DUBAI  - Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.Rafsanjani's comments appeared to add to the political ...

JERUSALEM : Israel said it called off a United Nations investigative mission to Jerusalem's Old City due to start Monday because of Palestinian efforts to politicise the visit, as the UN said it was postponed."Israel has cancelled the delegation," a foreign ministry official told AFP. "The ...

      LAHORE President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday told a gathering of party ticket holders at Bilawal House that the mandate Nawaz Sharif got in the May 11 elections was not genuine at all.  “Nawaz Sharif has never got a genuine mandate. It has always been a fake one given ...

 BERLIN : German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a “grave mistake” by agreeing to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China and urged the Commission to work to prevent the eruption of a trade conflict. “It’s a grave ...

  ISLAMABAD The central executive committee of the Central Academic Staff Association (CASA) has highlighted the lingering problems of the teaching community here on Friday. Prof Murad Ali, general secretary of the association, said that teachers ofIslamabadmodel colleges have been facing ...

LONDON - Football megastar David Beckham announced on Thursday that he is to retire after a glittering 20-year playing career in which he became one of the most widely recognised figures in world sport.The former England captain, 38, made the announcement shortly after winning the Ligue 1 title ...

KARACHI - Pakistan People’s Party lashes out at the parties which were demanding re-poll across Sindh. Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club, PPP Sindh General Secretary Taj Haider, Professor ND Khan, Shazia Atta Marri and others observed that under the formula of late Jam ...

lahore - Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s sit-in against vote-rigging in NA-250 constituency of Karachi in general elections fizzled out into an anti-climax in the dead of night.The party’s coordination committee called off the protest sit-in after midnight on orders from the chief, Altaf ...

UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people and government of Pakistan on the successful conduct of the general elections, calling it "a significant step forward for democracy in the country.""By exercising their constitutional right to vote, the people of Pakistan ...

QUETTA Calling a province-wide protest against alleged rigging in polls for Wednesday (tomorrow), the Balochistan National Party-Mengal complained on Monday it was being deliberately pushed to the wall and ripped off its seats. “Huge rigging was made in vote count, and results were being ...

The US Consul General, Ms Nina Maria Fite, called on Punjab Governor Makhdum Syed Ahmad Mahmud at Makhdum House on Friday. During the meetign, they discussed the issues of law and order as well as the holding of the general elections. The governor said the government was a firm believer in ...

ISLAMABAD  - Expressing apprehensions over growing prison violence against Pakistani inmates in Indian jails, Islamabad has called upon New Delhi to penalise culprits responsible for death of Sanaullah Haq, who succumbed to his wounds early Thursday, following an attack in a jail in ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday called reply from the Punjab government on a petition filed against inordinate delay in conduct of local bodies elections in the province. The petitioner submitted that as per a notification issued by the Punjab government local bodies polls were should ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is the most dangerous place to be born in Asia as it has the highest first day mortality rate for babies in Asia and shares 6 per cent burden of the global first day deaths due to high rate of pre-term births, low birth weight, poor nutritional status of mothers, poor family ...

Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said he would not allow militant groups to attack India from his country and would work to improve ties with rival New Delhi if elected.“If I become the prime minister I will make sure that the Pakistani soil is not used for any ...

Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Ghous Bux Barozai called on President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi on Wednesday.They discussed overall situation and conduct of peaceful elections in the province.

karachi - Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s President Muhammad Haroon Agar has asserted upon the need to promote micro, small and medium enterprise and entrepreneurship development. Exchanging views at an educational event on “Developing a business plan for new ...

PARIS : European Union Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, the EU’s top financial regulator, called on the French government to pursue its planned reforms despite the Commission allowing two more years to meet its budget deficit target. Olli Rehn, the European monetary affairs ...

islamabad - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Pakistan in collaboration with Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) organised a pre-budget seminar with an aim to contribute its efforts towards healthy fiscal measures in the country.Addressing the seminar, Aftab Ahmed, ...

LAHORE - Vikramjit Singh Sahney, President SAARC Chamber, Wednesday urged the leadership of South Asia to form a “South Asian Clearing Union” to augment trade,investment flow for viable financial cooperation besides accelerating the pace of development in the region. According to a ...

PARIS : Three young French women are facing possible jail time and heavy fines for making nearly 1,000 prank calls to Paris firefighters over more than a year, police said. The calls, made between February 2011 and September 2012, included insults to firefighters, incoherent babbling and false ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, called on Prime Minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at Prime Minister House Monday and discussed professional matters pertaining to Pakistan’s Air Forces.The Prime Minister while talking to Chief of the Air ...

New York - A prominent international human rights watchdog Monday urged Pakistan to use law enforcement agencies and, if essential, the army to provide as much protection as possible to candidates and political parties from Taliban attacks. Unless the interim government, the country’s ...

DUBAI : A UAE court on Monday jailed three Britons for four years each on drugs charges, amid calls for their release and claims they have been tortured in prison. The sentencing of Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerth, all 25, came a day ahead of a visit by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa ...

Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi called on Monday for the cabinet to resign and for early elections to be held, as a seven-day wave of violence killed more than 230 people in Iraq.The initiative is aimed at "national reconciliation and maintaining the gains of democracy," as well as "sparing the ...

    KARACHI After tickets distribution, a fresh rift emerges within the PML-N Sindh as party’s Provincial General Secretary Saleem Zia questions the ticket’s validity of the party’s nominee for NA-239 (Karachi). Saleem submitted an application with the returning officer, ...

london - A senior member of the International Monetary Fund added to calls Saturday for Britain to slow the pace of its austerity programme, a day after the country was stripped of its triple-A rating.David Lipton, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said the "pace of consolidation" should be ...

WASHINGTON  - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Saturday urged member countries to employ effective and appropriate policies to spur growth and create jobs.“Anything that works to create jobs obviously starts with growth,” said Lagarde at ...

CALIFORNIA (DS):A teenager has been arrested after dialling 911 twice to complain about his mother’s tone of voice. Vincent Valvo was handcuffed outside his home after a police officer responded to his second 911 call. When he had previously called the police, he had been reminded about the ...

QUETTA - PML-N leader Mushahid Ullah Khan has called for the replacement of all governors, saying that their appointments were made on political basis and they can interfere in the upcoming polls. Talking to the media in Quetta, he demanded of the Election Commission (EC) to change governors. ...