Browsing Category: Pakistan News

  • Sunny Leone may perform on dance number in ‘Dabangg 3’

    Bollywood star Sunny Leone is likely to be seen in a special dance number in Arbaaz Khan’s ‘Dabanng 3’. Happy with the bond he shares with Sunny, Arbaaz, who’s starring with her in the film ‘Tera Intezar’, says he could possibly cast her in ‘Dabangg 3’. “Why not? The film is being scripted, and will …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Nawaz fears coming back after seeing how Sharjeel was treated: Aitzaz

    Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Senate opposition leader Aitzaz Ahsan said on Saturday that former PM Nawaz Sharif was not returning to Pakistan because he feared that he would be treated the same way former Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon was. “Everything in Pakistan seems to be going in the opposite direction,” he told reporters in Islamabad, …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Sara Mansoor secures coveted ITF certification

    KARACHI: Sara Mansoor wants more women to follow her lead after she became the first Pakistani women’s tennis player to get the International Tennis Federation (ITF) level II coaching certification. Mansoor, ranked the top women’s tennis player in the country, captained the Pakistan women’s team at the Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat and has also been …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • At least 31 dead in Nepal bus accident

    NEPAL: At least 31 people, including 11 children, died when an overcrowded bus swerved off the road and plunged into a river in central Nepal on Saturday, police said. The bus skidded off the road in Dhading district, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, early morning and plunged into the Trishuli River. …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • JI Peshawar president Sabir Awan steps down over NA-4 defeat

    PESHAWAR: In the wake of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) defeat in the NA-4 by-election, the party’s Peshawar president, Sabir Hussain Awan, stepped down from his post on Saturday over “moral grounds”. Awan told The Express Tribune that as his party was defeated in the by-election, it was his moral obligation to resign from the position. “I am probably …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • US soldier killed in Afghan helicopter crash

    KABUL: A US soldier died after the helicopter they were in crashed in Afghanistan, foreign forces said Saturday, denying Taliban claims that it had shot down the aircraft. Six other US crew members were injured in the accident late Friday in Logar province, south of Kabul, NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said in a statement. …

    October 28, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Ex-BBC journalist accused of blackmailing politician arrested in India

    Police in the India state of Chatees Garh have arrested senior journalist Vinod Verma from his home near Dehli on Friday morning. He was arrested for allegedly blackmailing a minister of state against a sex video that he had acquired, according to BBC Urdu. Police claim that as many as 500 copies of the video …

    October 27, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Bahraini policeman killed, 8 wounded in bomb attack

    DUBAI: A Bahraini policeman was killed and eight others wounded on Friday in a “terrorist” bomb attack on the bus in which they were travelling, the interior ministry said. The eight wounded policemen sustained serious to medium injuries and were admitted to hospital, the ministry said on its Twitter account. Bomb blast hits outside Bahraini capital …

    October 27, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Blackwater founder promotes plan to privatize Afghan operations

    WASHINGTON DC: The founder of private military contractor Blackwater is trying to interest US intelligence agencies in his plan to privatize counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, even though the Trump administration earlier rejected the idea. Erik Prince, who now runs a Hong Kong-based security business, told Reuters on Wednesday he was consulting about aspects of the plan, …

    October 27, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Baldia factory fire prime suspect Hammad Siddiqui ‘arrested in Dubai’

    KARACHI    : Hammad Siddiqui, the prime suspect in the Baldia factory fire and former chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Karachi organising committee, has reportedly been arrested by Interpol in Dubai on Friday. Sources said the Pakistani consulate in Dubai had been directed to make arrangements for bringing Siddiqui back to the country. He is likely …

    October 27, 2017 | by Raheel