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