Tag: Claims

LAGOS - A website purported to belong to an Islamist sect has claimed responsibility for Christmas Eve bombings in central Nigeria that left dozens dead, but police on Tuesday cast doubt on the claim.
"O nations of the world, be informed that verily the attacks in Suldaniyya (Jos) and Borno on the eve of Christmas was carried out by us, Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, under the leadership of Abu Muhammad, Abubakar bin Muhammad Shekau (May Allah preserve him)," a

KARACHI - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat has claimed dispatching a batch of 10 suicide bombers to the Tribal Areas to fight security forces combating militants near the Afghanistan border.
In the latest video message, Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah said, "Four of the suicide bombers have completed their tasks, while a group of another 300 bombers are ready to take their turn." The video shows 10 young would-be bombers, their faces covered in head-scarves, listening to Fazlullah,

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised commercial banks and Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) to contact the SBP Banking Services Corporation (SBSC) with regards to the processing of pending claims with respect to export finance mark-up rate facility and mark-up rate support for textile sector against the long-terms loans.
According to SBP circular (SMEFD Circular Letter No 14) issued on Wednesday, the ministry of textile industry has released necessary

ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister for science and technology Azam Khan Swati on Tuesday called the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) "bogus", saying it was greatly harming the country.
Talking to reporters, the sacked minister said the government's decision to cut the budget for higher education by Rs 30 billion to facilitate the BISP might benefit only "some" people.
He said countries did not move forward on basis of charity, but through advancements in science and

QUEBEC CITY: Bernard Hopkins declared he was robbed of becoming the oldest major world champion in boxing history Saturday when he had to settle for a majority draw against Haitian-born Canadian Jean Pascal.
Pascal inflicted the first two knockdowns suffered by Hopkins in 16 years to keep his World Boxing Council light heavyweight crown before a sellout crowd at Le Colisee that booed the deadlocked verdict with the 45-year-old American.
After 12 rounds a US judge gave

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama's Afghan troop surge has made progress in curbing the Taliban and severely weakening Al Qaeda, but US gains are not yet durable and sustainable, a new policy review said on Thursday.
The long-awaited assessment says that some aspects of the high-stakes strategy are working well, after a year of record bloodshed, but many of the advances in the nine-year war remain fragile and reversible.
The report, which Obama is set to unveil today

LONDON: Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has said thousands of pounds of cash discovered by police searches of his hotel room during spot-fixing inquiries was all part of his legitimate tour allowances.
Butt and pacemen Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Aamer were all provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) following allegations resulting from a 'sting' operation conducted by Britain's News of the World newspaper that they'd all conspired in the bowling of

ISLAMABAD: At least five people, including a father and a son, were killed and several injured on Sunday when the participant of a car race rammed his vehicle into a crowd of spectators in Islamabad's Bahria Town.
According to details, Majid Naeem, the driver, lost control of his car that headed straight into a crowd, killing Suhail Khan, his son Danyal Khan and Babar Ali on the spot.
Two others, Aslam Yar and Mohsin Javed, succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital.

LAHORE: A private company that was tasked with recovering bad debts of SNGPL is now after SNGPL to get recovered its money from it, Pakistan Today has learnt on Saturday.
Documents available with Pakistan Today revealed that three years ago Sui Northern Gas Pipeline (SNGPL) has commissioned a private firm namely KAP Associates for recovering bad debts worth Rs 234 million from different industrial units and individuals.
The company was given eight cities for recovering the

LAHORE: Pakistan opener Imran Farhat has decided to serve legal notice on bookmaker Mazhar Majeed, who has named four more players as being involved in spot-fixing in a video footage released by a private news television channel.
Farhat, one of the four named, said he was appalled by the bookmaker's claims. "I just don't know what to say. Neither is he my agent nor have I ever been involved in such things," Farhat said.
The left-handed opener was named along with Umar Akmal,

ANKARA: Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday furiously denied claims he had secret accounts in Swiss banks and was involved in fraud, penned by US diplomats in cables revealed by the WikiLeaks website.
"I do not have one penny in Swiss banks... If this is proven, I will not stay in my post," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an angry speech at a public ceremony here.
He urged Washington "to call to account" its diplomats for "slander derived from lies and inaccurate opinions,"

LAHORE: Fresh claims made by runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider's have led the Pakistan Cricket Board to delay the naming of the provisional team for the 2011 World Cup and the New Zealand series. Zulqarnain had stated that he has knowledge regarding the match-fixers in the team which led the PCB to stop the team announcement for the New Zealand tour and the World Cup.
He claimed on his Facebook page that he will reveal the names of those who have received money to fix

ISLAMABAD: Doctor's negligence and departmental politics took the life of Nadia Ahmed, a 23-year-old expecting mother at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Monday.
Married two years ago in Koral Town, Nadia was admitted to the delivery ward of the hospital a day before Eidul Azha. She died soon after giving birth to her first baby, a beautiful son. A medical student was asked to handle this normal delivery case since no senior doctor was available, sources

QUETTA: Tethyan Copper Company Chief Executive Officer Gerhard Von Borries has declared that Balochistan would have a share of 25 percent from the profit of copper-gold to be extracted from Reko Deq of Chaghi district despite the fact that under the mineral Rule, Balochistan government had no right over business of the company.
He said this on Friday during a briefing in the back drop of a controversy following a declaration by the Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani.

LAHORE: The price of white refined sugar has now reached the psychological barrier of Rs 100 per kilogram in wholesale markets on Saturday. The latest pricelists shows that the sweetener is now selling at Rs 5,050 per 50-kilogram bag in the largest wholesale market of the province, Akbari Market.
Pricelists show that the price of white sugar has been sharply raised by Rs 11 per kilogram in the last five days as the sweetener was selling at Rs 90-92 per kilogram on November 2,

BAGHDAD: Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate said on Friday it was behind car bombings against Shiites in Baghdad this week that killed 64 people, saying they were revenge for "insults" and threatening more attacks.
The claim drew a strong reaction from the representative of Iraq's most respected Shiite cleric, saying it aimed to drag the country into new sectarian conflict.
In a statement on the Al-Hanein jihadi website, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said Tuesday's attacks were

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI
Despite the government's tall claims of having the virus under control, the number of patients dying from the virus, and those infected and fighting for their life, tells a different story.
The death toll on dengue patients across the country has already climbed to 21 and nearly 3,000 have been infected across the country so far. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has tested as many as 2,936 people positive for dengue, according to figures released by