Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
ISLAMABAD After its failure in passing NRO, the PPP-led federal government, Friday, suffered another moral setback when its coalition partners in the National Assembly not only opposed the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) Bill, 2010, but also termed it a final nail in the coffin of Pak ...
KARACHI The funeral prayers of police and Frontier Constabulary personnel martyred in deadly attack on CID Civil line Karachi were offered at Police Headquarters Garden on Friday. Sindh Home ...
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A senior EU aid official warned Friday that floodwaters could linger up to another six months in Pakistan, where he said the magnitude of the crisis meant people were still going ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US experts called Friday for President Barack Obama to consider narrowing the mission in Afghanistan unless there is progress and warned that success was impossible without a shift by Pakistan. An independent task force at the Council on Foreign Relations said the Obama ...
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - North Korea is supplying banned nuclear and ballistic equipment to Iran, Syria and Myanmar using surreptious means to avoid international sanctions, according to a UN report released Friday. China had blocked publication of the report which has been ready for six months, ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these ...
DUBAI (AFP) Graeme Smith struck a fighting century to put South Africa on track for a big total against a hapless Pakistan attack on the opening day of the first Test here on Friday. Smith hit eight boundaries in his 152-ball 100 and shared a 153-run opening stand with Alviro Petersen (67) before ...
A NOMADIC tribesman of the San people strides across the hot Kalahari Desert - in the company of a cheetah he has helped to tame. Though theyre killers in the wild, these big cats are surprisingly easy to domesticate. The animals in these striking pictures, taken in the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary ...
SEOUL (AFP) - G20 leaders vowed Friday to avoid currency manipulation and trade protectionism, but bad blood between China and the United States blocked deeper progress in rebalancing the skewed global economy. After a stormy two-day summit, the leaders of the worlds biggest rich and emerging ...
LAHORE - A Kargil hero, who lost his hands during the war and is running from pillar to post for ...
LAHORE - Thousands of outsiders left the City on Friday for their hometowns to celebrate Eidul Azha ...
LAHORE - At least 290 traffic wardens have been deputed at 88 shopping malls, markets and other ...
LAHORE - Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohsin Raza on Friday extended interim bail of ...
