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• Political parties urged to table ‘women right to land bill’
• Families of slain MQM workers approach SHC
• Info Minister negates substantial rise in PM’s assets
• Info Minister negates substantial rise in PM’s assets
• Fine recovered from profiteers
• Dry, cold weather forecast
• Two injured in Karachi incidents
• First batch of 300 Pakistani doctors to graduate from Cuba
• Police begins removing roadside encroachments
• Benazir Bhutto’s son declares war against Taliban at start of political career
• Sharif warns anti-drone protests isolating Pakistan in international arena
• JI chief warns Pakistan army of facing debacle for North Waziristan offensive
• Pakistan offers to fly Musharraf’s sick mother home
• Syrian Refugees Face Another Battle Through French Bureaucracy
• Hamas on Defensive as it Loses Regional Support, Allies
• US Judge Says NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful
• Pentagon Sees 50% Rise in Reported Sexual Assaults in 2013
• China Sends Envoy to South Sudan to Push Peace Talks
• 5 Killed in Indian Bomb Blast
• Egyptian Police Kill 3 in Clashes With Protesters

Political parties urged to table ‘women right to land bill’ Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:19 AM PST HYDERABAD, Political parties should bring a 'Women Right to Land Bill' at provincial level. No government has yet made any legislation for providing incentives to women farmers working in crop field in deplorable conditions. This was the crux of media workshop on "Women Right to Land", organized by Society for Environmental Actions, Re-Construction and Humanitarian […]

Families of slain MQM workers approach SHC Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:18 AM PST KARACHI,  Families of Mutttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists, whose dead bodies were found from Superhighway area, approached the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday against their alleged extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies. The petitioners, Samreen Jahan wife of Noman Talib and Shehla Javed wife of Jawed filed separate petitions in the SHC pleading the […]

Info Minister negates substantial rise in PM’s assets Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:17 AM PST Islamabad ,Spokesperson of the Federal Government and Information Minister Parvez Rashid has negated the impression that the assets of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have risen substantially. He clarified that people are confusing the cost of assets and the present value of the assets. It is very natural that value of already acquired assets, both movable […]

Info Minister negates substantial rise in PM’s assets Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:13 AM PST Islamabad ,Spokesperson of the Federal Government and Information Minister Parvez Rashid has negated the impression that the assets of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have risen substantially. He clarified that people are confusing the cost of assets and the present value of the assets. It is very natural that value of already acquired assets, both movable […]

Fine recovered from profiteers Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:13 AM PST Karachi,  Karachi divisional and district administration raided different markets and fined profiteers, said a handout on Saturday. Action was taken against 1 fruit seller, 2 vegetable sellers, 1 grocer, 11 poultry traders, one milk seller and 2 flour sellers and a total fine of Rs72000 was collected by challenging 45 profiteers. One profiteer was also […]

Dry, cold weather forecast Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:12 AM PST Karachi,  The Met Office has forecast dry weather with cold night and hazy morning in Karachi on Sunday with minimum temperature between 06-08 degrees centigrade. Dry weather with cold night has been forecast for Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas, Sukkur and Larkana divisions. On Saturday the highest maximum temperature of 26.5 degree centigrade was reordered at Chhore […]

Two injured in Karachi incidents Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:11 AM PST Karachi,  Two people were injured in separate incidents in the city on Saturday. According to rescue sources, unidentified armed men threw an injured, packed in a sack, from a car in Shanti Nagar area of Baldia Town. After noticing movement in the sack, the residents of the area opened it and found an injured person. […]

First batch of 300 Pakistani doctors to graduate from Cuba Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:11 AM PST Islamabad,  The first batch of 300 HEC scholars will graduate as medical doctors from Cuba in February 2014. Graduation ceremony of these scholars will be held in Cuba during third week of February. The students, representing all provinces of Pakistan including FATA and AJK, will be required to qualify a National Examination Board to be […]

Police begins removing roadside encroachments Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:10 AM PST Karachi,  Police on Saturday began to remove roadside encroachments and wrong parking from the I I Chundrigar Road area of the city. Heavy presence of regular and traffic police was seen on the road. They removed encroachments and stopped wrong parking on this busy road. Resultantly, a visible betterment was seen in the traffic flow […]

Benazir Bhutto’s son declares war against Taliban at start of political career Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:09 AM PST Islamabad,  Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) patron-in-chief and son of late Benzair Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has declared war against Taliban militants at the start of his political career. Bilawal also indicated that his two sisters, Asifa and Bakhtawar, will participate in practical politics before the next elections scheduled to be held in 2018, Dawn News […]

Sharif warns anti-drone protests isolating Pakistan in international arena Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:09 AM PST Islamabad,  Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has warned the opposition parties of engaging in anti-drone protests, which is pushing the country into isolation in the international arena. Sharif cautioned that isolation led a state to alienation from the world community, while they are making the effort to transform the existing friendly ties into mutually beneficial […]

JI chief warns Pakistan army of facing debacle for North Waziristan offensive Posted: 28 Dec 2013 03:08 AM PST Islamabad,  Pakistan's banned outfit Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan has warned the army of facing a debacle, in case it continues with the military operation in North Waziristan Agency. Munawar said that the government had launched the North Waziristan offensive to please the United States, though it was against the national interest, Dawn News reports. […]

Pakistan offers to fly Musharraf’s sick mother home Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:47 PM PST Islamabad  – The Pakistani government Friday offered to fly home the sick mother of former president Pervez Musharraf, who faces a series of major criminal cases and is barred from leaving the country. The former general is accused of a range of offences related to his 1999-2008 rule of the nuclear-armed nation, including treason and […] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Syrian Refugees Face Another Battle Through French Bureaucracy Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:46 PM PST PARIS — Rights group Amnesty International has sharply criticized the European Union this month for not widening its welcome mat for Syrian refugees. It says only 10 out of the EU’s 28 members plan to take in Syrian refugees – even as the United Nations is calling for Western countries to admit up to 30,000 […]

Hamas on Defensive as it Loses Regional Support, Allies Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:45 PM PST WASHINGTON — From Egypt to Tunisia to Turkey, Islamist political movements which seemed on the ascendancy following the 2011 Arab Spring were put on the defensive in 2013.  That was also the case for Hamas, the Islamist movement that has ruled the Gaza Strip since it seized power in a violent conflict with the internationally […]

US Judge Says NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:34 PM PST NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled that a National Security Agency program that collects records of millions of Americans’ phone calls is lawful, calling it a "counter-punch" to terrorism that does not violate Americans’ privacy rights. Friday’s decision by U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan diverged from a ruling by another judge this month […]

Pentagon Sees 50% Rise in Reported Sexual Assaults in 2013 Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:34 PM PST WASHINGTON — The number of sexual assaults reported across the U.S. military rose by around 50 percent in the 2013 fiscal year compared with 2012, the Pentagon said on Friday. The Pentagon said a review of preliminary data from the government’s 2013 fiscal year, which began in October 2012, showed there were slightly more than […]

China Sends Envoy to South Sudan to Push Peace Talks Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:31 PM PST China announced on Friday that its special envoy for Africa is now in South Sudan to help push talks as the world’s newest country spirals into violence. "On behalf of the Chinese government, special envoy Zhong Jianhua is currently visiting South Sudan and neighboring countries, and actively carrying out mediation efforts. China is willing to continuously […]

5 Killed in Indian Bomb Blast Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:30 PM PST Officials in eastern India say a bomb blast has killed five people. Authorities say nine people were wounded late Thursday by the bomb that was attached to a bicycle near Jalpaiguri, a town several hundred kilometers north of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state. The death toll could rise as some of those wounded […]

Egyptian Police Kill 3 in Clashes With Protesters Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:28 PM PST CAIRO —Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police clashed across Egypt on Friday, leaving at least three dead in protests after the army-backed government declared the group a terrorist organization. Violence broke out after Friday prayers. An 18-year-old Brotherhood supporter was shot dead during clashes in the Nile Delta city of Damietta. Another man was killed in […]

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