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US diplomats insist Mullah Omar in Quetta

US diplomats insist Mullah Omar in Quetta

ISLAMABAD - The United States Mission in Islamabad, following ambassador Pattersons lead, has begun a campaign claiming Mullah Omar and his Taliban are in Quetta and move around the border with Afghanistan. This almost portends a drone attack on that city by the US. Pakistan has termed it a ...


National News
Rashid urges CJ to take suo moto notice of PM statement

Rashid urges CJ to take suo moto notice of PM statement

LAHORE- President, Pakistan Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of the statement of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani wherein he ...

International News
Afghanistan war wont remain winnable forever

Afghanistan war wont remain winnable forever

LONDON (AFP) - The conflict in Afghanistan is deteriorating in some ways and will not remain winnable indefinitely, the top US military commander in the country warned Thursday. General Stanley ...

Nato airstrike kills nine civilians

Nato airstrike kills nine civilians

US holds direct talks with Iran at nuclear meeting

US holds direct talks with Iran at nuclear meeting

Sports News
Carrick seals United comeback

Carrick seals United comeback

PARIS (AFP) - Michael Carrick secured a 2-1 win for Manchester United on Wednesday as the English Premier League champions came back from a goal down to edge Germanys Wolfsburg at Old Trafford and ...

Entertainment News
Black music awards honour Jackson

Black music awards honour Jackson

GLASGOW (AFP) - British acts dominated the honours at the annual Mobo awards ceremony for music of black origin, which this year paid tribute to the late King of Pop Michael Jackson. London Hip hop ...

Jordan and Peter's LA mansion on sale for 12m

Jordan and Peter's LA mansion on sale for 12m

Jennifer Garner is a liar

Jennifer Garner is a liar

Business News
Traders flay raise in power tariff

Traders flay raise in power tariff

ISLAMABAD - Business community Thursday showed its deep concerns over the recent increase in electricity price and termed it an irrational decision, especially for industrial sector that is already ...

SHC petition unlikely to impact PTCL financial performance

SHC petition unlikely to impact PTCL financial performance

CNG stations closure unacceptable, says APCNGA

CNG stations closure unacceptable, says APCNGA

Regional News

PHF names 45-probable for U-18 Boys Asia Cup camp

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation has announced 45 players for training camp for U-18 Boys Asia Cup, being held in Myanmar from November 12 to 24. The camp will be held from October 5 at the ...

PFF declares Lahore as host

LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has approved Lahore as host of 20th National U19 Soccer Championship. The team of Lahore District Football ...

2 sack-packed kids' bodies found

LAHORE - The bodies of a seven-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother, packed in a sack, were found lying alongside a road near a market here in Kot Lakhpat area, police and eyewitnesses said on ...

8-hour loadshedding irks masses

LAHORE - Despite the tall claims by the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco), at least eight hours unscheduled loadshedding is continued here in the provincial metropolis, as the traders, growers, ...

Shahbaz for prevention of blindness

LAHORE-A high-level meeting was held under the chairmanship of Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif at CMs Secretariat here on Thursday to review measures in details for the prevention and control ...

No seminar, walk arranged in City

LAHORE - International Day of Older Persons on Thursday went unnoticed throughout the country, showing governments apathy about the importance of day and welfare of aging people Government ...

India understands language of missiles only, says Nizami

LAHORE - Chairman Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust (NPT) and Editor-in-Chief The Nation, Majid Nizami has said that India is bent upon turning Pakistan into desert by constructing 62 dams on Pakistani rivers ...

CM approves Institute of Neuro Sciences at LGH

LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif has approved establishment of Institute of Neuro Sciences at Lahore General Hospital. It would be a 500-bedded hospital where state of the art research ...

No decision on ICS Director confirmation

LAHORE - The 1679th meeting of Punjab University Syndicate here Thursday approved various academic, administrative and financial issues of the varsity, but the case of the confirmation of Institute ...

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9m infants die every year worldwide

KARACHI - Good health represents a crucial quality of life that Pakistanis must possess in order to build a prosperous nation. Addressing a two-day convention titled, 'Policy Seminar: Scaling up ...

Government fails to announce policy

KARACHI - Unnecessary delay in the announcement of a new uniformed admission policy of medical universities and colleges in Sindh for the academic year of 2009 has exposed the approach of the ...

52 Pak students to visit US

KARACHI - US Consul General in Karachi, Stephens Fakan on Thursday honoured 52 Pakistani high school students selected to go to Washington DC for a two-week science and technology exchange ...

Shazia Marri for eradication of karo-kari

KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Information, Shazia Marri, has said Karo-Kari is a cruel act under all religious, moral and legal provisions and it is high time to work on war footing to eradicate this ...

400-year-old house to get Unesco award

KARACHI (APP) - The Ali Gohar House, a 400-year-old architectural masterpiece, formerly used by Hunzas envoy to Kashgar, was announced as one of the winners to receive the Award for Distinction in ...

PAC settles one para of LG Dept audit report

KARACHI (PPI) - The Sindh Assemblys Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which met here on Thursday with its Chairman Jam Tamachi Unnar in the chair, discussed four paras of audit report 2005- 06 of ...

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A new start for breast cancer treatment

ISLAMABAD - To reinvigorate the breast cancer awareness campaign, the Ministry of Health is considering to reinitiate the National Breast Cancer Screening Project, which was earlier shelved owing to ...

Pinching elite consciences again

ISLAMABAD Another exhibition of Iqbal Hussain from Lahore was opened here on Thursday, with his emotive portrayals of courtesans private lives and their feelings of solitude, at Tanzara Gallery. As ...

Crackdown on cabs plying without permits

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Secretary of Islamabad Transport Authority (ITA) Asia Gul has launched crackdown against illegal cabs plying in the city without valid permits. In this regard, she conducted ...

NBF to hold national writing contest '09-'10

ISLAMABAD (APP) National Book Foundation (NBF) would award Rs 1.2 million to the best writers of kids literature in 'National Writing Competition 2009-10. Afshan Sajid, Assistant Director NBF told ...

Hanif Abbasi opens another plant today

RAWALPINDI - The PML-N MNA and Chairman of Punjab Sasti Roti Scheme, Muhammad Hanif Abbasi, on the directive of Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, would inaugurate the second mechanical ...

Replacing katchi abadis with a new slum?

ISLAMABAD - Political intervention as well as unattractiveness of the proposed site (Alipur Farash) for the would-be settlers have led to the total flop of the CDAs Model Urban Shelter Project ...

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