Archive for ‘June, 2010’

Blast rocks upper Orakzai region

Blast rocks upper Orakzai region

KALAYA: A loud explosion in Sarmalo Kandao in upper Orakzai region rocked the area.
The nature of the explosion yet to be ascertained.
The law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area after the incident.
The ISPR in a press statement said the blast was not a suicide attack, neither losses of life reported in the incident.

Man injured in Quetta bomb blast

Man injured in Quetta bomb blast

QUETTA: A man was injured in explosion of homemade bomb at Fatima Jinnah Road in Quetta. The blast shattered the windowpanes of nearby houses.
A loud bomb blast at Fatime Jinnah Road on Wednesday injured a man Malik Bashir which was immediately transferred to the civil hospital. The injured was discharged from the hospital after medical [...]

Psychic Octopus picks Germany to beat Argentina

Psychic Octopus picks Germany to beat Argentina

BERLIN: An octopus with possible psychic powers, who has correctly picked the winner of Germany’s four World Cup matches so far, on Tuesday tipped Germany to beat Argentina in their World Cup quarterfinal match on Saturday.
Paul, a two-year-old octopus born in England now living in a German aquarium, has a 100-percent winning streak at the [...]

Benigno Aquino III sworn in as Philippine leader

Benigno Aquino III sworn in as Philippine leader

MANILA: Benigno Aquino III was sworn in Wednesday as the Philippines 15th president, leading a Southeast Asian nation his late parents helped liberate from dictatorship and which he promises to deliver from poverty and pervasive corruption.
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them clad in his yellow campaign color, applauded and yelled his nickname “Noynoy” [...]

NAB officials important meeting today

NAB officials important meeting today

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the officials of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) being held today to discuss the cases against President Zardari and other key officials.
The Prosecutor General has already prepared a petition to withdraw three references against President Asif Ali Zardari on the directives of the high ups of NAB.
Earlier, NAB had withdrawn references against [...]