UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored Wednesdays bombing of a marketplace in Peshawar that has killed more than 90 people and is only the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting civilians across the country. I want to express my outrage at the loss of so many innocent ...

UNITED NATIONS - A UN rights expert has called for countering challenges posed by the use of religion for political purposes, indoctrination of children to hate other faiths and the use of new technologies for inciting religious hatred - in a decisive effort to promote tolerance. Governments have a ...

WASHINGTON - The US military commanders in Afghanistan are to be allowed to pay Taliban fighters who renounce violence against the government in Kabul, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin has said. The move is included in a defence bill, which President Barack Obama is set to sign. ...

EVANGELINE Lilly thinks people have to stop having babies to save the planet. The actress - who is been dating her co-star Dominic Monaghan since they met on the set of 'Lost in 2004 - believes people are procreating at an alarming rate and must slow down their baby-making or adopt to protect the ...

KARACHI - The Sindh province likely to face shortage of the fertilizers especially Urea during upcoming Rabi season, growers told The Nation. Just after plantation, the wheat and cotton crops of Rabi season need urea fertilizer during first watering, growers said, adding that fertilizer dealers ...