Pakistan Updates

	Flour price surges again in Karachi
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 7:02:30 PM
	Staff Report KARACHI: The price of flour has gone by Rs.40 per 50-kg bag in Karachi, SAMAA reported on Monday. After the fresh hike, the price of flour at retail market has rea....

	Nawaz assails judges for supporting dictators
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:51:03 PM
	Staff Report MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif has lashed out at judges, who had supported dictators in the past. The judges, w....

	Couple found dead on wedding night in Bahawalnagar
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:35:15 PM
	Staff Report BAHAWALNAGAR: Marriage celebrations turned into mourning scenes over suspicious deaths of newlywed couple on their wedding night in Bahawalnagar on Monday. The cou....

	Jirga orders marriage of 4 girls to old man
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:19:44 PM
	Staff Report SUKKUR: The fate of four girls was decided by a local landlord while chairing a jirga in Pano Aqil tehsil of Sukkur district on Monday. Naseem Ahmed, a resi....

	Election campaign in full swing in AJK
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 5:36:08 PM
	Staff Report MUZAFFARABAD: Election campaign has intensified in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJM), where leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP)....

	Minor girl arrested, suicide vest recovered in Lower Dir
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 5:21:21 PM
	Staff Report PESHAWAR: Security forces arrested a minor girl and recovered a suicide vest form her possession in Lower Dir on Monday. The bomber girl, identified as Sohana, was....

	Missile strikes kill 11 suspected militants in Kurram
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 4:22:53 PM
	Staff Report PARACHINAR: Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into Kurram Agency on Monday, killing at least 11 militants, nine of them foreigners, SAMAA reported. According....

	Car blast kills one in Quetta
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 4:19:01 PM
	Staff Report QUETTA: A car bomb blast killed one person and left another seven injured on Saryab Road in Quetta on Monday. The injured men were shifted to Civil Hospital....

	Pakistan belongs to people, not rulers: Nawaz
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 3:36:38 PM
	Staff Report BHIMBAR: Pakistan belongs to people, not President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Chief Nawaz....

	PLF stage protest against Rana Sana’s statement in Lahore
	Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:33:29 PM
	Staff Report LAHORE: People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF) staged protest against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah’s statement regarding Babar Awan’s murder, SAMAA report....