AFTER HEAD MONEY ON HJB, HE HAD LEFT PAKISTAN Pakistan ’s law enforcing agencies and institutions play “hide and seek” dramas Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri Our Correspondent KARACHI: Agencies were on to their old games again as they again started playing “chor police” and “hide and seek” dramas, amidst a claimed news that Chief Justice of Pakistan had met Lyari’s popular “head money” figure Habib Jan Baloch in Lo ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira accused Punjab administration of stealing electricity at the Minar-e-Pakistan camp office of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, SAMAA reports. Speaking to newsmen here in the federal capital, Kaira criticized Sharif Brothers and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for "not abiding by court orders". "Sharif brothers left the country in hours of need. They ...

KARACHI: Meezan Bank – the leading and largest Islamic Bank of Pakistan, has been awarded Pakistan’s 'Best Islamic Bank’, ‘Best Islamic Retail Bank’ and ‘Best Islamic Trade Finance Bank’ by Asset  Triple A Awards, Hong Kong. The Bank has also been awarded, ‘Best Islamic Deal – Pakistan’ as a Joint arranger for Pakistan Mobile Communications syndicated Islamic finance facility, and ‘Highly Commended Deal - P ...

  SYDNEY: Australia Wednesday said its mining-driven economy expanded 1.3 per cent in the first three months of 2012 - double expectations - as consumer spending rose and business investment boomed. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the quarter-on-quarter growth of 1.3 per cent, compared with an upwardly-revised 0.6 per cent for the final quarter of 2012, took annual growth to 4.3 per cent ...

  NEW DELHI:  Air India is expected to take delivery of three Dreamliner aircraft from Boeing Co this month, India's civil aviation minister Ajit Singh said, after the two companies agreed on a compensation package for the delayed order. The loss-making state-owned carrier was supposed to receive the first of 27 Dreamliners by the end of May. The compensation package is now aawaiting approval from a gr ...

      KARACHI: Pakistan State Oil PSO signed Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Balochistan Government’s Forest and Wildlife Department for establishment of 5,000 acre bio-diesel agricultural estate located at Uthal, Balochistan. It was signed by Naeem Yayha Mir, MD & CEO PSO and Ahmed Ali, Balochistan Secretary Forest & Wildlife Department.     PSO's New Business Developm ...

MUMBAI: Actress Kareena Kapoor describes Kiaan as the best looking guy and says she likes to keep her nephew's picture as a wallpaper on her desktop. "It will have to be Kiaan Kapoor," said Kareena told reporters here Wednesday when asked whose picture she would like to display as a wallpaper on her computer. "He is my sister's (Karisma) son. He is the most good looking man in my life right now. He has rosy ...

  VIENNA: A senior Iranian official expressed hope on Wednesday that his country and the UN nuclear watchdog would soon be able to seal a framework agreement to resume a stalled investigation into Tehran's disputed atomic activities. Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh spoke two days before he is due to meet senior UN nuclear agency officials in Vienna in an attempt to finalise the accord aimed at unblocki ...

MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat not too long ago posted a picture on her Twitter account of her taking off to Versailles from Cannes in a private plane. However, perhaps the actress didn’t know how much trouble she would invite. Since the time Mallika uploaded the photo saying ‘taking off for Versailles in my friend’s private plane’, she has been flooded with quires about the identity of her frie ...

  KANDAHAR: A twin suicide bombing attack killed 23 people Wednesday in a car park crammed with vehicles supplying a major NATO base in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, police said. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck first and as a crowd gathered to help the victims a second bomber walked into their midst and set off explosives strapped to his body, provincial police chief General Abdu ...