Saudi prince executed

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a member of the royal family for murder, in a rare case involving one of the thousands of members of the House of Saud.

Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in the capital Riyadh for shooting dead Adel al-Mahemid, a Saudi, during a brawl, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Kabir was the 134th local or foreigner put to death this year, according to an AFP tally of ministry statements.

The Arab News reported in November 2014 that a court in Riyadh sentenced an unnamed prince to death for killing his friend.

He lost his life and another person was injured in an exchange of gunfire following a dispute at a camp on the edge of Riyadh in December 2012, the newspaper said.

Saudi prince executed

Life of Arshad Khan

A look into the life of Arshad Khan

The 18-year-old Pakistani ‘Chai Wala’ Arshad Khan has become a viral smash hit for his supermodel looks, but people know a very little about his life, family, and career. Here is a report on the life of Khan, who has made the social media crazy with his blue eyes and sharp mustache, melting the hearts… life of Arshad Khan

Samaa meets blue-eyed ChaiWala

Samaa meets blue-eyed ChaiWala 


Samaa correspondent has finally met the Islamabad-based chaiwala, or tea seller, who has become Pakistan’s blue-eyed boy as well as a social media sensation for which the internet is going crazy. While speaking to Arshad, the handsome boy, Samaa correspondent also meets the photographer Javeria who posted the pictures on her Instagram handle after which…Samaa meets blue-eyed ChaiWala 

Sindh CM sets timings

Sindh CM sets timings for markets, marriage halls
KARACHI: In a bid to save power, Sindh government Friday decided to limit marriage halls timings till 10pm and shut markets and commercial centers at 7pm. Presiding over a review meeting of Sindh cabinet, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the concerned authorities to ensure strict implementation of new timings from November. Meantime, he…

Sindh CM sets timings

Sweet words of Miandad

Sweet words of Miandad

Former captain Javed Miandad said the young cricketers are endowed with so much talent that they will not let Younis Khan’s absence felt. Talking to SAMAA, he advised the players not to consider the rivals as an easy target despite they won ODI and Twenty20 series. Watch what else he said.

Two MQM-H target killers arrested

Two MQM-H target killers among six arrested

KARACHI: The personnel of paramilitary force arrested six criminals including two target killers in different raids in Karachi on Thursday. According to the Rangers spokesman, several raids were launched in the mega-city area of Landhi, Bin Qasim and Korangi today. The Rangers spokesman said six criminals including two target killers hailing from Muttahida Quami Movement…

Mahira Khan no longer a part of King Khan’s ‘Raees

Mahira Khan no longer a part of King Khan’s ‘Raees   

 MUMBAI: Tensions between India and Pakistan, and the recent ban on Pakistani artistes, have escalated to a new level, at least that is what rumour has. People from the film industry are speculating Mahira Khan, who is supposed to be starring opposite King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan in the upcoming action-thriller ‘Raees’, has been kicked out of…  

Security alert issued in Karachi as two

Security alert issued in Karachi as two 

KARACHI: At least two people were targeted killed on Saturday in Karachi and as many wounded in firing incidents leaving Karachiites faced with apprehensions regarding their security during the holy month of Muharram-ul-Haram.....

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PM briefs business community

PM briefs business community

LAHORE: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, in a meeting discussing CPEC and the national economy at the Governor House in Lahore, stated the government was taking serious and sincere measures to stabilize the national economy, which is strengthening, Samaa reported. Addressing a delegation of leading businessmen which called on him in Lahore on Saturday, the… read more 

PM briefs business community

Two suspects blow themselves up during Ankara

Two suspects blow themselves up during Ankara 

ANKARA: Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives during a police operation in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday after officers called on the suspects to surrender, state media reported. They set off the car bomb they had prepared, the official Anadolu news agency said, adding that the two suspects were dead. There were no immediate… read more ....
Two suspects blow themselves up during Ankara 

Pillion riding banned in Karachi

Pillion riding banned in Karachi till October 30

KARACHI: Pillion riding has been banned in Karachi from today till 13th of this month. A notification to this effect has been issued by Sindh’s Home Department on Saturday. The ban has been imposed keeping in view the law and order situation during Muharram-ul-Harram. Meanwhile, Additional Inspector General Karachi Mushtaq Mahar directed police to ensure…

Pillion riding banned in Karachi

Pillion riding banned in Karachi till October 30

KARACHI: Pillion riding has been banned in Karachi from today till 13th of this month. A notification to this effect has been issued by Sindh’s Home Department on Saturday. The ban has been imposed keeping in view the law and order situation during Muharram-ul-Harram. Meanwhile, Additional Inspector General Karachi Mushtaq Mahar directed police to ensure…

Fawad Khan’s role in upcoming Indian

Fawad Khan’s role in upcoming Indian flick chopped off

MUMBAI: Sushant Singh Rajput starrer MS Dhoni biopic which boasted of Fawad Khan’s special role in the film no longer has the Pakistani actor’s part, sources reported. Fawad, who was playing the role of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli in the biopic MS Dhoni: The Untold Story has had his role chopped off right before the…

Indian radical caste system claims life of one

Indian radical caste system claims life of one DEHRADUN: An Indian teacher beheaded a Dalit man after an argument over his use of a flour mill, a senior police officer said Friday, the latest in a spate of attacks on members of the country’s lowest caste. The teacher became angry when he saw 35-year-old Sohan Ram using the flour mill in northern Uttarakhand…

Pakistan’s Parliament passes resolution

Pakistan’s Parliament passes resolution against Indian aggression

I ISLAMABAD: Dismissing Indian claim of surgical strike on its territory, Pakistan’s Parliament Friday condemned Indian aggression on Line of Control (LoC) and demanded the country to cease interference in Pakistan. The resolution tabled by Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz was unanimously adopted. The resolution also asserted Kashmir is not an integral part of…

Ajay Devgn follows suit, makes anti-Pakistan

Ajay Devgn follows suit, makes anti-Pakistan comments over artiste boycott

NEW DELHI: After Hema Malini’s public announcement against Pakisani actors on Twitter, actor Ajay Devgn has followed suit and made similar comments about the ongoing Pak-India situation. Talking to an interviewer for a news channel, the actor was asked if he would collaborate with Pakistani artistes, the actor shot the idea down stating that he…

All communication channels open between

All communication channels open between Pak, India militaries: DG ISPR

ISLAMABAD: Lt. General Asim Bajwa, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), has said that India is responsible for escalation of tension at Line of Control (LoC). Bajwa has further said that Pakistan has prepared its own contingency plan to deal with any situation. In an interview to China’s Xinhua news agency, Bajwa said…

Dubai police interrogate man who threw iPhone off

Dubai police interrogate man who threw iPhone off 

DUBAI: The Dubai police recently interrogated a man who posted a viral video shot in the emirate, showing an iPhone 7 being hurled from one of the top floors of the Burj Khalifa. A senior police official said the act could have endangered people who were walking below the building. Social media users voiced their…

Khawaja Izhar breaks into tears

 Khawaja Izhar breaks tears

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Pakistan leader Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan condemned Altaf Hussain’s anti-Pakistan remarks, saying he demanded Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to take strict action on August 22 incidents.

MQM is supporting Karachi operation even today and considers itself as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the ongoing action, he said while addressing at the floor of Sindh Assembly following the resolution was passed against former MQM boss Altaf Hussain.

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Khawaja Izhar breaks tears

Belgium gets world’s biggest pickled brain collection

BRUSSELS: A new collection in the psychiatric hospital of Duffel in the north of Belgium makes for a ghoulish sight: around 3,000 preserved brains that were originally saved by a British doctor.
The collection of frontal lobes, hippocampi and other key parts of the brain floating in formaldehyde or fixed in paraffin will be used for research into psychiatric illnesses such as depression or schizophrenia.
British neuropathologist John Corsellis collected and conserved the brains over a period of more than 40 years between 1951 and the middle of the nineties but authorities in London ran out of space.
Now they have come to Duffel, where Manuel Morrens, the director of research at the hospital, and his colleagues will share the collection with the faculty of medicine at the University of Antwerp.......

Wazeer e Azam ki Ghair Mojoodgi Mein Budget ki Manzoori Kon Day Ga ?

Islamabad : wazeer e azam Nawaz Sharif apne ilaaj ke silsilay mein un dinon London mein hain. is douran malik mein ahem siyasi faislon ke ilawa budget ki manzoori bhi di jani hai .

wazeer e azam ki ghair mojoodgi mein mulki umoor ki qaim maqam zimma daari Ishaq daar ke supurd hai. zaraye ke mutabiq wazeer khazana Ishaq daar ne aaj ahem mushawarti baithak bulaa li hai. zaraye ne daawa kiya hai ke Ishaq daar bator wazeer khazana qaumi iqtisadi council ki sadarat kar saktay hain .

zaraye کامزیدکہنا hai ke wifaqi kabeena mein chohadry Nisar takneeki tor par senior tareen wazeer hain. budget پرامورطے karne ke liye wazeer e azam Nawaz shareef se bhi phone پررابطہ rakha jaye ga. mushawarti ijlaas mein budget ki manzoori ke tareeqa car par baat hogi

Accountability vital for Pakistan’s prosperity, peace: COAS

RAWALPINDI: Calling for across the board accountability, Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif said that ongoing war against terrorism and extremism being fought with the backing of entire nation cannot bring enduring peace and stability unless the menace of corruption is not uprooted.

The army chief made these remarks while visiting Signal Regimental Center in Kohat today.

“The ongoing war against terrorism and extremism being fought with the backing of entire nation cannot bring enduring peace and stability unless the menace of corruption is not uprooted. Therefore, across the board accountability is necessary for the solidarity, integrity and prosperity of Pakistan,” he said....

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COAS

Mustafa Kamal’s return

MQM reacts to Mustafa Kamal’s return

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) senior leader, Syed Ali Raza Abidi says return of former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal to Pakistan “is last card” by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Samaa reported Thursday.

“Parwa makawa kana (don’t worry man!)…this is the last and final card by Ch.Nisar. Bound to fail like the rest of them,” Abidi said on Twitter. Read Detail ...

MQM reacts to Mustafa Kamal’s return

Mustafa Kamal lashes out at MQM leadership

Kamal, Qaimkhani in Karachi; important presser today

Kamal, Qaimkhani in Karachi

 Mustafa Kamal, Qaimkhani in Karachi...

KARACHI: Senior leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Mustafa Kamal and Anees Qaimkhani have arrived in Karachi after staying out from political arena for several years, Samaa reported Thursday.

According to our correspondent, the two MQM leaders have announced to jointly address an ‘important’ press conference today at 3pm in city’s posh Defence area. Read More detail 

Mustafa Kamal

finalise Waqar’s replacement in April

Waqar’s replacement

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is weighing its options before finalising Waqar Younis’s replacement as Head Coach of the national team with the decision not expected before April.

Talking to APP, a PCB official said that former Test bowler Aaqib Javed, who is currently coaching the United Arab Emirates (UAE) team, had approached the board officials during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in Dubai and expressed his eagerness to take up the assignment of the national team’s head coach.

“The board has not decided anything on this matter yet as current coach Waqar Younis’s contract will expire in July,” he said.

Asia Cup T20 Live match

Good news for Boom

Good news for Boom Boom Afridi

Samiah Khan, a Pakistani astrologist, predicted that 2016 would be a successful year for national T20 team skipper Shahid Afridi.... Read More 

Boom Boom Afridi

All tickets sold out

All tickets sold out for Pakistan-India clash

All tickets for Pakistan-India Asia Cup T20 encounter has been sold out as cricket fever is at its peak. Watch this report.

Pakistan-India clash

Khabar Ka Pata

Islamabad United, Lahore Qalanadars encounter today

Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars are all set to play in Pakistan Super League (PSL) game today in Dubai. Both the teams have lost two matches with one win each. Watch this report.

Firing, panic lead to closure of girls college

RAWALPINDI: Firing between police and car-lifters created panic at a government-run girls college in Rawalpindi, Samaa reported Wednesday.

Reports said exchange of fire took place allegedly between a group of car-lifters and police near Waqar-un-Nissa Girls College, creating fright and panic in the vicinity and prompting family members of the students to throng to the institution.

However, security forces reached the scene and controlled the situation.

Although the college building was later searched and cleared by army troops, the panic led to closure of the academy.

Police said no incident of terrorism took place in the college. - Samaa 

Two pilots martyred as army aircraft crashes

Two pilots martyred as army aircraft crashes near Gujranwala

GUJRANWALA: Two pilots were killed when a small aircraft of the Pakistan Army crashed near Gujranwala on Tuesday.

” Major Azhar and copilot Captain Ahmed, a trainee pilot were martyred in a plane crash near Gujranwala,” Samaa TV reported.

According to the report, the craft was on a training mission when it crashed.

However, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the Mushshak aircraft was on routine flight when it came down in Gujranwala.SAMAA

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100 injured in German train crash: police

BAD AIBLING: Two commuter trains collided head-on in southern Germany on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring around 100, in one of the country’s deadliest rail accidents in years.

Hundreds of rescuers were racing to pull passengers from the wreckage in a wooded area near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of Munich.

Several carriages were overturned.

“We have eight dead on the trains,” said police spokesman Juergen Thaimeier, adding that about 100 people had been injured, 55 of them seriously.

Local police spokesman Martin Winkler had earlier given a toll of four dead.

But rescuers subsequently found another four bodies in the train wreckage.

The “tragic accident occurred on the single-track route between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen this morning shortly after 7:00 am (0600 GMT),” regional rail company Meridian, a subsidiary of the French group Transdev, said in a statement.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

Rainer Scharf, a police officer from the southern state of Bavaria, said that “given the severity of the accident, we believe the two regional trains collided head-on at a low speed.”

He added that the priority was to “rescue the many injured”.

The police tweeted that several hundred emergency services workers were on the scene in the rural area.

Rescue workers from nearby Austria were also on site, rolling news channel NTV said.

Indian soldier rescued six days after Siachen avalanche

ISLAMABAD, Feb 9 (APP): Senate will hold its next session on Wednesday on the requisition of opposition and would discuss issues of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and cut in prices of petroleum products in the wake of lower prices in international market.

Chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani had summoned the session in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (3) of Article 54, read with Article 61 of the Constitution.

Threats’ leave PIA air hostess in tears

Sifwat Saleem, an air hostess who has been serving Pakistan International Airlines for 16 years, spoke her heart out, accusing the airlines' management of issuing threats. Watch what she had to say

Polio hits child despite multiple vaccination

In Karachi’s first polio case of year 2016, polio affected a child despite his immunization nine times.  Watch this report… 

PSL Matches

PSL Matches

PSL: Akmal, Delport punish Gladiators

DUBAI: Umar Akmal (93) and CS Delport (73) destroyed Quetta Gladiators bowling line-up to set highest total on score board in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) match on Monday.

Opposition seemed helpless as Akmal and Delpot struck a massive partnership that helped Qalandars set 195-run target after Azhar Ali was caught by Akbaru Rehman  off  Umar Gul.

PSL- moments of national

VS

February has traditionally been about Valentine’s Day in Pakistan (like the rest of the world) and more recently about Literary Festival in Karachi and Lahore. But not anymore! Henceforth, this is going to be the month of Pakistan Super League (PSL).

Some would say it is not that big a deal. However, for a Pakistani, it is a matter of national pride and the sense of ownership exhibited towards PSL has convinced many to call it unprecedented. It almost seemed an unachievable goal. Messages by international players on social media pledging their support for PSL failed to impress the cricket spectators in Pakistan. Security concerns and event being organised on foreign soil overshadowed the possibility of its success. It was considered impossible to finance the event, organise it in UAE and sponsor foreign players. But local business franchises came forth, biddings were held and international players would now play for Pakistan. All the doubts were brushed away as the first ball was bowled on the pitch of Dubai International Stadium. PSL has officially kicked off!......

Russia shuts down two more banks

MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank said Monday it had revoked the licenses of two more banks as part of government efforts to consolidate the sector as economic troubles mount.

Russia’s 67th lender by assets, Intercommerz had failed to adequately assess risks despite the poor quality of its assets, the central bank said.

“At the same time the bank was involved in dubious transactions,” it added.

The Bank of Russia also said it had revoked the license of a smaller lender, Alta-Bank.

The country’s 186th bank by assets, Alta-Bank had failed to meet its obligations to creditors, the central bank said.

The Russian authorities have been trying to clear the banking sector of hundreds of fragile banks which are often found to employ doubtful or illegal practices.

Lahore-based TV channel attacked

Lahore-based TV channel attacked

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday condemned a gun attack on the office of City-42 in Shadman area of Lahore.

According to a statement, chief minister took strict notice of the incident and sought a report from the Inspector General of Police Punjab. He also ordered immediate arrest of the criminals involved in the incident.

Quetta Gladiators extend winning streak

DUBAI: Quetta Gladiators defeated Peshawar Zalmi by three wickets in a match of Pakistan Super League (PSL) at Dubai Cricket Stadium in UAE on Sunday.

Contributions from top four batsmen Luke Wright (16), Kevin Pietersen (35), Ahmed Shehzad (16) and Sarfraz Ahmed (21) made sure that Gladiators maintained their winning streak.

Wahab Riaz and Shahid Afridi bagged two wickets each to put up some resistance but that wasn’t enough to thwart Gladiators’ chase.

Sent in to bat first by Gladiators, Darren Sammy smashed 31-ball 48 to lift Peshawar Zalmi to 135.

Apart from Sammy, no other player was able to stand before the lethal combination of spinner Muhammad Nawaz, Umar Gul and Zulfiqar Babar.