ISLAMABAD: Confronted with a storm of criticism and in what seemed like a bid to end the ongoing controversy over his remarks in which he had asked for a ‘martial law-like action’ against corrupt politicians, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Saturday that his party would never support military rule. In an [...]
The J-K government enforced a curfew in Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar and northern district of Sopore on Saturday to scuttle any attempt by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference supporters to march towards Srinagar’s Tourist Reception Centre’s (TRC) ground. Eight protesters, however, were injured related stories in protests in north Kashmir. The protest march call was [...]
Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday as authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area’s biggest cities from suffering the same fate. Almost all of Sujawal’s 250,000 residents fled the town before the water rushed in, but the damage to homes, clinics and [...]
A college student who did volunteer work in Afghanistan has been charged with slashing the neck and face of a Bangladeshi taxi driver who said he was Muslim. A criminal complaint alleges Michael Enright uttered an Arabic greeting and told the driver: “Consider this a checkpoint” before the brutal attack occurred on Tuesday night inside [...]
HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has called for a more coordinated role on the part of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as far as flood in Sindh is concerned adding that he had deputed some federal ministers to look into it. He said that he would meet chief ministers of Balochistan and Sindh [...]
