GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters in Gaza's main city for the first time Monday - after dozens died in a day of clashes - while the government fended off worldwide calls for a ceasefire. Amid raging combat in Gaza City, and as the Palestinian death toll rose to 555, French and ...
ISLAMABAD - The 8th Rolls Signing ceremony at the Supreme Court turned ugly here on Monday when a woman lawyer angrily shouted at ...
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan needs no waiver from IMF as it has already fulfilled Fund's conditions for standby loan's second tranche, ...
ISLAMABAD - US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher Monday said Mumbai attackers had links ...
MOSCOW (AFP) - World leaders expressed mounting concern about the impact on civilians of the fighting in the Gaza Strip Monday, ...
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The shelling is incessant, hospitals are overwhelmed, children are shell-shocked, the Gaza nights are miserably ...
LONDON - The British media on Monday has reported that Israel is using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its ...
LONDON: The Muslim Council of Britain ton Monday welcomed the Prime Minister's call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but urges ...
UNITED NATIONS - With Israel rebuffing international peace efforts, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pressing ahead with ...
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops battling Tamil rebels Monday captured part of the highly strategic Elephant Pass in a second ...
PARIS (AFP) - International media expressed dismay Monday over the dramatic escalation of Israel's Gaza offensive and condemned ...
CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh) (AFP) - Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thilan Samarweera smashed unbeaten half-centuries to put Sri Lanka in ...
BRISBANE (AFP) - A rusty-looking Ana Ivanovic overcame a poor service game and some patchy groundstrokes to beat unheralded Czech ...
AUCKLAND (AFP) - Sixth seed Nicole Vaidisova survived a comeback by determined Russian Alla Kudryavtseva before scraping through ...
WASHINGTON - US Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday Israel did not consult the United States before invading Gaza. Cheney, in ...
NEW YORK - The Pakistani military is using US intelligence to hit al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in its Federally Administered ...
WASHINGTON - The Kashmiri-American Council has called on the international community to help create conditions for a free and ...
KARACHI - The past's trend of overnight boom at the stock market seems over as the Continuous Funding System (CFS) is not being ...
KARACHI - The 30 per cent reduction in the price of lubricants is still being awaited by the general public, The Nation learnt ...
KARACHI - The private sector credit off-take from the schedule banks has substantially fell by 26 percent during Jul-Dec FY09 ...
LAHORE - The Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) on Monday threatened to go on strike from January 15, if the ...
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the newly appointed Governor State Bank of Pakistan Saleem Raza to make short ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Ministry of Water and Power on Monday set up a technical committee to reconcile the amount payable by Karachi ...
LAHORE - The first day of the business week Monday witnessed Karachi bourse gained for a second straight trading session adding ...
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rose back above 47 dollars on Monday as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on and major crude ...
LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday warned the government to immediately ensure uninterrupted supply ...
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has urged the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority ...
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari sent back the proposed draft of Nizam-e-Adl Regulations for implementation of Sharia't in ...
SWAT - At least five persons were killed and a house of a journalist was demolished in fresh incidents of violence here on ...
ISLAMABAD " Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly today takes up no-confidence move filed against AJK Prime Minister ...
FEDERAL Information Sherry Rehman has said that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has met Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif asking the ...
THE Punjab government spokesman Pervaiz Rashid has said that the provincial government has taken concrete steps aimed at putting ...
KARACHI - Judicial Magistrate (South), Syed Nadeem Hussain Shah on Monday admitted Sindh National Front (SNF) Chief, Mumtaz Ali ...
KARACHI - Advisor to the Prime Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has said that a letter purported to be from Ajmal Kasab, a ...
LAHORE-The Punjab govt on Monday gave nine additional portfolios to six Ministers, who belong to the Pakistan Muslim League-N, ...
TWO German children - aged six and seven - have been stopped by police from eloping to Africa to tie the knot in the sun, reports ...
NEW YORK (AFP) - Actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston said they were "heartbroken" over the death last week of their ...
THE monument has baffled archaeologists who have argued for decades over the stone circle's 5,000-year history but academic ...
They are at an age when life should be exciting and full of hope. But one in ten young people think their lives are 'not worth ...
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The tale of a married couple's life with a troublesome canine, "Marley and Me," took the biggest bite out of ...
ROME (AFP) - An actor who played a clan boss in the widely-acclaimed Italian mafia film "Gomorrah" has once again been arrested ...
ISLAMABAD - Bone Marrow Transplant Unit was inaugurated Shif International Hospital here on Monday making it the fourth hospital ...
RAWALPINDI - In continuation of the Chief Minister's Special Programme for Healthcare, District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) ...
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Environment has ensured that it will introduce more efficient technology in the steel furnaces ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The press preview of an exhibition carrying Arif Khan's calligraphic paintings held at Nomad Art Gallery, ...
ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the massacre of Palestinians, majority of ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Directorate General of Films and Publications (DFP) Monday launched the latest issue of Mah-e-Nau, also ...
KARACHI - NBP scored 112 runs win over PIA at its own ground in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match and in the same competition Sialkot ...
KARACHI - Naib Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Professor Ghafoor Ahmed has strongly condemned Israeli attack on Gaza killing more ...
KARACHI - Police busted a racket of tankers' snatchers here in the limits of Memon Goth police station. According to details, ...
Karachi (PPI) - Sindh Government should consider allocation of new pieces of land to City District Government Karachi for the ...
Karachi (PPI) - The speakers stressed the need to launch efforts to protect Indus Delta mangroves ecosystem in the Year of ...
Karachi (PPI) - The Central Police Office Karachi Monday announced traffic plan for Muharramul Haram. The following traffic ...
Karachi (PPI) - Provincial Minister for Women Development Tauqir Fatima Bhutto Monday said Higher Education Commission would be ...
LAHORE - A Pakistan Cricket Board official has said that Sri Lanka will finalise its tour programme to Pakistan within next 48 ...
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering to offer only three categories of contracts to the top 24 players in the ...
LAHORE - While criticisng the unabated lavish spending practices from cricket board officials, Federal Sports Minister Pir Aftab ...
LAHORE - Senior batsman Younis Khan has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board to prepare sporting pitches for domestic tournaments to ...
LAHORE - Under pressure from Indian Cricket League (ICL) players to revoke their ban, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday ...
LAHORE - Pakistan No 1 woman tennis player Sarah Mahboob has sought financial help from Federal Sports Minister Syed Pir Aftab ...
LAHORE - While paying rich tributes to PPP founder Z A Bhutto on the occasion of his 81st birth anniversary on Monday, party ...
LAHORE - Inspector General National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) Khawaja Khalid Farooq has said that effective ...
LAHORE - All plazas and big shopping centres face the danger of being gutted at any time as frequent power outages damage the ...
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has directed the Health department to re-advertise post of King Edward Medical ...
LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Central Majlise Shoora through a resolution has asked the government to leave Musharraf-era ...
LAHORE - At the public and the intellectual level of the City, Israeli atrocities against the innocent Palestinians are being ...