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A senior US official is holding talks on Wednesday with government officials in Yemen, which is teetering on the brink of civil war over...

A security official died while several others were injured when extremists attacked a security convoy with remote control bomb in Ladha, a tehsil of...

Shells struck Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s palace in Sanaa on Friday, wounding three senior officials, but a Yemeni official said Saleh was “well”....

US counter-terrorism chief John Brennan refused to rule out official Pakistani backing for Osama bin Laden on Monday and said Islamabad was only told...

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday asked the govt to file their replies within two weeks regarding arrest of driver who crushed to death Ibadur Rehman.
The counsel pleading the case submitted that three months had been passed, but apparently nothing had been done to arrest the driver and impound the vehicle under which Ibadur Rehman was crushed to death.
LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry ordered the federal interior and foreign secretaries, Punjab home

LAHORE - Former President, Rafiq Tarar filed petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC), seeking to remove Musharraf's name from official record.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) sought an answer from Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq about the removal of former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf's name form the official record as the president of Pakistan.
Former president in his petition maintained that after the approval of 18th Amendment and the Supreme Court's

KATHMANDU - An official of the Pakistan Embassy was shot by an unidentified gunman on Thursday in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepali. Mehboob Asif, 36, who works at the visa section of the embassy, was injured in his stomach and hand when he was shot near the office on Thursday morning, police said.
The official was rushed to hospital where he was declared out of danger. "The gunman, who followed Asif, fired three bullet rounds and fled the scene on the victim's motorbike,"

KATHMANDU - A Pakistani embassy official suffered multiple wounds when he was shot by an unidentified gunman on Thursday in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, police said.
Mehboob Asif, who works at the visa section of the Pakistan embassy, was injured in his stomach and hand when he was shot near the office on Thursday morning, police said.
He was rushed to hospital where he was declared "out of danger."
"The gunman, who followed Asif, fired three bullet rounds and fled the

KARACHI - Dilawar Fareed Baig, a relative of former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, has been removed from the post of Director Training and Development at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) under the Supreme Court's ruling on superannuation. It has been learnt that Baig was granted extension for two years during the former PIA managing director Ejaz Haroon's period, but now he had to leave after crossing the age limit approved by the apex court.
The airlines' Chief

LAHORE - In appreciation of getting the database of 1.409 million Afghan refugees, NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority) Deputy Chairman Tariq Malik was awarded the prestigious ID 'People Award' by ID technologists at an international two-day gala held in Abu Dhabi on April 4.
Tariq Malik, selected in the category of global migration, proved his efficiency by registering 1.409 million Afghan refugees for Secure Card while 769,542 Afghan Children (under18) have been

LONDON - Britain's first official royal app was launched on Tuesday, and with the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton just weeks away, unsurprisingly it focuses on royal weddings.
The "Royal App", launched by the Royal Collection, will feature details of seven previous weddings, including Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert in 1840 and the 1981 wedding of William's father Prince Charles to Princess Diana.
It culminates with Charles's wedding to second wife

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) teachers condemned PU Hall Council Chairman Dr Amin Ather for 'using his influence' to get a new Honda City car when the varsity's administration had opposed the car purchase, terming it a burden on the varsity and against the rules. PU teachers said that Dr Ather, who has a close association with Tanzeem Asataza, a Jamat-e-Islami (JI) group, was enjoying luxuries by violating one-man-one-post policy and already had three vehicles. A PU administrative

MOSCOW - A US team may arrive in Russia next month to inspect the country's latest range of nuclear missiles under a new disarmament treaty signed by the two sides this year, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov exchanged documents formally bringing the new START treaty into force in Munich on February 5. Besides slashing existing nuclear warhead and missile ceilings, the treaty allows the two sides to inspect

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed official provincial and federal lawyers to assist the court in a petition seeking the disqualification of MPA and former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim due to his unauthorised absence from assembly sessions. An SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi directed Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Dodani and Assistant Advocate General Sarwar Khan to assist the court in

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has re-launched its official website with a changed name www.pcb.com.pk. The revamped web portal is the only official internet home of Pakistan cricket and the PCB, said an official of the board . A leading IT firm, Future Now Technologies, has partnered with the PCB for the development and running of the website.
The site is a result of synchronised hard work between the PCB and Future Now Technologies to present a user friendly home for all

LONDON - A new website providing all the latest official information on the upcoming wedding of Britain's Prince William to girlfriend Kate Middleton was launched on Wednesday. Royal officials say the website, www.officialroyalwedding2011.org, will be regularly updated with new details about the ceremony on April 29, as well as featuring photos, features, and video content.
It will also be the first place where details of Middleton's dress will be revealed on the day of the