Staff Report

ISLAMABAD – La Cour suprême (SC) has summoned a report from the defense ministry after two accused involved in the Musharraf Attack Case appealed here on Thursday.

A three member bench, chaired by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case hearing.

During the hearing, the court directed to present the record of military courts’ decisions. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD – La Cour suprême (SC) has summoned a report from the defense ministry after two accused involved in the Musharraf Attack Case appealed here on Thursday.

A three member bench, chaired by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case hearing.

During the hearing, the court directed to present the record of military courts’ decisions. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD – La Cour suprême (SC) has summoned a report from the defense ministry after two accused involved in the Musharraf Attack Case appealed here on Thursday.

A three member bench, chaired by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case hearing.

During the hearing, the court directed to present the record of military courts’ decisions. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD – La Cour suprême (SC) has summoned a report from the defense ministry after two accused involved in the Musharraf Attack Case appealed here on Thursday.

A three member bench, chaired by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case hearing.

During the hearing, the court directed to present the record of military courts’ decisions. SAMAA

BEYROUTH: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said.

The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.

Both the gunman and the woman, who was detained in the incident, are Syrian nationals, the official said.

The army and police rushed to the site late Wednesday after reports of gunfire.

The man subsequently lobbed grenades and began shooting at the security forces from his flat. At least six police and army troops were wounded.

The military later found a large amount of weapons in the seventh-floor flat from where the gunman was shooting, it said in a statement.

Another gunman was also wounded, the statement noted, adding that he had previously been “detained for several years in Lebanon for security reasons,” without elaborating.

The shootout came amid heightened tension in Lebanon, where deadly sectarian violence has taken place in the past two weeks linked to the unrest sweeping neighbouring Syria. AGENCIES

BEYROUTH: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said.

The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.

Both the gunman and the woman, who was detained in the incident, are Syrian nationals, the official said.

The army and police rushed to the site late Wednesday after reports of gunfire.

The man subsequently lobbed grenades and began shooting at the security forces from his flat. At least six police and army troops were wounded.

The military later found a large amount of weapons in the seventh-floor flat from where the gunman was shooting, it said in a statement.

Another gunman was also wounded, the statement noted, adding that he had previously been “detained for several years in Lebanon for security reasons,” without elaborating.

The shootout came amid heightened tension in Lebanon, where deadly sectarian violence has taken place in the past two weeks linked to the unrest sweeping neighbouring Syria. AGENCIES

BEYROUTH: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said.

The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.

Both the gunman and the woman, who was detained in the incident, are Syrian nationals, the official said.

The army and police rushed to the site late Wednesday after reports of gunfire.

The man subsequently lobbed grenades and began shooting at the security forces from his flat. At least six police and army troops were wounded.

The military later found a large amount of weapons in the seventh-floor flat from where the gunman was shooting, it said in a statement.

Another gunman was also wounded, the statement noted, adding that he had previously been “detained for several years in Lebanon for security reasons,” without elaborating.

The shootout came amid heightened tension in Lebanon, where deadly sectarian violence has taken place in the past two weeks linked to the unrest sweeping neighbouring Syria. AGENCIES

BEYROUTH: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said.

The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.

Both the gunman and the woman, who was detained in the incident, are Syrian nationals, the official said.

The army and police rushed to the site late Wednesday after reports of gunfire.

The man subsequently lobbed grenades and began shooting at the security forces from his flat. At least six police and army troops were wounded.

The military later found a large amount of weapons in the seventh-floor flat from where the gunman was shooting, it said in a statement.

Another gunman was also wounded, the statement noted, adding that he had previously been “detained for several years in Lebanon for security reasons,” without elaborating.

The shootout came amid heightened tension in Lebanon, where deadly sectarian violence has taken place in the past two weeks linked to the unrest sweeping neighbouring Syria. AGENCIES

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday.

While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.

Baloch said that they are right choices and his party has no reservations over them.

Ch. Nisar also informed him about parliamentary committee proceedings. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday.

While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.

Baloch said that they are right choices and his party has no reservations over them.

Ch. Nisar also informed him about parliamentary committee proceedings. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday.

While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.

Baloch said that they are right choices and his party has no reservations over them.

Ch. Nisar also informed him about parliamentary committee proceedings. SAMAA

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday.

While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.

Baloch said that they are right choices and his party has no reservations over them.

Ch. Nisar also informed him about parliamentary committee proceedings. SAMAA

CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”.

The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.

One day a letter arrives that stands out from the others, mainly in its vivid description of the sex the convict Hillary (John Cusack) wants to have with her when he gets out. Charlotte promptly declares him “The One”.

Meanwhile crusading newspaperman Ward (Matthew McConaughey) learns of Hillary’s case and believes he has been falsely sent to death row for the killing of a policeman.

Ward, his brother Jack (Zac Efron) and a black writer Yardley (David Oyelowo) begin to investigate with the help of a dossier Charlotte has compiled.

Their first visit to the prison turns into a farcical seduction, as the sex-starved Hillary commands Charlotte to spread her legs and simulate fellatio at a distance as the red-faced reporters look on.

The young Jack, who has an affectionate relationship with the family’s African-American housekeeper (singer Macy Gray) in spite of the fraught race relations of the era, falls for Charlotte and tries to win her away from Hillary when he gets out of prison.

The film, one of 22 in the running for the festival’s Palme d’Or top prize to be handed out on Sunday, divided the audience at an early press screening, drawing an even mix of applause and boos.

The Australian Kidman, who dials down her natural glamour and turns up the sex appeal in the role of the small-town seductress, said she had been looking for “something raw and more dangerous” when she was given Daniels’ screenplay.

“I had seen ‘Precious’ and I thought it was amazing and I wanted to work with him,” she said after the screening.

“Precious”, which tells the story of an African-American incest survivor, screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar section before going on to two Academy Award nominations. AGENCIES

CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”.

The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.

One day a letter arrives that stands out from the others, mainly in its vivid description of the sex the convict Hillary (John Cusack) wants to have with her when he gets out. Charlotte promptly declares him “The One”.

Meanwhile crusading newspaperman Ward (Matthew McConaughey) learns of Hillary’s case and believes he has been falsely sent to death row for the killing of a policeman.

Ward, his brother Jack (Zac Efron) and a black writer Yardley (David Oyelowo) begin to investigate with the help of a dossier Charlotte has compiled.

Their first visit to the prison turns into a farcical seduction, as the sex-starved Hillary commands Charlotte to spread her legs and simulate fellatio at a distance as the red-faced reporters look on.

The young Jack, who has an affectionate relationship with the family’s African-American housekeeper (singer Macy Gray) in spite of the fraught race relations of the era, falls for Charlotte and tries to win her away from Hillary when he gets out of prison.

The film, one of 22 in the running for the festival’s Palme d’Or top prize to be handed out on Sunday, divided the audience at an early press screening, drawing an even mix of applause and boos.

The Australian Kidman, who dials down her natural glamour and turns up the sex appeal in the role of the small-town seductress, said she had been looking for “something raw and more dangerous” when she was given Daniels’ screenplay.

“I had seen ‘Precious’ and I thought it was amazing and I wanted to work with him,” she said after the screening.

“Precious”, which tells the story of an African-American incest survivor, screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar section before going on to two Academy Award nominations. AGENCIES

CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”.

The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.

One day a letter arrives that stands out from the others, mainly in its vivid description of the sex the convict Hillary (John Cusack) wants to have with her when he gets out. Charlotte promptly declares him “The One”.

Meanwhile crusading newspaperman Ward (Matthew McConaughey) learns of Hillary’s case and believes he has been falsely sent to death row for the killing of a policeman.

Ward, his brother Jack (Zac Efron) and a black writer Yardley (David Oyelowo) begin to investigate with the help of a dossier Charlotte has compiled.

Their first visit to the prison turns into a farcical seduction, as the sex-starved Hillary commands Charlotte to spread her legs and simulate fellatio at a distance as the red-faced reporters look on.

The young Jack, who has an affectionate relationship with the family’s African-American housekeeper (singer Macy Gray) in spite of the fraught race relations of the era, falls for Charlotte and tries to win her away from Hillary when he gets out of prison.

The film, one of 22 in the running for the festival’s Palme d’Or top prize to be handed out on Sunday, divided the audience at an early press screening, drawing an even mix of applause and boos.

The Australian Kidman, who dials down her natural glamour and turns up the sex appeal in the role of the small-town seductress, said she had been looking for “something raw and more dangerous” when she was given Daniels’ screenplay.

“I had seen ‘Precious’ and I thought it was amazing and I wanted to work with him,” she said after the screening.

“Precious”, which tells the story of an African-American incest survivor, screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar section before going on to two Academy Award nominations. AGENCIES