Tag: Questions

ISLAMABAD - The swift release of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis has not only fuelled anger across the country but also left behind many doubts and questions regarding the settlement of the double-murder case, which had been a headache for the Pakistan government for 50 days. Legal experts and Islamic scholars say that the murder charges against Davis were dropped under the diyat ("blood money") law without issuing certification of successors

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the federation, directing it to file para-wise comments against a petition challenging a commercial contract worth $233.7 million awarded to a foreign company for an extravagant security venture in Islamabad and Peshawar.
A two-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was conducting hearing on a petition filed by Shahid Orakzai that challenged the commercial contract which was

The danger of radiation leaks from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is rising after explosions at the site caused by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today.
As of 10:22am local time, radiation as high as 400 millisieverts was detected at the plant's No. 3 reactor, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a briefing. That's 20 times the annual limit for nuclear industry employees and uranium miners, according to the World

ISLAMABAD - The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) raised questions on Thursday about the authenticity of the 2008 general elections, claiming in a report that more than 56 percent of the registered votes in Sindh turned out to be "bogus", followed by Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The explosive report that NADRA sent to the Election Commission (EC) revealed that of the 19,755,994 voters (11,055,405 male and 8,700,589 female) in Sindh registered in the 2007 electoral

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to examine why it could not exercise its own jurisdiction to take action against the borrowers who illegally settled their debt without complying with the provisions of Circular BPD-29 and demanded a report by the next date of hearing. A two-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a suo motu case about the waiver of loans worth Rs 256 billion by

GUJRANWALA - An incident which took the lives of seven people, including all the four children of a couple, has raised the burning questions which require attention of the government and policy makers. An expatriate living in Dubai lost his 12-year-old Afshan, nine-year-old Shahzad, seven-year-old Kashif and three-year-old Abdullah while his wife was helplessly transferred to a Lahore hospital without any medication.
The incident sparked agitation at the time of the four funerals

LAHORE - Despite a lapse of 10 days, many questions continue to hover around the devastating Mochi Gate fire including whether missing persons have died under the rubble, pace of the clean-up operation and compensation to the affectees. The clean-up operation is going on very slow and victims are looking forward to the agreed compensation they are supposed to get.
Shop owners and businessmen have expressed concerns over working of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL). Eight

ISLAMABAD - The recovery of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's BlackBerry phones after more than three years of her death and that too from Bilawal House, has raised many questions as when the Scotland Yard team had asked for them, no one had provided these phones to the investigators.
More intriguing is the fact that it was in the knowledge of President Asif Ali Zardari where these phones were as he had admitted this while addressing the PPP's CEC meeting on Friday when he

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday avoided comments over the allegations levelled by PML-N MNA Khwaja Saad Rafique that the federal government was having two faces over the issue of US citizen Raymond Davis - one for the US administration and the other for the people of Pakistan.
As soon as the prime minister joined the National Assembly proceedings, Khwaja Saad Rafique, on a point of order, sought the attention of the prime minister and asked him why the

ISLAMABAD - A grilling but ambiguous questionnaire, seeking personal views on sensitive national issues such as drone attacks, terrorism and the influence of West on the country's foreign policy, has been prepared by the police department to screen police officials after the assassination of Salman Taseer by one of his own guards.
The questionnaire, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, has been prepared for all police officials and will be given out to them by DPOs.

MAIDUGURI - The attackers came on Christmas Eve with guns blazing and armed with homemade bombs, shooting a security guard in the head and seeming to want to burn down the church.
A priest at the evangelical church in the northern city of Maiduguri, along with the senior pastor, his wife and another church member, witnessed the shooting and ran for cover. Three blasts went off, but the church did not burn. "The four of us rushed into the senior pastor's quarters within the church

KARACHI - Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria Thursday sought clarification from selectors over his omission from the national team, saying he had always played clean cricket and was disappointed at being overlooked.
The 30-year-old leg-spinner was not cleared for play by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) over suspicions of spot-fixing and was not included in the team for two Tests against New Zealand, the first of which starts in Hamilton on Friday.
He was also left out of the 30-man

LAHORE - Pakistan's former skipper Wasim Akram has questioned the leadership ability of national team skipper Shahid Afridi.
Talking to a private channel, Akram said that the team failed to put up good show against New Zealand in T20 series because it could not play as a unit, and if this continues, making an impact in the World Cup would be difficult for the team.
The former skipper said, "Because the team is not playing as a unit, they are facing many problems. One saw a

PERTH: Australian spin maestro Shane Warne believes Australia have made a mistake in overlooking Michael Beer for the third Ashes Test in Perth and instead electing to field a four-man pace attack, with the slow bowling duties left to all-rounder Steve Smith.
Warne wrote on his Twitter account: "Very, very surprised Australia playing five quicks and Smith ... No Beer is a big surprise," wrote Warne on his Twitter account.
"Three quicks, Watson, Smith and Beer gives Ricky

MUMBAI
Indian filmstar Kareena Kapoor is very unhappy with the way the 'Golmaal' series is being treated. The gorgeous beauty is bored of shooting in the same locales over and over again.
She also finds the comic situations quite repetitive. Buzz has it that the Kapoor lass is miffed with director Rohit Shetty for giving 'Golmaal 3' a dated look.
As per reports, many portions of series have been shot in Goa. The previous two films were also shot in the same locales and