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Saturday, May 12, 2012

BRUSSELS  - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggested on Friday that Pakistan could miss out on important talks on the future of Afghanistan if it fails to reopen supply routes in time to secure a place at a NATO summit in Chicago on May 20-21.Speaking at a news conference, ...

 

KARACHI – Holding out assurances to teachers and proctors of heightened security in ...

ISLAMABAD - In yet another controversial decision, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural ...

RAWALPINDI - Chief Minster Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has announced Rs 220 million for ...

JERUSALEM - The World Health Organisation on Friday urged Israel to give quick and ...

BRUSSELS  - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggested on Friday that Pakistan could miss out on important talks on the future of Afghanistan if it fails to reopen supply routes in ...

MULTAN – Terming Prime Minister Gilani a traitor for protecting the Swiss accounts of a “looter of national wealth”, MNA Hamza Shahbaz said on Friday that the masses had decided to ...

JERUSALEM - The World Health Organisation on Friday urged Israel to give quick and suitable health care to Palestinian hunger-strikers, including their transfer to civilian hospitals.Some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners are currently refusing food in protest against solitary confinement, detention ...

ANNE GEARANSupport for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 per cent of Americans saying they back the effort and about half of those who oppose the war saying the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan is doing more harm than good, according to an AP-GfK poll.In ...

BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday she would not seek to change the country’s harsh royal defamation law despite outcry over the death of a grandfather jailed for the offence. Ampon Tangnoppakul, 62, who was dubbed “Uncle SMS”, died Tuesday inside ...

OPINIONS

Columns

Editorials

Letters

After hiding behind a family wedding, much like the proverbial ostrich, for the better part of two weeks, I really don’t want to face reality ...

If ever, you have the misfortune to witness a battle of wits between the confused and the confounded, the only party that will emerge as the loser ...

A strange malady has gripped the higher policymaking circles in Islamabad. There is no sense of urgency in resolving overwhelmingly important issues ...

The sudden escalation of hostilities along the oil rich border between Sudan and South Sudan, and the aerial bombing of Heglig last month, have drawn ...

The curse of excessive loadshedding has become a periodic phenomenon; and so has the sight of angry crowds going on the rampage, burning tyres, ...

It may be seen as an attempt by US Congress to intervene in a matter in which the Executive Branch has not had any success, or it may be seen as that ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, who is in UK on an official 5-day visit, and British Prime Minister David Cameron reviewed the progress made ...

This refers to the letters appearing in a section of the press regarding the Diamer Basha Dam Project.In view of the ...

Williams and Flewelling (1988) in their study to find out the social causes behind homicidal violence, highlighted that ...

Being a senior citizen and witness to the bloodshed during the partition and the creation of Bangladesh, I wonder why ...

Syed Qaim Ali Shah, chief minister of Sindh has presented a 4-year performance report of his PPP-led coalition Sindh ...

REGIONAL

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

LAHORE - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has said that in order to establish independence of ...

LAHORE – TheNation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami ...

LAHORE – Protests against massive loadshedding continued in different areas of the City on ...

LAHORE – Five newly-confirmed judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) took oath of their office ...

islamabad :   Germany has announced an additional 15.7 million euros (1.853 billion rupees) ...

RAWALPINDI - Chief Minster Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has announced Rs 220 million for construction ...

ISLAMABAD  - Islamabad Police has decided to conduct a survey to gather details about the ...

ISLAMABAD - PEMRA enforcement teams on Friday raided numbers of cable TV networks in various parts ...

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