Mush sent to 14-day judicial custody
Islamabad: A Pakistani court remanded beleaguered former President Pervez Musharraf to judicial custody for 14 days while another court rejected a request to bar him from travelling out of the country.
court reopens graft cases against Zardari
Islamabad: In a setback to former President Asif Ali Zardari, a Pakistani court on Friday reopened five anti-corruption cases against him and sought his response to the charges within two weeks.
Play on Bhagat Singh at Pak ancestral village
Islamabad: Over eight decades after he was hanged by the British, people in Bhagat Singh’s village in Pakistan will get an opportunity to know him and understand the sacrifices of the freedom fighter through the play Mera Rang De Basanti Chola.
Berlusconi to do community service
Rome: Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has asked to serve his 12-month sentence for tax fraud in the form of community service, his lawyers said on Friday.
father meets with Snowden
Moscow: The father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has held an “emotional” meeting with his son for the first time since the fugitive took refuge in Russia to escape US justice, a report said.
Indian casket, gold tray auctioned for £662,500
london: An extremely rare 18th century enamelled and bejewelled gold tray and casket ‘paan-daan’ has been sold for a whopping 662,500 pounds at Sotheby’s first auction of the Imperial India collection here, over double its pre-sale estimate.
New Yorkers charged with aiding terrorists
New York: Two New York residents, including a Pakistani national, have been arrested on charges of conspiring to send boots, winter coats and electronics to Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists to fight US troops in Afghanistan.
‘Bad deal worse than no deal with Iran’
Berlin: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday “a bad deal is worse than no deal” with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, ahead of crunch talks between Tehran and world powers. In excerpts of an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published in advance, he called for sanctions on the Tehran regime to be stepped up rather than eased.
Iraq violence kills 21 people
Baghdad: Violence in Iraq has killed 21 people, among them four anti-Al-Qaeda fighters and an AFP journalist’s brother, officials said. In Samarra, north of Baghdad, gunmen killed two Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda fighters in an attack on a checkpoint yesterday, while two more died in a similar attack near Baquba, also north of the capital.