India hands over Jinnah speech recordings to Pak
Islamabad: India has handed over to Pakistan recordings of two important speeches by the country’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a step that was welcomed here with much joy. The speeches by Jinnah includes one recorded by All India Radio in New Delhi on June 3, 1947 — two months before partition — in which he gives his reaction to holding a referendum in the NWFP on the region joining Pakistan or India.
Over 100 militants killed in northwest Pak
Islamabad: Over 100 militants and eight security personnel were killed during an operation in Pakistan’s troubled Khyber tribal region, a senior army official said on Wednesday. One hundred and four militants were killed and eighty-four injured in the operation in Tirah Valley of Khyber agency, Maj General Humayun Salim said.
Mansour defends Morsi’s ouster
Cairo: Egypt’s President Adly Mansour has defended the removal of the country’s first freely elected leader Mohammed Morsi by the powerful military, saying the Islamist ruler had “betrayed the ballot box”. In his first television interview since his appointment as the interim president, Mansour said, “Real democracy is rule of the people by the people, not a particular group.”
18 of a Shia Family Killed in Iraq Violence surge
Baghdad: Attacks around Baghdad and north Iraq left 31 people dead on Wednesday, including 18 members of a Shia family killed by militants, the latest in a nationwide surge of violence.
Pak varsity adopts Taliban-style dress code
Islamabad: A medical university in Pakistan’s militancy-wracked northwestern Peshawar has introduced a conservative dress code for students to promote ‘Islamic values’, invoking the ire of pupils.
Over 3 lakh attempts to watch porn in UK Parliament
london: Over 3,00,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites from the British Parliament in the past year, according to official figures.