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Hizbut Tahrir, a global extremist party banned in many Muslim states, on Friday said Pakistanis should take to the streets to call for Islamic...

Hip-hop artist Ja Rule turned himself to begin a two-year prison sentence in New York. The rapper, whose real names is Jeffrey Atkins, pleaded...

The people of the district have been left at the mercy of dacoits and robbers as three incidents of dacoities and robberies were reported...

Terming the 11-year tenure of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif as the black era of Pakistan’s history, former President General (r) Pervez Musharraf on...

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 - The traders of the city declared that they would not follow any decision of closing shops at 8pm and would launch protests if the government tried to threaten or force them on Tuesday. The traders said though no decision had been taken as yet but there were rumours that the government would try to order closing down of the markets at 8pm in order to save power. "Our businesses have already collapsed due to continuous load shedding and this decision would prove as the final

AUGUSTA - In a decision announced Thursday morning just minutes before the start of the 75th Masters, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club and US Golf Association revised a scorecard disqualification rule.
The change, made effective immediately so it would be cover the year's first major championship, allows for a player who signs an incorrect scorecard not to be disqualified from a tournament in certain limited circumstances. Advances in video technology, notably slow-motion television

DAMASCUS - The Syrian parliament is preparing to adopt major reforms in May, including an end to emergency rule, a politician close to the regime said Wednesday. "There will be an extraordinary session from May 2 to 6 in which social and political laws will be adopted in line with the reforms desired by the head of state," said the politician.
"Among them is new legislation that will replace the current emergency law," he said, adding that the proposed bill will be presented to

YANGON - Myanmar's military made way for a nominally civilian government after almost half a century in power Wednesday, as the junta was disbanded and a new president talked of a "changing era."
But the army hierarchy retains a firm grip on power in the resource-rich Southeast Asian country, and many analysts believe strongman Senior General Than Shwe will attempt to retain some sort of control behind the scenes.
The handover came after widely-panned elections last November

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain told reporters on Sunday that his recent meeting with President Asif Zardari was for national interests and every government with the people's mandate should be given right to rule the country.
Accompanied by PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Shujaat was visiting Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghurki to offer condolences on the death of her husband. He said that the army and judiciary

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved drafts of 17 amendment bills regarding Punjab Government Rules of Business-2011. He made these approvals in Punjab cabinet's meeting held under his chairmanship at Chief Minister's Secretariat here on Tuesday that would be presented before the provincial assembly for final approval. The chief minister also issued instructions for setting up a cabinet committee for the strict implementation of minimum wages law in the light of

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) criticised the statement of a veteran politician predicting army rule for 30 years and asked the army leadership to snub such voices. PML-N senior leader Ahsan Iqbal said, "Those who predict and support military rule in Pakistan are trying to prove that Pakistan is a failed concept because military rule is an illegitimate exception and proves that a particular country is unable to run its affairs according to law and constitution. It also

KARACHI - There will be a bloody revolution in the country soon, following which every army chief will nominate himself as the president for three years and there will be no general elections for the next 30 to 40 years, PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Tuesday.
"There will be civilian-disciplined dictatorship," he added. Speaking at a press conference at his residence Kingri House, the spiritual leader of the Hurs said that under the civilian disciplined dictatorship,

ISLAMABAD - Around 12 robberies were reported in Islamabad during the last week while 12 vehicles stolen, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to the available data, robbers looted three houses and car lifters struck many times in the Margalla Police Station precincts while two car lifting cases and a murder were reported in the area in the week before.
The Shalimar Police Station registered three cases of car lifting and two robberies with two reported in the week before. The

PESHAWAR - More than 160 Taliban militants have established a state within state in the Central Jail Peshawar, one of the major prisons of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In these circumstances, the presence of notorious extremists has deprived the death cells' inmates of joining their loved ones for sometime in according with decision of the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the Judicial Committee.
The Judicial Committee, with the CJP in the chair, in its meeting on September 4 last year

GUJRANWALA - Encroachments have become the biggest problem of this thickly populated city of nearly two million people, but neither political nor administrative will is found to cope with this challenge. The interior city has been a no-go area for decades not because of its narrow streets or roads, but mainly due to the encroachments.
GT Road, the markets of planned localities of Model Town, Satellite Town, People's Colony and other commercial areas are under strict control of

GUJRANWALA - Former Federal Minister and PML-N leader Ghulam Dastgir Khan has criticised the MQM for supporting martial law in the Punjab and added that the ethnic party should concentrate on the rule of law in Karachi and adopt better attitude to become a mainstream political party instead of promoting target killings.
While talking to PML-N USA chapter office-bearer Nasir Ahmad Butt, Khan expressed deep concern over target killings in Karachi and MQM's alleged involvement in