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Pakistan upgrades air defences on Afghan border
Official says steps taken to avert air incursions from Afghanistan and to respond to any future air strikes.
Comments (31) Memogate: Husain Haqqani submits reply to Supreme Court
Haqqani's application challenging the court order on a probe returned after Registrar raises objection.
Comments (7) Zardari says he's fine, vows to return soon
Sources say Zardari likely suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA).
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Pakistan
Sindh
Explosives were planted near Safoora Chowrangi in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area.
Punjab
Tankers blew up as one driver's attempt to remove obstacle from his air lock caused sparks.
Balochistan
Four sitting ministers also under probe.
KP & FATA
Local activists and Taliban militants have been active in the province and have been blamed for such violence in past.
Opinion
Selective memory and ‘kutti’ diplomacy
By staying away from the Bonn conference we showed that we are unsure of ourselves & our place in the world.
Comments (31) Life & Style
Veena Malik concedes to shooting 'topless' for FHM, but not 'nude'
Veena Malik insists her picture is 'morphed' since her shoot was 'topless', but not 'nude'.
Comments (101) Sports
Hafeez, Umar put Pakistan on top
Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar cracked unbeaten half-centuries to put Pakistan in command.
Comments Confidence the ingredient behind my success: Afridi
Former captain eyes series-win against England next month
Hockey: Too late, Pakistan end losing streak
Greenshirts beat Korea 6-2, in with a chance to finish 5th.
Well done Saeed and Hafeez
The rise of both these bowlers is good for the national team’s fortunes.
Cricket: A Test of patience for in-form Pakistan
Bangladesh take on the tourists in five-day format after 8 years.
Football: No more champions stuff
United, City rue Champions League ouster, look ahead to Europa League.
Business
Back to square one: Cabinet rejects gas load management plan
Petroleum Ministry asked to take all stakeholders on board and submit a revised arrangement.
Comments Pakistan's Market
World
US drone penetrated 250 km: Iran protest
Footage shows aircraft being examined by 2 Tehran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, in charge of country's air defences.
Comments (9) Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan: Governor
Attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the Qazi Abad area.
Comments Mumbai attacks probe: Pakistan members on judicial panel notified
Pakistan issues notification for appointment of members to preside over the judicial commission in Mumbai.
Pakistan upgrades air defences on Afghan border
Official says steps taken to avert air incursions from Afghanistan and to respond to any future air strikes.
Britain's Charles in plea for Pakistan flood victims
Suniya Qureshi, ED British Pakistan Foundation says Charles was 'highlighting plight of 187 million people.
Hospital fire kills at least 40 in eastern India
Authorities believe fire started in early hours in basement where flammable materials were stored.
UAE poll: Muslims from poorer states positive on West
Pakistan, India listed at the bottom of the index.




Teenagers who smoke, drink alcohol and eat junk food are significantly more likely to be unhappy than their clean- living counterparts, a study has found.
About 5,000 children were questioned on their appearance, family, friends, school and life as a whole, and had their happiness levels rated.
Researchers discovered that those who never drank alcohol were between four and six times more likely to have higher levels of happiness than those who did, while those who shunned cigarettes were about five times more likely to have high happiness scores than young smokers.
Pakistani government has now stepped forward to take a greater control over Internet by imposing harsh censorship. In a tender published on the Website of Information and Communications Technology Ministry’s Research and Development Fund the local government has asked for proposal from interested national and international parties dealing with the “development, deployment and operation of a national-level URL filtering and blocking system.”
Pakistan has reserved $10 million to work with interested company(ies) on Internet filtering technology.
The online proposal reads “The system would have a central database of undesirable URL’s that would be loaded on the

A new study from the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania has found that aging is not a factor in poor sleep. The study surveyed more than 150,000 Americans about the quality of their sleep and found that the quality actually improves over time. The fewest complaints of poor sleep came from people in their 80's. It was a popular belief that older adults wake up more frequently in the night than young adults This old notion has now been turned on its head.
First of all, the researchers found that health problems and depressions were associated with poor sleep. Also, women reported more sleep disturbances and daytime tiredness than men.
Students from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science and Statistics have won the first-ever upStart entrepreneurship programme. The competition, organised by Citi, saw master’s students from TCD and Queen’s University Belfast universities create their own start-up business for a new technology product or service. Each business plan had to provide a real market prospect and teams competed with each other to win the opportunity for virtual funding from Citi for their business. The winning entries were Happy Swap, a consumer exchange website for goods created by students from Trinity College Dublin, and Woogie Tap, an interactive tag for downloading information instantaneously, created by students from Queen’s University Belfast. Pictured at the upStart awards at Citi’s offices in Belfast were (left to right back row), Nathan O’Reilly, Citi, Dr Peter Middleton, Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. Siobhán
Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, floods in Thailand and a series of severe storms in the U.S. resulted in the highest-ever catastrophe economic losses in a year this year.
Total economic losses to society, which include insured and uninsured losses, reached an estimated $350 billion, up from $226 billion in 2010.
A 16-member expedition team lead by Viktor Kozlov will attempt to climb K2 in winters. If this epic adventure is successful, it would be the first ever summit by any team on K2 in winter. The mountain has a history of killing one out of four climbers under normal weather conditions.
Earlier two expeditions to climb the mountain in winters have failed while In 2010, an expedition involving three climbers from Italy and Russia successfully reached the summit of Gasherbrum II during the winter season.
The team, a blend of engineers, scientists, guides and experienced mountaineers, is considered to be the toughest team in the mountaineering world and has a list of achievements.
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