Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Wajid Shamsul Hassan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari is “fit and will return to work next week,” a CNN-IBN report said on Friday.
ISLAMABAD: The Abbottabad Commission has summoned Pakistan s High Commissioner to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan in th
SYDNEY: Pakistan s High Commissioner to Australia, Abdul Malik Abdullah, said if Australia is willing to export ur
Pakistan's High Commissioner to Australia says if the federal government sells uranium to India it would be discriminatory for it not to sell it to Pakistan as …
(AAP) Pakistan's High Commissioner to Australia says if the federal government sells uranium to India it would be discriminatory for it not to sell it to Pakistan as …
JHAL MAGSI: Two judges, who were abducted from Jafferabad area in Balochistan ten days ago, have been rescued amid a police operation in Jhal Magsi area, Geo News reported. DPO Jafferabad, Javaid Gharsheen told media the rescue of kidnapped judges came to possible upon the tip-off police received regarding their being hostage in a village in Jhal Magsi. A joint police operation carried out by Naseerabad and Jafferabad police parties made it possible the rescue of District and Session judge Sibbi Jan Mohammed Gohar and Civil judge Mohammed Ali Kakar. DPO said the captors managed to flee the crime scene while the judges were later escorted to Commissioner Office in Dera Muraad Jamali who will be transported to Quetta in the morning today. Meanwhile, their relatives have started reaching Commissioner Office in Dear Muraad Jamali.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has directed the concerned DPSs to take action after filing cases on charges of fake degrees against 3 members of National Assembly and one each of Punjab Assembly and Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa Assembly, Geo News reported Monday. The three NA members are: Hayatullah Tarin, Ghulam Dastagir Rajar and Mudasir Qayoom Nasir while Nasim Nasir Khwaja and Khalifa Abdul Qayum are from Punjab Assembly and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. Earlier, in the same case of fake degrees, the CEC had ordered action against 14 members of National and Provincial assemblies.
LAHORE: Pakistan-origin British Member Parliament Sayeeda Warsi and her delegation met with Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif here at the latter’s residence on Wednesday, Geo News reported. The discussion at the meeting focused bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and UK, sources said. The two sides also had an exchange of views on Pakistan’s geographical significance and economic situation of the country. British High Commissioner Adman Thomson, Shahbaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar were also present in the meeting. The meeting also touched upon problems being faced Pakistanis living in UK. The visiting delegation also had breakfast with the PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and other leaders including Shahbaz Sharif.
GENEVA: About 166,000 people are still displaced six months after devastating floods swept away homes and drowned livestock in Pakistan, the UN refugees agency said Tuesday. “Six months after devastating floods first hit Pakistan in July 2010, some 166,000 people are still displaced and living in over 240 camps and spontaneous settlements,” said Andrej Mahecic, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “This is substantially down from the peak levels in September and October when 3.278 million people were living in camps, but it still represents a substantial population in need of help,” he added. Most of those who are still homeless are located in the southern province of Sindh, one of the hardest hit districts by the flood. About 20 million people were affected in the natural disaster and 1.7 million houses were damaged or destroyed, said the UNHCR. The flood also wiped out more than 2.2 million hectares of arable land, depriving rural communities of food and resources, said the Red Cross.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: More than 100 Hindu devotees were killed after a road accident triggered a stampede among thousands of pilgrims returning from an Indian religious festival, officials said Saturday. The Friday evening tragedy unfolded in a remote, mountainous area of southern Kerala as pilgrims made their way home from an annual ceremony at the hill shrine of Sabarimala that draws three to four million people each year. Kerala Home Secretary Jaya Kumar told that 102 people had been confirmed dead and dozens more injured, some of them seriously. Police officials said a packed jeep had lost control and ploughed into a crowd of devotees packed onto a narrow road in a hilly and densely forested area 10 kilometres (six miles) from the shrine. “The accident caused a mass panic and triggered a stampede on the hillside,” said Special Police Commissioner Rajendra Nair. The search for bodies and survivors had been hampered by the remote location, heavy mist and the thick forest terrain. Indian television ran pictures of casualties being passed over the heads of tightly packed crowds of pilgrims in a rescue effort that stretched deep into the night. The stampede occurred on the final day of the pilgrimage at the Sabarimala shrine, located in Idukki district, about 200 kilometres from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. It is the second time in recent memory that the festival has been struck by disaster. In 1999 more than 50 Hindu devotees died after a landslide on a crowded hillside at the site. Stampedes at public events in India are common as large numbers of people crowd into congested areas. Few safety regulations and absent or inadequate policing mean panic can spread quickly with deadly consequences. The spark is often an accident but occasionally simply a rumour about a bomb or attack leads to a crush. Women and children frequently make up the majority of the victims.