Pakistan briefly blocks 2 independent news channels during attack on army headquarters

October 10th, 2009 Pakistan blocks 2 independent news channelsISLAMABAD — Pakistan took two news channels off the air Saturday that had been covering attempts by soldiers to capture two militants who broke into army headquarters in an attack on the complex. Geo and SAMA channels, known for critical reporting of the government, were blocked from broadcasting Saturday evening.

October 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has said officials of the private US security firm, Blackwater, are moving freely in Pakistan and has criticized the Gilani government for following the policies of former President General Pervez Musharraf. Khan claimed that the Blackwater has established its office in Peshawar.

September 7th, 2009 All her viewers in the coming episodes of Pavitra Rishta will miss Ankita Lokhande aka Arachana. It’s sad news for all the followers of the serial, as they will fail to see her anytime soon, as she is not shooting for some days.

August 30th, 2009 Pakistan reality TV contestant drowns in challengeISLAMABAD — A contestant on a Pakistani reality TV show drowned while performing a challenge for the program, a spokeswoman for the show's sponsor said Sunday. Pakistani contestant Saad Khan, 32, was swimming across a lake while wearing a 15-pound (7-kilogram) backpack when he called out for help and then disappeared underwater, according to Fareshte Aslam, information officer for Unilever Pakistan, the show's sponsor.

August 24th, 2009 Afghan TV journalist gunned down in NW PakistanJAMRUD, Pakistan — Gunmen shot dead an Afghan television journalist and severely wounded his colleague Monday in northwestern Pakistan. Janullah Hashim Zada was gunned down as he traveled on a public minibus from Torkham on the Afghan border to the main northwestern city of Peshawar, said Khyber Agency official Omair Khan.

August 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) (PML-Q) leader, Bushra Rehman has blamed Bollywood for spoiling the youth in the country. Speaking in the National Assembly, Rehman said cable operators and certain television channels are telecasting Indian movies which is affecting the culture of the country adversely.

July 27th, 2009 DHAKA - A mission in which doctors, medical students and women volunteers saved the lives of many soldiers and freedom fighters during the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 has been recorded in a new documentary "Bangladesh Hospital '71". The hospital that was set up was actually a make-shift bamboo and wood establishment just across the border at Bisramganj, Tripura in northeastern India.

July 21st, 2009 Channel One Network to team up with CBS NewsNEW YORK — Channel One Network says it will be teaming up with CBS News to produce its daily newscast for teens. Starting this fall, CBS News Productions will co-produce "Channel One News," which reaches about 6 million middle- and high-school students nationally each school day.

July 9th, 2009 AP newsroom is a setting for Drew Barrymore filmNEW YORK — Will it be a busy news week for Drew Barrymore? On Monday, a romantic comedy starring Barrymore as an older-than-usual newspaper intern is scheduled to arrive for several days' shooting at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press. Barrymore and a production crew will be on hand during the week to shoot scenes for "Going the Distance." The AP's newsroom will serve as the setting for the mythical New York Sentinel, where Barrymore's character works.

July 7th, 2009 PESHAWAR - The Pakistan Army has claimed that it has killed 14 militants during an operation in Swat on Monday, while four soldiers got wounded. During an operation in Thana area, security forces killed 14 terrorists and seized one 14.5 gun barrel, while seizing 26 detonators.

July 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : Cricketer-turned politician, Imran Khan has charged the PPP-led government of being subservient to the United States, saying that government has rented out the country's army to the US in exchange of 1.5 billion dollars. "We have rented our military out to US in exchange of mere 1.5 billion dollars while US is spending sixty billion dollars on its army comprising 55,000 troops in Afghanistan," The News quoted Khan, as saying.

July 5th, 2009 LAHORE - Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that terrorism should not be linked with Islam. Talking to media persons after visiting Jamia Naeemia to express grief over the assassination of country's top religious scholar Sarfaraz Naeemi here, Khan termed the suicide bombings as a 'political issue.' "No religion can allow suicide bombing.

June 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan may have vehemently opposed the military offensive against the Taliban and other extremists in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) terming the offensive as 'suicidal', but Khan apparently is unsure about what he really wants to achieve by showing a soft corner towards the extremists, an editorial in a leading Pakistan daily said. Khan is of the view that the operation against the militants would not be successful, and said that it would only add to the country's woes by creating more anarchy in the region, over which the government has already lost its control.

June 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari reportedly rang Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who also happens to be the UN's Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees, on June 22 to thank her for financial aid. According to reports, Jolie, 34, and her partner Brad Pitt, 45, had donated 1 million dollars to help displaced people in Pakistan.

May 26th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Indyarocks.com, the leader in Indian entertainment based social networking, Tuesday announced the launch of 16 free premium video channels in partnership with nautanki.tv, an online video distribution platform. This partnership will enable over three million users of www.indyarocks.com free online access to premium video content from various youth, news, general entertainment and movie channels.