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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

LAHORE - Days after winning the hearts of numerous Indian fans with his remarks after his team's loss in the World Cup semifinal, Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has said Indians are not as large-hearted as Pakistanis.
Afridi also slammed the Indian media for its "very negative approach" and said the Pakistani media was a "hundred times better" than its Indian counterpart. "In my opinion, if I have to tell the truth, they (Indians) will never have hearts like Muslims and

LARKANA - The report on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was presented in a meeting of the PPP Central Executive Committee (CEC) for the first time on Sunday, which decided not to make it public.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, after a thorough briefing on the investigation into the former premier's assassination, said the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress.
"It could also allow the conspirators

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) warned the government on Sunday that if rising incidents of extortion in Karachi and increases in the price of petroleum products every month were not stopped, it would be extremely difficult for the MQM to support the government in the upcoming budget, a source privy to the meeting between a MQM delegation and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers told Pakistan Today.
The MQM delegation comprising MQM Deputy Convener Farooq

LARKANA - Former Foreign Affairs minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he was neither informed nor invited to participate in the CEC meeting of the PPP, adding that he did not know what would happen in the meeting.
Talking to media after offering fateha on the grave of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Sunday, he said that this was not a unite party. "There is a need to keep vigilance and review about weaknesses in the party," he said, adding that the party should take steep

LARKANA - Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governors Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa and Barrister Masood Kausar on Sunday visited the mausoleum of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, on the eve of his 32nd death anniversary.
But Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad did not visit Bhuttos' native place. They laid wreath at the grave of the PPP's founder chairman and former prime minister and offered Fateha. They also visited the graves of Benazir Bhutto, Mir Murtaza Bhutto and

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, his popularity hammered by the euro zone's highest jobless rate, said on Saturday he would not seek a third term in 2012 elections his Socialists are expected to lose. Popular Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Defence Minister Carme Chacon are seen as possible successors to revive the ruling Socialists, who trail the centre-right opposition Popular Party by up to 15 points in opinion polls. "I will not be a

LAHORE - Akram, the elder brother of Fahim, who was killed along with his friend by a CIA contractor Raymond Davis in Lahore, said they were under no pressure to strike the blood money deal, adding that the US was not directly involved in the deal.
Talking to a private TV channel, Akram said government officials had told them about the pros and cons of continuing with the case and "we took the decision of accepting the money for the sake of Pakistan".
He declined to answer a

LAHORE - Grade five and eight students and their parents expressed displeasure over the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC)'s inability to communicate the annual result.
Parents claimed that PEC did not issue a press release or a gazette to notify the students of the result. They said PEC's attitude was 'unfriendly' and was unlike Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore's, which properly communicated the result. Schools' administrations were also annoyed at

LOS ANGELES - Oops! The promotional blitz for Britney Spears latest album got off to a rough start on Tuesday when Spanish heartthrob Enrique Iglesias denied that he would go on tour with the pop starlet.
Earlier in the day, Spears had said the two would hit the road for a North American trek beginning in June. But her announcement was greeted almost immediately with skepticism.

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STATS CORNER - The second semi-final of the World Cup 2011 will be played between arch rivals India and Pakistan at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali today.
Pakistan entered the semi-finals for the record sixth time by defeating West Indies by 10 wickets in the first quarter-final at Mirpur, Dhaka, while India qualified for last four for the fifth time by beating Australia by five wickets the second quarter-final in Ahmedabad.
The day/night encounter will be the

LAHORE - The first international conference on Emerging Trends in Psychology kicked-off at the Government College University (GCU) Lahore on Tuesday with an objective to introduce and encourage new paradigms of theory and research in psychology, which better address the social and cultural issues of Pakistan.
GCU Vice-Chancellor Dr Ikramul Haq was the chief guest at the opening ceremony of the three-day conference, which was attended by psychiatrists and psychologists form all

WASHINGTON - US Ambassador to United Nations Susan Rice said on Tuesday that the Obama administration has not ruled out arming Libya's rebels as an option for trying to end Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year rule.
Speaking a day after President Barack Obama defended his Libya strategy in a televised address, Rice said Gaddafi has shown no sign of leaving power without continued pressure from Western powers that have imposed a no-fly zone over Libya and used air strikes to constrain his

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday the government did not want a clash of the institutions and that "democracy is the best revenge". "We strengthened the institutions by giving more powers to parliament and we are willing to work and fight for a better democracy," Zardari said at the 21st All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) award distribution ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr. The president said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) did not take the path of aggression

LAHORE - Students of Intermediate from Forman Christian College University (FCCU) protested on Monday against the FCCU administration for withholding their admissions for the intermediate examination 2011.
The demonstration was organized near the Canal Road in which the students strongly protested against the decision and demanded that authorities concerned take notice of the matter. Students claimed that it was only students who bribed officials that shall be able to sit in the

KARACHI - Even though the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) is a coalition partner of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the PPP-led Sindh government neither takes the PML-F into confidence on any issue nor invites it to the core committee meetings, PML-F leader Imtiaz Shaikh said on Sunday while talking to party activists at his residence.
Shaikh said that President Asif Ali Zardari always gives importance to the PML-F as an ally of the PPP in Sindh and the federation.