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A helicopter carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to make an emergency landing in a mountainous region north of Tehran on Sunday but no one on board was hurt, the president's website said. Ahmadinejad had been on his way to a ceremony to inaugurate a road tunnel, the...

We need more Edhi like organizations. :pakistan:

Pakistan stocks close higher, rupee steady Pakistan’s stocks rose over 1 percent to hit another record high closing above 21,800 points driven by gains in large cap stocks such as Pakistan State Oil Co. Ltd. and Muslim Commercial Bank that increased the index to new high. dealer said Bank...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Friday imposed tax on the sale and activation of sim cards while reducing the tax on cell phone import. In a move that is likely to attract consumers’ flak, the FBR imposed a sale tax of Rs250 on sale or activation of cell phone sim. The amount will be...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday visited Command and Staff College in Quetta, said an ISPR press release. Gen Kayani, while addressing the participants of Command and Staff Course, said for meaningful and sustainable progress, a nation has to strike the right balance...

Signals from Nawaz positive: Singh Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said signals coming from Nawaz Sharif, chief of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N), were positive and therefore likely to improve relations between India and Pakistan. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi...

No, say what you gotta say.

Pakistan needs every single watt it can get at the moment. The summer time is when the public suffers the most.

All drone strikes are authorized by the military. Unless its a target like OBL.

I don't think Army will do anything, in that case Musharraf is all alone and better flee.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Nawaz Sharif spoke extensively about the energy crisis in his speech on the occasion of Youm-e-Takbeer being observed in Pakistan. Nawaz, who was the prime minister when Pakistan first responded to India’s nuclear tests in 1998, focused on the rampant...

Gay romance, Islamic extremism and a soundtrack of classic love songs make for Pakistan's taboo-breaking answer to the hugely successful US television series 'Glee'. Like its smash hit forerunner, 'Taan' follows the lives and loves of a group of young people who regularly burst into song. But...

Three wars with India averted after nuclear tests: Dr Samar Pakistan had taken the decision to carry out nuclear tests at a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet, held two weeks before the devices were actually exploded in Chagai, Balochistan, on May 28, 1998, a senior scientist...

Apparently, the surprise emergence of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as a force to be reckoned with in Karachi has threatened the dominance of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), forcing its leadership to reorganise the party structure. The Imran Khan-led PTI, which has emerged as the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined the league of world’s big players of satellite communications in April 2011 by launching its first satellite into orbit – it now has two. The satellites are managed from Yahsat Satellite Tracking Ground Station, which, in part, was designed by a veteran...

The Pakistan army on Friday rejected a recent report by the Amnesty International that journalists in the country were under a "serious threat" from state security forces, political parties and religious militant groups and said that such allegations were “baseless”. The report said that...

The Pakistan government on Friday released 45 Indian fishermen, including three children and three other disabled persons. Ansar Burney and activists of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) received the freed fishermen, who later left Karachi by a bus to reach Wagah Border, Lahore. They will be...

Pakistan has released the leader of the banned Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Malik Mohammad Ishaq from prison. Malik Ishaq was released in the Punjabi capital Lahore on Thursday without being prosecuted. He was arrested and held in custody in February. His group was...

Who will have the guts to shoot down that bill?

20 militants, 4 soldiers killed in Kurram Security forces killed 20 terrorists who attacked them in Kurram Agency in which four security personnel were killed and 12 got injured. Terrorists attacked security forces with heavy weapons in the area of Bara Chamni and martyred 4 soldiers, besides...