Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Pakistani men involved in trafficking for sham marriages: Brides-for-sale
LONDON: Klara Balogova was 18, penniless and heavily pregnant when she rode thousands of miles from Slovakia to England to marry a man she had never met. She knew he did not want her, or her child. He wanted her European identity card. The marriage was arranged so the 23-year-old Pakistani groom could gain the right to live and work in Europe....
German woman, 65 and mother of 13, gives birth to quadruplets
A 65-year-old German woman, who is already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine, RTL television reported early on Saturday. The three boys and one girl were born premature at 26 weeks in a Berlin hospital but have “good chances of surviving,” the report said. The mother,...
8 Pakistani cities feature in world’s deadliest cities index
Eight Pakistani cities are listed among 64 cities from around the world that are at an “extreme risk” of terror attacks, according to a new index by Verisk. The cities in Pakistan include Peshawar (7), Quetta (9), Hassu Khel (10), Karachi (16), Rawalpindi (27), Lahore (29), Sukkur (24) and Islamabad (44). The index after assessing 1,300 of the...
Drunk passenger forces Malaysia Airlines flight to turn back
KUALA LAMPUR: A Malaysia Airlines flight to Colombo had to turn back to Kuala Lumpur due to a drunk passenger, the national carrier said on Sunday. Flight MH179 had taken off from Kuala Lumpur late on Saturday. “The intoxicated passenger started harassing Malaysia Airlines’ crew shortly after the flight was airborne,” the company said in a...
Pakistan pins hopes on gas imports, but snags slow progress
The government plans to install new gas import terminals and pipelines to underpin an economic revival linked to $46 billion in Chinese deals but its ambitions are being undermined by poor planning, price uncertainty and security concerns, industry experts said. The government wants to increase imports to fuel industry expansion and reduce daily...
Pakistan, China, India on US intellectual property priority watch list
WASHINGTON: The US on Thursday issued its annual report on the status of intellectual property maintaining Pakistan presence on the Priority Watch List in its annual report along with India and China. Emphasis is placed on Pakistan’s ability to implement the specialized intellectual property rights under the IPO Act 2012. The report states,...
29th Anniversary of ‘Chernobyl disaster’
A traveller writes their account of Chernobyl visit as its 29th anniversary is celebrated. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occured on April 26 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and a huge fire...
Pakistanis happier than Indians: report
Indians and Bengalis are less happy than their counterparts in Pakistan, according to a UN-sponsored study. Generosity is a key indicator in which the Pakistanis are several points ahead of their big neighbour. Pakistan’s cabbies and shopkeepers have proved the point every time a group of Indians comes calling to watch a cricket match or...
Oskar Groning: Auschwitz guard, 93, on trial for complicity in murder of 300,000
He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the genocide committed during the Nazi Holocaust, according to the Guardian. The 93-year-old “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” will go on...
Putin says ready to work with US
Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and...
