May 23, 2010
KARACHI: Secretary Information Pakistan People’s Party Fauzia Wahab’s statement regarding Hazrat Umer (RA) has drawn strong reaction from across the country.
Mufti Naeem declared that Fauzia Wahab by giving such a statement has committed ‘Gunah-e-Kabira’. Her statement is totally wrong and based on prejudice and she should ask for Allah’s forgiveness, he added.
“The Holy Quran provides real jurisprudence while Sunnah is its interpretation,” Mufti Naeem clarified.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
QUETTA: Balochistan’s city of Sibi witnessed the warmest day of this summer on Sunday with mercury rising to 50 degrees Celsius, the Met Office said.
The maximum temperature in Quetta was recorded at 36 degrees Celsius.
According to the Met office, temperature in Dilbandin was recorded at 44 degrees Celsius, Nokandi 45.7, Kalat 30, Khuzdar 40, Lasbela 42, Pinjgor 42.5, Pisni 37, Jewani 38 and Gwadar 40.
The weather in Quetta and Zob will be cloudy while Naseerabad, Makran and Sibi will remain in the grip of hot and dry weather in the next 24 hours, it said.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The families of missing persons have complained that on one hand a commission has been formed for the recovery of the missing persons while on the other hand the authorities have failed to stop kidnappings that continue to take place.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Chairperson Defence of Human Rights Amina Masood Janjua said complaints of more than 50 persons going missing in April 2010 have been received.
She announced that a hunger strike camp will be set up in Rawalpindi on May 27.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Makhdoom ShahMahmood Qureshi called on President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday in Cairo and discussed bilateral and regional matters.
The minister conveyed the good wishes of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to President Mubarak and reiterated the invitation extended by them earlier for President Mubarak to visit Pakistan.
President Mubarak expressed similar good wishes for the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan and said he would seek an opportunity to visit Pakistan.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
ORAKZAI AGENCY: At least 50 militant were killed and dozens other wounded in fresh aerial strikes here on Sunday.
According to sources, helicopter gunships and jet planes pounded militant dens in Upper Orakzai areas of Khadizai and Mamozai, killing 50 fighters and injuring 20 others.
As a result of the shelling, a training facility and six hideouts being used by Taliban militants were destroyed.
So far more than 900 militants were killed in Orakzai operation started by security forces some two months back.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said that efforts were being made to improve the complex and longstanding issue of Karachi.
Interacting with media persons after meeting with Sindh’s Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, he said that police intelligence system would be improved at district, tehsil and town level across Sindh, including Karachi.
Under a well-planned conspiracy, chaos was being created in the metropolitan city of Karachi, he said.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
HUNZA: Hunza lake water entered into low-lying areas and inundated more districts. The gap between the spillway and the lake level has increased to ten feet, Geo News reported Sunday.
Helicopter rescue service has been affected due to bad weather conditions
Deputy Commissioner Hunza, Zafar Waqar Taj said due to expansion of lake into low-lying areas of Phissoo speed of increase in water level has been steady.
The administration, holding the situation as highly hazardous, set May 25 as deadline for overflow from the Lake.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
SANTIAGO: A Chilean court ordered back to jail Saturday a Pakistani man who had been charged and briefly detained after traces of explosives were found on him as he visited the US embassy, officials said.
The court deemed 28-year-old Mauhannas Saif ur Rehnab Khan "a danger to society" and revoked his freedom after he was released last week on probation following charges of illegally possessing explosives, but not of violating an anti-terror law.
Indo-Pak
May 23, 2010
NEW YORK: Oil prices slid Friday after heavy weekly losses on concerns over the European debt crisis, the sustainability of the US economic recovery and the strengthening dollar.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, fell 76 cents to end at 70.04 dollars a barrel. The June contract expired Thursday at 68.01 dollars.
London's Brent North Sea crude for July dipped 16 cents to 71.68 dollars a barrel.
Indo-Pak
May 21, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned more than 1000 web links and proxy sites containing sacrilegious cartoons and hate material.
PTA officials told Geo News that filters are being installed on the directives of Federal Government to implement the verdict of the Lahore High Court.
They said the monitoring cells are continuously functioning while the process of blocking controversial web links and sites will be carried on.
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