World updates in a glance 
Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested three brothers of a senior Taliban commander from Swat during a raid for alleged links to the near-fatal attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who is still on ventilator in hospital and making “slow and steady” progress. The suspects, who were arrested yesterday…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed “outrage” at the life-threatening attack by the Taliban on a 14-year-old Pakistani rights activist and is writing to her family to offer his support. Malala Yousufzai, who opposed Taliban restrictions on woman education, was in critical condition after gunmen shot her in the…
The rumoured romance between Pakistani Foreign Affairs Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and President Asif Ali Zardari’s son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has given way to another speculation that the ‘oh-so-perfect love story’ may not have the ‘perfect ending’. The Bangladeshi weekly tabloid has been updating the media and people with ‘episodes’…
BARNALA: Pakistan government has finally renamed Shadman Chowk as Bhagat Singh Chowk in Lahore as a mark of respect to the martyr and an acknowledgement of his role in the struggle against British rule. Freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev Singh were hanged on March 23, 1931, in Lahore jail, which at that…
Following the report published in a Bangladeshi tabloid, “The Weekly Blitz”, about the romance between Bilawal Bhutto, the 24-year-old scion of Pakistan’s ‘first’ family, and the 35-year-old Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, the cyberspace is abuzz with endless comments from people in Pakistan. Someone from Pakistan on Twitter suggested…
Pakistani Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Balor has offered a US$100,000 reward for the death of the person behind the anti-Islam video(innocence of muslims) made in the United States that has roiled Muslims around the world, even suggesting that Taliban and al-Qaeda militants could carry out the killing. Ghulam Ahmad Balor said…
Islamabad: Angry over an anti-Islam film, thousands of Pakistani protesters, including many armed with wooden clubs, today tried to breach the sensitive diplomatic enclave in the heart of Islamabad and clashed with riot police, forcing authorities to call in the army. Members of student groups, including the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, began…
Islamabad: Militants attacked and torched two NATO oil tankers in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Monday, injuring three persons, police said. Three drivers were injured in the attack carried out on the National Highway in Kachhi district of Balochistan. The tankers were going from the port city of Karachi…
Loading image. Please wait Pak Hindus against India-Pak cricket Jalandhar: Hindu families from Pakistan have strongly opposed the revival of cricket series between the two nations as they had to face harassment and humiliation if India won the game. …
Loading image. Please wait US slams Pak girl’s arrest on blasphemy Washington: The US on Tuesday called the arrest of a young Pakistani girl on blasphemy charges "deeply disturbing" and praised President Asif Ali Zardari for coming out against it. "This case is obviously deeply disturbing, the arrest of…
Loading image. Please wait Airbase attackers were Pakistanis: Malik Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that any plan to destabilise the country will be foiled, as he revealed that the nine attackers of Kamra airbase have been identified as Pakistani nationals, as reported. Talking to reporters here…
