JERUSALEM  - Israeli authorisations for the construction of Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem reached their highest number in a decade in 2011, an Israeli NGO said in a new report released on Tuesday.Peace Now, which opposes settlement construction, said Israel gave final approval for the ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General reviewed the performance of the service which shows that the Service has rescued 3,88,514 emergency victims in 3,67,053 rescue operations in 2011, while maintaining its average response time of less than 7 minutes and standard in ...

After a glorious and unexpected victory in Asian Games in 2010, Pakistan hockey has went back to the same old routine of losing consistently in the year 2011. The tall claims were made from the Pakistan Hockey Federation as usual and on-field performance of team remained equally ordinary. The focus ...

WILLIAM F. SCHULZAdvancements in human rights come in either leaps or smaller steps, but far more often in steps. We notice the leaps, of course: In the 1990s, apartheid ended in South Africa and so did communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; in 2002, the International Criminal Court was ...

At the risk of writing history too early, 2011 may well be remembered as a year in which demands for honesty in public life popped up around the world like desert flowers after a rain.Tunisia was the first bud, with protests that spawned the Arab Spring and its cry for clean, representative ...