larkana/islamabadSevere heatwave accompanied by loadshedding has gripped several cities of interior Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday. A report said that seven people lost their lives due to heatstroke in different areas. The temperature has gone up to 47 degrees centigrade in Larkana ...

KARACHI -  The stocks closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, led by oil and banking stocks after the PML-N chief pledged to boost Pak-US and Pak-India relations.At local equity market, the benchmark KSE 100-share index gained 229.80 points or 1.14 per cent to end the day at 20474.62 points ...

MULTAN The polling for Election 2013 concluded here on Saturday afternoon as counting of votes in six National Assembly and 13 Provincial Assembly constituencies of district was underway till filing of this report.The participation of excited youth in the polling process gave a new flavour to the ...

Karachi - Pakistan stocks closed yet again at all time high led by stocks across the board on renewed foreign interest and speculations ahead of general elections.KSE-100 share index gained 254.81 points or 1.30 percent to end the day at 19,916.27 points compared to 19,661.46 points of the previous ...

VIENNA - As if he needed any more excuse to hit the slopes, Austrian ski star and overall World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher has been given a free ski pass for life and a top award for his success in the recently concluded season. The 24-year-old, who took home world championship gold and the crystal ...

KARACHI -  The lawyers on Monday completely boycotted the Sindh High Court proceedings and continued their strike during former president Musharraf hearing. In SHC, the judges were present at the chambers but could not hear the cases due to strike of lawyers.  Citizens whose cases were ...

LAHORE – The Lahore Transport Company on Friday added 10 refurbished buses to Route no. 33, from Railway Station to Green Town, among claims of adding 100 new buses to the transport system by the end of February.A statement issued by Lahore Transport Compan stated that new and refurbished ...

ISLAMABAD –Airblue has announced an addition to its global airline network with the launch of new flights from Islamabad to Istanbul, Turkey. Airblue will operate three new flights a week: Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday from Islamabad to Istanbul, and Istanbul to Manchester through Sabiha ...

A Chicago judge is under fire for making his rulings look a bit like a graphic novel, using pictures of reggae icon Bob Marley, lions, ostriches and other images to underscore his opinions.Judge Richard Posner’s tendency to use pictures — often taken from the web — to spice up his ...

CHUNIAN - The Railways Department has closed the Changa Manga railway-crossing which is functional for the last 100 years, cutting a lot of people’s link to hospitals and police station here.The rail crossing is a link between the city and Civil Hospital, Veterinary Hospital, police station, ...

WASHINGTON  - The United Nations Security Council has added two senior Haqqani network leaders to its list of individuals who are associated with the Taliban. One of the Haqqani network leaders was appointed by Al-Qaeda to lead operations in a south eastern province in Afghanistan. According ...

ISLAMABAD - With the Pakistan-Nato military ties are already at their lowest ebb, the Western military alliance is dubbing the militants as Pakistani Armys 'proxy fighters in Afghanistan. While the Afghan authorities deny any kind of territorial breach or involvement of the Pakistan Army in ...

KIEV (AFP) - Colombian pop sensation Shakira joined forces with Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and 60,000 spectators as the covers came off Kiev's troubled Euro 2012 Olympiysky Stadium on Saturday in a politically-tinged opening. "With this stadium, Ukraine will organise a worthy Euro 2012," ...

LAHORE The unstoppable dengue fever menace continued to haunt the Lahorites as it added four more victims to its death list on Wednesday. The new victims were Asma Nabi Kanwal (17), a nursing student and a resident of Kot Addu, and Muhammad Fayyaz (26), a constable serving with the Lytton Road ...

It may surprise bookworms, but apparently masterpieces such as Jane Eyre are lacking a certain something sound effects. An electronic-book firm is adding background noises and music to the works of Charlotte Bronte, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Shake- speare in the hope of attracting younger ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Afghan resistance has written a new chapter of human bravery and mighty military machines of dozens of advanced countries of the world have miserably failed in Afghanistan, rightly called the graveyard of empires, said former student leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi District East ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI Nasair of Saudi Arabia on Saturday added Karachi as its 19th destination. The inaugural flight from Riyadh landed at the Karachi Airport on Saturday. A function was held at a local hotel here to mark the inauguration ceremony. Speaking on the occasion Director Sales of ...

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN - The wind and thunderstorm that struck entire South Punjab region on Tuesday further added to the miseries of flood affectees as it took away their makeshift shelters and other belongings, leaving many injured. Reports received from flooded areas like Mahmood Kot, Ullorid ...

LAHORE Sufferings of Hajj and Umra pilgrims have once again started with the shortage of lamination paper at Directorate General of Immigration & Passport Islamabad, due to which delivery of passport to the applicants is being delayed by one to two months, applicants gathered at a regional ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's crippling inflation rate has left trader Mohammad Farouk with a painful task at the end of each day -- throwing out a large quantity of his fruits and vegetables because it's too expensive to sell. Soaring prices also mean he often has to purchase stocks on credit ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's fiscal deficit may exceed 7 per cent of economic output, endangering its standing with international donors, due to a delay in implementing reformed general sales tax, analysts said on Monday. The RGST, which is supposed to replace the current general sales tax, was ...

SHE claimed she wasnt broke - but that was before California officials filed another federal tax lien against Pamela Anderson ... this time in the amount of $180,000. The new lien - filed last month - is the latest in the former Baywatch stars alleged tax troubles ... in fact, just last year, the ...

HEAT VISION blog reports that Black Swan star Mila Kunis is in talks to join Seth MacFarlanes Ted. Adam Scott is also in talks to join the project, which will mark the feature directorial debut for MacFarlane. We reported in October that Mark Wahlberg was eyeing the project, and now he is in final ...

LAHORE The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has approved Liaquat Gymnasium Hall Islamabad for the first-ever National Futsal Championship to be held from December 21-25. The players registered in Pakistan Premier League and PFF League will not be allowed to take part in the next month eight ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economy created more private jobs than expected in July but hiring has not been rapid enough to ease a severe jobless rate, payrolls firm ADP said Wednesday. Some 42,000 private-sector jobs were created following a revised June number of 19,000, ADP said ahead of a key ...

KARACHI (PR) - Aggressively pursuing its mission of achieving leadership in providing financial services in chosen markets through innovation, Faysal Bank Limited has successfully opened up a total of ten Islamic Banking branches in seven cities under the brand 'Barkat Islamic Banking launched in ...

KARACHI - The stock market rose sharply on Wednesday in anticipation of a positive outcome of a meeting between the KSE officials and the Senate Standing Committee on Finance about the Capital Gain Tax. Moreover, approval for Rs.41b for PSO, rise in international oil prices and recovery in global ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economy created 55,000 new private-sector jobs in May, the fourth consecutive month of increases amid a slow recovery from recession, payrolls firm ADP said Thursday. The seasonally adjusted number was shy of the 60,000 new jobs expected by most analysts. But ADP revised ...

KARACHI - Bulls continued to dominate the stock market on the last day of the week as well and the KSE extended gains on Friday to close at a new 19-month high as investors were encouraged by the relative political stability and strong foreign portfolio inflows in recent weeks. The Karachi Stock ...

KARACHI - The KSE's benchmark 100-share index rose 114.76 points, or 1.21 percent, to end at 9,626.29 points on the last day of the week on renewed foreign interest in oil & gas and banking sectors, while local investors took positions in oversold blue chips scrips. On the other hand, the KSE ...