Sunday, 26 May, 2013
ISLAMABAD There was a rumpus in the Upper House of the Parliament on Friday when Chairman Senate, Farooq H Naek, declared the passage of the recommendations by the Senate to the National Assembly on the controversial General Sales Tax (GST) Bill. Hullabaloo was not yet over when the Chairman ...
LAHORE At least 40 policemen sustained serious injuries when their bus turned-turtle here at Ring Road near Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday night, police and rescue workers said. ...
KARACHI (PPI) - Founder and chief of Bihari Quomi Movement (BQM), Aftab Malik, was shot dead on Friday in Orangi. Police said unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire at Aftab near his ...
PAUL SCHEMM Just 15 minutes after Manal Abdel-Karim began touring her middle class Cairo district as part of her campaign for a parliament seat, her modest procession of a few dozen supporters was confronted by a mob of angry knife-wielding youths. Abdel-Karim, a candidate for the opposition ...
Adam Daniel Rotdelf Earlier this year, a group led by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright (which included me) issued a report on a new strategic concept called Nato 2020. The report recommended that Nato open its doors to new members while seeking a more constructive relationship with ...
AMY WILENTZ IN Haiti, theres a worker called a Bayakou. The Bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so. Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an ...
LONDON (AFP) Andy Murray stormed into the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals with a crushing 6-2, 6-2 win against Spanish seventh seed David Ferrer on Thursday. Murray knew from bitter experience that the complex nature of the round-robin system at the prestigious end-of-year event could ...
AN independent panel of British scientists has suggested that meat and milk from cloned cattle is safe to eat. The body says cloned products do not differ from conventional food and are unlikely to present any health risks. Critics maintain that there are significant ethical and animal welfare ...
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has revised the Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR) for Microfinance Banks (MFBs) and also allowed the existing MFBs to raise their minimum paid-up capital in a phased manner during the next three years, SBP said in a circular issued here on Friday. According to a ...
LAHORE - Following the modus operandi of Double Shah, four real brothers misled the people by ...
LAHORE - Chairman Sunni Ithihad Council Sahibzada Fazal Karim has resigned from the post of ...
LAHORE Following directions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to probe into working of the ...
LAHORE - Executive Committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association with majority of 11-7 votes has ...
LAHORE - PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Friday said his party would give a call for civil disobedience ...
