TOBA TEK SINGH - Pirmahal, a sub-tehsil of Toba Tek Singh, would soon be made a tehsel, the Pirmahal Tehsil Banao Movement president expressed the hope. Mian Asad Hafeez added that a resident of the sub-tehsil and former British parliamentarian had also joined the movement. Addressing a meeting of ...

Minsk is as close to Berlin as London is. Yet, an iron curtain separates the two capitals. In 2011, over a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the nation of Belarus holds out as the last dictatorship in Europe. A former Index on Censorship award winner, journalist Natalia Radzina was smuggled ...

KARACHI- President Asif Ali Zardari has called for special attention to flood hit Badin and Thatta where people had suffered most due to the natural calamity and unfortunately the stagnant flood water jeopardized livestock and agriculture on a massive scale. The President said that he was ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The General Manager Punjab Irrigation & Drainage Authority (PIDA) Faiz Mohyuddin has advised the Farmer Organization representatives to ensure effective patrolling along canals and distributaries so that the menace of water theft can be totally curtailed besides ensuring ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Over 1,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday demanding more public housing amid rising anger over the territory's sky-high property market. The noisy crowd snaked through the densely-packed city of seven million, with activists calling on government ...

SARGODHA - Chicken meat sellers called off their two days strike against the fixation of poultry rates after successful negotiation between the Poultry Association and the District Administration. According to District Officer Poultry Production Dr Muhammad Javeed, it has been decided that the ...

KARACHI The Consul General of The Gambia (Hon) Mr Syed Tahir Husain has expressed his confidence that more trade opportunities are explored by Pakistani entrepreneurs in The Gambia, says a press release. He made these remarks while giving his message on The Revolution Day of The Gambia which falls ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE If Pakistan Railways is not purged of corrupt, dishonest and inefficient elements, the days are not very far when this one of the largest and strategically important institutions of the country will destroy completely as concerned Ministry seemed least interested in ...

ISLAMABAD The representatives of the non-medical staff, nurses and paramedical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) have demanded of the Secretary Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) to constitute a new committee consisting of all the stakeholders so that ...

ISLAMABAD - On the direction of President Asif Ali Zardai, a shut-up call was given to Ch Abdul Majeed, President PPP-AJK, asking him to issue rejoinder on a news report regarding his aspects of becoming future prime minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, sources told TheNation on Wednesday. Earlier for ...

Singer Beyonce delighted Americas astronauts on the final NASA shuttle mission with a special message and girl-power tribute. Beyonce recorded a touching wake-up call for the crew of shuttle Atlantis and gave a memorable shout-out to the sole female astronaut on the mission, Sandy Magnus. The ...

WARBURTON - Local social worker Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has appealed to the Nankana Sahib DCO to accelerate arrangements for holding Sunday (Itwaar) or Jumma bazaar in Warburton to provide relief to people of the area against the hoarders. He pointed out that hoarders had jacked up the prices of ...

LAHORE On the request of PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met the ex-premier at the formers Raiwind residence on Wednesday. Talking to the media, PPPs estranged senior member Qureshi mentioned that the meeting was prearranged on Nawazs request. He said he ...

MALAKWAL - The residents of the city have demanded the authorities shift the vegetable and fruit markets outside from the populated area of the city. There are so many vegetable and fruit markets on the Jinnah Road and in the main bazaar of the city .The are the main hurdles in flow of the traffic ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE While demanding role of business community in decision making, Pakistan Industrial & Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has urged the government to redesign all economy-related policies in consultation with private sector to bring the country out of IMF and WB ...

KARACHI - To resolve the issues of revenue and taxes, government must give due importance to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). It is the most important earning hand of the country as an institution. Some measures need to be adopted to stem the root, says a press release. The FBR chairman needs ...

PESHAWAR Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission (PSC), Peshawar, through a press note has notified for information of all candidates that it will conduct ability tests in the different subjects. In this regard call letters have been issued to all the concerned candidates on their postal ...

Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Mohammed Yaseen surprisingly visited Ufone Call Center located at Sector I-9 Islamabad and Telenor Customer Service Center, Maal Road Rawalpindi to check various services offered to the consumers by operators. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Vice Chairman Sunni Ittehad Council and ameer Aalmi Tanzeem Ahle Sunnah Pir Afzal Qadri has said that there was need of cleansing armed forces from the officers patronizing terrorists. Addressing a press conference here at Lahore Press Club on Saturday, he urged the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian meteorologists on Wednesday declared La Nina, the disruptive weather pattern behind floods and cyclones that brought death and destruction this year, to have ended. The weather phenomenon, which began in earnest in December, was blamed for torrential rain and ferocious ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama forcefully defended Sunday his call for an Israeli-Palestinian peace based on pre-1967 frontiers, suggesting critics had misrepresented him. In a speech in Washington that was generally well received by Israel's hardline supporters, Obama said delays in ...

WASHINGTON (INP) - It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to US intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have you been? inquired the friend. Weve missed you. Whats going on ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE A renowned actress-cum-director Sangeeta Begum has said that theatre producers should take benefit from classical novels of Urdu to produce quality stage drama. She was addressing a ceremony at Tamaseel Theatre on Saturday.

LAHORE (PPI) - Another telectom company has increased its helpline call charges by 50 percent to Rs 1.50 min plus tax to be effective from May 20 onwards. The announcement has been made for prepaid customers on Wednesday. Warid is the third operators hiked its call charges to customers care centers ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the US Congress to use its influence with the administration to agree on a joint strategy under which the drone technology could be transferred to Pakistan. Talking to a US Congressional delegation led by Speaker of the US House of ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Though the formation of Govt-Industry Energy Council (GIEC) by the Prime Minister is a step in right direction but the need of the hour is to initiate work on doable power generation projects as energy is an essential driver of the economy and things are fast getting out of hand with ...

LAHORE The Pakistan Canvas Tents Manufacture and Exporters Association (PCTMEA) and the Power Looms Association Kasur have given a joint call for a strike against the recently imposed RGST and flood surcharge by the federal government. In a joint statement issued on Monday, the PCTMEA and Power ...

LAHORE Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif should re-start his former policy to hold meetings of senior police officers on daily basis and should snub the guilty officers over their negligence before the crime, of all categories, becomes out of control. Some senior officers of the Punjab ...

DUBAI (AFP) - Cyber activists have created a group on Facebook calling for a "Day of Anger" on Friday in the eastern Shia-majority Saudi region, following the arrest of a Shia cleric. The group of more than 500 members is calling for protests after Friday prayers in Al-Hufuf, in Eastern Province's ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) Increasing foreign debt and debt servicing are adding more problems to our ailing economy which was suffering with the lowest growth rate in the region. Increasing level of external debts was not good for our country and for our future generations Mahfooz Elahi, President Islamabad ...