Defense, National

In lower dir district fighter crafts kill 13 insurgents

In the Pakistan army’s offensive against the militants now fighter crafts are helping the ground forces in clearing the areas. For same reason the fighter jets bombarded the lower Dir areas and killed at least 13 militants hiding in the areas. Also their 15 hideout locations were destroyed. Deaths of 13 militants are confirmed but the number of killed militants may increase as soon as more deaths are confirmed as about at least 140 militants were hiding in the bombing zone, information revealed by a security official on Sunday while talking to media. Pakistan army will still continue this operation in districts of swat, buner and dir until they are sure that they have fully eliminated the militants from the […]

Defense, National

NWFP information minister reveals that Sufi Muhammad is arrested

A truce observed previously between the government of Pakistan and the Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad restricted Taliban to an area in swat and allowed them to make their own sharia courts. Also in this truce in February it was demanded by the Taliban to stop the all kinds of violence and fighting in the area. Also they were told to not move further from the swat. Soon afterwards the  all deals collapsed between the Government and the Taliban leader, and militants started moving in to neighboring districts in the month of April. At same time a military offensive was also launched to stop these militants from moving further into the other areas and eliminate any groups who were actually working […]

National

PML-N calls on accountibility of Musharaf

As on Friday a decision came in favor of former Primer Minister Nawaz Sharif regarding the plane hijack case. With this former President Musharaf remains with no Justifications of what he have done. Reminding that being an army chief he had taken over the government on base of that plane hijack case and was elected President afterward via referendum. Now after the decision came from the Supreme court in favour of ‘Nawaz’, his political party’s spokesman ‘Saddiqul Farooq’ announced that they will make every effort to hold the former president accountable for what ever he done on that base of that fake ‘Plane Hijack case’.

Happenings, National

Karachi two bridges collapsed, rains death toll rises to 33

Water from down pour washes out two bridges in the city of Karachi, with this the overall death toll rises to 33 people. Also 70 people injured in different mishaps in the city.  Some people were killed when they were electrocutes in the lines areas, four people died in different areas due to wall collapses, a house collapse in one area killed few people. The bridges were collapsed in two areas one in Hawks Bay and second one near Airport. The Hawks Bay bridge also disturbed the traffic very much. Also several areas of city are in total darkness due to unavailability of electricity.

Happenings, National

Karachi death toll rises to 26 people, power outage also continues

Until now 205mm rain is observed in some areas of Karachi, which caused further floods and in some related incidents more people died. Also things worsen due to the power outage in the city of Karachi. Karachi have been filled with water and full of darkness due to the rain and power outage. In lots of areas once again power is restored but still more areas are without power. In some areas using small power generators and motors water is being thrown out. Still the season’s first rain have bring big miseries for the citizens of Karachi and power outage added the injury to them. In 1977 about 207 mm rain was recorded and now after decades rain of 205 […]