lahore - The upcoming government of the PML-N has no other option but to approach International Monetary Fund to control its fiscal imbalances, which country has been facing due to dwindling foreign reserves, balance of payment crisis, weakening exchange rate and financial mismanagement during the ...

ISLAMABAD - The level of malnutrition in Pakistan is alarming that cannot be brought down through health sectors policies only as there is a need to adopt multisectoral approaches that should be devised through the lens of nutrition. Nutritionist, policy makers and health experts said this while ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to end its “belligerent approach,” amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.“We both agree that now is the time for North Korea to end the kind of belligerent approach ...

ISLAMABAD - The caretaker government has no intention to approach IMF in near future despite the fact that foreign exchange reserves are sharply depleting that stand to cover just around two months worth of import bills. The foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank stood at $6.697 ...

As a good omen of greater regional cooperation in the future, the diplomats of China, Pakistan and Russia who met in Beijing on Wednesday decided to join hands in bringing about peace and stability in Afghanistan, especially as the process of US withdrawal comes to a close end-2014. It should be no ...

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary Commission on creation of new provinces in Punjab seemed non-committal to the task assigned to it as skipping of the scheduled meetings and one-month time given to the commission had lapsed long ago.The commission meeting was scheduled for January 1 but due to some ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Wednesday called upon the regional countries to adopt an Asia-centered approach and promote intra-regional trade for the prosperity and development of their people. Speaking at one-on-one session of World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, the Prime Minister ...

KARACHI - Karachi Chamber Of Commerce & Industry President Mian Abrar Ahmad has expressed deep concern over disconnecting power supply of 63 manufacturing units in the seven industrial zones by the KESC.The KCCI president strongly reacted over KESC’s unilateral decision to cut off power ...

TEHRAN - A senior Afghan analyst lauded Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for his call on the Taliban to hold direct talks with the government in Kabul, and said the move by Islamabad was the result of the tripartite negotiations recently held among Pakistan, Iran and ...

HAROON SIDDIQUISkipper Misbah-ul-Haq defensive captaincy, sloppy fielding and poor keeping let Pakistan down in the second one-day international by 20 runs as at one stage Pakistan was in control of match when Afridi and Misbah were at crease but after Afridi's departure turned the whole thing to ...

DHAKA  - Former test captain Mashrafe Mortaza has met the International Cricket Council (ICC) to discuss allegations he was the subject of a spot-fixing approach, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board.Mortaza held talks with the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) representative Howard ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twin NASA spacecraft are set to blast into lunar orbit at the weekend on a mission to study the subterranean structure of the Moon in order to better understand the origins of planets.The first Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL-A) will begin orbiting the Moon at ...

LAHORE - Conferences and seminars are best way to share ingenious ideas, experiences, practices and research findings.  These will also provide a good opportunity to discuss current issues and perspectives of management, business ethics and economics --a logical appraoch. These views were ...

AHMEDABAD (Agencies) - The Indian Gujarat High Court Friday directed the Union of India to approach the International Court of Justice within two months for the release of 54 1971 prisoners of war (PoWs) languishing in Pakistani jails.Observing that there was an alleged breach of Simla Agreement by ...

LAHORE The Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (Noorani) has constituted a five-member coordination committee, to be headed by Pir Ijaz Hashmi, to approach other political parties for a joint struggle in the prevailing political scenario. The decision was taken at a meeting of JUP-Ns executive council here ...

India at an estimated cost of $13 billion plans to raise a new mountain strike corps and four mountain divisions. The proposal to raise these troops was forwarded by India Army in the back drop of alleged Chinese build-up along its border with India. Reportedly it has been cleared by Indian ...

ANTICIPATED by doomsayers as a potentially catastrophic event, Comet Elenin traversed the closest point in its trajectory around Earth (35,000km) early Sunday morning just before sunrise. But save for a few keen observers and astronomers, this went largely unnoticed. When discovered by astronomer ...

SOHDRA - Despite political superiority, politics of reconciliation is the proof of President Asif Ali Zardaris positive policies which aim at steering the country out of crises and put it on the way to progress and development. This was stated by Peoples Youth Organization (PYO) Gujranwala District ...

ISLAMABAD - Seeking support on much controversial and much debated Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST), the government has decided to approach all parliamentary parties to convince them to make RGST a part of financial bill 2011, The Nation has learnt. We have decided to start negotiations with all ...

NEW DELHI - Indias Minister for External Affairs SM Krishna said on Wednesday that his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshis proposed visit to India during the next couple of months would help improve relations between the two countries. Krishna stated this while talking to a delegation of ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan on Wednesday advised commercial banks and DFIs to approach the respective offices of the SBP Banking Services Corporation for processing of pending claims with respect to Export Finance Mark-up Rate Facility and Mark-up Rate Support for Textile Sector against ...

PUNE (India) England coach Andy Flower has barred his players from seeing their wives and girlfriends (WAGs) for the first five weeks of the on-going tour to Australia. The first Test is on November 25 but the squad will not be allowed to see their families until after the second Test in Perth, ...

ISLAMABAD National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has instructed all the Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs) including State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) to refrain from approaching international donor organisations directly for donations, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The Supreme Court here on Thursday rejected an appeal of a serving Major of Pakistan Army, seeking correction in date of birth after upholding that he could not approach courts in term of Article 199 of the Constitution, placing a bar on serving army personnel. A three-member bench ...

PARIS (AFP) Marseille coach Didier Deschamps said Sunday that he had not been contacted by the French Football Federation about taking over from Raymond Domenech after the World Cup. No, was 1998 World Cup-winning captains response when asked on Telefoot if he had been contacted. The other hot ...

KARACHI - The economic initiatives announced by the United States under US-Pak strategic dialogue program for the sectors of energy, transport, trade and for the social safety nets, are expected to bring a needed amount of external financial inflow to the country, which would ease the liquidity ...

LAHORE - The PPPs Punjab and Lahore organizations have taken strong exception to Sundays statement of Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif that Taliban should spare Punjab because the PML-N had always been against foreign aggression like them. In a press statement issued on Monday, PPPs Punjab ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Wednesday called upon the United Kingdom, one of its major coalition partners in the war on terror, to take notice of Indian involvement in Balochistan and the tribal areas. Talking to visiting British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Bill Rammell here at his office, ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan has strongly rejected the impression that it was delaying international talks on a ban on the production of fissile material. Rather, it has proposed inclusion of conventional arms control at the regional and sub-regional levels and missiles in all their aspects. We reserve ...

LONDON (AFP) - Australia have filed a report with the International Cricket Council (ICC) after a player was approached by a man suspected of links to illegal bookmaking, the Cricinfo website reported Tuesday.The approach was reportedly made in the bar of the team's London hotel, the Royal ...