Year: 2013

Lahore bomb blast kills three, injures 40

Source: ET LAHORE: A powerful bomb went off at took place at the food street in the old Anarkali area of Lahore, killing at least three people and injuring 40 others, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Nauman Shaikh, the explosion took place at the ground floor of a three storied restaurant. “Civil […]

ElBaradei to become Egyptian new prime minister

Source: TOI CAIRO: Liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been chosen as Egypt’s new prime minister, the Tamarod campaign behind the protests that toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi said on Saturday after talks with the country’s interim president. A military source confirmed to AFP that the former UN nuclear watchdog chief was to […]

China, Pakistan ink transport pact

Source: China Daily By LI XIAOKUN and ZHANG YUNBI (China Daily) Huge project to boost business ties between the two nations China and Pakistan signed an agreement on Friday on the blueprint for a huge transport project linking northwestern China to the Arabian Sea. Observers said the project, named the […]

Nawaz Sharif urges Chinese investment in Power Sector

Source: Dawn.com BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday held meetings with delegations of China’s top business executives and discussed with them energy, development and infrastructure projects in Pakistan. The prime minister met the delegations on board a high speed train while traveling from Beijing to Shanghai, where he visited […]

Coptic priest shot dead in Egypt attack

Source: TOI CAIRO: Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt’s lawless Northern Sinai on Saturday in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, security sources said. The shooting in the coastal city of El Arish was one of several attacks believed […]

Egypt Back to Square One!

 July 3, 2013 By Saeed Qureshi Egyptian army has removed President Muhammad Morsi of Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and has taken over power for the interim period. President Morsi assumed office on June 30, 2012 and has been deposed from his office today (July 3, 2013).  The decision to […]

Dumped Australian PM opens up on sexism

Source: TOI SYDNEY: Australia’s first female premier Julia Gillard has opened up for the first time on thesexism that plagued her leadership and her famous misogyny speech in her final interviewbefore being ousted. Gillard, an unmarried, atheist lawyer, was dumped as Australia’s prime minister by herruling Labor party last month, almost three years to the day since she toppled Kevin […]