QUETTA-UNHCR official John Solecki was released by Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) after keeping in captivity for over two months. 'We are releasing John Solecki on humanitarian grounds, and should serve as a message to UN and world community, that Baloch people are not terrorists, but an ...
QUETTA - At least 64 bodies and dozens of unconscious people were recovered from a shipping container in Hazar Ganji area of the ...
ISLAMABAD - A suicide attack Saturday evening at the Frontier Constabulary makeshift camp in the posh area of the federal ...
DURBAN (AFP) - Mike Hussey ended a run of poor form with a match-winning innings for Australia in the first one-day ...
DURBAN (AFP) - Captain Ricky Ponting hailed the return to form of Mike Hussey as Australia gained a crushing 141-run win over ...
MIAMI (AFP) - Once-invincible Roger Federer was reduced to a rare bout of racket-bashing Friday as he was toppled in the ...
GROS ISLET (AFP) - England beat West Indies by 26 runs to win the fifth and final one-day international here on Friday and ...
WELLINGTON (AFP) - India took a big step towards winning their first Test series in New Zealand since 1968 after racking up a ...
STRASBOURG (AFP) - Nato leaders pledged thousands more troops for their Afghan mission Saturday and named the organisations next ...
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops advancing on the last remaining pockets of rebel resistance killed at least 111 Tamil Tigers in ...
STRASBOURG, France (AFP) - US President Barack Obama led a chorus of disapproval at a summit of NATO leaders on Saturday against ...
TEHRAN (AFP) - Irans supreme leader Ali Khemenei hailed on Saturday as a courageous step the Venezuelan governments decision to ...
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday rejected Western criticism that a new law imposes Taliban-style restrictions ...
ZAGREB (AFP) - A mass grave dating from World War II and containing the remains of up to 4,500 people, including German officers ...
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea kept the world guessing about its planned satellite launch Saturday after the first day of a scheduled ...
STRASBOURG (AFP) - Protesters clashed with riot police and set property ablaze in Strasbourg during Saturdays 60th anniversary ...
BINGHAMTON, New York (AFP) - US police Saturday sought to discover why a jobless immigrant snapped, going on a murderous rampage ...
ROME (AFP) - Italian police have discovered 24 Afghan children living in filthy conditions in the sewer system under a Rome ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Textile exports during the first eight months of current financial registered negative growth of 5.6 percent as ...
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has said that all the prevalent indications leading that the agricultural growth will be ...
KARACHI - Syed Salim Raza, Governor State Bank of Pakistan has said that an amount of Rs 42 billion is currently available with ...
LAHORE - Lowering of National Savings Schemes (NSS) rates and foreign inflows from the IMF and World Bank drove the market ...
KARACHI - Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, and Statistics, Shaukat Tarin gave away the 3rd ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Privatisation Commission (PC) has received seven (7) Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from prospective ...
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has urged the SME exporters to focus on Central Asian Republics ...
KARACHI - Sheikh Sultani has been appointed at Regional Director Food and Beverage, South, Pearl Continental Hotel, ...
KARACHI - KESC embarks on an 'Integrated Business Centre drive from 8th April to be pilot-tested in the demographically diverse ...
PESHAWAR - At least 30 people including five schoolgoing children were killed and more than 20 others injured in two attacks at ...
WASHINGTON-Refusal to provide additional money for upgrading Pakistans ageing F-16s jets is one of the several benchmarks the US ...
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Saturday vowed to root out corruption from existing judicial ...
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan cut gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the 2008/09 fiscal year to 2.5-3.5 per ...
LAHORE - Clocks across the country will be moved one hour ahead from May 1 with a view to avail an extra hour of daylight in ...
ISLAMABAD - With the restoration of Shahbaz Sharif government in Punjab by the apex court, ambitious District Nazims of the ...
MULTAN - Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif Saturday dispelled the impression that Punjab government was restored under a ...
MOHMAND AGENCY - As many as eight militants were killed and 12 others injured, when Jet fighter plane and gunship helicopters ...
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "gratified" at the release on Saturday of John Solecki, an American U.N. ...
STRASBOURG (Agencies) - President Barack Obama has said NATO is committed to strengthening Pakistans ability and meet the needs ...
MINGORA - In the wake of growing resentment over flogging of the young girl in public, the Taliban militants have taken another ...
LONDON - Pakistans Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the US have started the joint operation to kill Baitullah Mehsud, The ...
NEW YORK - The FBI on Saturday dismissed Pakistani Taliban leader Baituallah Mehsuds claim that he was responsible for an attack ...
SWAT - In pursuance of peace agreement with militants, he government on Saturday released four more Taliban and now the total ...
ISLAMABAD (Online) - President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the session of the National Assembly on April 9 at 4:00pm. According ...
MIRANSHAH - The political administration and Khasadar Force became active after three years long period and started routine ...
KABUL (AFP) - A soldier in a NATO-led force fighting an extremist insurgency in Afghanistan died in a bomb blast Saturday while ...
WAZIRABAD (APP) - Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has decided to form a political party ...
KARACHI (APP) - Rate for new cotton crop has touched Rs 3800 per maund (37.324 kg) as cotton spot rate has jumped by Rs 50 to ...
REALITY TV star Jade Goody bade farewell to her audience for the last time in a recorded message played at her funeral. ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Actress Demi Moore may have had a role the other day in thwarting a possible suicide attempt after a woman ...
FORMER EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton has been linked to the next movie in the American Pie franchise. The Daily Mail reports ...
A TEENAGER who was born with one hand, four kidneys and a debilitating stomach condition is fulfilling her childhood dream of ...
SANTA TERESA, Costa Rica (AFP) - Expectations of a second wedding Saturday between supermodel Gisele Bundchen and US football ...
A NEW theory about sleeps benefits for the brain gets a boost from fruit flies in the journal Science. Researchers at Washington ...
ISLAMABAD - Director Human Resource and Admin, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wasim Bari said Saturday that chairman PCB Ijaz Butt ...
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LG&RD) Abdul Razaq A Tahim Saturday paid tributes ...
ISLAMABAD- Capital Development Authority (CDA)s Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management has decided to establish five ...
ISLAMABAD - Capital police have arrested six accused involved in car lifting, theft and illicit weapons and recovered stolen car ...
ISLAMABAD - A bizarre situation developed on Saturday during protest demonstration organised by civil society against the ...
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - National Vocational & Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC), Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) on Saturday said that there is no change in the schedule of load ...
KARACHI - Pakistan's batting world record holder women cricketer Kiran Baloch has said that the PWCCA which she said still is ...
KARACHI - Enteric Typhoid fever has engulfed large parts of Karachi as numbers of patients have been reported to be admitted in ...
KARACHI (PPI) - The National Commission on the Status of Women and other civil society organisations staged a protest ...
KARACHI - Despite launching several awareness campaigns to control the air pollution in the major cities of the country ...
KARACHI (PPI) - As the temperature has started rising up, power load-shedding upto six hours on daily basis is being carried out ...
KARACHI - The Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Female Education Trust (FET) and Oxford University Press (OUP) on Saturday organised ...
KARACHI - The marking of the 30th death anniversary of the PPP founder hairman Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has given a boost to the party ...
LAHORE - Australia have regained the number one spot in the International Cricket Council's ODI Championship table after ...
LAHORE - Pakistan got first defeat on the 31st Kings Cup International Boxing Tournament when Rashid Fateh lost to a Russian ...
LAHORE - The 18th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament will begin from today (Sunday) in Ipoh, Malaysia. All the five ...
LAHORE- The Citizens of Lahore Saturday took out a peace rally condemning the Swat incident of flogging a young girl in the ...
LAHORE - Vice Chancellor King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Prof Dr Zafarullah Khan has called an emergency meeting of the ...
LAHORE - Ex-foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad Khan has said Pakistan is being encircled and US President Barak Obama is pursuing ...
LAHORE - Naseer Abad police have refused to register a case against the incharge chowki police, South Cantt and some police ...
LAHORE - Commissioner Lahore Khusru Pervez Khan has took strict notice of delay in the up gradation of two public hospitals, 'Kot ...
LAHORE - The Punjab government on Saturday reappointed two heads, while transferring and posting nine officers. Nazar Muhammad ...