SWAT, Nov 09 (SANA): Under Taliban pressure at least 350 policemen of NWFP police and Frontier Core ..Read More..

KHAR, Nov 09 (SANA): IN Bajaur Agency fourteen militants were killed and several injured in the Jet fighters bombardment in Kharkay, Saprey Chopathra and Damadola areas of tehsil Mamond on Sunday. ..Read More..

LAHORE/KARACHI, Nov 09 (SANA): The 131st birth anniversary of great poet-philosopher Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who conceived the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Sub-continent, was celebrated on Sunday. ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SAAN): The National Assembly session would be held on Monday afternoon here. In the session, besides the routine work, the house will initiate a debate on the address ..Read More..

LAHORE, Nov 09 (SANA): Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has violated and crossed all Shariah, moral and political bounders and changed Governor House into vulgar center and red-lighted atmosphere. ..Read More..

SIALKOT (SANA): Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Sunday said that good governance could not be established in the country without independent judiciary. ..Read More..

QUETTA, Nov 09 (SANA): The Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan has said that two hundred and fifty government schools have been destroyed in the October 29 earthquake in province. ..Read More..

BANNU, Nov 09 (SANA): Six persons were killed in an exchange of fire during a Jirga here on Sunday. A Jirga was underway to settle a property dispute between two brothers ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD, Nov 9 (SANA): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the people from East and West to learn from the teachings of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who advocated the foundation of a new world by wedding intellect with love. ..Read More..

SRINAGAR, Nov 09 (SANA): Condemning the official curbs on media in the Kashmir valley, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said such unwarranted actions could prove counter-productive. ..Read More..

SRINAGAR, Nov 09 (SANA): Peoples Conference has said it will extend full support and participate in the Coordination Committee’s program of protests in district headquarters on polling days. ..Read More..

SRINAGAR, Nov 09: The Congress party has decided not to field its candidates against the former ministers Ghulam Hassan Mir and Hakeem Muhammad Yasin. ..Read More..

SRINAGAR, Nov 09 (SANA): The chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq wrote to the US president-elect, Barrack Hussain Obama, saying if the long-standing Kashmir dispute was not resolved according to aspirations ..Read More..

KABUL, Nov 09 (SANA): US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher on Saturday said that Pakistan and Afghanistan would be at top of the list in US newly elected President Barrack Obama’s foreign policy. ..Read More..

QAIRA, Nov 09 (SANA): Egyptian government on Sunday banished Osama Bin Laden’s son Omar Bin Laden, 28 along with his UK-based wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden, 52. ..Read More..

KABUL, Nov 09 (SANA): CBC-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation- TV’s journalist, Fung, was released after four-week long abduction.

She was kidnapped by armed men on Oct 12 when she was in a refugee camp situated out side Kabul for reporting.

Wardak’s Provincial Governor said that her release took palace after the successful negotiations with tribes’ leaders.

Fung said that she was kept in a narrow cave; however after the release she said, “I’m fine, really, I’m fine. I’m just happy to be here”.

Speaking to Canada’s ambassador, she admitted: “I’m not smelling great”.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that hundreds of Canadian and Afghan officials had been involved over the past month in efforts to free her, and that he had called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to thank him.

However, He said no ransom had been paid by his government, CBC or anyone else.

“She sounded in remarkably good spirits under the circumstances. She said that she feels OK,” the Prime Minster said while addressing a press conference.

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KABUL, Nov 09 (SANA): At least 13 Taliban and seven civilian people died in the raid of US-led forces The attack took place after they attacked Afghan and international troops in Ghowrmach district in Badghis province. ..Read More..

KABUL, Nov 09 (SANA): Two Spanish soldiers were killed and another seriously injured in a suicide attack in Shindand, Afghanistan. According to Spanish Defence Ministry, The Spanish unit was providing support to Afghan security ..Read More..

LONDON, Nov 9 (SANA): The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has underscored the importance of greater representation of Asians and ethnic minorities in the British democracy saying that the non-whites have important role within UK multicultural society. ..Read More..

Khalid Hasan

I have come upon a rare and forgotten piece of writing by Saadat Hasan Manto, sent to me by a friend some time ago. Written within days of the assassination in Rawalpindi of Pakistan’s first prime minister and the Quaid-I-Azam’s right-hand man and confidant, ..Read More..