Wednesday, 20 June 2012

“Bahria Town Titanic” of Malik Riaz begins to sink



Lahore: After launching an attack on Pakistan’s independent judiciary, which is termed the last hope for the people of country, Bahria Town Titanic now seems to be sinking, commented an Urdu language newspaper Nai Baat in its report over the business of real estate tycoon Malik  Riaz.

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Pakistani Pashto singer Ghazala Javed with her father killed in Peshawar


Peshawar: Some unidentified men killed famous Pashto singer Ghazala Javed and her father in Peshawar, a metropolitan of Pakistan, on Monday.

Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani

Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in contempt of court  case, setting aside ruling of the   National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza.

Monday, 18 June 2012

Mubashir Luqman-Mehr Bokhari fiasco: Naseem Zehra quits Dunya TV


Karachi: Naseem Zehra, a prominent Journalist and Director Current Affairs of Dunya TV has resigned from her position on Thursday subsequently the fiasco of leaked video containing planted interview of Malik Riaz with Mubashir Lucman and Mehr Bukhari.

What ‘Manjan’ Mubashir Luqman is now going to sell on Dunya News


Mubashir Luqman who has always been flinging mud on his colleagues in media has now been exposed after video leak in which he was caught conspiring against the top judge of the country. 

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Suu Kyi accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late


Aung San Suu Kyi (File Picture)


Oslo (Reuters): Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest and said full political freedom in her country was still a long way off.
"Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal," Suu Kyi said in her acceptance speech during her first trip to Europe in nearly 25 years.
"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today."
Suu Kyi, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, advocated caution about transformation in Myanmar, whose quasi-civilian government continues to hold political prisoners.
"There still remain such prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten," Suu Kyi, 66, told a packed Oslo City Hall. Read more...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

"Goodfellas" Mobster Henry Hill Dies at 69


Henry Hill, a former mobster-turned-FBI informant whose life inspired Martin Scorsese's 1990 crime classic "Goodfellas," died on Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital after a long-running battle with an undisclosed illness, TMZ reported. He was 69.