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Pakistan, US in bid to save ties

Pakistan, US in bid to save ties

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON (Agencies) - US General David Petraeus on Monday visited Pakistan and held talks with Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on ways to bolster regional security, the US embassy said in a statement. His surprising visit coincided with the wide publication of classified ...


National News
Zardari confers 'Hilal-i-Pakistan on Saudi commander

Zardari confers 'Hilal-i-Pakistan on Saudi commander

ISLAMABAD (Online) - President Asif Ali Zardari conferred 'Hilal-i-Pakistan on Vice Admiral Dakheel Allah Bin Ahmed Al Waqdani, Commander Royal Saudi Naval Forces, in recognition of his endeavours ...

Forgotten victims of Taliban war

Forgotten victims of Taliban war

AG accused of misleading SC in BoP case

AG accused of misleading SC in BoP case

International News
Guantanamo piled lie upon lie

Guantanamo piled lie upon lie

Let them read the documents. Let them try to tell us after that (as some still do, even now) that the Afghan war was fought well, and fought morally; that Guantnamo was a limited and necessary evil; ...

Follow it up

Follow it up

Scottish sectarianism? Lets lay this myth to rest

Scottish sectarianism? Lets lay this myth to rest

Sports News
United wary of todays Schalke test

United wary of todays Schalke test

GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany) (AFP) - If Manchester United are to reach a third Champions League final in four years, they must overcome both surprise package Schalke 04 and a dismal record against German ...

Pakistan restrict Windies to 220

Pakistan restrict Windies to 220

Zulqarnain returns to Pakistan

Zulqarnain returns to Pakistan

Entertainment News
Google creates online 'time machine

Google creates online 'time machine

IT may not be quite as exciting as a flying Delorean. But Google has nevertheless claimed to have created a 'time machine in the shape of a web application that allows users to zoom into the minutest ...

Rio film flying high in US

Rio film flying high in US

Worlds most premature baby goes home

Worlds most premature baby goes home

Business News
PM for all efforts to control outages

PM for all efforts to control outages

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raze Gilani has said that in the face of growing energy demand in the country by every passing day it was the need of the hour to mobilize all available ...

PSO directed to ensure payment to refineries

PSO directed to ensure payment to refineries

Need to raise tax to 14pc stressed

Need to raise tax to 14pc stressed

Regional News

Sweeper commits suicide

LAHORE A 25-year-old sweeper committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan inside his residential quarter here in South Cantonment police area on Monday, police said. Resident of ...

Ministers remark astonishes House

LAHORE - The Minister Incharge Irrigation Department Ahmad Ali Olak astonished Punjab Assembly members on Monday when a he disclosed in response to a question that Punjab government had completed the ...

HEC devolution termed illegal

LAHORE The devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) under the 18th Amendment is not only an unwise decision but also an unconstitutional step because HEC can only be devolved with another ...

Water-gagging claims one life

LAHORE A 40-year-old poverty-hit man suffered cardiac arrest and died instantly, shortly after the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) officials removed the water connection at his residence due to ...

Speed-checking cameras sought

LAHORE Some extra ordinary efforts would be made by utilising all available resources to provide quality assistance to the road users on the countrys national highways. This was pledged by the ...

China to invest in Transit System

LAHORE The Punjab Government and a Chinese company have entered into an agreement for the Rapid Mass Transit System in Lahore. The Chinese company Noranko will invest $1.7billion for the execution ...

CM seeks probe into attack on 'N offices

LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has strongly condemned attack on the offices of the Pakistan Muslim League-N in Karachi, and demanded of Sindh government to immediately arrest ...

SC moved against threats to lawyer

LAHORE The Supreme Court has been prayed through a constitutional petition for taking note of the life threats hurled on former advocate for the Federation in NRO case, Kamal Azfar. Filed by ...

LMTS reviewed at meeting

LAHORE A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif regarding the Lahore Mass Transit System at CMs Secretariat here on Monday. Senator Pervaiz Rashid, ...

Bail granted in Rs48m scandal

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court chief justice on Monday granted the post-arrest bail to an accused of leaking the password of cellular companys easy-load transfer causing alleged Rs ...

GCU placement centre in industrial estate soon

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Government College University Chemistry Department on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Technology Exchange and Coordination Limited to set up Students ...

CM rapped over new provinces

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The PML-N has no right to propose more provinces in Sindh, as it has no candidate to field in the next polls from that province, stated PML-Qs parliamentary party leader in ...

UN help sought against India

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Sheikh Jamilur Rehman, ameer of the Tehrikul Mujahdeen and General Secretary of the Muttahida Jihad Council, on Monday urged the United Nations and the Organisation of ...

Ministry to pay fines of prisoners

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Parliamentary Secretary for Human Rights (HR) and Incharge Federal Minister for HR Robeena Saadat Qaimkhani has said that the ministry will pay the fines of the prisoners ...

Recovery of missing persons plea disposed of

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik of the Lahore High Court on Monday disposed of a plea for recovery of an alleged missing person, after the CIA Police informed the court that ...

Transport babu summoned in terminal case

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice to the provincial transport secretary on a petition moved by the private bus/van owners for official refusal to use public ...

Aitzaz vows to file Mai review petition

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE PPP leader and former Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday blamed both the governments in the Centre and the provinces for the growing ...

PU results

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Punjab Universitys Examinations Department on Monday announced results of several diplomas including MBBS supplementary exams 2009 and 2010. The PU announced results ...

GCU produces 3 PhDs

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Government College University has produced two doctors of philosophy in zoology and one in Mathematics. Mr Atif Yaqub and Zahid Iqbal Hussain have been notified as ...

LCA dinner on May 5

LAHORE (PR) - The Lahore College Associates, organisation of Lahore College for Women Universitys old students, will arrange its annual dinner and a general body meeting on May 5, 2011.

3 medals won

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Punjab University Hailey College of Banking and Finances student Sehrish Asghar, representing the Higher Education Commission, on Monday won two silver and one bronze medals ...

Chinese varsity, Aitchison sign MoU

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A 25-member delegation from Honder University of Inner Mongolia in China visited Aitchison College Lahore and signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday. The MoU was ...

Couple held for killing minor housemaid

Our Staff Reporter LAHORE City police on Monday arrested a couple in connection with the killing of a 5-year-old housemaid, who was found tortured to death from the fields in Harbanspura area a few ...

Zakat Committee chairmen named

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Provincial Zakat Council Punjab, in its 129th Meeting, has given approval to the names of Chairman Zakat Committees of 29 districts of the province under section 16(4) ...

2 officers transferred

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Punjab government on Monday transferred and posted two officers while cancelling another. Officer on Special Duty with the Services & General Administration Department ...

Afzal new ASA President

LAHORE (PR) Muhammad Afzal elected as President of Academic Staff Association (ASA) University of Education Lahore. The elections of Academic Staff Association were held here at the University of ...

Aiwan visited

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHOREThe students of the Defence Lyceum High School Ghazi Road on Aghi Program on Monday visited Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan and saw Pakistan Movement Gallery. A ceremony ...

Students take part in recitation of verses

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The students of various educational institutions participated in a competition for recitation of Allama Iqbals verses at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan here on ...

Islamic society protects human rights: Dalits

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE A delegation of Dalit scholars hailing from India and Nepal on Monday visited the Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan and said that the human rights are protected in the ...

Directors refuse to obey former NAB DG

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Two National Accountability Bureau directors on Monday refused to attend a meeting called by the NAB s Punjab chapter former director general whose tenure came to an end on ...

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