Dr Fai pleads guilty to secret funding from ISI

WASHINGTON  Nearly five months after he was arrested, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, director of the Kashmiri American Council, admitted that he had secretly received funds from the government of Pakistan, including the Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, for the past two decades.

Mukhtaran Mai gives birth to baby boy

MULTAN: Mukhtaran Mai who gained prominence for her outspoken stance on the oppression of women has given birth to a baby boy, her husband and hospital officials said Monday.

Mai delivered the baby by Caesarian section two weeks prematurely in the central city of Multan, they added.

Mai, now 40, was gang raped in June 2002 on the orders of a village council as punishment after her younger brother was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clan.

The boy was just 12 years old at the time of the incident in Meerwala town in central Multan district, some 360 kilometres southwest of the capital Islamabad.

US personnel begin to vacate Pakistan's Shamsi Air Base: report

According to report, US personnel have begun to vacate Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Shamsi has been described in the past as a hub for intelligence operations as well as a base for the CIA's unmanned Predator and Reaper drones. The Pakistani government ordered Shamsi to be closed within 15 days after US forces killed 24 Pakistani troops in a cross-border incident in the Mohmand tribal agency.

Journalist family facing worst harassment by Police

محترم جناب صحافی صاحبان, اسلام اعلیکم 
 مزاج گرمی القدر واضح ہوکہ میں ایک سینئر صحافی ہوں جس کی صحافتی سروس کوبتیس32 سالل ہورہے ہیں میں نے ہمیشہ حق وسچ کا ساتھ دیا ہے صحافتی سروس کے دوران نشیب وفراض بھی دیکھے ہیں میں