Movie ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ seduces Cannes
May 25th
CANNES: Take a timeless French classic, “Dangerous Liaisons”, and whisk it to 1930s Shanghai: a South Korean director pulled off the unlikely stunt in Cannes on Thursday. “It’s a delightful reworking of ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a cruel fable with two wonderful actresses,” said Edouard Waintrop who picked the selection at the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar section of the festival
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لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Qaim directs prompt action over Nawabshah bus fire
May 25th
سٹاف کی رپورٹ کراچی: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Friday took notice of bus firing incident in Nawabshah that left at least eight people dead today. The CM Shah directed the concerned authorities including DIG Hyderabad and SSP Nawabshah to immediately arrest the culprits involved in the heinous incident that took place near Qazi Ahmed area of Nawabshah this morning
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...School girl torture row: Teacher produced before Dir court
May 25th
Staff Report DIR: The teacher, who allegedly tortured a five-year-old female student in a private school of Lower Dir, was produced before a local court on Friday. According to reports, Qari Ibrahim, a teacher at Iqra Model School, beat up the innocent girl, Roheen, with a plastic pipe.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Zardari calls crunch meeting over Karachi flashpoint
May 25th
سٹاف کی رپورٹ کراچی: President Asif Ali Zardari has called an important meeting at Bilawal House over law and order situation in the metropolis, SAMAA reports Friday. According to Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar, various high-ups including Federal Interior Minister Rehman A.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Overnight Karachi violence leaves 4 مردہ
May 25th
سٹاف کی رپورٹ کراچی: At least four people were killed and three others injured in separate incidents of firing and violence in different areas of the city, SAMAA reports Friday morning. Meantime, 15 miscreants involved in serious crimes in the city have been arrested in a targeted operation conducted by the Rangers.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Nawabshah bus ambush kills 7
May 25th
Staff Report NAWABSHAH: At least seven people were killed and many more were wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on a bus in Nawabshah. The attack took place on National Highway near Qazi Ahmed locality of Nawabshah. The dead and the wounded were shifted to nearby government-run hospitals.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Hajj scam: Trial court rejects Kazmi’s acquittal plea
May 25th
اسلام آباد (سٹاف رپورٹ): A trial court on Friday rejected Hamid Saeed Kazmi’s plea seeking acquittal from Hajj corruption case. The former religious affairs minister is facing corruption charges in the Hajj scandal. He will be formally indicted on May 23.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...UN panel claims evidence of illegal killings, torture by Syrian forces, armed opposition
May 25th
BEIRUT: The Syrian regime and an increasingly organized rebel force are carrying out illegal killings and torturing their opponents, but government forces are still responsible for most of the violence stemming from the country’s uprising, a U.N. panel says. The findings were released Thursday in Geneva by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which said the conflict has become “increasingly militarized.” The report was based on hundreds of interviews since March with victims and witnesses who fled the country.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Asia shares fall to 2012 lows over Europe woes
May 25th
ٹوکیو: Asian shares fell to their lowest levels of the year on Friday as early bargain hunting gave way to worries about Europe’s raging debt crisis and weak global growth. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.7 فیصد, after edging up as much as 0.3 percent earlier, hitting its lowest since late December as worries about a possible Greek exit from the euro zone continued to weigh on the market. The pan-Asia stock index was set for a third consecutive week of losses, its longest losing streak in six months.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Suu Kyi to make first trip out of Myanmar in 24 سال: پارٹی
May 25th
YANGON: Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years next week to deliver a speech at an international forum in Thailand, her party said on Thursday. Her decision to venture outside the country she had only expected to return to temporarily in 1988 comes after a year of dramatic change in Myanmar after almost a half century of military rule. Suu Kyi, 66, won a parliamentary seat in April after engaging with the reformist rulers once part of the junta that locked her up for 15 years for her fight against dictatorship
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...President calls meeting to discuss Karachi situation
May 25th
President Asif Ali Zardari has convened a high level meeting on Friday evening in Karachi to discuss the law and order situation of the province especially firing incident on the ‘Sindh Mohabbat Rally in which several people lost their lives. He called the meeting when reached Karachi after attending the NATO Summit in Chicago‚ USA.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Pak-India working to implement new visa regime: Malik
May 25th
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that Pakistan and India are working to evolve a mechanism to implement new visa regime which was agreed in principle by both the countries. While talking to media after holding talks with the Indian Home Secretary R. K
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...لاہور: Robbers loot 2kg gold from jewelers shop
May 25th
Four robbers stormed into a jewellery shop, situated in Rang Mahal area, and fled away after collecting gold ornaments worth millions of rupees during the broad daylight incident.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Kilat: 6 killed as electric cables fall on truck
May 25th
According to details, electric cables of 11,000 KV fell on a Kilat-bound truck carrying gypsies at Chapper Chati area in Sindh that killed six people and injured more than 30 لوگوں.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Report on Lal Masjid operation presented in SC
May 25th
A three-member bench headed by chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case pertaining to the Lal Masjid operation on Friday. Deputy attorney general informed the court that a case has been registered in Aabpara police station following the court orders. The court ordered to file fir of the parents whose children went missing during the operation.
(پھر بھی ریٹنگ) لوڈ کر رہا ہے ...Gujranwala: Tortured minor girl Sobia’s parents arrested
May 25th
Staff Report GUJRANWALA: Police arrested the parents of ten-year-old Sobia who was yesterday found dumped on a roadside with severe torture marks on her body, said City Police Officer Kamran Yousuf on Friday. The arrested parents include Lashkar Khan and his wife, step mother to Sobia, the police official told adding arrested parents of the abandoned minor girl will be produced before the media today. Two parents were arrested from Banglabad Gakhar Mandi.
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