ISLAMABAD   Shehzad Gugu lifted free class category of NLC Motocross Challenge held at Motocross track Wednesday. Director General Army Heritage Foundation Brigadier (retd) Wiqar Gul was the chief gues. Over 200 bikers got registered themselves for the competition out of which only 50 ...

KARACHI - By ignoring the labourers, peasants and working class in awarding of tickets, almost all the political parties have tried to maintain the status quo and none is ready to make any changes on the economic, social and political fronts. Civil society activists, trade unionists and economists ...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement senior leader Haider Abbas Rizvi on Friday advised the voters to exercise their right of franchise in the general election-2013 in favour of honest middle or lower-middle-class candidates in their respective constituencies.The former Member of the National ...

PESHAWAR - Opposing the changes in the class 9th syllabus, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has demanding of the government to immediate revive the old course and shun anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan policies.Addressing a press conference here at press club on Wednesday, JI Chairman ...

Federal Minister for National Regulations and Services Dr Ferdous Ashiq Awan has said despite a growth rate of 7 percent of the pharma industry, not a single company was producing medicines approved by World Health Organization (WHO).In a speech at a conference and award ceremony on "Ethics in ...

KARACHI - The Board of Secondary Education of Karachi, on Saturday, informed all intending private candidates that examination forms of SSC part one (class nine), general group, will be accepted up to November 30. Those failing to submit their forms by the given date can deposit the same with a ...

LAHORE – Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Liaquat Baloch has said that the class struggle caused by the feudal and capitalist economic system was pushing the country towards civil disobedience and revolt.Addressing traders and notables from NA 126, he said that a vast majority of the people ...

SARGODHA - The police, showing efficiency, have booked a minor student of class 3 over the alleged charges of threatening a woman. Additional District & Sessions Judge Zia Ullah Khan Niazi accepted the pre-arrest bail of alleged minor accused. As per details, Shahpur Saddar Police Station SHO ...

PATTAYA : Taiwan's Yani Tseng clinched victory the Honda LPGA Thailand tournament on Sunday in a thrilling performance that showed why she is the world's number one women's golfer. Tseng, who was the defending champion in the $1.5 million event, fired a six-under-par 66 to edge out Japan's Ai ...

RAJANPUR - The annual examinations of class 5th and 8th started from here in the district. All necessary arrangements had already been completed in this respect, District Controller Examinations Aamir Mansoor said and added that 1,200 teachers appointed at all 100 examination centres in all three ...

Momin Iftikhar“In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else we all go down, as one people.” – Franklin D. RooseveltThe emergence of a broad-based and assertive middle class in Pakistan, ...

Beyoncé has become the topic of a new course offered at Rutgers University. The New Jersey college’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies will teach ‘Politicising Beyoncé’ to students interested in learning about the ‘Countdown’ singer’s ...

NANKANA SAHIB - As many as 46,413 students would take the 5th and 8th class annual examinations being conducted under the education boards of Nankana Sahib, Shah Kot, Sangla Hill and Safderabad tehsils on February 4 and February 6, respectively.All necessary arrangements had already been completed ...

It’s a sign of these unsettled times that the analyst who famously announced “the end of history” in 1989, when the Soviet empire was crumbling and liberal, free-market democracy seemed inevitable, has published a new essay with the provocative title “The Future of ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The first graduating class at Oprah Winfreys school for South African girls has finished their exams, with all of the students set for university studies, the head of the academy said Wednesday. Results of their final exams will only be released in January, but all 72 students ...

LONDON (AFP) - Liverpool cruised into the League Cup third round with a 3-1 win over minnows Exeter City, while fellow Premier League sides Everton, Blackburn and Bolton also avoided early exits on Wednesday. Kenny Dalglish's team were playing in the second round of the competition for the first ...

OUR STAFF REPORTE LAHORE FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences is launching civil engineering, a new degree programme at Lahore Campus from fall 2011 semester to meet the demands of modern times. Rector of the University Dr Amir Muhammad expressed these views while ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs on Wednesday unanimously approved some recommendations to be moved to the National Assembly for consideration for incorporating in Finance Bill 2011-12 including to fix minimum wage at Rs 8,000 per month and to ...

LAHORE - Chief Executive Formanites Housing Scheme Mian Zahoor Ahmed Wattoo has said the scheme lies in the centre of the Defence Housing Society, but it has offered residential facilities to the middle class who cannot dream of having a house in such beautifully laid out schemes. While talking at ...

LAHORE - The PIAF-Founders Alliance Tuesday made another clean sweep by winning all the 8 seats of LCCI Associate Class for year 2010-11 paving the way for the Alliance to have its President, Senior Vice President and Vice President. Total 1076 votes were polled out of 4279 while 40 votes were ...

LAHORE - As many as 4,279 eligible voters will cast their votes for LCCI Associate Class elections scheduled for September 21 (today). Polling will continue from 9:00 am to 17:00 pm with one break for lunch and prayer. According to final list, 18 candidates are in the run for eight seats of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Saturday vowed to expand a prosperous middle class and help his compatriots achieve the American Dream as the country prepared to celebrate Labor Day. This Labor Day, we should recommit ourselves to our time-honored values and to this fundamental ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson, in an engaging diplomatic initiative and outreach for scaling Pakistan business friendly outlook, led the third delegation of Pakistani business leaders to the United States (US) as part of Business Ambassadors Programme. Launched by ...

NEW YORK - A recent attack on a Punjab University professor highlighted a power struggle between an outward-looking, educated class and those pushing an intolerant vision of Islam, marring the academic atmosphere in this graceful, century-old institution, according to a leading American newspaper ...

ISLAMABAD - Salaried class employees have urged the Federal Government to increase their salaries in accordance with the increase in the prices of food items that left drastic impacts on their household economy. Group of Pak Secretariat Employees informed TheNation, We are drawing Rs 8000 salary ...

LAHORE - The PIAF-Founders Alliance on Friday won all the seats of Corporate-class unopposed for the forthcoming elections of Lahore Chambers of Commerce and Industry to be held on September 16, as none of their rivals filed nomination papers against them. The LCCI members disclosed this at the ...

BRAD Pitt has bought anger management classes for Angelina Jolie to stop her from throwing knives at him when she gets cross. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" actor - who raises six children with Angelina - is said to be terrified that her knife-throwing will get out of control, and is hoping ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte reaffirmed their commitment to increase a wide-ranging and long-term strategic partnership between the two countries. In a joint statement issued from Camp Office in New York on Tuesday, during the third round of ...

ISLAMABAD - The pass percentage of the result of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part-I Annual Examination 2008 remained 60.82, which was announced on Saturday by Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE). Total 56,500 regular candidates including Science and Humanities ...

Directed and co-adapted by Laurent Cantet, "The Class" (known as "Entre Les Murs" in French) wins the top honour, the Palm d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. The documentary-like story, set in a Paris neighbourhood, follows a year in the life of a French schoolteacher; it portrays ...