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CIA to search bin Laden’s compound

Pakistan has agreed to allow the CIA to send a forensics team to examine the compound where al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was killed,...

Petition filed against links to sexual content on Internet search engines

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court issued notices to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) president/chief executive officer (CEO) on Friday on a constitutional petition pleading to block sexual websites' links appearing in the results of Yahoo!, MSN and Google search engines.
The petition was filed by Human Rights Commission South Asia (HRCSA) representative Iqbal Kazmi who sought blocking the

City police abandon search operations

LAHORE - Defence-A and Lower Mall Police postponed search operations in their respective jurisdictions on Wednesday due to lower cadre staff's lack of interest, sources told Pakistan Today. It was learnt that the top brass of the Lahore Police had ordered extended search operations as well as intensification of security checks in the provincial capital in order to nab suspected terrorists and to curb terrorism. Sources said following the directions, Defence-A and Lower Mall Police

Police search for 3 would-be suicide bombers

LAHORE - Lahore Police on Friday launched a massive search and sweep operation in various areas of the provincial capital to arrest three suicide bombers who recently entered the city to carry out terrorist attacks.
Separate police teams, late on Thursday night, launched operations in various areas of the city including Shahdara, Lorry Adda, Badami Bagh, Misri Shah, Mughalpura, Shalimar, surroundings of Bund Road, Sherankot, Thokar Niaz Baig, Choong, Green Town, Dharampura,

In search of granite, path to Durga’s temple blown up with...

KARACHI - Despite continuing protest by Hindus in the Tharparkar district, the Sindh government has not taken any action against the extraction of granite from the path leading to the Durga Mata Temple located in Karoonjhar Hills. The Hindus allege that their highly-revered temple in Tharparkar is in danger as a Karachi-based stone-crushing company has been dynamiting away the hills surrounding the temple and if the stone-crushing continues, the temple will be destroyed completely.

The search for clean water and the only tap in a...

KARACHI - An old lady tries to make fire with cow dung cakes to cook her breakfast, as a flock of crows and kites soars over the colony in search for food. The colony that is devoid of brick pavements and metallic roads has open water supply pipes, but water does not flow through them.
Many families sit outside their houses on customary charpais placed in zigzag streets, and established outside the houses on small platforms are shops that sell everything under the sun.
It is

US sends search teams to New Zealand

WASHINGTON - The United States sent a search and rescue team to New Zealand on Tuesday to help in the aftermath of a powerful, deadly earthquake that hit the country's second city, the State Department said. Spokesman Philip Crowley said in a twitter message that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had phoned her counterpart to "express sorrow" over the disaster, which killed at least 65 people in Christchurch.
Clinton phoned New Zealand FM McCully to express sorrow over the

Foreign rescue teams join search for NZ quake survivors

CHRISTCHURCH - Hundreds of foreign rescuers will join exhausted New Zealand teams on Thursday in an increasingly desperate search of quake-shattered buildings in central Christchurch as time runs out to find survivors buried under rubble.
Officials have abandoned hope of finding anyone alive in the collapsed Canterbury Television (CTV) building in the city centre, including foreign students at a third-floor language school, with a grader moving in to clear debris. Police warned

NICL scam – FIA not allowed to search AKD’s house?

KARACHI - The high-ups of the authorities concerned are continuously interfering in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probing the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam as some bitter facts have come to light. Recently, the FIA joint interrogation team was not permitted to search the house of an important personality of the business community as he is an in-law of Amin Qasim Dada, the main culprit of NICL scam.
"The FIA wanted a search warrant for the house of

500 held in search operation – Thumping boots knock on the...

KARACHI - The law enforcement agencies conducted a search operation in different areas of Orangi Town on Tuesday and arrested over 500 people.
Around 1,500 personnel of police and Rangers, accompanied by helicopters for aerial surveillance and armoured vehicles, cordoned off Faqir Colony, Farid Colony and Umar Baloch Mohalla in Orangi Town and conducted a house-to-house search operation.
After initial investigations, 300 people were released while the remaining suspects were

CCPO in search for a drug free Lahore

LAHORE - On the directions of the Punjab chief minister, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen has launched the Lahore Drug Free City Project in his capacity as its chairman, and has ordered immediate crackdown on all drug peddlers throughout the city.
CCPO said drug peddlers and dealers not only affected the targeted individuals but their families as well. CCPO ordered the Lahore Police to take stern action against such drug peddlers so Lahore could be made a

CCP conducts search and inspection of PSAA

ISLAMABAD - A team of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) Friday conducted search and inspection of the offices of the Pakistan Shipping Agents Association (PSAA) in Karachi to impound documentary proof of the Association's alleged involvement in anti competitive decision making.
The CCP had taken notice of the active role being played by PSAA in recommending rates/tariffs to its member undertakings in prima facie violation of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2010,

UK police search house in Stockholm blasts probe

LONDON: British police were searching a house in southern England as part of an investigation into bombings in a busy shopping district of the Swedish capital on Saturday.
Police said on Monday they had begun examining a terraced house in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, on Sunday night under the terrorism act.
"No arrests have been made and no hazardous materials found," police said in a statement. The property has been cordoned off. Britain's interior ministry said it

Man killed in Karachi search operation

KARACHI: A young man was killed and another injured on Wednesday in a firing incident, as a Rangers' search operation in Kunwari Colony continued for a second consecutive day.
The incident took place in the wake of a protest staged by residents of Kunwari Colony, who were demonstrating against what they claimed was a farcical operation. Pirabad police said during the protest, unidentified persons opened fire at a Rangers vehicle parked near Ibrahim Masjid on Manghopir Road.

Search for Mladic not confined to Serbia: prosecutor

BELGRADE: UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Monday that Serbia was not the only territory considered in the search for Ratko Mladic but insisted that the key to his arrest lies in Belgrade.
"The main working hypothesis is that the solution to his arrest is in Belgrade, but of course operational activities are not only concentrated on Serbia but are logically also into other areas," Brammertz told a press conference after meeting with Serbian war crimes prosecutor

Search begins for two CID attack suspects

KARACHI: Investigators, looking into the attack on the head office of the Crime Investigation Department in Karachi, said on Friday that they are looking for two men - identified by eyewitnesses - believed to be involved in the terrorist act, and also released their sketches.
"Eyewitnesses confirmed that they saw the two men approach the CID building from the railway lines, located behind the office," an investigator said. The men escaped minutes before the explosion," a police