LAHORE - Political parties have made music -- patriotic and party-themed songs -- an integral part of their election campaigns. Whether in television advertisement or in public and corner meetings of election candidates, playing popular national songs and party-themed songs have become a cult that ...

LAHOREThe police have launched large-scale search operations against suspected terrorists by inspecting all the religious schools, neighbourhoods, and even the motorists at the pickets set up across the Punjab province. Amid strong threats of possible terror attacks targeting politicians and public ...

LAHORE - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) is in trouble as the house he heads is divided over the issue of scrutiny of the election candidates.There are speculations that close circles of CEC Justice (r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim have even advised him to resign ahead of the May 11 polls, leaving the ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has observed that it is the fundamental responsibility of the National Accountability Bureau (Nab) to weed out corruption from the country, not protect it. He expressed his anger over the Nab’s action of removing the investigating officer from the ...

There have been many businessmen in Pakistan who have earned billion of rupees but are found evading paying taxes. These businessmen have never been caught by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) which shows the incompetence of the institution. FBR has totally failed in this regard and because of ...

DANISH RAZAMohammad Aamir Khan’s story should qualify as a case study for someone doing research on ‘How terror cases are probed in India’.In the winter of 1998, the Delhi police named Aamir in more than two dozen bomb blast cases — 17 in Delhi, the twin blasts in ...

LAHORE – Two infants expired and another suffered multiple burn injuries when fire erupted in several cloth-made cottages of nomads near EXPOC Center in Johar Town police precincts late on Friday. The City District Government’s Civil Defence Department officials said that fire broke out ...

PARK CITY, Utah  - Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat spent five years filming his village’s resistance to Israeli settlers — and brought his intimate but powerful documentary to the Sundance film festival.Co-directed with Israeli Guy Davidi, “5 broken cameras” was shown ...

Seven people, including children, have been killed after two coaches of the Doon Express today caught fire in the wee hours near Giridih district in Jharkhand, India. The fire broke out around 3 am in the AC 3-tier coach B1 and later spread to B2, when the train was passing through Nimiaghat ...

An angler caught the biggest catch of his life - when he accidentally hooked his 15 stone friend in the mouth. Bogdan Symanski 50 - from Zielona Gora, Poland - had been ribbing his friend about catching nothing during the sea fishing trip when he felt a searing pain in his mouth. Hed put out one ...

LAHORE Newly-appointed DIG Operations Ghulam Mehmood Dogar has directed the divisional SPs to ensure better situation of law and order in the City. Supervising a meeting at his office here on Saturday, he has given them 15 days with strict directions to hunt all the proclaimed offenders A&B ...

PUNE (India) The ashes of former Kiwi player Bert Sutcliffe, MBE, who died of emphysema on April 20, 2001, at the age 77, was buried at the spot in the ground where he took a fantastic catch to end Englands Bill Edrichs innings (1946-47), this was revealed by his son Gary Sutcliffe. Burt ...

KARACHI - The challenge to secure marine life on the coastal land of Sindh and Balochistan is still unmatched for the authorities concerned. As several awareness campaigns launched by different non-government organisations have remain failed, The Nation learnt on Sunday. As per details, the ...

The fire, suspected to be caused by a short circuit, engulfed two electronics shops situated in the Saddar area of Karachi Wednesday. The fire brigade officials said that a fire erupted in two electronics shops situated on the ground floor of a private hotel near Regal Chowk in Karachi due to which ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met the Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahayan on the sidelines of the 63rd Session of the UN General Assembly in New York Sunday. Foreign Minister Qureshi thanked his UAE's counterpart for participating in the meeting of ...

JAKARTA (AFP) - Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, conservationists said Thursday. Two camera traps set up in the remote Ujung Kulon national park yielded new ...