Russian plane crashes in Egypt

A Russian passenger plane with 224 people on board crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, leaving “many” dead including 17 children, officials said.

The chartered plane had taken off from the south Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for Saint Petersburg and lost contact with air traffic control 23 minutes later before crashing in the restive peninsula.

by AFP

Imran, Reham decide to part ways after 10 months of marriage

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Petrol prices likely to increase by Rs. 5.73 per litr, Pakistan

Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has recommended the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to hike prices of petroleum goods by Rs. 5.73 per litre, ARY News reports.

OGRA, in its summary, has recommended the petroleum ministry to hike per litre price of petrol by Rs. 5.28 per litre and to increase the cost of high octane fuel by 5.73 per litre.

The oil and gas monitory body has suggested the federal government to raise the cost of high speed diesel by Rs. 3.34 whereas the rate of kerosene oil is likely to go up by Rs. 3.89 per litre.

OGRA has also recommended the petroleum ministry to hike the price of light speed diesel by Rs. 2.70 per litre.

Finance Ministry will announce the revised petrol prices on 31st October after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s approval.

Iran considered nuclear weapons during 1980s Iraq war, ex-president says

DUBAI: Iran considered pursuing a nuclear deterrent when it began its nuclear programme in the 1980s, during an eight-year war with Iraq, a former president has been quoted as saying.


Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s comments comes at a sensitive moment, as Iran implements an agreement reached with world powers in July aimed at curbing its nuclear programme, to allay

Western fears it was trying to build an atomic bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, is investigating whether Iran’s nuclear programme ever had a military application. It is due to issue a report by Dec. 15.

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40 dead as Syria govt rockets hit Damascus suburb

BEIRUT: Forty people were killed on Friday when rockets fired by Syrian government forces crashed into a market in a rebel-held area outside Damascus, a monitor said.

“There were 40 people killed and at least 100 wounded in the centre of Douma,” a town in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of the Syrian capital, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

Baloch rebels lay down arms in Pakistan

Thirty Baloch rebels and two commanders on Thursday surrendered to the Pakistan authorities, a provincial government minister said, the latest insurgents to lay down their arms in troubled Balochistan province.The 32 militants were from two separatist groups, the Baloch Liberation Army and the United Baloch Army, which have long been fighting government forces in gas rich Balochistan which borders Iran and Afghanistan.


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Local Body Elections Pakistan: Electioneering comes to an end, troops deployed in ‘sensitive districts’

As the electioneering for the first phase of local bodies elections in Sindh and Punjab ended electoral material being transported to polling stations under the police security. More than 20 million voters will exercise their right to vote in eight districts of Sindh and 12 districts of Punjab on Saturday. Polling will be held from 7:30am to 5:30pm.
All presiding officers will be delegated the powers of a first-class magistrate.

Bilawal visits earthquake victims in Peshawar hospital

Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paid a visit to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital on Thursday and met the victims of the earthquake.

News: Ary News

(Well what the true story noone knows, but they cashing even this disaster.)

Explosion in Quetta kills at least three

At least three persons were reported dead in an explosion here in Quetta on Thursday. Levis officials stated the bomb planted on the corner of a road at Quetta’s Marwar area exploded due to which three persons, travelling in a vehicle, were killed on the spot and four others were injured.


Security forces arrived at the scene after the explosion and cordoned off the area.

Hand grenade explosions in Satellite Town — no casualties reported

Two hand grenades explosion took place in Satellite Town area of the provincial capital.

Police stated that two persons on a motorcycle hurled hand grenades at two different location of Sattelite Town mini market.

No casualties were reported in the hand grenade explosions.
Police and Frontier Corps arrived at the scene and surrounded the area. The investigation of the incident is underway.

Courtesy ARY News.

Migration Resource Centres formed to guide emigrants

Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development and the Punjab Department of Labour & Human Resource have formed two Migrant Resource Centers (MRCs) in Islamabad and Lahore to combat the abuses face by the migrants.

APS attack suspect arrested in Italy, handed over to Pakistan

A key suspect of the December 16, 2014 attack on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, has been handed over to Pakistan after his arrest in Italy, ARY News reports.

Relief agencies battle to reach Afghan-Pakistan earthquake victims

Relief agencies were battling Wednesday to reach cold and hungry survivors of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with entire communities still cut off in the mountainous region.

Armed men’s attempt to attack school in Charsadda foiled

Unidentified armed men opened aerial firing outside a school in Charsadda and fled from the scene. No loss of life was reported.

Fire in Karachi’s slum kills at least five persons

At least five persons were killed in a blaze that erupted at slums in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area.

Pakistan tells India “won’t to tolerate” border violations

Pakistan on Tuesday apprised India that it will not tolerate ceasefire violations at the Working Boundary and the Line of Control (LoC).