ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on Tuesday directed the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Law Ministry to remove the overlapped articles in proposed drafts of Securities Bill, 2010 and SECP Bill before next meeting. The ...

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Maula Bakhsh Chandio on Monday asked PML-N President Nawaz Sharif to fulfill his promise made with the people that present set up would be allowed to complete its five-year term. If he has realized the promise of not doing politics for 10 ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) - Ambassador-designate to the US, Ms Sherry Rehman called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidency here on Thursday. Matters pertaining to her new assignment were discussed during the meeting. The President congratulated Sherry Rehman for her new assignment and urged her to ...

ISLAMABAD Senate House Committee Wednesday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to create new specific posts of deputy director (maintenance) and assistant director (maintenance) separately, in addition to existing strength, at the authoritys Parliament Lodges Directorate to properly ...

ISLAMABAD -Federal Minister for Housing and Works Faisal Saleh Hayat has called upon PPP to devise a clear roadmap to provide relief to the masses and to shun corruption. As PPP holds all the key positions in the coalition government, so its there prime responsibility to devise and follow a clear ...

PESHAWAR - Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has stressed the need for removing differences, erupted after the change in the name of the province, in best interest of the country, saying that differences in opinion were, however, the beauty of democracy. He said there was ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan was elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council without the support of world powers, which was a historic achievement, the countrys permanent representative to the world body said here on Thursday. Ambassador Hussain Abdullah Haroon told reporters ...

Our Staff Reporter MARDAN Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Hoti Saturday said that they did not remain silent over militancy in the province, as they were feeling and considerate about their Pakhtun brothers. He said if they also remained silent over militant activities in the ...

LAHORE - While accusing Shahbaz Sharif of leading a civil disobedience movement [through protest rallies] against the federal govt, Senator Babar Awan on Thursday asked PML-N leaders to cancel what he called Jashan-e-Dengue on Oct 28. If Punjab government goes ahead with its October 28 show in ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday asked media to expand their sole craving for political issues and focus more on highlighting educational and health issues. You shouldnt focus only on politicians, or when there will be new election, or who will be the new prime minister, or whether ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, while referring to a media report, which said that some Army corps commanders had proposed to Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to take over the country, said that all the institutions should work within their domain. According to ...

LAHORE (APP) Farmer Associates Pakistan (FAP) has demanded the government immediately direct Trading Corporation Pakistan (TCP) to enter the market and start buying lint at Rs 7,000/37.324 kg till the market stabilises. In a meeting of Board of Directors of Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) held ...

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary Committee on National Security asked Ministry of Foreign Affairs to solely deal with the matter of visa issuance to foreigners including the US citizens and bring to an end other arrangements, currently in practice, forthwith. Held under the chair of Senator Mian Raza ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan and his cabinet colleagues to prepare a comprehensive development plan for GB with a futuristic vision leading to self-sufficiency. Talking to the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Syed Mehdi Shah ...

The Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC) on Thursday asked PPP leader Zulfikar Mirza and ANP leader Shahi Syed to leave the city within 48 hours. The MRC rejected the apology tendered by Zulfiqar Mirza over his last nights statement he gave at a dinner hosted by ANP leader Shahi Sayed against the Urdu ...

AHMEDPUREAST - PPP Women Wing Central President Mrs Faryal Talpur has directed Federal Minister for Water & Power Naveed Qamar to visit the district till July 15 and announce the establishment of Bahawalpur Electric Power Company in the district. She was chairing a meeting in Zardari House ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP) Quaid Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi will address a big public meeting in Chistian, Bahawalnagar District on July 11. This was announced by BNAP Central President Farooq Azam Malik while talking to newsmen. He told that the BNAP manifesto was being ...

The United States on Wednesday provided more talk as the State Department called on the Pakistani government to investigate the murder of an investigative journalist. Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Bureau Chief, was found dead near a waterworks in the central Punjab district of Mandi Bahauddin, ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday directed the governments economic team that the forthcoming budget for the financial year 2011-12 should be people-friendly to give relief to common man. He asked that appropriate measures be incorporated in the budget to ensure economic growth thus ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Sindh High Court on Tuesday summoned transport ministry, transporters bodies and other respondents and directed them to submit their comments over increasing of intercity and local transportation fares in the next hearing to be fixed later. Hearing a constitutional ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has advised the mobile phone subscribers to visit Customer Service Centres (CSC) of concerned mobile operator to get their SIM data corrected if there is any discrepancy in their antecedents. PTA has requested subscribers ...

Osama Bin Ladens last wish, according to his will, was that his wives not remarry and his children not join al-Qaeda. Al-Anbaa, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reported Tuesday that the will, marked private and confidential was dated 14 December 2001, three months after the 9/11 attacks when US forces were ...

PESHAWAR - Ansar-ul-Islam, a religious organisation of Khyber Agency, has demanded of the government to apprehend the defunct Lashkar-e-Islam Chief Mangal Bagh from Afghanistan and trial him under treason act. Addressing a press conference here at the office of Tribal Union of Journalists, ...

LAHORE-The Punjab Assembly through a resolution on Thursday asked the federal government to review its decision of imposing 17 per cent tax on agriculture inputs through presidential ordinance. The resolution, moved by Mohsin Leghari of the PML-Q, was unanimously adopted by the assembly as no ...

LAHORE 'Should I also commit suicide like Faheems widow has done. Nobody from the ruling class came to my rescue. Why? Who will provide me justice? Am I not like the daughters of Chief Minister Punjab? Who will feed my expected kid?, 22-year-old Zahra Faizan asked these questions on Tuesday. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani directed the Ministry of Commerce to immediately constitute Federal Export Development and Promotion Board (FEDPB) and organise its first meeting in March, which he would personally preside over. He further asked the Ministry of Commerce to make a ...

LAHORE A Conference held by Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat through a resolution Thursday demanded of the Parliament to carry a resolution in favour of the Blasphemy law and end to the Committee set up at the head of Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti to amend the Law. The Paighame Hussain ...

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned the assassination of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer on Tuesday and directed Interior Minister Rahman Malik to personally supervise the investigations and report to him urgently. Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that ...

LAHORE PML-F President Pir Pagara Sunday advised Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to 'quit honourably, rather than being dislodged after humiliation. Talking to TheNation after MQM chief Altaf Hussain called him from London, the Pir said the MQM would stick to the decision of sitting on ...

LAHORE - Vice President Metro Group Anton Knijf met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif at CM's Secretariat here on Wednesday and discussed cooperation in agriculture sector and implementation of Star Farms Project. Provincial Minister for Agriculture Ahmed Ali Aulakh, Chairman CM ...