Saturday, 25 May, 2013
KABUL (AFP/Reuters) - Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistans former president tasked with finding a peace deal with the Taliban was assassinated Tuesday in a suicide attack at his Kabul home, according to police. Rabbani, who was president during the chaotic 1992-96 Afghan civil war, was last year ...
ISLAMABAD - A senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Siddique-ul-Farooq has said that the high command of his party has asked Chaudhry Nisar, leader of opposition in the National Assembly, not ...
ISLAMABAD - After having briefing from Ministry of Science and Technology and COMSATS, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday accorded formal approval to National Science, Technology and ...
UNITED NATIONS - The risk of polio spreading from Pakistan is high, particularly given the expected mass travel for the upcoming pilgrimage to Makkah, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, calling for full vigilance abroad and a scaling up of 'inadequate counter-efforts within the country. 'It is ...
SRINAGAR - During his ongoing tour to the Indian Held Kashmir, PPP AJK leader Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chauhdry held important meetings with veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani, Chief Minister IHK Omar Abdullah and officer-bearers of High Court Bar Association Srinagar. Despite that senior ...
US President Barack Obamas decision to use the US veto prerogative if the United Nations votes to recognise a Palestinian state will constitute a blow to those seeking peace in the Middle East. His administrations claim that peace can only be achieved through dialogue and consent rather than ...
COLOMBO (AFP) - Australia clinched the Test series against Sri Lanka 1-0 Tuesday after resurgent skipper Michael Clarke led from the front to snatch a draw for the tourists in the finely poised third and final game. For Clarke it was a victorious first Test tour as captain, the series win coming ...
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian movie critics and filmmakers expressed bewilderment Tuesday after the country picked a critically-panned film by veteran pro-Kremlin director Nikita Mikhalkov as its entry for the Oscars. The head of the countrys Oscar committee, Vladimir Menshov himself an Oscar-winning ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - The fifth edition of the US-Pakistan Trade and Investment Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting has started in Islamabad on Tuesday wherein detail discussions were held regarding Reconstruction Opportunities Zones Bill (ROZ) and ). Zafar Mahmood Commerce Secretary led the ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The number of causalities caused by dengue is going up by the day, ...
LAHORE - The rates of insecticides sprays, preventive lotions, essential medicines and CBC medical ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday raised the daily wages from Rs ...
LAHORE In the guise of dengue virus, the government is getting violent and the City police have ...
