Gold goes up by Rs 300 per tola
May 19th
According to All Pakistan Jewellers Association, one tola gold price closed at Rs 55,500 per tola with an increase of Rs 300, while 10-gram reached Rs 47,571 with a hike of Rs 257.
KSE-100 index sheds 372 points during the week
May 19th
Mixed trend witnessed at the Karachi Stock Market during the week but profit taking and pre budget debates in business community pulled the KSE-100 index down by 372 points and it failed to maintain 14,000 points level. Average trade volume remained at 143.7 million shares.
Obama says G8 in agreement on Iran nuclear program
May 19th
CAMP DAVID, Md.: 中美. President Barack Obama said on Saturday leaders of the Group of Eight major economies are committed to continuing the current approach of sanctions, pressure and diplomatic discussions with Iran over its nuclear program.
Minor girl kidnapped, raped and murdered in Karachi
May 19th
Staff Report KARACHI: The tortured dead body of a six-year-old girl was found dumped at Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi on Saturday, after 12 days of kidnapping. The girl, identified as Fatima, was abducted from Mobina Town. She was first sexually assaulted and then tortured to death
Bomb at Italian school kills teenager, wounds seven
May 19th
BRINDISI: A bomb exploded in front of a girls’ school in southern Italy on Saturday, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding seven others, suspicion quickly falling on the local Mafia.
New Pir Pagaro not fond of becoming leader
May 19th
Staff Report KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief and new spiritual leader of Sindh’s Hur community Pir Pagaro said Saturday his party would look for seat adjustment with all parties in the next general elections.
PYO holds ‘Gilani Khapay’ rally in Karachi
May 19th
Staff Report KARACHI: The Peoples Youth Organization (PYO) on Saturday took out a ‘Gilani Khapay’ rally in Karachi to express solidarity with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in the wake of his conviction by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a contempt case. Participants of the rally held a march from Peoples Secretariat to press club.
Builder among 3 killed in Karachi
May 19th
Staff Report KARACHI: Three people were killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi on Saturday.
Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
May 19th
華盛頓: President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the U.S.
No bail for Italian sailors in India despite envoy protests
May 19th
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An Indian court denied bail on Saturday to two Italian sailors charged with the murder at sea of two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates, hours after Rome recalled its ambassador from New Delhi in an increasingly surly diplomatic row.
Ajamal says he is working on bowling variety
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan off spinner Saeed Ajmal said on Saturday that he is working on new variety in his bowling to create more troubles for batsmen.
Unmanned plane crashes near Mianwali
May 19th
Staff Report MIANWALI: An unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed near Mianwali in Punjab on Saturday, SAMAA reports. The pilot-less plane was on a test flight when it crashed near a PIA base
Blind Chinese activist appears to have left for U.S.
May 19th
BEIJING: Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s baggage has been checked into a
Nine killed by Syria car bomb, 100 wounded
May 19th
BEIRUT: A car bomb that rocked the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday killed nine people and wounded about 100, the official SANA news agency said.
Lift sanctions, Iran tells West before nuke talks
May 19th
TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday said sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme should be lifted in talks with world powers next week in Baghdad, but maintained the punitive measures would not compel it to abandon its atomic “rights.” Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the government daily Iran that the lifting of sanctions would display “the first signs” that the West is changing its “wrong” approach towards Iran and its nuclear work. Mehmanparast reiterated Tehran’s assertion that the sanctions have no legal basis, but admitted “no one in Iran is happy about the sanctions” and that they “may cause problems.” But he insisted that “sanctions do not really have a significant effect.” Iran on May 23 is to meet representatives of the so-called P5+1 group, comprising the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany, in Iraq’s capital for the second round of talks which were revived in April in Istanbul after a 15-month impasse. Iranian leaders have been increasingly demanding that the sanctions targeting its trade and banking sectors as well its oil exports be lifted, while insisting that they were ineffective
Gujranwala trader robbed in broad daylight
May 19th
Staff Report GUJRANWALA: In a crime committed in broad daylight, unidentified robbers looted a trader of cash and jewelry worth millions of rupees in Gujranwala on Saturday. According to Gujranwala police chief Malik Kamran Yousuf, three armed men barged into the house of trader Wasim Butt in Satellite Town, held his family hostage on gunpoint and took away 70 tolah of gold and cash of Rs1.5 million


















































