Tag: Rock

Madonna went over the top with the Super Bowl halftime show as only the Queen of Pop could, doing a sequin and gold-studded medley...

A former British official has admitted for the first time that Britain was responsible for a James Bond-style spy plot involving a fake rock...

Two powerful blasts thought to be caused by an air attack rocked Tripoli early Wednesday as a NATO warplane flew over the city. The explosions...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday the incumbent government should complete its mandated term, as it was its constitutional right to do...

Lahore’s colleges have performed poorly in BA/BSc examinations this year as well, exposing the performance of the Punjab government in the education sector. College...

Internationally famed Indo-Pak music band JoSH is all set to rock again in Pakistan. This will be the band’s first appearance after the successful...

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombs exploded at an entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, an interior ministry official said.
The attack occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the entrance to the Green Zone, where many foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices are based, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

LONDON - The PPP and the PML-N on Friday agreed to join hands to strengthen democracy and democratic institutions in the country. The leadership of both parties made the pledge when Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif at his Park Lane apartment in London to inquire after him following a heart surgery.
Nawaz has been resting since the surgery performed last month. Both leaders had an hour-long meeting and discussed political and economic situation

MOHALI - Pakistan fast bowler Umar Gul hopes Shoaib Akhtar is given one last chance to show what he can do against India in Wednesday's World Cup semi-final. Akhtar, who will retire from international cricket after the World Cup, has featured in just three matches during Pakistan's run to the semi-finals. And it seemed his last outing at this level would be a wretched return of one for 70 in a 110-run group stage thrashing by New Zealand in Pallekelle three weeks ago.
However,

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is in negotiations to star in 'Snitch,' an action thriller that Ric Roman Waugh is writing and directing. The project has been long in development and at one point was set up at New Line with Carl Franklin directing. The script centers on a suburban father who is hit hard when his teenage son is sentenced to 30 years under mandatory minimum drug laws. In order to reduce his son's sentence, the father goes undercover to help nab a senior drug dealer.
The

GUJRANWALA - Three low intensity bomb explosions rocked Gujranwala on Wednesday, with the targets being a police station, an office of a senior police official and the police barracks. The first bomb targeted the office of the Central Investigation Agency followed by one targeting the office of the regional police officer shortly before 7am.
The blasts damaged outer walls and created craters. The third blast, which was comparatively of greater intensity, rocked the residence of

KARACHI - Two bomb explosions on the premises of two police stations in Karachi on Monday morning jolted sleeping cops. The blasts were declared by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in their initial investigations as planted and operated with a time device. At least two people sustained injurie.
The first explosion took place in the backyard of Eidgah police station at 9.03 am. Five minutes later, cops who were still asleep at Shah Latif Town police station, were woken up

BERLIN - Discipline was even worse than feared on a three-masted German navy training ship at the centre of a scandal that has put the defence minister under pressure, Spiegel magazine reported on Tuesday.
The new allegations reportedly include death threats and aggressive sexual harassment against cadets on the Gorch Fock, a vessel at the centre of a spiralling scandal facing Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Trainers told one cadet that they were members of the Aryan

After starring in a string of comedies and other light-hearted outings, professional wrestler-turned-Hollywood actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is back at what he is known for - action, in upcoming thriller 'Faster'.
Last seen in a full-fledged action avatar in 2002s 'The Scorpion King', the 38-year-old will be seen as a vendetta seeking individual who has come out of prison after a decade.
'Faster' releases simultaneously in India and the US Nov 26 in English, Hindi and

KARACHI: The Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) board has approved an increase of 15 percent in the salaries of PSM employees, as per the announcement made in the federal budget. The board has also directed the PSM chief executive officer (CEO) to assess whether the 50 percent rise in salaries, as announced in the federal budget 2010-11, would be feasible for the PSM or not.
The decision was made in the PSM board meeting held on October 7 in the wake of a letter written by PSM officers