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Menacing flood heading to sweep two more Sindh towns

Menacing flood heading to sweep two more Sindh towns

LARKANA\\KARACHI Floodwaters roared towards two more small towns in Sindh on Tuesday as authorities managed to finally plug a breach in defences across the Indus River in Thatta. The fast-moving waters that left the low-lying town of Sajawal submerged on Sunday were now threatening the towns of ...


National News
OIC to establish special emergency relief funds

OIC to establish special emergency relief funds

KARACHI (APP) - Secretary General Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Dr Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu said Tuesday that the organisation will establish Emergency Fund for Natural Disaster to help victims ...

9 Pak prisoners to be repatriated from Thai jails before Eid

9 Pak prisoners to be repatriated from Thai jails before Eid

HEC denies pressure from Presidency

HEC denies pressure from Presidency

International News
Floods increasing landmine risk in Pakistan: ICRC

Floods increasing landmine risk in Pakistan: ICRC

GENEVA (AFP) - Floodwaters in Pakistan have dislodged and carried landmines to places previously deemed safe or demined, increasing risks to the population, the International Committee of the Red ...

Sports News
Protest against match-fixing saga

Protest against match-fixing saga

ISLAMABAD Teachers and students of a private college held a protest demonstration here in front of National Press Club on Tuesday against PCB and Pakistan cricket team over their alleged involvement ...

Extortion, threats could be the cause of match-fixing

Extortion, threats could be the cause of match-fixing

Players' plight blamed on Pakistani society

Players' plight blamed on Pakistani society

Business News
Bahria Town donates $2b to flood victims

Bahria Town donates $2b to flood victims

LAHORE (PR) - Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz Hussain has announ-ced the donation of 75pc of all his assets for the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims. In an exclusive interview with CNN, ...

Fiscal deficit reaches 6.3pc in FY10

Fiscal deficit reaches 6.3pc in FY10

Turkmenistan seeks to revive trans-Afghan gas link

Turkmenistan seeks to revive trans-Afghan gas link

Regional News

Adequate compensation to be paid to flood victims

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that despite delay in the provision of funds by the Federal government, all-out help and assistance will be provided to the flood ...

'N' may support mid-term polls in country

LAHORE - Keeping in view the poor performance of the PPP-led government at every front, PML-N will not oppose the demand of mid-term polls if its possibility emerged out of public demand and pressure ...

CM orders treatment

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered the treatment of four years child Rabia, suffering from eye cancer, on government expenses. He gave these orders on Tuesday during his ...

Martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali today

LAHORE - The martyrdom of fourth Caliph, Hazrat Ali Bin Abi Talib (RA), will be observed with religious devotion on 21st Ramazan, today (Wed-nesday). Hazrat Ali sustained injuries in a fatal attack ...

Naat contest

LAHORE - Nazria Pakistan Trust and Tehrik-e-Pakistan Workers Trust will jointly organise the Qirat and Naat competitions among the students of various schools and colleges in connection with the ...

Hearing adjourned

LAHORE - Justice Ijazul Ahsan of the Lahore High Court Tuesday adjourned to next day (today) further hearing of the petition earlier filed against the extension made in the vacation of private ...

Govts playing with fire, says LHC

LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court, taking serious notice of the delay in holding the local government elections in Punjab, Tuesday remarked that federal and the provincial ...

More hospitals needed in flood-hit areas: CM

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the worst-ever floods in the history of Pakistan have played a havoc in the country and the scenes of devastation are unprecedented. ...

Demo against Punjabis' killing in Balochistan

LAHORE - A protest demonstration against the killing of six Punjabis, killed in Balochistan the other day, was held here on Thursday. The protestors also marched from Regal Chowk to Punjab Assembly ...

Govt wakes up late to probe corruption

LAHORE After the present continuing flood havoc, at last the Punjab government on Tuesday seemed to have woken up from its deep slumber when it has constituted a two-member committee to probe into ...

PML-N sends report to Altaf, Babar Awan

LAHORE PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rasheed has sent a State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) report for the year 2000-01 to Muttahida Qaumi Movement Quaid Altaf Hussain and Federal Law Minister Babar Awan which ...

Efforts afoot to trace terror suspect

LAHORE Efforts are underway to trace the whereabouts of a terror suspect who jumped into the BRB Canal to avoid arrest following the Pakistan Rangers officials signaled him to stop for checking late ...

100 Indian fishermen handed over to India

LAHORE As many as 100 Indian fishermen arrested by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) for fishing inside Pakistans Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were handed over to the Indian authorities ...

'Only NGOs helping flood victims'

LAHORE - Federal and provincial governments are befooling the masses by giving statements on the flood relief efforts as only NGOs like Al-Khidmat Foundation, Jamat-e-Islami and others are helping ...

Reply sought from Secy Law

LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court Tuesday called for reply from the Punjab secretary law to a petition filed to seek a direction to the government for issuing notification ...

Autonomy given to 26 colleges in Punjab

LAHORE The Punjab Government has given autonomy to 26 colleges across the province, The Nation has learnt. According to the sources, the Punjab Chief Minister granted approval to the summary sent by ...

CM holding 'begging bowl': Pervaiz

LAHORE - Senior central leader of PML-Q Pervaiz Elahi has said that had Shahbaz government not emptied the treasury on ill conceived and fickle schemes in the past two and a half years, Punjab would ...

88 officers deputed to remove encroachments

LAHORE - Commissioner Lahore Division Khusro Pervaiz Khan has ordered crackdown against encroachments on all the commercial roads in the City. In his directions issued here Tuesday, the Commissioner ...

IGP asked to hold inquiry

LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Ahm-ad Farooq of the Lahore High Court Tuesday directed the Inspector General Police, Punjab, to inquire into the allegations that a female trainee at Sehala Police Training ...

3 judges reshuffled

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif has decided that District and Sessions Judge Lahore Sheikh Zawar Ahmad would hold sitting at the Sessions Court from September 1 ...

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