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GUJRANWALA - An elderly woman was crushed under a train and a police constable sacrificed his life while trying to rescue her at the railway crossing near Sheranwala Park. Reportedly, an unidentified old woman, unaware of the arrival of a train, tried to cross the rail line near the secondhand clothing bazaar situated on both the sides of the track.
Constable Azeeb Khalid rushed to rescue her and both were crushed by Quetta-bound Jafer Express. The woman died instantly while

KARACHI - The release of the alleged attackers and nominated accused in the Shershah scrap market carnage case was secured under an understanding and pre-planned arrangement between coalition partners Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Today has learnt.
Nine named accused were acquitted by an administrative judge of an Anti Terrorism Court two days ago, after the complainant of the case could not recognise the accused in an identification

LAHORE - The Punjab government still has an outstanding loan of Rs 36 billion, out of total Rs 51 billion overdraft from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) that was converted in to a loan. Also, the provincial government has decided to cut over Rs 2 billion non-development expenditures by removing over 700 posts at districts and provincial levels.
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira said this while addressing members of Lahore Economic Journalists Association (LEJA). He was

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer for Justice (r) Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday pleaded before the Supreme Court that his client had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) of November 3, 2007 to save the judicial system in the country.
A four-member larger bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt of court cases against the superior court judges who tool oath under

ISLAMABAD - The reluctance of the political leadership to heed to the advice of its top economic managers has brought them to a point of quitting the government and saving their reputation and credibility internationally, sources told Pakistan Today on Friday.
Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Nadeemul Haq and State Bank of Pakistan Governor Shahid Hafeez Kardar might opt out if the government did not immediately start implementing

WHANGAREI - Daniel Vettori picked up three wickets on the second day of the tour match against Pakistan, who were struggling despite Misbah-ul-Haq's unbeaten 99.
New Zealand, who ended the first day on 342 for 4, collapsed to 384 all out on the second morning. Fast bowlers Umar Gul and Sohail Tanvir, who shared seven wickets between them, ran through the New Zealand middle and lower order as New Zealand lost 6 for 42.
Pakistani got off to a disastrous start as Chris

LONDON - The British government has stepped in to stop Beatles legend Ringo Starr's birthplace from being bulldozed. Housing Minister Grant Shapps has written to Liverpool City Council urging a temporary reprieve for 9 Madryn Street, in the Dingle district, which is scheduled for demolition.
The childhood homes of bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney are popular tourist attractions in the northwest English city, run by the National Trust, which looks after many of Britain's

LAHORE - Wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal has cooperated fully with the Pakistan Cricket Board's Integrity Committee in a bid to gain clearance to resume his international career. Akmal, along with Shoaib Malik and Danish Kaneria, has lately been grilled over spot-fixing allegations by PCB's Integrity Committee.
Akmal confirmed he had presented full details regarding his movable and immovable properties, and activities other than cricket, to the PCB. The 28-year-old told PakPassion.net:

LAHORE: A concerted effort on the government and political parties' part can bring Dr Aafia Siddiqui back, International Justice Network Executive Director Tina Foster, the attorney representing Aafia's family, said in a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday. She said US administration will have to listen since they had arrested her in Pakistan and had deported her illegally.
The US did not have the right to imprison her thousands of miles away from her family and

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has reduced the power generation to save fuel, the company sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
They said that the hours' long loadshedding in Karachi is artificial, as the KESC is economising on the furnace oil consumption while relying more on the power supply from WAPDA. All the power generating units of KESC were being run on Thursday and Friday last, when the city was exempted from any loadshedding but soon after the

Queen rocker Brian May is the latest star to sign up for a campaign to save baby monkeys from animal testing labs, calling on the government to "cut all ties" with the industry.
Officials at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) is pressing for a ban on the international trade in monkeys for research, insisting current laws are not stringent enough to protect primates in the wild.
And animal-loving May has joined funnyman Ricky Gervais in backing the

BRISBANE: England were battling to avoid going one down in the Ashes series after centuries from Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin gave Australia a massive innings lead in the first Test on Saturday.
Hussey registered his highest Test score of 195 and Haddin contributed 136 in a Gabba record stand of 307 runs to propel Australia to a 221-run first innings lead on the third day.
England, who have not won a Brisbane Test since Mike Gatting's team prevailed by seven wickets in 1986,

A baby was 'frozen to death' for more than 20 minutes in pioneering surgery to fix a life-threatening heart defect.
Samaa Zohir, who was born with blood vessels to her heart connected the wrong
way round, was chilled to the point of death before medics stopped her heart to correct the otherwise fatal condition.
Preparing to work on her tiny heart - smaller than a golf ball - the surgical team at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, put the month-old baby into