KUALA LUMPUR: Anwar Ibrahim vowed Tuesday his Malaysian opposition would soon present evidence of government cheating in bitterly fought weekend elections as he called for a “fierce” campaign for electoral reform. Anwar insisted his three-party Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Pact) ...

LAHORE - Veteran politician Dr Mubashir Hasan has apologised to Anwar Majid, a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, for the allegations he had levelled on him. Taking back all the allegations over Majid’s sugar mills, Dr Mubashir has also withdrawn his petition filed in the Supreme ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Provincial President Anwar Saifullah Khan has said that the PPP will form the next government in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the support of people.This he said while speaking at a big meeting arranged to mark the death anniversaries of PPP ...

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.50% but reduced the interest rate corridor by 50 bps.The Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Yaseen Anwar while unveiling the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) at a press conference at SBP Learning Resource Centre, ...

PESHAWAR - Pakistan People’s Party (Parliamentarian), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, President, MPA Anwar Saifullah called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar at Governor’s House Peshawar on Tuesday.He remained with the governor for sometime and exchanged Eid greetings. He also ...

KARACHI - Consumer expectation surveys will facilitate the process of designing a forward-looking monetary policy in the country. “Such surveys will help us study the inflation expectations and economic confidence of households and their reaction to economic and policy decisions,” said ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Punjab government is spending an amount of Rs 71 billion on the composite development of social sector in the province so that living standards of the people could be sufficiently improved by providing quality services in different sectors including healthcare, ...

SAHIWAL - Former federal parliamentary secretary Mian Anwarul Haq Ramay has said that anti-masses policies of the federal government have jolted the whole economy of the country. Talking to the newsmen, he said that during the last 3-year-regime of the PPP, prices of fertiliser and seeds had been ...

President Obama made two statements concerning Yemen last week. One was at the United Nations, where he voiced his support for the protests against the 33 year rule of President Saleh, In Yemen, men, women and children gather by the thousands in towns and city squares every day with the hope that ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Chairman National Language Authority (NLA), Dr Anwar Ahmad said a book bank comprising books on diverse subjects will be established soon. He announced that while addressing the students Urdu Department of National University of Modern Languages (NUML) who visited NLA on Saturday. ...

KARACHI - Yaseen Anwar on Tuesday took over as Acting Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, following the acceptance of the resignation of SBP Governor Shahid H Kardar. A press release issued by the SBP said that the Federal Government has notified the acceptance of the resignation of Kardar and ...

In the third key transfer in FIA within three months, Tahseen Anwar Shah has been appointed as new Federal Investigation Agency director general, reported a private TV channel on Sunday. The government has also appointed Binyamin as Inspector General (IG) of Islamabad. Notifications in this regards ...

LAHORE Ex-PCS Ch Muhammad Anwar breathed his last on Wednesday at the age of 99. Ch Anwar joined PCS judicial service in 1940 as Civil Judge, and retired as District and Sessions Judge. He was father of Chief Internal Auditor Pakistan Railways Azhar Rasool Basra and ex-armyman Mazhar Rasool ...

KARACHI Former boxing president of the international boxing body (AIBA) Prof. Anwar Chowdhry, who passed away here three days ago, was laid to rest at a local graveyard on Monday afternoon. Prominent among those who attended his funeral and burial were president of Pakistan boxing Federation Doda ...

Supreme Court Bar Association President Qazi Anwar was severely injured in a road accident in Islamabad on Sunday evening, reported a private TV channel while quoting its sources. He was shifted to a hospital where his x-rays and other tests were conducted. According to the doctors, Qazis condition ...

LAHORE - Fasialabad's Hafiza Uzma Anwar won gold in the taekwondo event as tge Punjab Youth U-16 Girls Sports gala entered its second day at Govt Girls for Women Township Lahore on Tuesday. Multan's Ayesha Rafique won silver while Lahore's Kiran and Gujranwala's Fozia claimed bronze medals in ...