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Newly appointed ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, Hiroshi Oe visited political headquarters of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) “Nine Zero.” Deputy Consul General Toshikazu Isomura, Second...

Syrian forces fired on demonstrators on Friday killing nine and wounding several others as thousands pour onto the streets of Damascus. Activits said thousands...

Nine bodies, including two of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists, and a human skeleton were recovered from separate parts of the city, the police...

A gang of masked gunmen stormed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan overnight, killing the groom and eight others in an attack blamed on...

A rival group killed nine people including women and children of a family and injured four people over land dispute in Sheikhupura on Thursday. According...

Nine people were killed and five others wounded when gunmen attacked a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan overnight, a provincial spokesman said Thursday. The groom...

At least nine people including a woman were killed while three were wounded in various cases of target killings and firing. As man as two...

Two US drone strikes targeting a Taliban compound and a vehicle in North Waziristan killed at least nine militants on Monday, but the US...

KARACHI - Inflow of Portfolio Investment has compensated for a decline in the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment to Pakistan during the first nine months of FY11.
The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) underwent a 28 percent decline and stood at $1.08 billion in the aforementioned period of FY11 compared to $1.50 billion received in the same period of FY10.
However, Portfolio Investment (PI) recorded an inflow of $235 million from July-March FY11 compared with an outflow of

LONDON - Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers took another huge step towards promotion to the Premier League with a 3-0 win over struggling Sheffield United on Monday.
Two Wayne Routledge goals either side of Alejandro Faurlin's strike secured another victory for Neil Warnock's side who are now nine points clear of Norwich at the top of the Championship with Cardiff 13 points behind the leaders in third.
And if results elsewhere go their way QPR could be celebrating

PESHAWAR - At least nine people were killed and more than 20 injured in a suicide bomb attack at Munda Bazaar, a border town of Lower Dir district on Monday. The deceased included two leading tribal elders from Bajaur Agency - Malik Akbar Khan and Malik Karim Khan - who had played a key role in the formation and organisation of traditional peace lashkars against militants.
The two tribal elders appeared to be the targets of the bombing. District Police Officer Salim Marwat said

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority's Town Planning Wing demolished on Saturday as many as nine buildings being illegally constructed in PIA Housing Scheme and sealed another four on the main boulevard of the same scheme. Four buildings were being constructed as commercial structures in violation of the residential plans approved for plots 9-G, 16-F, 410-E and 40-B/1. Similarly no building plan had been got approved for under-construction buildings on plots 97-G, 422-E, 249-C

KARACHI - The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture recently held an exhibition of artworks by nine artists, titled 'Voyages of Personal Discovery', at the Indus Valley School Gallery. The nine artists embarked on their individual voyages of personal discovery. The exhibition displayed works in mixed media by Anam Khan, Fahim Rao, Hina Farooqui, Madiha Hyder, Nadia Niazy, Noorus Sabah Saeed, Sara Mahmood, Ussman Ghauri and Zuna Altaf. The Indus Valley School of Art and

LAHORE - Final examinations of class nine started from Monday but students continued to face problems including load shedding of 10 hours, Pakistan Today has learnt. Students are still facing problems because of the online system and parents and students are still visiting the offices of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) to rectify the problems in the roll number slips. Students claim that with advent of summers, they will face extreme problems during the exams.

KASUR - Kasur police have registered a case against nine people for allegedly killing a couple and their children at village Garri Wala. Reportedly, Niamat Ali got a case registered with Mandi Usmanwala Police Station that Shaukat, his wife Perveen and their four children were present at home when Mustafa, along with his accomplices, set their home on fire as a result of which all the family members were burnt alive. He said Mustafa and Muhammad Ahmed tried to develop relations with

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) on Thursday filed a disqualification reference with the Punjab Assembly speaker against nine members of the Unification Bloc for joining hands with the PML-N led government in the province. Former opposition leader and the parliamentary leader of PML-Q, Chaudhry Zaheeruddin submitted the reference, telling reporters that they had opted for a legal and constitutional course of action against the turncoats, while the Sharif brothers were

RAMADI - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank in the northwestern Iraqi city of Haditha on Thursday, killing nine people including three policemen, the town's mayor said. Eight other people, all civilians, were wounded in the midday blast at a branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in Haditha, 210 kilometres (130 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Mayor Bassim Naji said.
"Nine people have been killed in the suicide attack at Al-Rafidain bank," Naji told reporters. A