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Thursday, August 09, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Following a strong protest of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who also tabled a resolution for equitable distribution of electricity among the provinces, the Council of Common Interest (CCI) Wednesday constituted a committee to address the uneven loadshedding.In the 19th CCI ...

 

LONDON - Jamaica's sprinters aim to stay ahead of the pack on Wednesday as Usain Bolt ...

ISLAMABAD - Oil marketing companies have raised their serious concerns to the Ministry of ...

ISLAMABAD  – So what, if you are not receiving water supply at your residence, ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court LHC on Wednesday disqualified Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid ...

NATIONAL

ISLAMABAD –The federal government on Tuesday filed a review petition against the July 12 order of the Supreme Court in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case, pleading ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, in a move aimed at reviving Afghan peace talks, has sweetened a proposed deal under which it would transfer Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in ...

INTERNATIONAL

 STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Sweden's ties with Belarus soured further Wednesday as Minsk expelled all Swedish diplomats and closed its Stockholm mission, in a rift over human rights following a stunt involving teddy bears. President Alexander Lukashenko "is now throwing all Swedish diplomats out of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities said Tuesday they arrested a man at a screening of the latest Batman movie with a bag full of weapons in a case that evoked a recent rampage in Colorado that claimed a dozen lives. Police in Westlake, Ohio, said an off-duty officer arrested Scott Smith, 37, late ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A car bomb targeting Shia pilgrims in Iraq and the shooting of a lawyer and his family left 19 people dead on Wednesday, after Al-Qaeda warned it would target lawyers and retake territory in a new campaign. The attacks were the latest in an apparent spike in unrest since the ...

SPORTS
ENTERTAINMENT

JAY-Z and Beyonce Knowles have topped Forbes magazine’s World’s Highest Paid Celebrity Couples list 2012.The power pair is estimated to have made $78m together in the financial year ending May 1, moving them from second place in last year’s list, behind Tom Brady and Gisele ...

BUSINESS
OPINIONS

Columns

Editorials

Letters

When I, in the late 1970s, carried out research about foreign students at the University of Oslo, Norway, there were only a few hundred students from ...

This week marks the 67th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the combined initial death toll of approximately 200,000 ...

“Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.”- William CollinsPresident Asif Zardari and his allies may not have much to show to ...

I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my female sibling from Lahore. This is so because as a pair we make a deadly combination that spends weekends ...

In line with the process followed in the case of then Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the question of non-implementation of its judgment on the ...

Now that the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has told the Lahore High Court in detail that not a single objection made to the Kalabagh ...

Without exaggeration, the federal government’s decision to review oil prices on a weekly basis will snatch bread out of the average man’s ...

Victory and defeat are no doubt part of the game but what also counts is how well the battle is fought. Pakistan’s performance in London ...

For an ordinary Pakistani like myself nothing could be more amusing than seeing the politicians who have brought this ...

After an uneasy calm of about a month, doctors in Lahore are stirring once again. More than a year has gone by but the ...

During the last couple of years the increase in prices of staple commodities (wheat, rice, corn, soybeans and barley) ...

This is perhaps my 10th letter on the subject because I firmly believe that punishment is the best deterrent to crush ...

If Kalabagh dam was the first dam being built one could understand the apprehensions about it, but with two dams ...

REGIONAL

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

KARACHI - The Department of Youth Affairs, Government of Sindh, in collaboration with the Habib ...

KARACHI - Expressing concern over the increasing corruption, the lawmakers on Wednesday disclosed ...

KARACHI – A lawmaker from the PML-Q Likeminded on Wednesday came down hard on the Sindh ...

KARACHI - A PPP activist Salman Baloch, along with his accomplice, was injured when some ...

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