Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...

Top Mumbai cop says phones used to contact IPL bookies in India Dubai and Pakistan

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mumbai, Himanshu Roy revealed on Saturday 30 phones were used during the spot-fixing episode in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He said these phones were used to connect with bookies in India, Pakistan and Dubai via conference calls. "We raided premises in the Kalbadevi area on 14 May and arrested bookie Ramesh Vyas. 92 mobile phones ...

Pak judge appeals for online submissions from Indian nationals on Sarabjit case

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A judge in Pakistan, who is investigating the murder of Sarabjit Singh, has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the case to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit after he succumbed to his injuries following a brutal assault by prisoners in Kot ...

Ajmal backs lethal teammates Irfan Junaid Khan to bamboozle opposition after Akrams coaching

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Pakistani spin star Saeed Ajmal praised fellow pace bowlers Mohammad Irfan and Junaid Khan, saying that the bowlers will be more destructive than before during the ICC Champions Trophy after pace legend Wasim Akram's coaching. Stating that Irfan and Khan will be Pakistan's strike bowlers in the Champions Trophy, Ajmal said that Akram had worked closely with the duo during the recent training ...

Pak team management players calling for retirement of nothing left to offer Afridi

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The Pakistan team management and some players of the national team have said that former captain Shahid Afridi should retire from international cricket as he is 'finished' and has 'nothing left to offer anymore'. Afridi was handed an Rs. 360,000 monthly contract by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) despite being overlooked for the ICC Champions Trophy that takes place in England and Wales next ...

Case against Musharraf in judges detention withdrawn

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The lawyer who had filed a petition in the judges' detention case has withdrawn his complaint against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. The decision was taken by Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman a day before the hearing of the case on Saturday by the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court. According to Dawn News, the case was to be heard at General Musharraf's Chak Shahzad farmhouse, ...

Pakistan politician shot dead in Karachi

RTE - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. ...

PTI Leader Gunned Down in Karachi

Bahrain News Agency - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ...

Leading Pakistani politician killed

Irish Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ...

Alia Bhatts encounters on a Kashmir Highway

India Today - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Aru valley in Kashmir has a whiff of Bollywood in its air these days. Alia Bhatt is busy shooting for Imtiaz Ali's new film, Highway, at the picturesque locale.Highway is a road movie that will see Alia share screen space with Randeep Hooda. The film has been extensively shot across five other states besides Kashmir.The Kashmir leg of shooting is in fact the last stint for the unit. Imtiaz ...

Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing

Reuters - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ...

Pakistan holds re-polling after election fraud claims

China.org.cn - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Election Commission of Pakistan had ordered re-polling after political parties alleged that election officials had been forcibly stopped from reaching the polling stations on May 11 polling ...

Zara Shahid Hussain Senior Member Of Pakistan Party Led By Imran Khan Killed By Gunmen

Huffington Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Chinese held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir over Quran abuse

NDTV - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held today after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said.Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing the ...

Pakistan politician from Khan party gunned down

West Australian - Saturday 18th May, 2013

KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in ...

Gunmen kill senior female member of Pakistani party

Baltimore Sun - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N party. It marked the first time an elected government replaced another one in a nation that has been run by military leaders for more than half its history. Results from a handful of constituencies are still awaited amid accusations of vote-rigging. The shooting came hours ahead of repolling in a key area beset by allegations of voting fraud. It was not immediately ...

Hobbled once-grand railways reflect Pakistan’s decline

The Seattle Times - Saturday 18th May, 2013

RUK, Pakistan - Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by palm trees and rice paddies. Once, it stood at the ...

Pakistani lawmaker killed on election eve

CNN Asia - Saturday 18th May, 2013

-- Pakistani lawmaker Zahra Shahid Hussain, who alleged vote rigging in Karachi, was shot to death Saturday on the eve of a highly contested re-run of balloting in her district, sources close to the family told ...

Pakistan Woman Politician Gunned Down

Radio Free Europe - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a woman politician who was a member of former cricket star Imran Khan’s party. Police said Zohra Shahid Hussain was shot outside her home in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday. The gunmen escaped, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police said it was unclear whether the killing was a murder or the result of a ...

Indiana halts support of Pakistani fertilizer plant on US bomb concerns

MSNBC - Saturday 18th May, 2013

By Susan Guyett, Reuters Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Midwest Fertilizer Corp, which has sought to build the plant in southern Indiana, is 48 percent owned by Fatima Group, ...

Karachi gunmen kill Khan party woman

SBS - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election ...

Pakistans Railroads Sum Up Nations Woes

International Herald Tribune - Saturday 18th May, 2013

RUK, Pakistan ...