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Bhoja Airline Aircraft Crash near Islamabad

PakBee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:42:45 +0000

RAWALPINDI: A Bhoja Airline flight # B4-213 has reportedly crashed near Chaklala airbase, Geo News reported.

According to sources, the a Boeing 737 with 127 passengers on board, which flew from Karachi at 5:00 PM was suppose to land in Islamabad at 6:40 PM, but crashed just before touchdown.

According to sources in Civil Aviation Authority, the flight was given clearance to land but it lost contact with the control tower minutes before the crash reports.

Ministry of Defence and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have confirmed the reports of crash.

Inclement weather has been held responsible for the crash.

Rescue teams including Pakistan army personnel have rushed to the crash site.

More details are yet awaited.

In July 2010, an Airbus 321 passenger jet operated by the private airline Airblue crashed into hills overlooking Islamabad while coming in to land after a flight from Karachi, killing 152 people on board.

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Akcent Coming to Pakistan in January 2012

PakBee — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:21:55 +0000

Through our sources we have come to know that Akcent Band is coming to Pakistan to perform [not confirmed].

Many of you just got excited to know where will they perform and when?. We have the answer for you.

Akcent is going to perform in Lahore and Islamabad.

It is expected that they are to perform in lahore on 21 of January and 20 januray in Islamabad.

So if you guys are excited to know the venue, time and the dates keep visiting PakBee.com

We will update you with all the latest.

[Old] Akcent December, 2010 Concert @ Lahore, PAKISTAN.

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Atif Aslam Live in Houston [9th July 2011] (Concert Pictures)

PakBee — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:13:47 +0000

Pakistani Super Star Atif Aslam has been touring United States of America these days and he recently performed in the fourth largest city of US – Houston, TX.

On 9th July 2011 he performed in Houston, Texas where 10,000 peoples attended the concert. Real Graphics Hub – A Leading Graphics/Website Designing Company in Houston, TX. Sponsored Concert. Atif also appeared in a weird get-up , wearing a monster style hat, which surprised many in the audience.

Check out some Exclusive Pictures from Atif Aslam’s concert held in Houston at 9th July 2011:

Check out the Wonderful Welcome Promo for Atif Aslam by Real Graphics Hub:

Atif Aslam’s Interview On Fm HumTumCity Radio, Houston

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Usama Bi Laden Killed, says President Obama

PakBee — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:48:09 +0000

WASHINTON: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama announced on Sunday.

“Justice has been done,” Obama said in a dramatic, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the New York and Washington.

Obama said U.S. forces led the operation that killed bin Laden. No Americans were killed in the operation and they took care to avoid civilian casualties, he said. “The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children,” Obama said. It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, after many Americans had given up hope of ever finding bin Laden.

A crowd gathered outside the White House to celebrate, chanting, “USA, USA.” Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring bin Laden to justice “dead or alive” for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly3,000 people, but never did before leaving office in early 2009.

U.S. officials said that after searching in vain for the al Qaeda leader since he disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2001, the Saudi-born extremist was killed in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad and his body recovered. Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.

He had been the subject of a search since he eluded U.S. soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora Mountains of Afghanistan in 2001. The trail quickly went cold after he disappeared and many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.

While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his militant Islamist views in videotapes spirited from his hideaway. Besides Sept. 11, Washington has also linked bin Laden to a string of attacks — including the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole in Yemen.

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SZABIST Students Win Digital Marketing Competition

PakBee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:27:33 +0000

A team from SZABIST has won the Grand Finale of Digital Minds, a digital marketing competition organization by “Symmetry Digital”, in an event held recently in Karachi.

SZABIST team won the title of “Digital Minds, 2010” and a cash prize of Rs. 100,000 for their project “Out Of The Dabba”.

The second and third positions were secured by teams from the Institute Of Business Management, “Team Boomerang” and “The CZARS”, respectively.

Total prize money of PKR 175,000 was distributed amongst the winners.

Digital Minds was an inter university competition that aimed to educate about the importance and emergence of digital mediums at grass root levels.

The event comprised of corporate guests from the marketing industry and students from the participating institutes. The evening comprised of a speech from the COO of Symmetry Digital, Mr. Adil Ahmed. He welcomed the guests and students and gave a brief intro for Digital Minds. He also acknowledged the students as “the brave ones for stepping up and being part of this one of a kind competition”, considering that this industry is still growing.

The event moved forward to a panel discussion between Industry representatives Mr. Noman Shamim (Marketing Manager – Qubee), Mr. Mohsin Jaffery (Owner Zumbeel.net and Lane 12) and Mr. Adnan Sheikhani (Head of Strategy – Helium), and the students in which they discussed the thoughtful usage of digital and social mediums. Mementos were presented to the panelists by Mr. Sarocsh Ahmed, CFO of Symmetry Digital.

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Pakistan Court Releases Raymond Davis

PakBee — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:31:01 +0000

ISLAMABAD: An Additional Sessions judge Wednesday set free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis on a busy road in Lahore, after payment of blood money (Diyat) in accordance with Sharia law of Pakistan, sources said.

Talking to Geo News, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the court released Raymond Davis after the family members of the murdered men appeared in the court and pardoned the US National after an agreement was reached between the two sides. “He has been released from jail and now it is up to him to leave the country whenever he wants,” the Minister added.

The killings by Raymond Davis in Lahore in January strained relations between Pakistan and US, who repeatedly insisted Davis was an embassy employee and enjoyed diplomatic immunity, particularly after it emerged he was working for the CIA.

A spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad said he could not immediately confirm the report. Lawyers for the families of the two men shot dead in a busy Lahore street on January 27 said they had been held for four hours at the jail court where Davis was being tried on Wednesday, but had not been allowed to witness proceedings.

Blood money, or ‘Diyat’ is a provision under Islamic sharia law in which compensation can be paid to relatives of those killed to secure a pardon, and is commonly used to resolve such cases in Pakistan.

The Davis case had sparked protests in Pakistan, with religious groups angrily denouncing the American who claimed he acted in self-defence to fend off an armed robbery when he shot dead the two men.

US authorities insisted Davis was protected by full diplomatic immunity, but the Pakistan government refused to back that claim and a decision on his status was on Monday deferred by the Lahore high court for criminal judges to decide.

Revelations that Davis was a CIA contractor heaped pressure on Pakistan’s embattled government and further ramped up burning public mistrust of Washington, damaging fragile relations between the two wary allies.

A third Pakistani was struck down and killed by a US diplomatic vehicle that came to Davis’ assistance in the January incident. US officials denied Pakistan access to the vehicle, and the occupants are widely believed to have left the country.

Police have said they recovered a Glock pistol, four loaded magazines, a GPS navigation system and a small telescope from Davis’ car after the January 27 shooting. The United States postponed a round of high-level talks with Afghanistan and Pakistan following failed attempts to free Davis, and US lawmakers threatened to cut payments to Pakistan unless he is released. (Geo/AFP)

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Tsunami Hits Japan After Huge Quake

PakBee — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:11:11 +0000

TOKYO: A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan on Friday, causing many injuries, fires and a four-metre (13-ft) tsunami along parts of the country’s coastline, NHK television and witnesses reported.

There were several strong aftershocks and a warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo.

TV pictures showed a vast wall of water carrying buildings and debris across a large swathe of coastal farmland.

Public broadcaster NHK showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a Tokyo suburb, and bullet trains to the north of the country were halted.

Black smoke was also pouring out of an industrial area in Yokohama’s Isogo area. TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a small tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan. An overpass, location unknown, appeared to have collapsed into the water.

Kyodo news agency said there were reports of fires in the city of Sendai in the northeast.

“The building shook for what seemed a long time and many people in the newsroom grabbed their helmets and some got under their desks,” Reuters correspondent Linda Sieg said in Tokyo.

“It was probably the worst I have felt since I came to Japan more than 20 years ago.”

Passengers on a subway line in Tokyo screamed and grabbed other passengers’ hands. The shaking was so bad it was hard to stand, said Reuters reporter Mariko Katsumura.

Hundreds of office workers and shoppers spilled into Hitotsugi street, a shopping street in Akasaka in downtown Tokyo.

Household goods ranging from toilet paper to clingfilm were flung into the street from outdoor shelves in front of a drugstore.

Crowds gathered in front of televisions in a shop next to the drugstore for details. After the shaking from the first quake subsided, crowds were watching and pointing to construction cranes on an office building up the street with voices saying, “They’re still shaking!”, “Are they going to fall?”
Asagi Machida, 27, a web designer in Tokyo, sprinted from a coffee shop when the quake hit.

“The images from the New Zealand earthquake are still fresh in my mind so I was really scared. I couldn’t believe such a big earthquake was happening in Tokyo.”

The U.S. Geological Survey earlier verified a magnitude of 7.9 at a depth of 15.1 miles and located the quake 81 miles east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. It later upgraded it to 8.8.

A police car drove down Hitotsugi Street, lights flashing, announcing through a bullhorn that there was still a danger of shaking.

The Tokyo stock market extended its losses after the quake was announced. The central bank said it would do everything to ensure financial stability.

Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, called Sanriku, has suffered from quakes and tsunamis in the past and a 7.2 quake struck on Wednesday. In 1933, a magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people. Last year fishing facilities were damaged after by a tsunami caused by a strong tremor in Chile.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. (Reuters)

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Ejaz Haroon Stepped Down

PakBee — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:03:05 +0000

ISLAMABAD: Ejaz Haroon has stepped down from the post of Managing Director Pakistan International Airline (PIA) after successful negotiations between the government and protesting employees of PIA, Geo News reported Friday.

After the talks, President Pakistan Airlines Pilot’s Association (PALPA) Sohail Baloch announced end to the strike that continued for four days.

The protesting employees of PIA burst into celebrations as the reports of MD PIA’s resignation came out at the end of negotiations between the Government’s committee and PALPA representatives.

Talking to media after talks, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar along with Interior Minister Rehman Malik, said: “MD PIA has resigned and his resignation has been accepted.”

He said now it is time for ‘all of us have to work together for the progress of PIA.’

Rehman Malik said an agreement with protesting employees of PIA had been reached.

All the sacked employees of PIA have also been reinstated.

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Mubarak quits on 18th day of Protests

PakBee — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:59:09 +0000

CAIRO: Beleaguered president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak finally yielded to the relentless public protests and stepped down as the head of state on Friday, Geo News reported.

Jubilations erupted at Tehrir Square, the epicenter of the protests that had been going on in Egypt, demanding ouster of Hosni Mubarak who had been ruling the country for the past 29 years.

Hosni Mubarak stepped down and handed power to the military, Vice President Omar Suleiman said in a brief televised statement.

“Taking into consideration the difficult circumstances the country is going through, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave the post of president of the republic and has tasked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to manage the state’s affairs,” Suleiman said.

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Three Blasts in Gujranwala

PakBee — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:18:54 +0000

GUJRANWALA: At least three low intensity blasts have been reported in different areas near government buildings here on early Wednesday, Geo News reported.

Two explosions took place outside CIA Center Building while the third explosion occurred near SP Special Branch Office.

Buildings received minor damages but no loss of life or injury has been reported in explosions, police sources said.

Heavy police contingents have arrived on the scenes and cordoned off the blast sites.

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