A court in Malaysia has ruled that Christians have a constitutional right to use the word Allah when referring to God. The High Court said a government ban on non-Muslims using the word was unconstitutional. The court was ruling on a lawsuit filed by the Herald, a publication of the Catholic Church in Malaysia, in [...]
MUMBAI : Here’s a list of the 10 most happening songs of 2009 from various genres that created waves in the music industry and remained audiences’ favourites once released. The list shows that Pritam Chakraborty and AR Rahman rule the charts. Emosanal attyachaar Bollywood music got a boost in the very beginning of 2009 with the [...]
KARACHI : Karachi police has launched a crackdown in order to arrest the culprits involved in damaging properties in Ashura incident, Aaj News reported. According to Karachi police, pictures of two suspects have been obtained from the city government’s command and control system, who were seen in the footage setting the properties on fire and looting [...]
KANDAHAR : The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a base in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight Americans, a spokesman told AFP. “We claim responsibility for the attack,” purported Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. The US government said eight Americans were killed in the attack [...]
Children are twice as likely as adults to catch swine flu, according to a joint UK-US study. Imperial College London researchers and a team from the US looked at how the virus spread among families. In a study of more than 800 people, one in eight people developed the infection after someone in their house [...]
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Pakistan’s central bank cannot significantly reduce interest rate owing to limited resources owned by the country to meet government expenditures, Geo News quoted Assistant Director in the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the Fund Adnan Mazarei. Talking to media, he said the inflation rate is on [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States is sharply increasing military and economic aid to Yemen, as it has been doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to fight a growing threat from Al-Qaeda, officials said Wednesday. The threat has been highlighted by the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man who reportedly confessed to being trained by an [...]
CHAMAN: Due to the torrential rain in Kozic Top and snowfall on mountains, the Pakistan-Afghan Shahrah widely known as Chaman Shahrah, which links two courtiers, has been closed for traffic, thus suspending of Nato supply line to Afghanistan on Wednesday, Geo news reported. According to sources, the 14-km long Chaman-Afghan road was closed due to [...]
KARACHI: A dozen Pakistani players will be auctioned in fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to be held next year but however, skipper Pakistan cricket team Mohammed Yousuf is exception, Geo news reported on Wednesday night. According to IPL sources, Pakistani players have submitted application for independent auction instead of being auctioned through [...]
NEW YORK: Oil prices settled above 79 U.S. dollars a barrel on Wednesday as another weekly decline in crude and distillate supplies offset a strengthening dollar. U.S. Energy Department Energy Information Administration reported on Wednesday that during the week ended on December 25, crude inventories dropped 1.54 million barrels to 326 million barrels, slightly less [...]
