Tag: Confirms

France's first lady Carla Bruni spoke openly about her pregnancy for the first time in a newspaper interview -- but kept the baby's gender...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed the presence of Taliban in Karachi where the jinx of target killing is out of control from last...

The US Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to confirm General David Petraeus, currently commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to be the...

The US Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm outgoing Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta as the new secretary of defense, replacing the...

Pakistan on Monday confirmed the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad but stressed that US forces, not Pakistani troops, had carried out the...

ZURICH - World football's governing body FIFA on Monday confirmed candidacies of incumbent Sepp Blatter and Qatari Mohammed Bin Hammam for the FIFA presidency. "The FIFA general secretariat received two candidatures for the FIFA Presidency by the statutory deadline... The names of the candidates are: Joseph S. Blatter (Switzerland); Mohamed Bin Hammam (Qatar)," FIFA said in a statement.
"The election for the FIFA presidency will be held in Zurich on 1 June 2011 within the

CAIRO - Egypt will hold a legislative election in September and will lift emergency laws before the vote, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said on Monday. Mamdouh Shaheen, a member of the military council, said a date for a presidential election had yet to be set. The legislative election date means parties that were crushed under Hosni Mubarak's rule have some five months to prepare for the first free parliamentary polls in decades. The military council has ruled Egypt

LONDON - Britain's Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday that troops have been placed on standby to help with evacuation and humanitarian operations in Libya. The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, is on standby for deployment at 24 hours' notice, an MoD spokeswoman said.
"Troops from 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland have been on short notice to move to provide assistance to the evacuation and humanitarian efforts as required," she told

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the interim bail earlier it had granted to former Adiala Jail Superintendent Saeedullah Gondal and Deputy Superintendent Khalid Bashir allegedly involved in the 11 prisoners' disappearance from the jail in June last year.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, heard the bail application of both the officials whose bails were canceled by the

MUMBAI - Two Indian judges on Monday confirmed the death sentence for the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which 10 Islamist militants laid siege to the city, killing 166 people. The Bombay High Court dismissed the claim by Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab that he was wrongfully convicted of taking part in the attacks.
The judges also threw out the state's appeal against a lower court's decision to acquit two Indian nationals accused of providing

LAHORE - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis gave evidence to the independent anti-corruption tribunal hearing in Doha, Qatar.
Three leading players, former Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif are expected to learn their fate overnight (NZT) following the conclusion of a six-day hearing.
The trio, all frontline players, have been charged with offences relating to alleged activity surrounding the Test against England at Lord's in August. A British Sunday

ISLAMABAD - The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday confirmed that 85 positive cases of swine flu (H1N1 virus) have been reported throughout the country including 28 in the capital city.
A total of 125 samples were received by the institute out of which 85 were confirmed as H1N1 positive. They said that 28 cases were reported from Punjab, 28 from Federal Capital, 19 from Sindh and 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Dr Wasim Khawaja of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences

SEOUL - A South Korean man has died from swine flu, becoming the country's first reported human death from the virus this winter, health officials said Thursday.
The 30-year-old man began to show symptoms on Monday and tests showed he was infected with the A (H1N1) virus, said the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was taken into intensive care in hospital but died on Wednesday morning, it said. "This marked the country's first death caused by the H1N1 virus

SYDNEY: Australian spin bowler Shane Warne Monday confirmed he had split from his ex-wife, amid reports of an alleged "affair" with British actress Liz Hurley.
Warne and his former wife Simone Callahan, who have three children together, divorced some time ago but had rekindled their romance and shared a home together in his home town of Melbourne.
But after video and photographs of Warne and Hurley apparently kissing and cuddling together in London last week were published,

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday notified all commercial banks, development financial institutions (DFI) and microfinance banks (MFB) on the restoration of the six-day working week from November 27, 2010.
Referring to the federal government's November 22, 2010 notification, the central bank informed banks, DFIs and MFDs that Saturday will be observed as a working day.
"As per decision of the federal government, the six day working week will be observed

ISLAMABAD: Endorsing the Judicial Commission's recommendation, the eight-member parliamentary committee on judges' appointment on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Justice Ejaz Chaudhry as new chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC).
The committee also elected PPP's Senator Nayyar Hussain Bokhari as the chairman of the parliamentary committee. Talking to reporters after the meeting, committee member Sabir Baloch said Bokhari had been unanimously elected on permanent

LAHORE: Former captain Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have asked the PCB to clear their outstanding dues. It has been learnt that PCB has withheld the three players dues as guarantee money in case they were to be fined and the players have not been paid any match fee or bonuses since the World T20 Championship.
Salman Butt and Asif have asked the PCB to clear their outstanding dues as soon as possible. In a letter to the PCB Salman has asked of an amount of approximately Rs 8.7