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Routine life came to a standstill in almost all parts of the metropolis on Friday as the city ‘mourned’ the loss of over 60...

The ship traffic at Karachi Port has come to a complete halt owing to a strike called by Karachi Port Trust’s pilots protesting a...

Italy called Wednesday for a halt to Libyan hostilities to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, as the civilian death toll mounted and state...

India’s most popular, and powerful, yoga guru rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday to call off a hunger strike against...

FIFA faced mounting calls to scrap its corruption-tainted presidential election on Tuesday as key sponsors formed a chorus of concern over the governing body’s...

WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has no plans to suspend "operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said.
Pakistan has criticized missile strikes by US drone aircraft against militants in the country but CIA Director Leon Panetta has told intelligence officials that he has a duty to prevent attacks on the United States, the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
"Panetta

LONDON - British Member of Parliament Lord Qurban Husain while condemning the drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan has called upon the United States to immediately halt the killing of innocent people.
Pakistan is a frontline state against terrorism but US government instead of appreciating its role is killing Pakistani people, he added. Lord Qurban was addressing a function of British Pakistani's in Nottingham yesterday. Ehsan Ghazni, Barrister Amjad Hussain, Pakistan

KARACHI - Confusion and anomalies in the hurriedly issued SRO 231 (I) /2011 dated March 15, 2011 has brought the supply chain of goods manufactured by the five major export based industry of the country grinding to a complete halt.
Speaking to Pakistan Today on Monday, Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) Association of Industry Chairman Abdul Wahab Lakhani has claimed that the ambiguity inherent in the recently issued SRO which he claims was hurriedly prepared to handle the

LAHORE - The city's traffic was backed up for miles as members of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) blocked almost all major roads on Thursday. Huge traffic jams were seen on The Mall, Canal Bank Road, Ferozepur Road and Jail Road. Students from Allama Iqbal Medical College came out of the back gate of the college along the Canal Bank Road and sat on the road blocking it completely. The traffic coming from the city side on the Canal Bank Road was diverted from the new campus

KARACHI - Dozens of dock workers were reportedly injured after an angry mob attacked the Grain and Fertiliser Terminal (GFT), Port Qasim on Tuesday afternoon and the Rangers opened fire and used teargas shells to disperse the enraged protesters. Cargo handling at the country's first grain and fertiliser-dedicated terminal was suspended as hundreds of 'employees of stevedoring companies' entered the terminal premises and started beating up the labourers while trying to ransack

ISLAMABAD - The United States has halted drone attacks on militants along Pakistan's western border in a development analysts believe is linked to the attempts to secure the release of a jailed US consular employee. After months of frequent strikes from unmanned US aircraft on militant hideouts in tribal areas, reports of covert strikes have gone quiet for over three weeks.
Many analysts believe Washington has stopped the attacks to avoid further inflaming anti-American fury in

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finally sought intervention from the Malaysian government to stop the exit of its state owned petroleum company Petronas.
An informed source disclosed that the government has sent a letter to the Malaysian government, seeking their help to stop the exit of Petronas. The letter was issued following the Petroleum Ministry's failure to resolve issues with the Malaysian state owned firm.
The decision to involve Malaysian government was made considering

LONDON: Fresh snowfalls swept northern Europe once again Thursday, causing misery for travellers as airports remain closed, roads were blocked and Eurostar international rail services were cancelled.
The unseasonable cold snap, which has lasted nearly a week, has caused Britain to grind to a halt, with thousands of schools closed and commuters stranded as rail services were cancelled and icy roads deemed unsafe. Gatwick Airport,
Britain's second busiest airport after

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday declined to halt investigations into corruption of over Rs 22 billion in the state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to submit a progress report into the case within a month.
The bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvaiz and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was conducting suo motu hearing on reports of alleged corruption of Rs 22 billion in PSM. The

LAHORE: Traffic remained at a halt at Lahore's major roads due to a protest by the Tahafuz e Namoos e Risalat Muhaz on Monday whom traveled across the road.
Commuters were disturbed by the traffic blockades and found themselves stationary on the city's main arteries for hours at a stretch. Traffic at The Mall, Davis road, Bhatti gate, Jail Road and Ferozepur Road was choked as the rally proceeded towards the CM House.
During the same period, traffic was also choked for more

PARIS: Hundreds of thousands of defiant French strikers took to the streets on Thursday in a last-ditch bid to force President Nicolas Sarkozy to scrap a just-passed law raising the retirement age.
At least 270 rallies were planned around France, as workers and students launched the ninth in a series of one-day mass protests and strikes, part of a movement that has threatened to paralyse the economy. Most of the demonstrations of recent weeks have been peaceful, but gangs of