Pakistan gave a strong display of their skills on Wednesday when they chased down a daunting West Indian total of 294 and won by four wickets. It was encouraging to see Pakistan, ...

UNITED NATIONS - President Asif Ali Zardari has proposed a 5-point plan  aimed at eliminating the root causes of terrorism, and called for unity among nations to build a world of peace and stability. "Let us hit the causes of the terrorist menace, not condemn its innocent ...

NEW YORK - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi expressed the hope Wednesday that a United Nations fact-finding commission would soon be established to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as progress has made towards that end. Responding to a question at a ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain played down Thursday the prospect of sending more troops to Afghanistan in the near future, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. Speaking a day after two more British soldiers were killed in the violence-scarred ...

AFTER two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. His statement is prompted by an October ...

LAHORE - Trade leaders and industrialists on Thursday blasted the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for enhancing two per cent interest rate, terming it as a cruel step which would badly affect the economic growth in the country. They said that the industrial survival has been put at the stake with ...