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Monday, January 09, 2012

WASHINGTON  - The United States will respond if Iran tries to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday, saying such a move would cross a “red line.”“We made very clear that the United States will not ...

 

LAHORE – As the incumbent Punjab government is about to complete its tenure and ...

ISLAMABAD - Since former President and chairman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) ...

KARACHI - A number of lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly have demanded that the native or ...

BEIJING  - Local governments across China have borrowed billions of dollars to build ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States will respond if Iran tries to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday, saying such a ...

MULTAN - Dubbing the PPP as a symbol of Federation and constitution, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned on Sunday that any attempt to weaken this party will tantamount to weakening the country, ...

Capping a major eight-month review, President Barack Obama unveiled a new defence strategy that places more emphasis on US military capabilities in Asia and the Pacific and much less on counter-insurgency and nation-building operations in poorer and conflict-plagued countries.Among other steps, the ...

DAMASCUS  - A large Russian naval flotilla led by an aircraft carrier has docked in the Syrian port of Tartus in what Damascus state media hailed Sunday as a show of solidarity by close ally Moscow. The six-day call to the Mediterranean port, where Russia has a recently expanded naval base, is ...

CONCORD, New Hampshire - Mitt Romney’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination on Sunday slammed his “pious baloney” on the campaign trail and tarred him as a timid moderate sure to lose to Barack Obama.Squaring off in their second televised debate in just 10 hours, the ...

OPINIONS

Columns

Editorials

Letters

The commendable efforts by Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a Kashmiri by birth and naturalised US citizen, seized with a missionary zeal to project the ...

Living in tune with the natural world seems to be second nature to the vast majority of the Afghan populace and, whilst I do realise that I am ...

Historically, Balochistan has been an area of interest for major world powers. For instance, the USSR aimed at reaching the warm waters through ...

It is just another year that whizzed past at what seemed to be at breakneck speed. Days rolled into weeks and months raced towards the end of the ...

Prime Minister Gilani, while addressing members of the Lahore Bar Association on Saturday, reiterated the PPP and government’s recently adopted ...

Former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf favouring the recognition of Israel shows that his agenda remains delusionally separated from the ...

In his latest frenzy of rage during an interview with The Daily Beast, Afghan President Karzai accused the US of not fighting the war on the right ...

The dire lack of infrastructure in Sindh province is haunting me. Sindh province lags behind the rest of the country ...

Former President Musharraf’s views published in a section of National English Press about accepting Israel as a ...

Students who would show excellent traffic sense would get lucrative awards from Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP), which ...

Past few weeks, I happened to attend the Anniversary Celebrations (Yaum-e-Tasees) of Insaf Students’ Federation ...

One was surprised to read an American scholar’s article in leading English daily. For a while I asked myself, is ...

Our bureaucracy is, indeed, notorious for its red tap-ism, nepotism, cronyism, corruption both moral and monetary and ...

REGIONAL

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

KARACHI - A number of lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly have demanded that the native or regional ...

KARACHI - A number of Bangali Pakistanis on Sunday took out a protest rally and demanded immediate ...

KARACHI - The Customs Drug Enforcement Cell’s Karachi Airport unit, on Sunday, seized 17-kg ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The prisoners would enjoy punishment days with their families in Chounras (huts) of ...

ISLAMABAD - Since former President and chairman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Pervez ...

ISLAMABAD - Former political secretary to Benazir Bhutto, Naheed Khan, has said that the schedule ...

ISLAMABAD - Though the PPP-led government has pledged to table bill for creation of new provinces ...

ISLAMABAD -  - The work on deepening of Attabad spillway for receding water and clearing the ...

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