Lahore: 21 May 2013, President Asif Ali Zardari on blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) defeat in the May 11 polls. In a meeting with PPP ticket-holders of Punjab province at his private residence, Zardari claimed some \"international forces\" did not want the party to come to power again. \"These forces were not happy with the (outgoing) PPP government\'s agreements with the countries in the region,\" he said. PPP leaders believe that the US was ...
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Islamabad: 21 May 2013, Hours after Pakistan\'s Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif complained that President Asif Ali Zardari had not yet congratulated him on his victory in Pakistan\'s general elections, the President set things right by telephoning the PML-N Chief. Addressing a meeting of newly elected PML-N lawmakers in Lahore, Sharif said Zardari had not yet congratulated him on the success of the party. Soon after, Zardari telephoned Sharif and felicitated him on his victory in the ...
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Beijing:21 May 2013 Buoyed by the positive vibes from his India trip, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has termed the visit as ‘successful’. \"A successful start is halfway to final success,\" he was quoted as saying about the first leg of his nine-day foreign to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany. Terming his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as \"deep, friendly and frank\", he said, \"It made me feel like I was at home. I really appreciate his (Singh\'s) arrangements.” His ...
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Buenos Aires: 19 May 2013, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria\'s civil war but had no plans to resign. \"To resign would be to flee,\" he told the Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. \"I don\'t know if Kerry or anyone else has received the power of the Syrian people to talk in their name about who should go and who should stay. That will be ...
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Karachi:19 May 2013, Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has held the chief of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) directly responsible for the killing of a senior leader of his party. \"I hold Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder as he had openly threatened Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and leaders through public broadcasts,\" Imran said on Saturday night. The statement came hours after the senior vice president of the Sindh chapter of Imran Khan\'s party, Zara ...
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Lahore: 19 May 2013, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday met Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif to exchange views on regional situation and the war on terror. The meeting, sought by Kayani, was the first between the two since Sharif\'s PML-N emerged victorious in the May 11 general election and is all set to form the government. During the meeting, which lasted over 3 hours, the Army Chief gave an overall view of the security situation prevailing in the ...
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Baghdad: 18 May 2013, A wave of bomb attacks struck war-torn Iraq on Friday, leaving as many as 73 people dead and 148 injured, police and officials said. At least 41 people were killed and 56 injured in two blasts, which hit almost simultaneously in Baquba, capital city of Diyala province, after the Friday prayer, reported a news agency, citing the city\'s mayor Abdullah Hayali. The two roadside bombs exploded near Saroya mosque in Baquba, 65 km from Baghdad and hit Sunni worshipers while ...
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Beirut:18 May 2013, Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The rebels facilitated the New York-based group\'s access to facilities that had belonged to a security agency and military intelligence in late April. In a report ...
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Cannes: 18 May 2013, A man was arrested today after causing a scare at the Cannes Film Festival, where he attacked a TV studio with a gun loaded with blanks and a dummy grenade, police and witnesses said. There were no casualties in the incident, and the TV channel, France\'s Canal +, resumed broadcasts after a break of several minutes. The suspected assailant fired twice in the air as he approached the temporary studio, set up on the Croisette Seafront for special coverage of the ...
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New York:18 May 2013, A newlywed husband, who solicited sex from a prostitute while he was on honeymoon with his new wife, has been booked on charges of soliciting prostitution. According to authorities, Mohammed Ahmed, 21, left his new bride in their luxury suite in order to meet up with the hooker he had spotted online, but she turned out to be an undercover cop, reported a newspaper. Ahmed was busted alongside 92 other alleged johns, pimps and hookers as part of the Polk County ...
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New Delhi: 18 May 2013, In a swift operation, the CBI on Friday arrested its own Superintendent of Police, who was heading the Coalgate probe team, an inspector and two others for allegedly taking bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman outside its headquarters here to settle a land dispute. CBI\'s internal vigilance apprehended Inspector Rajesh while receiving the bribe on behalf of SP Vivek Dutt who was Chief Investigator in the coal blocks allocation scam case. \"We had information ...
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Washington:US: 18 May 2013 An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into United States, the Department of Justice said. Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar, 33, along with Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were sentenced on Friday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to US for private financial gain, the Acting Assistant US Attorney General Mythili Raman said. In addition to ...
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May 18, 2013,nasa:-- A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, igniting an explosion so bright that anyone looking up at the right moment might have spotted it, NASA announced Friday. NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office is reporting the discovery of the brightest impact seen on the moon in the eight year history of the monitoring program. Some 300 lunar impact events have been logged over the years but this latest impact, from March 17, is considered many orders of ...
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18 May 2013:-- Six people had died in Jiangxi, added the ministry. And further bad weather is forecast for Guangdong later on Saturday, with warnings of heavy wind and rain causing more flooding in the next few days. Teams of relief workers have been sent to oversee the recovery efforts in the hardest hit areas, officials said. Heavy rainstorms in Guangdong reportedly caused widespread flooding in the province\'s mountainous areas and affected nine cities including the provincial ...
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May 18, 2013,malakand:-- At least 20 people were killed and dozens other injured in two bomb blasts at two different mosques in Malakand Agency on Friday. Levies sources said the blasts took place during Friday prayers in Bazdara area of Malakand Agency. Twin blasts rattled Bar Kalley main Jamia Masjid of the Bazdarra region. One blast took place inside a mosque and the second one occurred at the main gate of the second mosque. At least 12 dead bodies were brought toPalaiHospital. Fifty ...
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May 18, 2013,Paris:- French President Francois Hollande has attacked Britain\'s antipathy to the European Union, saying Europe would survive without it. In a news conference that lasted almost three hours, Mr Hollande addressed British Prime Minister David Cameron\'s plan for a law guaranteeing a vote on Britain\'s membership of the EU. \'\'Europe existed before Britain joined it,\'\' Mr Hollande said. France, Germany and four other nations were long part of the European Economic ...
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FAIRFIELD, May 18, 2013:-- Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in southwestern Connecticut, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and closing the key corridor between New York and Boston. A Metro-North train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m. on Friday, hitting the other train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 60 miles northeast of New York City on the Long Island Sound, authorities said. That caused some ...
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BAGHDAD, May 17, 2013 AP Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. The attacks followed a wave of bombings on Wednesday that also struck in mainly Shiite neighborhoods, killing 33 people and raising concerns over a return to the sectarian bloodshed in Iraq. Baghdad police said the first of Thursday’s bombings hit a bus and taxi stop ...
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DHAKA, May 17, 2013 A total of 13 people were confirmed dead in Bangladesh as people began to return home from shelters, a day after Cyclone Mahasen hit the coast, officials said on Friday. More than 49,000 thatched houses were destroyed when the cyclone hit along the Bay of Bengal late on Thursday, the chief of the country’s disaster management department Abdul Wazed told dpa by phone. Most of the more than 1 million coastal residents who took shelter have returned home, and the ...
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May 16, 2013 India’s bid for observer status in the Arctic Council was successful on Wednesday along with that of five other countries — China, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore — at a meeting in Kiruna, Sweden. Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, welcomed India’s admission. An MEA spokesperson said India would contribute its scientific expertise, particularly its polar research capabilities, to the work of the Arctic Council to support its objectives. However, ...
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