Saturday, April 30, 2011
‘Ainak wala jin’ creator A Hameed passes away
LAHORE:
Prolific Urdu writer A Hameed passed away in Lahore on Friday. He was 83.
Abdul Hameed, known simply as A Hameed, wrote over 200 books and contributed greatly to children’s literature. His fantasy series of 100 novels, known as Ambar Naag Maria, and legendary television series Ainak Wala Jin are his notable works.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Kamran Akmal’s father-in-law was involved in gambling: Zulqarnain Haider returns to Pakistan
Ending his self-exile, the Pakistani wicketkeeper arrived in Islamabad at 8am on Monday.
Talking to Dunya News, Zulqarnain Haider said that the person who gave him death threats was an Indian. He said that Kamran Akmal’s father-in-law was involved in gambling and an investigation should be launched into the matter. He said that Umar Akmal also had an inappropriate behaviour towards him in the series against South Africa in Dubai.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Karachi be made a province, Shahbaz demands
Addressing a ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a school building, CM Punjab termed those killed in North Waziristan in US drone attacks as being his brothers.
Shahbaz said US drone attacks are promoting terrorism in Pakistan. “This government cannot stop missile attacks because they are earning dollars in exchange of those attacks,” he revealed.
Power shortfall surges to 6,000MW President takes notice of power crisis
Power crisis in the country has broken all past records, as the Pepco and PSO tiff relating to the furnace oil supply remained unresolved and the power shortfall has peaked to as high as 6,000 megawatt.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Famous artist Moin Akhter passes away
Moin Akhtar was under treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) due to heart disease.
Moin Akhtar was a television, film and stage actor, as well as a comedian, impersonator, and a host. He was also a play writer, singer, film director and a producer.
Gold jumps to new record
Karachi: 16 killed in a blast
Hospital sources said that at least 16 people have been confirmed dead and over 35 injured in the explosion.
Most injured were shifted to Civil Hospital, as death toll is feared to rise, said hospital sources.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Pakistani Vj Mathira makes her fans dirty dreams true Baji Exposed Online | Mathira naked pictures leaked
Almost a dozen of her naked/half naked pictures has been leaked from unknown resources and currently floating on the internet. This is an astonishing action coming from our homeland and seems like our celebs are following the foot prints of Bollywood and Hollywood.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
India Offer cheap electricity to Pakistan
At a time when Pakistan is facing acute shortage of electricity , India has offered to sell power at cheap
rates to its energy-starved neighbour, Commerce Secretary Zafar Mehmood said today.
India's offer will be discussed at the meeting of the
India's offer will be discussed at the meeting of the
Commerce Secretaries of India and Pakistan to be
held in Islamabad during April 27-28, Mehmood told
the media.
However, he did not give details, including when New Delhi had made the offer.
The meeting between the Commerce Secretaries is
The meeting between the Commerce Secretaries is
part of the resumed dialogue process between the two countries.
British man who burned Quran jailed for 70 days as “theatrical bigotry”.
A convicted racist who burned a Holy Quran in front of city centre shoppers in Carlisle, north west England, has been jailed for 70 days after a judge described the act as “theatrical bigotry”.
Andrew Ryan stole a copy of the holy book from Carlisle Library and then set it on fire with a lighter as a crowd gathered to hear his protests in front of a monument. Police arrested Ryan shortly after the lunchtime incident on January 19 this year, reports British media.
Pakistan successfully tested a surface-to-surface, short-range ballistic missile
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan successfully tested a surface-to-surface, short-range ballistic missile Nasr, Geo News reported.
Nasr, a multi-tube ballistic missile of Hatf series can hit with atomic warhead up to 60kms, according to a statement by the Inter Services Public Relations.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
bye forever kat ... Kangana and Salman's very late-night meetings
Salman Khan had an unexpected visitor while shooting for Bodyguard on Wednesday night it wasn't SRK, it was Kangna Ranaut!
Apparently, Kangs was out with friends around midnight and made an impromptu detour to meet Salman when she heard that he was shooting at Filmistan Studios.
Anything for money SRK to go topless if KKR reaches IPL final
"If we reach the final at Chennai, I will take off my shirt, fluff it in the air, and show my six pack abs... or may be eight pack abs," Shah Rukh said at the Eden Gardens Sunday, after KKR won their third match on the trot with an eight-wicket decimation of Rajasthan Royals.
Students cheat on first day of Matric exam all over Karachi
The city administration implemented Section 144 across examination centres in the city to prevent any act of cheating by students during exams.
This section prohibits the presence of irrelevant people in the vicinity of the examination centres.
Additionally, all the photocopying shops surrounding the centres will remain closed, and students appearing for the exams are prohibited from bringing cell phones to the centres.
Monday, April 18, 2011
8 Dead Bodies of young men found in Tank near Haji Shah Road
According to police, the bodies of eight young men have been dumped in a ditch in the field near Haji Shah Road in Tank.
Indian coach Hired By Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF)
PTF President Syed Kaleem Imam has confirmed that the Ministry of Sports and Interior Ministry had given the NOC to the federation for hiring the Indian coach.
“We have got the NOC and now we will be in touch with Wadera to work out details with him. We intend to have the coach hold camps across Pakistan for the youngsters as well as top players,” he said.
Reduce every day risk of stroke by as much as 25 percent
Coffee consumption has been inconsistently associated with stroke incidence and mortality in previous studies.
To investigate the association between coffee consumption and stroke incidence, researchers studied 34,670 Swedish women, aged 49 to 83 years, who took part in the Swedish Mammography Cohort, which looked for associations between diet, lifestyle and disease. Between 1998 and 2008, 1,680 women had a stroke. But it was found that coffee drinkers had a 22 to 25 percent lowered risk.
Women who reported drinking 1-2 cups a day, 3-4 cups a day or 5 or more cups had similar benefits, compared with women who drank less than a cup of coffee.
The results remained unchanged even after taking into account smoking, weight, diabetes, high blood
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider coming back to home.
KARACHI: Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider, who fled to London last year citing death threats from match-fixers, has said he will return home and cancel his application for asylum in Britain.
Zulqarnain was reassured by a meeting with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik in London last week, and will seek to resume his cricket career, he said.
"After meeting with (the) interior minister and getting assurance of my and my family's safety in Pakistan, I have decided to return home on April 24," Zulqarnain, 24, told Pakistani private TV channels GEO and others from London.
Cricket craze $11.1mln loss to Bollywood
MUMBAI: A packed cricket schedule that peaked with an Indian win in the World Cup final has hit the country's other grand passion -- film -- emptying cinemas and forcing studios to postpone big movie releases.
Analysts said business at multiplex cinemas had been weak so far in 2011, with the six-week World Cup that finished earlier this month keeping people glued to their television screens in the evenings.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament, which began immediately afterwards is also expected to keep many cinema-goers away until the end of May.
Sonakshi Sinha the most searched Indian celebrities on the web
Actor Salman Khan and newcomer Sonakshi Sinha have been named the most searched Indian celebrities on the web in a new survey.
Salman beat action star Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan in the survey carried across the metros as well as
tier-II and tier-III cities. Bollywood heartthrobs Ranbir Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor wrapped up the top five.
She might be one-film old, but Sonakshi came ahead of the likes of Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif to be
the most searched celebrity on the internet among the female brigade.The spate of sporadic rain continues.
| Intermittent heavy downpours today lashed Lahore, Gujranawala, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar Division, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir, while in the northern areas and upper Pakhtunkhaw the spate of sporadic rain continues. |
Another ‘men eater’ arrested
The police has arrested four accused on a tip in Bhakkar, who were used to eat dead bodies. Police said that the investigation is underway.
On Sunday, Darya Khan Police had raided a house in Union Council Kahawar Kalan in Bhakkar and arrested a 3-member family including
a woman while one of them succeed to flee from the site.
A leg-broken dead body of 19 years old girl and a big bowl having curry was also recovered from the house.
Pak-Ind Blind Cricket series on year’s end
He told APP that we are likely to host a bilateral Pak-India series at the end of this year in Dubai.
“We will be playing three ODIs and three Twenty-20s in the series,” he said.
He said that on May 12 there is a meeting of World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) in which we will discuss this thing.
He said teams of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Australia New Zealand, West Indies South Africa and England will attend that meeting which will also prove very helpful for us.
“We want India and all other countries teams to tour Pakistan and revive the International cricket over here.”
He said that earlier this year South African team wanted to come to Pakistan in December if their government allows them.
He also expressed that among all the countries blind cricket teams Pakistan is the most successful and the only one who spends the most on this sport.
“We get a grant of one crore thirty lakhs from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which has made it very easy for us to participate in many international events.”
He expressed that because of this grant we have got alot of exposure to international cricket and that is why we are getting better day by day.
As many as three Blind World Cups have been held So far at New Delhi, India (1998); Chennai, India (2002) and Islamabad, Pakistan (2006). Pakistan has won the last two World Cups while the first one was won by South Africa.
Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply
The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country’s nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake preparedness systems to prevent a recurrence of the nuclear crisis.
There were no reports of damage from the earthquake, and there was no risk of a tsunami similar to the one that struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant March 11 after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, causing Japan’s worst-ever nuclear plant disaster.
Since the tsunami knocked out the plant’s cooling systems, workers have been spraying massive amounts of water on the overheated reactors. Some of that water, contaminated with radiation, leaked into the Pacific. Plant officials said they plugged that leak on April 5 and radiation levels in the sea dropped.
But the government said Saturday that radioactivity in the seawater has risen again in recent days. The level of
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Kareena Gives preference to work rather than relationship.
Apparently, Bebo has decided to shoot for Aamir`s flick rather than wrapping-up beau Saif`s ‘Agent Vinod’
US Army Reslease March 2011 Suicide Data... US marines apprently killing them selves
The Army released suicide data today for the month of March. Among active-duty soldiers, there were seven potential suicides: none have been confirmed as suicide, and seven remain under investigation. For February 2011, the Army reported eight potential suicides among active-duty soldiers. Since the release of that report, one case has been confirmed as suicide, and seven cases remain under investigation.
During March 2011, among reserve component soldiers who were not on active duty, there were eight potential suicides: none have been confirmed as suicide, and eight remain under investigation. For February 2011, among that same group, there were eight total potential suicides. Of those, three were confirmed as suicides and five are pending determination of the manner of death.
Happy Birthday ... Bollywood actress Lara Dutta has turned 33 today
MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Lara Dutta has turned 33 today. Life has always been pleasurable for Lara but her wedding in February has lent an added happiness.
The actress has recently tied the knot with Tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi.
Lara was born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother. She also has two older sisters, one of whom serves in the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister.
Monte Carlo tennis: Aisam-Rohan to play semifinal today
MONTE CARLO: Pakistan's tennis star, Aisam-ul-Haq together with Indian Rohan Bopanna will be seen in action when the due will play the men’s doubles semi-final in the ATP Masters Cup Tennis Championship here at the Monte Carlo tennis complex today.
In the men’s singles semi-final, world number one Rafael Nadal of Spain and British star Andy Murray will face each other.
Famous Comedian Babu Baral died
Famous pakistani comedian Babu Baral died in Shareef Hospital in Lahore. Few days ago he was hospitalized in critical condition.
Two weeks ago Babbu Baral got some wounds in his toes which were unable to heal due to high blood sugar. Doctors decided to cut all of his right foot fingers to stop the infection spread to other parts of the body.
Babbu Baral was suffer from high blood sugar and kidney disease for the last several years and his health was going down day by day. He is under treatment in Sharif Medical City in Lahore.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Lahore gets its first 3D cinema
Yesterday saw the opening of the city’s first 3D cinema at Cinestar in Township. A red carpet event showcasing the Hollywood film, Avatar, had been organised by owners Ali Chaudhry and Faraz Chaudhry.
The organisers said they had spent a large amount of money to get the latest technology. A 3D cinema, they said, cost 10 times an ordinary cinema and the entire cinema had to be renovated in order for the 3D technology to be installed. They also hoped to add three more screens and IMAX technology to their cinema house. “We want to revive the cinema. Our focus is youth who embrace new technologies,” said Ali Chaudhry. He said that they had special discounts for students.
SRK lets Akon down, Sonakshi will meet Akon privately
By one estimate, Akon might be the world's "third largest" performing artiste, but that doesn't matter to one of Newsweek's 50 Most Powerful People in the world (for 2008, at least), Shah Rukh Khan.
And so, despite collaborating for a track in the actor-producer's upcoming Ra.One, the singer finds himself not celebrating his birthday in B-Town with friends as planned ('Akon's B-Town B'day'; April 7, HiTLIST) but rather in nearby Pune, thanks to SRK.
Salman and Ranbir's friendship goes sour due to Katrina
Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor used to be friends. Not only has that friendship soured, with the repercussions now being seen on the professional front.
Says a source, "There are hushed whispers in the industry that SK is sending feelers to his producer friends like Bhushan Kumar and Sajid Nadiadwala not to cast RK for their films."
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Dr Samar Mubarak for ban on import of food items from Japan
Dr Mubarak Mand said that Pakistan was safe from these affects because of long distance from Japan.
Pakistani atomic scientist Dr Samar Mubarak Mand said that the government should ban import of food items from Japan.
Commenting on reports that nuclear radioactivity had reached Pakistan, Dr Mubarak Mand said that Pakistan was safe from these affects because of long distance of the country from Japan but he said that food items should not be imported from Japan.
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