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Britain's newest hero is a Nepali. Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday awarded Britain's second-highest award for bravery, the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, to Acting Sgt. Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles. While stationed as a lone sentry at a checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand...

The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline company issued notices to the Pakistan army, president’s secretariat, parliament house, Federal Board of Revenue and 500 others who have defaulted on their gas payments. These institutions have not paid bills amounting to over Rs1.5 billion which were due on...

▪ Undercover footage shows pupils being taught religious apartheid ▪ Muslims who adopt Western ways will be 'tortured in afterlife' ▪ Unprovoked beatings captured on camera in Yorkshire madrassa Boy threatened with bench by senior student left in charge of class It...

Syed Noor must have wanted it banned as it has no punjabi mujras. :tup: The highly-awaited indie film Slackistan, which deals with the lives of 20-somethings in Islamabad, has not been cleared by the Central Board of Film Censors in Pakistan, effectively banning the original film from...

Foreign nationals kill alleged criminals in Lahore, any details. UPDATE: AS OF 4th Feb, 2011 Timeline: The Raymond Davis Case | DAWN.COM | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, World news, business, sport and multimedia

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Royals flout puritanical laws to throw parties for young elite while religious police are forced to turn a blind eye In what may prove a particularly incendiary cable, US diplomats describe a world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll behind the official pieties of Saudi Arabian royalty. Jeddah...

Sunday, December 05, 2010. RAWALPINDI: Four people were killed and two children sustained injuries when a racing car rammed into spectators here at Bahria Town on Sunday. Viewer discretion is advised.

Prince William is to marry long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year, Clarence House has said. William, second in line to the throne, will marry in London next spring or summer and live in north Wales where he is serving with the RAF. The couple, who are both 28, became engaged in...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- At least 32 people were wounded, five seriously, in an apparent suicide bombing in the center of Istanbul on Sunday, police said. Those injured in the attack in Taksim Square included 15 police officers and 17 civilians, said Istanbul Governor Huseyin Azni Mutlu...

Iran has imposed new restrictions on 12 university social sciences deemed to be based on western schools of thought and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings, state radio reported on Sunday. The list includes law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science and the two...

Turkey is more popular now than it has been since the Ottoman Empire. But can it please all of its new friends at the same time? ANKARA, Turkey - It's great to be Turkey just now. The economy, barely scathed by the global recession, grew 11.7 percent in the first quarter of this...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17: US federal officials have acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, who confessed to his involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, was a mole of American intelligence agencies in Lashkar-e-Taiba and other terrorist outfits. In court papers submitted by the FBI, US federal...

Pakistan sparks U.S. anger after secretly accelerating nuclear programme ▪ Cooling towers at Khushab-III reactor have been finished ▪ Plant could begin nuclear weapons operation within months ▪ One kg of plutonium equal to 20,000 tons of normal explosives The U.S...

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<unnecessary> Pope's atheism remarks spark row A speech in which the Pope appeared to associate atheism with the Nazis has prompted criticism from humanist organisations. However, the Catholic Church has moved to play down the controversy, saying the Pope knew "rather well what the Nazi...

By Ben Sheppard (AFP) NEW DELHI &#8212; British prime minister Winston Churchill deliberately let millions of Indians starve to death, the author of a new book has claimed, alleging he was motivated in part by racial hatred. As many as three million people died in the Bengal famine of 1943...

There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said. He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. The...

Dawn Editorial Wednesday, 18 Aug, 2010. Remarks made from the bench during the course of legal cases carry no legal weight. Nevertheless, the world over, such remarks give an insight into the thinking of judges. On Monday, during the ongoing hearings on challenges to certain parts of...