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News for Sunday, 5 Aug 2012

It has rained but where are the drains?

Excessive rain has led to severe drainage issues in the provincial capital of the Punjab. After Saturday’s downpour, heavy showers once again started Sunday morning in Lahore leading to several...

Man collecting electronics since 1947!

Mian Abdul Quddus, who lives in Lahore, has been collecting radios and other equipment since 1947, BBC news reported. His love of all things audio and visual means he now has...

China arrests 137 over organ-trafficking

Chinese police arrested 137 people, among them doctors, suspected of trafficking human organs in a nationwide crime ring that profited from the huge demand for transplants, authorities said. In a...

India floods kill 34, hundreds of pilgrims stranded

Flash floods in mountainous northern Indian have killed at least 34 people and left hundreds of Hindu pilgrims stranded, officials said Sunday. Twenty-three workers at a hydroelectric power plant in...

Israeli drone kills Gazan

A Palestinian man was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike on Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medics and witnesses said. The men were riding a...

Ramallah NAM meeting cancelled as Israel bars ministers

A key meeting of Non-Aligned Movement ministers which was to have taken place in the West Bank on Sunday was cancelled after Israel denied five of them entry, officials said....

Saudia invites Iran for extraordinary Muslim summit

Saudi King Abdullah invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders to be held this month in the holy city of Mecca, state news agency SPA...

Kurd rebels storm Turkey border post, 22 killed

Kurdish rebels stormed a Turkish army post on the Iraq border Sunday, triggering fighting that killed 22 people in the latest clash since Ankara launched a major offensive against the...

‘Qaeda’ suicide bombing kills 45 in south Yemen

A suicide bombing in south Yemen blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 45 people, local officials said on Sunday, as residents voiced fears that a lack of security personnel on the ground...

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