Sunday, 19 May, 2013
ISLAMABAD – The seven-judge bench hearing the contempt case has rejected the reservations of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan, and decided to hear the case on daily basis.As the bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk resumed hearing of the case on Wednesday, Aitzaz ...
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday called for an extension to the deadline for ...
LAHORE - An intelligent transport project has been designed keeping in view the ...
ISLAMABAD – The World Water Day is being observed today to highlight the population ...
KARACHI - PIA has filed a lawsuit against Transparency International Pakistan and 17 ...
ISLAMABAD – The seven-judge bench hearing the contempt case has rejected the reservations of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan, and decided to hear the case on ...
ISLAMABAD - Seeing no threat to the incumbent political dispensation, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said there was no need to worry in the presence of Constitution, Parliament, ...
JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesians protested across the country Wednesday against a proposed fuel hike, with violence which broke out in one city injuring a policeman, police said.Around 4,000 workers protested “peacefully” in front of the state palace in the capital, Jakarta ...
NAIROBI - British hostage Judith Tebbutt, kidnapped in Kenya over six months ago by gunmen who killed her husband, said Wednesday she was “happy” after she was released in Somalia to be flown to Nairobi. Tebbutt, 57, was taken on September 11 from a remote Kenyan beach resort near the ...
LONDON - Britain’s spending on its military mission in Afghanistan will be 2.4 billion pounds ($3.8 billion) less than expected in the years leading to 2015, Britain’s finance minister said on Wednesday. “UK forces will cease combat operations by the end of 2014. As a ...
MIRPUR - History beckons Bangladesh as they aim to rise above the minnows tag and notch up their biggest title since arriving on the international scene when they take on an unpredictable Pakistan in the final of the Asia Cup on Thursday.With former champions India and Sri Lanka shockingly ...
MOSCOW (AFP) - What looked like a large hole in the wing did not stop a Russian airline jet from taking off for Siberia with dozens of panicked passengers on board.The Boeing 737 jet was delayed on the tarmac of a Moscow airport when one of the passengers looked out of a window and noticed an ...
KARACHI - PIA has filed a lawsuit against Transparency International Pakistan and 17 others for permanent injunction in SHC at Karachi for restraining continuing malicious and baseless campaign regarding purchase of five aircraft from Boeing Company. The next hearing of the case has been fixed for ...
Every evening at dusk as I sit in my verandah watching smoke from cooking fires rise from the valley below, I seem to hear the voice of my long gone ...
Marvi Memon As I stare at a graph tabulating Asia’s growth rates from 1700 to 2050, the return of Asian economic power is all evident. If ...
In 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah said: “Education is a matter of life or death for Pakistan. The world is progressing so rapidly that ...
People would like to think that their own way is right. That was what my younger brother concluded in his wisdom when he was just 11 or 12 years old, ...
Islamabad Traffic Police is doing its utmost effort to maintain traffic discipline in the city and involving community ...
Pakistan is surrounded by myriad difficulties. An ailing economy, gas and electricity crisis, weak educational ...
By suggesting that he was the Prime Minister and not a peon Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has now openly proved ...
The erudite letter on genesis of Water Accord 1991 written by Eng. Khurshid Anwer in the Daily Nation of 21.03.12 ...
Barister Aitzaz Ahsan, who all along took the view that there was no harm in writing a letter to Swiss authorities, has ...
The Water Accord of 1991 was entered into specifically for developing consensus on Kalabagh dam. Why else would ...
Every Pakistani who believes in mutual respect and decency would have been in shock to read the language recently used ...
The natural and manmade disasters affected people in the upper and lower Sindh districts are indeed, living in inhuman ...
LAHORE - An intelligent transport project has been designed keeping in view the increasing ...
LAHORE – On the third consecutive day on Wednesday, hundreds of the students of Punjab ...
OUR STAFF REPORTERLAHORE – Lahore Electric Supply Company Chief Executive Officer Sharafat ...
Pakistan Rangers have imposed complete ban on hunting and illegal cutting of trees within eight ...
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday called for an extension to the deadline for making ...
KARACHI - Advisor to the Turkish president and Turkey-Pakistan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship ...
KARACHI (PPI) - Newly-appointed Director General Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) Maj Gen Rizwan ...
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has handed over a cheque of Rs50 million to ...
ISLAMABAD – The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) in ...
RAWALPINDI – A special search operation at Adyala Jail concluded Wednesday evening wherein a ...
ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad police on Wednesday busted a gang of foreigners, which has been ...
ISLAMABAD – The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has approved Technical Assistance matching ...
