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PTI empowers chairman to dissolve K-P Assembly Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairperson Imran Khan. PHOTO: INP ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has empowered its chairman to direct the chief minister to dissolve the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly if the federal government did not...

Altaf Hussain cannot be forced to bend: MQM KARACHI: Deputy Convener of MQM Coordination Committee, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Sunday said his party chief Altaf Hussain can neither be pressurized nor can he be forced to bend. Addressing a big rally gathered to express solidarity with Altaf...

Coming back?: Britain has frozen my bank accounts, says Altaf Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain revealed that the British government has frozen all his bank accounts in the United Kingdom. In an interview with a private news channel on Saturday, he said, “I face money...

Pakistan tells two Indian journalists to leave within week Journalists of The Press Trust of India and The Hindu receive letters saying their visas will not be renewed. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told both Indian journalists stationed in Islamabad that they must leave within a week...

“The faces I saw there were mutilated. Blackened,” Khan said. “I cannot tell if my relatives are dead or not.” PHOTO: FILE CHARSADDA: A bomb blast took place on Nowshera Road in Charsadda early on Tuesday, leaving three people dead and 29 others injured, Express News reported. A police van was...

Speculation rife as PM hosts Zardari today With increasing tensions, Premier Nawaz is likely to find support from Zardari on the Musharraf trial. PHOTO: PID ISLAMABAD: In what promises to be an eagerly watched meeting, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will host former president Asif Ali Zardari...

Rahul confident of easy victory in Amethi Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. – File Photo NEW DELHI: Two of the four states involved in Saturday's race in the Indian elections were not formally part of India in 1947 - Goa with two parliamentary seats facing the Arabian Sea and Sikkim with a...

Controversial remarks: Khawaja Asif may lose defence portfolio Khawaja Muhammad Asif. PHOTO: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is considering taking away the additional charge of the Ministry of Defence from Khawaja Muhammad Asif, The Express Tribune has learnt. Asif, who hold the...

US woman arrested after 7 dead babies found WASHINGTON: Police are accusing a U.S. woman of killing seven babies she gave birth to over a decade after they found the tiny bodies stuffed in cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home. Megan Huntsman lived in the Utah home until three...

India orders probe into 'inflammatory' remarks by Modi aide NEW DELHI: India's election authorities on Friday ordered police to investigate remarks by a top aide of prime ministerial frontrunner Narendra Modi that were allegedly aimed at inciting communal violence. The powerful Election...

US blocks Iran's envoy to UN in rare rebuke WASHINGTON: The United States has blocked Iran's pick for envoy to the United Nations, a rare diplomatic rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when Washington and Tehran have been seeking a thaw in relations. The Obama administration said...

Uzbek girl’s escape: FIA investigator suspended for negligence Inspector Mehar Tasneem failed to alert airport authorities about possibility of Cherinka Aksan’s escape. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: A top Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official has suspended an investigator for negligence in...

Interior ministry rules out UBA hand An over view of the spot of an explosion at fruit market in Islamabad. — ISLAMABAD: Hours after the banned United Baloch Army accepted the responsibility for the terror attack in the busy fruit and vegetable market of the federal capital, the interior...

Woman complains to police about marijuana quality LUFKIN: Police in East Texas have arrested a woman after she called them to complain about the quality of the marijuana she had purchased from a dealer. Lufkin police Sgt. David Casper said Monday that an officer went to the home of...

En route to Dubai: Musharraf shifting to PNS Shifa in Karachi Former president Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: INP/FILe KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf will be shifted to PNS Shifa Karachi for his treatment. Meanwhile, special arrangements have been made at Shifa for the former...

Bollywood celebrities as faces of Pakistani designer lawn Faraz Manan’s Crescent Lawn is not Kareena’s first designer lawn endorsement as she was the face of Firdous Lawn for its prints of 2010-2011. PHOTOS: PUBLICITY KARACHI: A question that has recently been making the rounds is that do we...

German AP photographer shot dead in Afghanistan Associated Press (AP) photographer Anja Niedringhaus. — Photo by Reuters Updated 2014-04-04 17:57:36 Share Email 3 Comment(s) Print KHOST: An Afghan police commander on Friday shot dead a female German photographer working for the Associated...

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION MAKES IT OFFICIAL: ‘SELFIE’ A MENTAL DISORDER By adobochron on March 31, 2014 Photo credit: AP Chicago, Illinois - The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has officially confirmed what many people thought all along: taking ‘selfies’ is a mental disorder...

Outrage as US comedian mocks Asian Americans NEW YORK: Social media erupted in outrage and counter-attacks Friday after US comedian Stephen Colbert used language that mocked Asian Americans in what was intended as an anti-racist jibe. Colbert, who is liberal but parodies a blustery...

Rana claims Rehman Malik penned threat letter to Bilawal LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister, Rana Sanaullah made a startling claim on Sunday, saying former interior minister Rehman Malik authored the letter containing threats to Pakistan People’s Party Patron-in-Chief, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Rana...