ISLAMABAD President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a special session of the Senate for May 23 wherein the visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang will address the lawmakers of the Upper House of the Parliament. It would be a one-day session and would be prorogued soon after the conclusion ...

ISLAMABADPresident of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Thursday said that despite serious reservations his party has accepted the election results and decided to sit on opposition benches in Centre as well as KP Assembly.Talking to media after party's CEC meeting here, the ANP chief ...

    nawabshah   Army troops were called in as panic griped Nawabshah city following an armed clash between activists of the PPPP and MQM in which three people lost their lives and eight others sustained injuries here on Sunday. Police said the both group clashed after exchanging ...

Stockholm: Don’t dust down the glitter jumpsuits just yet. The Abba reunion, which was on, has just been called off. Only last week Agnetha Faltskog, the blonde or really reclusive one, had raised the hopes of every Abba fan - and there are an awful lot of them - with the strongest ever hint ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

    KHARTOUM     The search for about 100 workers believed to have died inside a collapsed gold mine inSudan'sDarfurregion has ended after nine rescuers also became trapped, a colleague of the miners said on Saturday. No one has been found alive. "Today the searching has stopped ...

DUBLIN WO - Police were called to a top chess tournament in Ireland after one of the players accused his opponent of cheating by using a computer in the toilet. Romanian-born Gabriel Mirza, 47, says he was on his way to winning the Cork Congress Chess Open when he noticed strange goings-on by his ...

The future of Pakistan is its youth, and to ensure a better future we have to invest in the coming generations by educating them. The biggest problem of our education system is rote learning and its futility in practical life. It negates the very essence of education. Education must be imparted in ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...

PESHAWAR - Criticising the incumbent government, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, General Secretary, Shabbir Ahmad Khan observed Saturday that the ‘so-called’ nationalist rulers broke all the records of corruption.He said the JI would pull the country and get the masses ...

LAKKI MARWAT – Central chief of his own faction JUI (Nazreyati) and MNA Maulana Ismatullah has said that religious leaders and ulema who live luxurious lives and reach the corridors of power with an aim to accumulate wealth cannot enforce Shariah in the country.“They even do not possess ...

The step was taken after demonstrators protesting against anti-Islam film tried to force their way into the diplomatic enclave in the federal capital and clashed with police. Police used teargas and batons to try to keep demonstrators away from restricted enclave that houses government offices and ...

MANY newlyweds share their first dance to the strains of a Stevie Wonder hit. Few, however, have the great man serenade them himself. Having invited their closest friends and family to a lavish reception at London’s Dorchester Hotel, Paul and Kelly Scott were astonished when the superstar ...

LOS ANGELES  - Tony Thompson has already been stopped by Wladimir Klitschko once in his career, but the American heavyweight is talking tough ahead of a mandatory title bout rematch with the Ukrainian star in July.“I’m ready,” Thompson said. “I’m looking forward ...

LAHORE – After weeks’ laps, the Lahore High Court on Friday once again took up the case of missing actress Sapna Khan and summoned Civil Lines Division SP for reply on petitions by her father Misal Khan and former chief minister Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa seeking registration of cases ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Monday summoned Secretary Regulation Wing of Punjab government on contempt petition filed by Assistant District Public Prosecutors.Rahat Majeed and 5 others submitted that their cases for regularization of services were sent to Punjab Public Service ...

LOS ANGELES - The son of “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius said on Thursday his father called him shortly before taking his life, and that he was unhappy and in failing health but kept most of his feelings inside. Don Cornelius, 75, shot himself in the head at his Los Angeles home ...

ISLAMABAD – The judicial commission tasked with investigating the memo controversy on Wednesday issued notices to President Asif Ali Zardari, Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif to appear in person to record their statements.President’s spokesperson ...

WASHINGTON - In an 'unusual decision, the US has granted political asylum to a Pakistani journalist from Balochistan despite Pakistan being a democracy with a vibrant news media, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Siraj Ahmed Malik, who is on a fellowship at the University of Arizona, applied ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called SafeHouse on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics. If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, ...

ISLAMABAD - The All Pakistan CNG Association on Friday called off the ongoing strike in Punjab and Islamabad after getting assurance from the government to review the gas allocation policy and withdrawal of subsidy being enjoyed in gas sector. Moreover,gas shortfall will be shared by all ...

COLOMBO (AFP) Soggy ground conditions brought on by heavy rain forced the third day of a practice match between the West Indies and Sri Lanka Board Presidents XI to be called off on Friday. Two people died and nearly 300,000 people were driven out of their homes in the capital, Colombo, after the ...

KARACHI - Students residing in the girls' hostel at Karachi University (KU) have strongly criticised the hostel's provost Dr Nasreen Aslam Shah for her 'poor performance' and 'criminal negligence' to her duty as administrator. The students say that Dr Shah has been trying to hide her 'poor ...

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday voiced relief at Israel's unilateral decision to halt its 22-day military offensive in Gaza and Hamas' announcement of a temporary ceasefire, and reaffirmed his determination to do everything possible to help Gazans rebuild their lives. Ban ...

At least 22 people were killed and 24 others injured Friday when a bus packed with passengers crashed in eastern Thailand, police said. The bus was traveling down a steep road with numerous curves when the vehicle slammed into a hillside in Prachinburi province, said police official.  "Initial ...

A Taliban suicide bomber killed two government workers in southeastern Afghanistan Friday in an attack aimed at a district intelligence chief, the government and the militia said. "Two government officials were killed and two others and a civilian were injured," Khost province governor ...

Tropical storm Marco made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, crashing ashore as the latest in a series of powerful storms to strike the region this hurricane season, US forecasters said. Marco quickly traversed the Gulf of Mexico before barreling ashore about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north-northwest of ...

Pakistani and American ground troops exchanged fire along the border with Afghanistan, a top American military official said, ratcheting up tensions as the US increases its attacks against militants in Pakistan's restive tribal areas. The clash started after the Pakistanis fired shots or flares at ...

Presidential candidate of PML(Q) Mushahid Hussain Syed said that Pakistan is passing through a critical phase and its president should be a non-controversial personality. Talking to media persons outside parliament house, Mushahid Hussain said that president should be identified with the reference ...