Islamabad, Oct 22 – Five judges in Pakistan have been suspended on charges of corruption. Dawn reported that two district and sessions judges and three additional district and sessions judges were suspended Thursday for a period of three months. Justice Miftauddin Khan, registrar of Peshawar High Court, suspended the judicial officers. The district and sessions [...]
Islamabad, Oct 22 – US President Barack Obama has told Islamabad he doesn’t want to bracket his visit to Pakistan with India because adding it would mean spending only half a day in the country, which would be unfair, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani said. Haqqani called up Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [...]
Tokyo, Oct 22 – A government-appointed team found the remains of what appear to be 51 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battlefields of World War II, news reports said Friday. The remains were found buried in two locations on the island, officially known as Iwoto Island, in sites similar to those [...]
Sanaa, Oct 22 – Sixteen hundred orphan couples tied the knot Thursday in Yemen’s biggest mass wedding, Xinhua reported. The grooms and the brides held separate ceremonies. It was organised by the Orphans Charitable Organization (OCO) and sponsored by Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. A Yemeni traditional marriage costs the groom over $5,000. [...]
Sanaa, Oct 22 – Five Pakistanis were arrested in Yemen Thursday for disseminating Al Qaeda ideology and inciting people to kill non-Muslims, Xinhua reported. The accused, aged between 27 and 65, were arrested in the Yemeni capital, the interior ministry said on its website. Five Yemenis were also held for helping the Pakistanis. Police have [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court Thursday asked the government to review in three months a key constitutional amendment, which gives parliament the power to appoint judges, and refused to scrap the amendment as sought by a joint plea. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry announced the verdict on a batch of petitions challenging certain [...]
Bangkok, Oct 21 – Floods in Thailand’s central and northeastern provinces have claimed at least 15 lives this week and caused more than 7.7 billion baht ($257 million) in damages, government and media sources said Thursday. The floods were caused by heavy monsoon rains that have been lashing central Thailand since the weekend, officials from [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – As the trade between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir across the Line of Control (LoC) marked its second anniversary Thursday, a traders group in Pakistani Kashmir alleged big traders from India and Pakistan are misusing the route to save duty on their products. The authorities denied the charge. ‘The traders in big [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif longs for the carefree time of her college life when she even did not need to get concerned about homework thanks to her friends, a Pakistani newspaper reported Thursday. ‘When I entered an engineering college at 16, I had not even thought of a Bollywood career. In [...]
Beijing, Oct 21 – More than 150,000 people were evacuated from coastal areas in the path of typhoon ‘Megi’ which is expected to hit China Saturday, officials said Thursday. According to Fujian Provincial Meteorological Department, the typhoon is forecast to hit the east cost in Guangdong province, Xinhua reported. Residents of Fujian province have been [...]
Tokyo, Oct 21 – Toyota Motor Corp, the world’s largest automaker, said Thursday it had to recall about 1.5 million vehicles worldwide over possible problems with fuel and brake systems, the latest in a series of recalls that damaged the carmaker’s once-stellar reputation. Toyota submitted recall reports to the transport ministry in Japan for about [...]
Karachi, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf is confident that his team can end its losing streak against India and tame the arch-rivals in next month’s Asian Games at Guangzhou in China. Pakistan and India will meet in a crucial Pool B encounter of the Asian Games hockey event Nov 20. ‘We have [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Nepal’s diplomatic scale continues to tilt towards Beijing with an unending procession of high-level visits to the Middle Kingdom despite ruling parties and the opposition Maoists maintaining they want to keep equidistance between their giant neighbours, China and India. While Nepal’s peace process remains in the doldrums with the former Maoist [...]
Dhaka, Oct 21 – Bangladesh’s population is now 164.4 million, up from 156 million a decade back, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. The boom should be a matter of concern as it threatens food security, warned Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque who unveiled the report ‘State of World Population 2010′. [...]
Cotabato City (Philippines), Oct 21 – Nine people were killed Thursday in a bombing inside a passenger bus in the southern Philippines, the military and police said. The bus was travelling along a national highway in Matalam town in North Cotabato province, 930 km south of Manila, when the blast occurred. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang, [...]
Karachi, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s cricket selectors ignored suggestions from the national team’s captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis by recalling former captain Younis Khan for the one-day International series against South Africa in the United Arab Emirates. The captain and coach wanted all-rounder Shoaib Malik in the team as a replacement for injured [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Three days after a British tourist fell into a Nepal lake from his boat, police Thursday managed to find his body. Graeme Budge, who had flown to Nepal with his friend William Duncan Monro from Scotland via New Delhi, was declared dead by doctors at the Gandaki regional hospital in Nepal’s [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday directed the government to review an amendment to the constitution pertaining to appointments of judges to superior court on the ground that it was detrimental to judiciary’s freedom. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry gave the verdict on the petitions challenging certain clauses of the 18th [...]
Beijing, Oct 21 – China’s economic growth continued to decelerate duering the third quarter of this year, as the government started to pull out the fiscal stimulus package, even as rising inflation has started to pose new challenges. The gross domestic product (GDP) grew 9.6 percent in the third quarter over the like period of [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Despite Nepal’s ruling parties and the opposition Maoists saying they want to keep equidistance from their two neighbours, India and China, the China scale has begun to grow heavier once again with several high-level official as well as personal visits to the communist republic. While Nepal’s peace process remains in the [...]
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