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News for Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012

‘New generation’ of tech-savvy Taliban fighters

Once seen as uneducated thugs, the Taliban are producing dangerous new fighters who use the latest digital technology to plan and publicise attacks against NATO and Afghan forces, analysts say. The...

SC adjourned Riaz contempt case

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa Wednesday excused himself from further sitting in the bench hearing contempt case against real estate tycoon Malik Riaz. The case was adjourned till the constitution of new...

Power shortfall reaches 4,540MW

Power shortfall in the country has reached 4,540MW. According to the Ministry of Water and Power sources, the generation of electricity is 13,949MW while requirement is 18,489MW. Owing to shortfall of electricity...

Japan’s Hitachi to supply 596 cars for UK high-speed railway

Japan's Hitachi will supply 596 train carriages for Britain's high-speed rail project in a deal worth £4.5 billion ($6.99 billion), the company and the British government said Wednesday. The deal is...

Qaeda says deadly Iraq attacks began new campaign

Al-Qaeda's Iraq front group claimed a wave of attacks that killed 113 people on Monday in Iraq's deadliest day in two and a half years, saying it marked the launch...

Mukherjee sworn in as Indian president

Former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee called for action to tackle India's dire poverty as he was sworn in as president on Wednesday during an elaborate display of pomp and circumstance. The...

Defiant Iran ups uranium enrichment

Iran is defiantly forging on with its controversial nuclear activities by activating hundreds more uranium enrichment centrifuges, according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "There are currently 11,000 centrifuges active in enrichment facilities"...

Karachi violence leaves three more dead

Three persons were killed in the ongoing wave of violence on Wednesday. 30-year-old Kashif Ali was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near Kala Pul Railway Line, Mahmoodabad. A youth was killed by...

Rawalpindi police arrests two robbers

Police arrested two proclaimed offenders Imran alias Mani and Ahmed Ali on Wednesday, who were involved in various cases of robberies that occurred in Rawalpindi, Abbottabad and Mansehra. Later on...

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