

LAHORE - Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Outdoor Patients Department (OPD) ward boy Akhtar Hussain was diagnosed with dengue fever on Tuesday. He is the second dengue patient in Lahore this year after Dr Maryam, a Mayo Hospital medical student. Akhtar was suffering from dengue fever for around a week and on-duty Medical Officer (MO) Dr Waseen after adviseing him to conduct IGG and IGM tests to diagnose dengue refused to admit him without permission of senior doctors.
Akhtar said he had

TOBA TEK SINGH - A villager was killed as a result of firing in the air at a wedding ceremony in a Gojra. Amer Irshad Mughal was a guest at the marriage of Noman Zafar when his relatives started aerial firing. A bullet hit the deceased, injuring him severely. He was shifted to Gojra THQ Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
BIKE LIFTED: Unknown thieves took away the motorcycle of a resident of Gojra from Toba Forest.
Rana Azam Khan of Chak 164/GB Sheikhan parked his

PESHAWAR - At least three persons were killed and eight others injured when a passenger vehicle hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Parachinar, headquarter of Kurram Agency, on Monday morning. The officials at Parachinar said that the ill-fated vehicle was on its way from Karman to Parachinar when the incident occurred.
The IED had been planted by the militants in the area. At least three of the passengers died on the spot while eight severely wounded were rushed to

BERLIN - Germany's Marcel Nguyen claimed gold Sunday on the men's parallel bars at the European gymnastics championships with Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands taking silver and Greece's Vasileios Tsolakidis bronze.
Nguyen, 23, won his first major individual title and Germany's second gold of these championships with a winning tally of 15,525 pts, while Zonderland finished with 15,300 pts and Tsolakidis earned third place with 15,075 pts. The new champion was returning from

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday granted bail before arrest to an accused rapist as victim girl apprised the court that her father, the complainant in the FIR, and not the accused had been raping her.
Justice Ch Iftikhar Hussain issued this order on a bail petition of Muhammad Irfan resident of Allama Iqbal, Lahore. Muhammad Yousaf had lodged FIR under section 376 of the PPC (rape charges) at Wahdat Colony Police Station against Irfan accusing him of raping his 10 years