Karachi killings toll rises to 40
KARACHI: Horror once again came to haunt the streets of Karachi, as at least 40 people have died in grisly incidents of target killings over the past few days.....Full Story

Test under Balochistan package held across the province
QUETTA: As many as 380,000 graduates and post graduates here on Saturday appeared in test held across the province to get jobs under the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan...Full Story

Countrywide protests against Facebook caricatures
KARACHI: Pakistani protesters shouted “Death to Facebook”, “Death to America” and burnt US flags on Friday, venting growing anger over “sacrilegious” caricatures of the.....Full Story

UK’s role in war on terror under new scrutiny
LONDON: Britain will hold a formal inquiry into whether its government and spy agencies colluded in the torture of terrorism...Full Story

Gen McChrystal meets Kayani, parliamentarians
ISLAMABAD: NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Commander General Stanley McChrystal visited Pakistan....Full Story

President, PM hosts dinner for PPP’s federal cabinet
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Friday night hosted dinner for the members of federal cabinet belonging to Pakistan Peoples Party here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr......Full Story

Desperate affectees protest near Lake
HUNZA: The landslide-spawned Lake in Ata Abad area of Hunza is persistently rising, leaving the gap between the Lake and the spillway narrowed to only six feet.....Full Story

Pakistan sends condolences to India on plane crash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Saturday sent its condolences to India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the deaths of 159 people in an Air India plane crash earlier in the day......Full Story

Defence budget to be raised by 31% in 2010-11
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to raise the defence budget by 31 percent from Rs 343 billion to Rs 448 billion for the fiscal year 2010-11...Full Story

US slams blasphemous Facebook images
WASHINGTON: The US has deplored blasphemous images of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) on Facebook as “deeply offensive to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike”, saying.....Full Story

Musharraf torn between PM, president’s offices
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf has said again that he intends to come back to Pakistan and enter politics.....Full Story

‘Aid under Kerry-Lugar Law to begin from Oct’
ISLAMABAD: The grant of financial aid to Pakistan under the Kerry-Lugar Law will start following the beginning of the next US fiscal year in October 2010, US Coordinator for...Full Story