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SINGAPORE: Oil prices were mixed in Asian trade Monday as worries over border tensions between Iran and Iraq eased, and the Christmas holidays kept traders on the sidelines, analysts said. New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, shed two cents to 73.34 dollars per barrel. Brent North Sea crude for February [...]

ISLAMABAD: The first air-to-air refueller aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force has arrived, a PAF spokesman said on Saturday.
Three more refueller aircraft are expected to be delivered to Pakistan by mid-2010, the spokesman said, adding that PAF’s overall potential in terms of its effectiveness to defend the airspace would be enhanced by virtue of [...]

Adnan Sabzwari is a proud Pakistani living in the city of lights – Karachi. Throughout his life, Adnan has spent days and nights pursuing his every dream and then conquering it. Adnan says: “If one has firm believe in Allah and is devoted to his cause then he can conquer everything.”
Adnan is a genius whose [...]

KARACHI: Akseer Abbasi thought his childhood dream of playing cricket for Pakistan was obliterated when his cousin accidentally shot him in the knee and he lost his right leg 15 years ago.
Life took another turn for the worse when a devastating earthquake razed his family home in 2005, but the emergence of a disabled cricket [...]

ISLAMABAD: A NAB court has issued arrest warrants against Interior Minister Rehman Malik, DawnNews reported.
These warrants are likely in connection with two previous references against Malik.
One of the references was for alleged misuse of authority and the other for the alleged receipt of two cars from Toyota Motors as illegal gratification to expedite the purchase [...]

ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry, in compliance with the NAB’s directives, has issued arrest warrants against 252 beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The names of the 252 have been placed on the Exit Control List.
The bank accounts of many of the beneficiaries have been frozen and their properties seized. — DawnNews

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has requested the interior ministry to place the names of all NRO beneficiaries on the Exit Control List (ECL), DawnNews reported.
The NAB has issued arrest warrants for declared proclaimed offenders and convicts and has ordered the freezing of accounts in individual cases, officials were quoted as saying.
The NAB chairman [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has declared the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) null and void in a short order.
In a landmark decision, the apex court unanimously decided that the ordinance was unconstitutional.
All old cases that had been dismissed under the NRO stand revived and can now be reopened as per the court orders.
The court said [...]

 The JF-17 ‘Thunder’ had until recently been under a cloud over controversies surrounding its Russian powerplant. However, cynics were proved wrong with the arrival in Pakistan of two small batch production (SBP) aircraft in March, and also assurances from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) that the issue has been resolved. The two SBP aircraft will [...]

LAHORE: In a stunning revelation, US private security service agency, Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, has claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had asked the agency to kill Pakistani nuclear scientist, A Q Khan.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Prince said the CIA had asked the Blackwater to eliminate Khan, however, authorities in Washington “chose [...]