Saturday, 18 May, 2013
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday appointed Lt-General Zahirul Islam as new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), bringing to a halt the rumours about the extension in the tenure of the incumbent chief of the country’s top intelligence agency.A brief ...
KARACHI - In the wake of growing demand of new provinces, the Sindh Assembly on Friday ...
ISLAMABAD - Chairman and members of the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) called on ...
LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that provincial government will ...
KARACHI - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $8,592.79 million in the first ...
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday appointed Lt-General Zahirul Islam as new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), bringing to a halt the rumours about the ...
ISLAMABAD – Air Marshall (r) Asghar Ali Khan has sought the Supreme Court to declare the acts of all persons involved in Mehrangate scam as unconstitutional and give a ‘symbolic ...
ROME - Italy on Friday condemned as “inexplicable” Britain’s failure to warn it ahead of time of an operation to rescue a pair of British and Italian hostages in Nigeria that resulted in their deaths.“The behaviour of the British government, which did not inform or ...
GAZA CITY - An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committees militant group Friday, the movement said. The PRC said General Secretary Zohair al-Qaisi was one of two Palestinians killed in the strike, along with fellow-member Mahmud Halani, hours ...
COLOMBO - Three Sri Lankan soldiers were found shot dead after an argument between them in the Tamil-majority Jaffna peninsula, the army said on Friday. The three soldiers were the first to be killed in the far northern peninsula since the end of the Indian Ocean island’s civil war in ...
LAHORE - India and Pakistan renew their cricket rivalry after almost a year's break when they take part in the Asia Cup one-day tournament starting in Dhaka on Sunday.Buoyant Sri Lanka and hosts Bangladesh, the other two teams in the fray to determine one-day supremacy on the continent, play the ...
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US filmmakers who scored a surprise hit in 2003 with a terrifying tale of two divers lost at sea are back with a spine-chilling film about a woman driven to terror inside her own house.Chris Kentis and Laura Lau struck box office success nine years ago with “Open ...
KARACHI - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $8,592.79 million in the first eight months (July 2011–February 2012) of the current fiscal year 2011-12 (FY12), showing an impressive growth of 23.40 per cent or $1,629.51 million when compared with $6,963.28 million received during ...
Spring is finally here and while we in Islamabad have a few more weeks of respite, inhabitants in the plains are already sensing the advent of ...
A real change in Pakistan is a long way off. But the process has begun and, hopefully, it will be irreversible. The latest flash on the national ...
Here are a few small observations that I came across in the recent past. They are not high-flying cases of financial corruptions by some government ...
I had written earlier that the letter ‘M’ seems to play a distinctly furtive role in our national lives. Consider memogate, Mansoor Ijaz, ...
In our country there has been a media revolution so to speak. Several news channels and newspapers have opened up and ...
The recent news of Indian Supreme Court directing the Indian government to implement the previous decision of the Court ...
Day in, day out, lack of endurance is exacerbating in our society. On Tuesday last, there was a colossal display of ...
Recently I went to collect the death certificate of a deceased friend from a Government Hospital in Islamabad. The ...
The entire nation was shocked to see the conduct of recently held Senate Elections. It was most disgusting to ...
I read with interest a letter by Gen Aslam Beg former COAS Pak Army titled as above. It related to Indian Supreme ...
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif sometime back promised he would not accept turncoats in his party but after sometime he ...
Crime rate in Rawalpindi is on the rise, however fortunately, our police is up to the task. During different operations ...
LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that provincial government will evolve a ...
LAHORE – Speakers at a ‘Balochistan Solidarity Rally’ on Friday warned the ...
LAHORE – PML-N Deputy Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has welcomed replacement of ISI DG Ahmad ...
Three senior PPP leaders, Federal Minister Syed Khurshid Shah, Senator Nayyar Bokhari and Qamar ...
KARACHI - In the wake of growing demand of new provinces, the Sindh Assembly on Friday condemned ...
KARACHI - The Mohajir Sooba Tehreek (MST) spokesperson Syed Ali on Friday vowed that the Mohajir ...
KARACHI - The food budget of each prisoner has been increased to Rs117 from Rs35, while computer ...
KARACHI - Palestine Foundation Pakistan has announced that Palestinian ambassador to Pakistan Hazem ...
ISLAMABAD - Amid health workers strike, the federal government is all set to launch anti-polio ...
ISLAMABAD - Citizens have protested against three-fold increase in transfer fee of plots by CDA, ...
ISLAMABAD - International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) has inaugurated two new hostels for ...
ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police on Friday arrested four gangs of criminals who were involved in ...
