Islamabad, Aug 5 (DPA) Monsoon rain and flooding wreaked havoc throughout Pakistan, killing more than 100 people overnight and causing widespread destruction, media reports said Tuesday.The majority of the casualties were reported from the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and its adjoining tribal areas, located near the Afghan border, where flash floods swept away hundreds of mud houses.

Islamabad, Aug 4 (IANS) The authorities have confirmed the death of 11 mountaineers and the rescue of two others near the K2 summit on the Pakistani side of the Himalayan peak. A spokesman for the Pakistan Army in Gilgit told reporters that army personnel have rescued two injured climbers of Irish nationality.

Shimla, Aug 4 (IANS) The bodies of all the 145 stampede victims at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh have been identified.The bodies have been taken to the civil hospital at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab.

Naina Devi/Anandpur Sahib, Aug 4 : Doctors struggled through the night in an Anandpur Sahib hospital to complete 130 post-mortem examinations of the 145 Naina Devi stampede victims by Monday morning and the police started to hand over the bodies to relatives.

Naina Devi (Himachal Pradesh), Aug 3 (IANS) At least 145 people were killed and 40 injured in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh when throngs of devotees panicked after a rumour that boulders were rolling down the popular hill shrine.
Most of those killed were women and children. A majority of the […]

Islamabad, Aug 2: A mild earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale Saturday jolted the Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan, IRNA news agency reported.

Islamabad, Aug 1 : Smarting under embarrassing questions from the United States about the links of its premier intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to other groups in NWFP. the Pakistani media is coming round to the view that the agency should be brought under direct and practical control of the prime minister.

Colombo, July 31 : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet here Saturday on the sidelines of the SAARC summit, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said here Thursday.The decision was taken after visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee held a one-hour meeting with his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the SAARC Council of Ministers meeting Thursday evening.