I’ve been doing it with them for about two-and-a-half years and we’ve made masses of money,” Majeed said. A shocking claim made by a 35 year-old man who was arrested by police last night on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers. According to Telegraph Mazhar Majeed, a London-based businessman, has been accused of accepting £150,000 from an undercover journalist in return for telling Pakistan fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif to deliberately bowl three no-balls ... Read More

These are pictures worth a thousand words! I am speechless at the intensity of their need, need for help, need for food, need to survive! Watching flood coverage on tv screens all day makes us immune and we do not realize the magnitude of the disaster. Please help these people in whatever way you can. On such days I wish to be "man" so I am free to leave the comforts of my house and do some "real" help. Millions of people are ... Read More

Pakistan was still mourning the people killed in the plane crash when floods started taking lives. 800 people (so far) has been killed and thousands left  homeless in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. Three days of heavy monsoonal rains across the northwest caused scores of rivers to burst their banks, tearing down 60 bridges and scores of roads and buildings. Hundreds of villages and towns, along with massive swaths of agricultural land, were under several feet ... Read More

This breath taking view of Margalla Hills shows how the recent rains brought relief and happiness to the Isloo people till today morning. When a commercial plane  (Air Blue Airbus flight A-321) crashed with 159 people on board. Yesterday's beautiful scene is filled with horror and sorrow today. It is still raining... the scene is the same, same clouds covering the top of hills, same streets, same green patches. Every spot in Islamabad is a perfect screenshot for the nature ... Read More

I wish not to share this dreadful story with you all but this is just to inform everyone where and whom to contact for reporting cyber crimes in Pakistan. On one hand it gave me immense pleasure to meet my old friends after decades through facebook, a social networking site known to all. But the  shock and sadness which results in ugly instances like the one reported by 'The News' overshadows ..... Kindly note that public can report such cases to ... Read More

Liz Hoggard writes in London Evening Standard I don't have to do this,” Imran Khan tells me earnestly. “I could have a very easy existence. I could go on TV and make so much money, live like a king.” Instead the retired international cricketer, and former husband of Jemima Khan, has dedicated his life to politics back home in Pakistan. Jemima, the daughter of the late financier, Sir James Goldsmith, may just have bought a £15 million stately pile in Oxfordshire, but Imran lives hand-to-mouth on a ... Read More

The research work carried out by a young Pakistani particle physicist Jamil Aslam and two of his team members — Ahmed Ali and Christian Hambrock — received acclamation from the physics community as its results may lead to the discovery of a “new form of matter”. Jamil Aslam is a faculty member of Physics Department at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), while the other two physicists are working in Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), the biggest German research centre for particle physics. He and his ... Read More

Home remedies for common ailments are very interestingly summed up in an urdu poem by an unknown writer. It covers everything from cold, indigestion, fatigue, sore throat to tooth ache and  weakness. Let me explain the title which is in urdu language. Tandrusti is health and mashwarey means suggestions so here are some valuable suggestions for staying healthy. Jahan tak kaam chalta ho ghiza(food) sey Wahan tak chahaye bachna dwa(medicine) sey Agar tuj ko lagey jarey(winter) main sardi To istimaal ker anday(egg) ki zardi Jo ho ... Read More

Its hot in summers! Everybody knows and there is nothing new about it but when you have to face these boiling temperatures then it becomes a news. It was quite hot on saturday making it difficult for people to go outdoors. The markets and roads wore a deserted look. Power crisis is not making our lives any easier in this scorching heat. Even if we stay indoors and there is no electricity then we have only one thing which can ... Read More

A rickshaw driver in Lahore attempted suicide along with his wife and daughters. This poor family living in the Shahpur area of  Lahore took toxic pills as life became impossible for them. All of us must have read the news or have seen it on tv. Do we feel responsible for this horrific incidence? Now that she has lost her husband and three innocent girls she will receive one million rupees 'compensation' from the Chief Minister of Punjab. Compensation for staying alive ... Read More