A woman carries items found under the debris of her house destroyed by an earthquake in Ziarat, about 130 kilometres south of Quetta, Nov 2, 2008. ISLAMABAD: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted several parts of the country on Thursday including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Swat, North Waziristan, Nowshera and Abbottabad. The quake was recorded at 5.7 magnitude on the Richter ...

Erotic thriller Jism 2 has been passed with an A-certificate by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), says director Pooja Bhatt, who is glad that cuts were only made upon her discretion. Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt's Jism 2 has been passed with an A-certificate by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). She says it is an adult film that targets mature audiences. The 40-year-old said the film doe ...

Rescue workers carry the body of dead people who died after a ferry sank off the coast of the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar in East Africa on July 18, 2012. The latest count that we have is 31 people dead and 145 were rescued. We have suspended the rescue operation for the night, but we will resume it at first light in the morning." Tanzanian Police Commissioner Mussa Ali Mussa At least 31 people have been k ...

 The US and Israeli officials have held talks about whether the Tel Aviv regime would carry out an attack on Syria’s weapons facilities or not, a report says. According to a July 18 report published by the New York Times, US officials have recently been in talks with Israelis “about whether Israel might move to destroy Syrian weapons facilities.” However, Washington is “not advocating such an attack,” the r ...

Video editing options at YouTube were expanded to include a "Blur All Faces" button. SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube on Wednesday began letting people blur faces in videos they upload to the website, which has become a major platform for sharing clips of dramatic news events. “Today we’re launching face blurring — a new tool that allows you to obscure faces within videos with the click of a button,” said Amanda Conw ...

File photo shows USS Enterprise nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Americans talk a lot about different things but in practice they are faced with problems. We have no doubt that the United States can’t do anything in the minesweeping sphere.” Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces Mahmoud Fahimi   An Iranian commander has downplayed the US move to dispatch modern mi ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao also pledged to "continue to expand aid to Africa, so that the benefits of development can be realised by the African people". BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday offered $20 billion in loans to African countries over the next three years, boosting a relationship that has been criticised by the West and given Beijing growing access to the resource-rich continent. The ...

Meeting will be about tripartite relations, regional security, war on terror and Afghanistan's peace process. KABUL: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Thursday, officials said. The first meeting between the three leaders comes as Britain, along with its NATO allies, prepares to withdraw its troops from Afghan ...

 Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has praised Hezbollah’s victory over Israel in the 33-day war in 2006 as a humiliating defeat for the Tel Aviv regime. Undoubtedly, this victory is “the resistance’s greatest ever, a source of dignity and exaltation for the Islamic world and a turning point in the history of Muslims’ fights against the usurping enemy (Israe ...

Plea prays to SC to form commission responsible for inquiring income of TV channel owners, anchorpersons, ad agencies. PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: Senior journalists Hamid Mir and Absar Alam on Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking the formation of an accountability commission for the media which will also form a code of conduct. The petition prays to the Supreme Court to form a commission ...