Gilani’s son fined for traffic rule violation

September 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has rejected reports regarding it forming a regulation committee to monitor telecom traffic including phones calls, e-mails and text messages, The Daily Times reports. Commenting on the reports regarding the PTA's plans of having a monitoring cell to keep tab of all telecommunication traffic, a PTA spokesperson said monitoring cyber and telecom traffic does not come under the authority's mandate.

September 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) has condemned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for refusing to take notice of involvement of his cabinet ministers in large scale corruption. Senior PML-Q leader Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat said Gilani's reluctance to take action on such charges against his ministers indicates that he too is a artner in crime, The Daily Times reports.

September 2nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - French "Spiderman" Robert Alain Philippe was fined RM 2,000 after he pleaded guilty to criminal trespass for scaling the Petronas Twin Towers. He scaled Tower 2 of the Twin Towers at about 8.30 a.m.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A drunken man was detained after he dozed off at a traffic signal in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. It took traffic police 20 minutes to wake the man, who asked not to be touched before he slept off again, reports China Daily.

July 21st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malay man, who works as a vehicle spare-parts supplier, has been sentenced to six months' jail by the magistrate's court for circulating obscene photographs of his wife. Abdul Aziz Basri, 57, who pleaded guilty, was also fined RM 2,000 in default two months' jail, on July 20, reports the Star Online.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Traffic came to a standstill in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, when a woman driver stopped by police for violating rules stripped naked on the road. Traffic police were in for a shock when they stopped the 40-something woman, reports the China Daily.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - Police recently fined three nuns for crossing the speed limit as they rushed to Pope Benedict XVI's holiday home to see him after he met with a small accident. Sister Tavoletta, 56, was driving the Ford Fiesta at 120mph, while two other nuns were with her when shocked police pulled them over.

June 26th, 2009 LAHORE - Sharing a surname with some famous personalities of the world would obviously make people proud, but in Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's name is being utilized by tricksters for fraudulent activities. Pakistan police has registered a case against a man named, Tasawarul Hassan Gilani for swindling a person while pretending to be a close relative of the prime minister, The Daily Times reports.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sick of spending countless hours in traffic jams? Frustrated with those jams which have no apparent cause -- no accident or stalled vehicles? A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mathematicians may have the answer to your traffic woes. Phantom jams are those when there is no apparent reason -- when no lanes are closed for construction, there is no accident nor are there any stalled vehicles.

June 6th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's daughter has been dragged into a legal battle, with her ex-husband approaching a local guardian court seeking custody of their nine-year-old son, Asfandyar. Acting upon Khurram's plea, the judge has issued a notice to Fiza Batool, restraining her from taking the child out of the territorial jurisdiction of the court.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man was slapped with a 200-yuan fine after the police found him and his girlfriend kissing inside their car. The couple were caught after they stopped along the highway in Jingmen, Hubei province, on Tuesday The driver, surnamed Huang, also got some points deducted from his driver's license, reports the China Daily.

May 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Aussie man has been slapped with a fine of 1400 dollars after police stopped his swerving car on the road, only to find him having sex with his girlfriend while driving. Bradley Dean Milne, 33, and his girlfriend claimed that they couldn't resist their temptation and started making out in the car before they reached their destination.

May 4th, 2009 BEIJING - Believe it or not, Chinese civil servants who refuse or fail to consume a sufficient amount of locally made cigarettes, will be fined. An order to this effect has been passed in Hubei Province.

April 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has said that it would prefer to be an opposition party at the centre "in democracy's interest." "The Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) will not work to destabilize the federal government and will act as constructive opposition," the Dawn quoted PML-N spokesman Siddiqul Farooq, as saying. "We will cooperate with the government on all important issues but we do not want to join the government.

March 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani is trying very hard to save his chair and to put an end to the ongoing political turmoil in the country to stem another bout of military rule. Gilani, reportedly, is working on a reconciliation strategy with the PML-N that would include overturning the verdict of the Sharif brother's disqualification from contesting elections and reinstating Shabaz Sharif as chief minister of Punjab.