Thursday, 23 May, 2013
LAHORE - After extensive deliberations, the federal cabinet which met here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at Governors House, took a very bold decision of not attending the forthcoming Bonn Conference on Afghanistan despite calls from Afghan President ...
LAHORE - Religious and political leaders want the government to remain steadfast on halting US/NATO supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistan and do not show any laxity to the US on the matter of NATO ...
BEIJING (Reuters/AFP) - Chinas top state newspaper on Tuesday accused the United States of flouting international law and fanning terrorism after a Nato attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and it ...
DAMASCUS (Agencies) - Violence flared again in Syria where three more civilians were killed on Tuesday, one of them in a raid launched after suspected mutinous soldiers shot dead three members of the security forces, a rights group said. Gunmen believed to be army deserters also abducted two ...
LONDON (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's son James was reappointed as a director of British pay-TV giant BSkyB at the company's annual general meeting on Tuesday, despite calls from some shareholders for him to resign. Provisional figures announced at the meeting in London gave him 81.24 percent of the vote ...
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Tuesday activated a radar warning system against incoming missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad on the borders of the EU, in response to Western plans for a US missile shield in Europe. President Dmitry Medvedev announced that the Voronezh-DM station was moving on to ...
DHAKA (AFP) - Resurgent Pakistan continued their winning form to defeat Bangladesh by 50 runs in the one-off Twenty20 international at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday in a low-scoring affair. Misbah-ul-Haq's men, buoyant after a successful series against Sri Lanka in the United Arab ...
LONDON (AFP) - Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckhams elevation into the fashion industrys elite was confirmed Monday when she was awarded a major prize at Britains most prestigious design awards. The singer, wife of iconic footballer David Beckham, won the Best Designer Brand prize at the British ...
KARACHI (Reuters) - Import payments, weak global sentiment over currencies and concern over Pakistan's economy continued to hammer the Pakistani rupee on Tuesday, which continued its slide and hit a record low of 88.28 to the dollar. The rupee ended at 88.25/30, compared with Monday's close of ...
LAHORE Scores of Wapda consumers, including commercial and domestic, are approaching the Lahore ...
LAHORE The inquiry committees of the Lahore Development Authority have failed to complete and ...
LAHORE - In order to combat terrorism, four latest bomb disposal vans worth 4 million Euros were ...
LAHORE A newly-married bridegroom was electrocuted to death whereas a 20-year-old unidentified ...
