Category: Happenings

Happenings

Mamtaz Qadri fined and sentenced to death over the killing of Salman Taseer

Mamtaz Qadri had shot former governor Punjab Salam Taseer dead on Jan 4th 2011. He had told that he did this over the Salaman’s views about the Pakistan’s Blasphemy laws. He also under oath told that this killing was due to Salman’s views about the blasphemy laws. Court however expressed that this is not the excuse, according to Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Qadri ended up being part of crime by taking the matters in his hand. Court sentenced the Mamtaz Qadri to death as well as he was fined 200,000 Rupees. However, according to the court Qadri’s affiliation with any terrorism plot was not proved, so the punishment can not be via Anti-terrorism Act (ATA). Keeping this in mind, now […]

Happenings

Fire in Mobilink MSC in Islamabad took down entire North region on Sunday

On Sunday a fire broke out in Mobilink’s MSC (Mobile Switching Center) in Islamabad and soon the entire north region including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and surrounding areas Mobilink subscribers experienced a total blackout when suddenly no signal bars on cell phone of Mobilink subscribers in these areas. As many of us know, Mobilink is the leading cell phone operator of Pakistan and most trusted as well because of their good quality and uninterrupted service. However last few months have not been very well for Mobilink, fire and such incidents happened on about three places. Most damaging one was Sunday’s incident which took millions of subscribers down for tens of hours. Mobilink also owns LinkDotNet, which is an ISP, as Mobilink […]

Happenings, National

18 dead bodies found linking back to oct 2005 earthquake in Pakistan

In Muzaffarabad specifically in area of Kamsar Nullah where the municipal workers were on work, digging through, they found 18 dead bodies. These being linked to the devastating earthquake that hit the northern areas of Pakistan back on 8 October, 2005. This earthquake from oct 2005 was so much devastating that about more than 46000 people were killed only in areas of Azad and Jammu Kashmir. Millions countrywide were left homeless and food-less. Millions of families were effected in this earthquake. This earthquake had changed the landscape of many northern areas, homes and many building were fully vanished and even the streams, pools, hills and paths everything had reconfigured itself. So people visited earlier were most likely to not recognize […]

Happenings, International, National

Shelling by India and Pakistan against each other at wagah last night

Pakistani and Indian forces exchanged fire near midnight last night at Wagah border. Four blasts were first heard near 11:30PM on Indian side of border first. Indian forces didn’t bother to do any investigation on it and BSF opened fire for across the border to the Pakistani territory. Firing from Indian forces was first light weapons but soon they shifted to the mortar shells, on this side of border Rangers returned the fire in response to keep the balance. This firing continued till 2:00am in the night and soon afterwords Rangers called the meeting with BSF to exchange thoughts. It was told that initially firing was not from Pakistan side of border and blast may have different causes. Both sides […]

Happenings, National

Suspected CNG Explosion Injured 19 in Karachi

Explosion took place a while ago in Paposh Nagar area of Karachi near a graveyard. Explosion took place in a car injuring many people, police told possible reason of this blast may be the faulty CNG kit installed in the car. However more investigations will follow on this. As firstly heard the explosion spread panic in the city and people were suspecting it as a militant activity. As the Karachi city has been so far un-effected by on going militancy in the other areas of the country. We will be coming up with more info on this as its released. Update 1: It is not fully clear that the blast was really due to CNG explosion. The injured people also […]