Scotland clash with Pakistan abandoned

Sportal - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ...

Pakistan army will be watching Sharifs cozying up to India

Reuters - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Nawaz Sharif, incoming prime minister and leader of political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), smiles as he talks to journalists after visiting Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), outside the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore May 14, ...

First Pakistani woman atop Everest

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Mirza Ali , who becomes the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain. Nepal mountaineering department official Tilak Padney said 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the peak after climbing all night from the highest camp on South Col - the pass between Everest and a neighbouring ...

Killing of Pakistani Politician Shakes New Voting Round

International Herald Tribune - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ...

Pakistan holds repeat poll despite killing of politician

The China Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

KARACHI -- Under tight security, Pakistani officials Sunday held a repeat election in a district of violence-plagued Karachi, despite the killing of a senior politician in the city the day ...

Funeral Held for Slain Pakistani Politician

VOA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed late Saturday after being approached by two unknown gunmen outside her home in Karachi. Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, blamed Saturday's slaying of Zahra Shahid Hussain on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement party, or MQM. The party has denied any ...

Color nostalgic scenes make Pakistans trucks rolling works of art

Global Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistan -- Here, trucks rule the road. Whether by blaring their horns at pedestrians or blocking a narrow street with an awkward parking job, Karachi's trucks always get the right of way. But aside from being a nuisance to already harassed drivers, the trucks add a welcome splash of color to a remarkably bleak city. The images they bear, often whimsical, adorn every possible surface of ...

Karachi Holds Repeat Vote Despite Killing

Radio Free Europe - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Voters in Pakistan's port city of Karachi have cast ballots in a partial rerun of the country's general election. The May 19 vote in the constituency known as NA-250 was held amid tight security, after a senior woman politician from Imran Khan's party was killed on the eve of the fresh voting. There was no official estimate of voter turnout. Khan's Pakistan Movement ...

Gunmen Kill Khans Senior Official Ahead of Pakistan Recount

Common Dreams - Sunday 19th May, 2013

was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on ...

Nawaz Sharifs party gets majority in Pakistan parliament

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ...

Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic

API - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...

Pakistan heads back to the polls senior politician killed

Christian Science Monitor - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A bloody campaign season in which about 150 people were killed nationwide ended with the death of Zara Shahid Hussain, a top politician in Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Insaf party. On Sunday, some constituencies accused of vote-rigging voted ...

Pakistan killing overshadows Karachi poll

SBS - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistani voters have cast their ballots in a partial re-run election in Karachi a day after a local political leader was gunned down outside her ...

Senior Pakistani politician shot dead

CBC News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Gunmen in Pakistan have killed a senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party outside her home in Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain, 60, was shot twice in the head, outside her home in Karachi by two men on motorcycle, police said on ...

Sarabjits murder Pakistan judge may visit India

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...

6 killed 38 injured as suicide blast hits police van in NW Pakistan

SINA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. Muhammad Faisal, Superintendent Police of Peshawar, said that a suicide bomber carrying an estimated of five to six kg of explosive materials blew himself up near a police ...

Karachi Residents Re-Do Last Weeks Election

VOA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Kahn has blamed the killing of a top member of his political party on a rival party, as voters in Karachi re-vote a parliamentary election originally held last ...

Video Senior female politician killed in Pakistan

The National - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Anguished relatives and friends react to the news that Zahra Shaid Hussain, a politician in the PTI party was gunned down by unknown assailants. Deborah Gembara ...

Pakistani Politician Zara Hussain Is Killed

Sky News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Former cricket star Imran Khan has blamed a UK-based political rival and the British government after a female party colleague was shot dead. Zara Hussain, 59, was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. She was vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province. The killing came on the eve of a partial ...

Pakistans Imran blames rival for killing party figure

West Australian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan Sunday blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi.The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the ...

Gunmen kill senior female Pakistani politician

MSNBC - Sunday 19th May, 2013

By By Katharine Houreld, Reuters ISLAMABAD - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. It was not immediately clear who killed Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The PTI ...

Pakistan senior female politician in Khans PTI party shot

Euro News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The senior vice-president of the party led by Pakistani international cricketer Imran Khan has been shot. Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed outside her home in the upmarket area of Defence in the southern city of Karachi. Local reports suggest Hussain, 60, a member of the Pakistan’s Movement for Justice ...