FAISALABAD - Hundreds of textile units in and around Faisalabad were shut down in protest against the gas price-hike and discontinuation of Research and Development support facility to the exporters. Industrial units closure was announced after an emergent meeting of Pakistan Textile Exporters ...
WASHINGTON: - Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi described his hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as ...
FORMER ISI Chief General (r) Hameed Gul warned that there are such information and evidence which indicate that the US forces may ...
US commandos are reportedly poised to launch raids against Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Pakistan as Washington moves an ...
UNITED NATIIONS: - The U.N. has launched an initial enquiry into Tuesday's attack on its joint peacekeeping force with the ...
NEW YORK: - A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter because she wanted out of an arranged marriage has told a judge that ...
NEW YORK: - Stating that President Pervez Musharraf had been shored up "for far too long", an influential American ...
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, - Some 30,000 Muslims from across Bosnia gathered Friday to remember the 1995 Srebrenica ...
NEW DELHI - The four-year-old UPA government will face its first trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22 with Congress ...
THE HAGUE - International Criminal Court prosecutors will seek the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes ...
MOSCOW - Iran's recent missile tests showed the limited range of Tehran's arsenal and proved that a planned US missile ...
BEIRUT - Lebanon announced a 30-member national unity government on Friday tasked with resolving the country's worst ...
JERUSALEM - Israeli police have new suspicions over the finances of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, they said on Friday after ...
KARACHI - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has reversed the earlier amendment to the lower and upper circuit ...
KARACHI - In order to encourage prompt financial inflows into the country, the State Bank has asked the "Authorized Dealers" to ...
KARACHI - Seeking the complete control over its coal reserves the Sindh cabinet has strongly opposed the federal government's ...
KARACHI - The Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has launched analyst certification programme (ACP) to ...
LONDON - Oil prices rocketed to record highs above 147 dollars on Friday as traders seized on the weak US currency and ...
LAHORE - In spite of attractive rates declining trend at the stock market continued and the KSE-100 index with range-bound ...
The first hundred days of this government are drawing to a close and in this initial period, it may or may not have delivered on ...
KARACHI - The JS Investments Limited, JSIL (formerly JS ABAMCO Limited) has announced the financial results for Open End Funds ...
LAHORE - Pakistan Sugar Mills Association Punjab Zone (PSMA) thinks that the sugar and sugarcane prices issue can be overcome by ...
KARACHI - The recent hike in gas prices of 31 percent for fuel gas and 68 percent for captive power plants is going to ...
HANGU - The alleged Taliban militants on Friday threatened to kill all the 29 hostages if the government authorities do not ...
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar is likely to constitute a larger bench for the hearing of two government appeals ...
NEW DELHI - Governor's rule was imposed in Indian Kashmir and state assembly dissolved following resignation tendered by ...
ISLAMABAD - Inflation rate stands at 12 per cent at the end of the financial year, which is almost double than the government ...
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his government would bring down the population growth rate to ...
ISLAMABAD - The currently ongoing operation by the security forces in tribal areas has put tremendous pressure on the central ...
PESHAWAR - A girl was killed while two others got injured when some unknown persons Friday attacked the house of an official of ...
JALALABAD - Official investigations have found that US-led airstrikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and ...
ISLAMABAD - A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted northwestern Pakistan Friday but there were no ...
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan agencies are not involved in attack on Indian embassy in ...
Quetta - Police Friday recovered four bodies, whose hands and foots were tied with ropes from Mastung area, some 30 kilometers ...
ISLAMABAD - Authorities Friday said the radioactive material found in Karachi had now been disposed of safely. Authorities ...
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi website has claimed that Israeli warplanes have been using Iraqi airspace to practice for possible bombing of ...
DERA MURAD JAMALI - Six persons including engineer of a private company were kidnapped by unknown persons in two separate ...
FACES keyboard player Ian McLagan has confirmed the surving members of the band, including Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, have been ...
PARIS - France's first lady Carla Bruni admitted Friday she was "hurt" by frosty reactions to her new album by critics of her ...
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ANTONIO Banderas says Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie should just "try their best" when they welcome their twins later this month. ...
ETHAN Hawke has got married. Actor-turned-author Ethan, 37, married Ryan Shawhughes, 28, last month in a secret ceremony. ...
FALL Out Boy, FNMTV host and soon-to-be-father Pete Wentz is dishing out details on one of our favorite topics: babies ...
ISLAMABAD - An exhibition of 400 photographs by a photojournalist Waqar Zaidi held her Friday portraying political life of slain ...
ISLAMABAD - Chief Commissioner Hamid Ali Khan Friday said Islamabad Capital Territory Administration was spending tens of million ...
ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority would initiate construction work of an interchange and underpass at Islamabad ...
ISLAMABAD - The Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IIIRD) and the International Islamic University ...
RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO), Nasir Khan Durrani paid a surprise visit to Police Station Taxila and found some ...
ISLAMABAD - The Capital Police have arrested eight accused, including three women involved in theft and street crimes and ...
KARACHI - The disintegration process in PML-Q is still going on despite the fact that, so far, the coalition government at ...
KARACHI - The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Friday announced the results of the Higher Secondary School ...
KARACHI- The recently issuance of results of the Bachelors of Science (BSc-Pass) Part-II / Both Parts Annual Examinations 2007 ...
KARACHI - The resurfacing of the banned sectarian organisations has claimed three lives in a week, The Nation has learnt on ...
Karachi - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Friday presided over a meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh ...
Karachi - Sindh Minister for Human Rights Nadia Gabol has proposed reforms in the Prosecution System in order to ensure swift ...
LAHORE - Even packed milk of known brands is not safe for humans as it contains one or more hazardous chemicals, drugs or residue ...
LAHORE - A number of city roads broadened to create more space for the growing vehicular traffic have widely been encroached by ...
LAHORE - The Punjab University in its reply before the Lahore High Court (LHC) in a petition of two PhD students submitted that ...
LAHORE- Member PPP's Central Executive Committee, Ch. Manzoor Ahmed on Friday criticised the PML-N leadership for its alleged ...
LAHORE -The Punjab government has taken out a number of steps to upgrade Jallo Park, spread at 456 acres of land and being ...
LAHORE - Many leave Pakistan in search of greener pastures, hoping to return one day. But few manage to do that while most ...
LAHORE- The Irrigation and Power Department (I&P), has identified 317 sites suitable for setting up plants for generating ...