Letter from the government to US officials against army chief and ISI echoed Thursday in the National Assembly as President Asif Ali Zardari was made target of sever criticism by opposition. PML-Ns MNA Khurram Dastagir said on point of order that President Zardari was in contact on international ...

LAHORE In what seems to be a 'valuable addition in the dictionary of vulgar language, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has identified over 2000 expressions and words (not printable) in different languages (mostly English and Urdu), and banned their use in text messages on cell phones, but ...

ABBOTTABAD - Tehreek Suba Hazara (TSH) has warned that some unscrupulous elements were using its name for parochial political mileage by using the name 'Suba Hazara Tehreek saying that Hazara Movement had nothing to do with this small groups formed by Q-Leagues vested interests who were bound to ...

Senior Sindh Minister Zulfiqar Mirza, known for his loud mouthing, on Monday came down heavily on Interior Minister Rehman Malik during Sindh Cabinet meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and reviewed the deteriorating situation in Karachi. Dr. Zulfikar Mirza strongly ...

XICHANG, (Sichuan Province) (APP) - Chairman Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Major General (r) Ahmed Bilal has said that the successful launch of Communication Satellite-1R on Thursday mid-night, was a dream comes true and also proved that the Pakistani scientists and ...

Load shedding continues despite shortfall of electricity has come down to 1,940MW. Owing to improvement in oil and gas supply, the power generation by the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) has crossed 7,000MW, bringing down the short fall to only 1,940MW. The total electricity generation capacity ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is in a complete disarray following the bowing out of Justice (Retd) Deedar Hussain Shah as Chairman in the light of Supreme Court of Pakistans verdict and the top body fighting against the corruption has, once again, become headless and ...

LAHORE (Agencies) In Pakistan, as militant Islamists wage war on anything smacking of Western culture, metrosexual man is quietly on the rise. Confounding expectations in a country where most street scenes are filled with men wearing the traditional shalwar kameez, a simple cotton tunic, male ...

Pakistan on Saturday joined Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and India in signing the long-awaited over $7.6 billion dollars gas pipeline project to help it meet its sharply rising industrial and domestic demands. The inter-governmental agreement (IGA) was signed by President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan ...

Pir Pagara, chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) said all generals of the Pak Army are patriots, adding the Army would not force into the scene at anyones behest; instead, it would come on time, report said on Thursday. Talking to media at Kingri House here along with Sheikh ...

An agreement between the United States and Kazakhstan on railway transit of U.S. "special cargo" to Afghanistan came into force on Thursday after being published in official newspapers. The Kazakh parliament, the Majilis, approved the deal on commercial railway transit of U.S. special cargo through ...

LAHORE - Pepco is saving 350 MW electricity per hour under the energy conservation plan with the closure of markets and shops at 8pm and it is magic of early closure of shops that electricity shortfall has come to zero point on Wednesday, sources in Pepco revealed. Besides the energy saving plan, ...

ISLAMABAD Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Dr Babar Awan has said that the democracy had improved Pakistans reputation among the worlds nations. Addressing a seminar organised by Khubaib Foundation, he said the democratic govt of PPP was trying to improve the living standard of ...

Along a rugged stretch of road in the shadow of the snow-covered Hindu Kush mountains, villagers in mud-brick huts praised the newest addition to their vista: a series of massive steel towers that reach into the clouds. The towers, part of a $1.3 billion aid package from India, carry electricity to ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) In less than a month after an Indian government-sponsored advertisement showed picture of former Pakistan Air Force Chief along with eminent Indians like Sachin Tendulkar, a similar ad has gone a step further and put New Delhi in Pakistani territory. The shocker came from ...

TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Irans top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday the Islamic republic has updated its package of proposals linked to its controversial atomic programme and is ready for fresh talks with world powers. The Islamic republics package of proposals is updated and ready and will be ...

LAHORE - The reports of shadowy Indian gambling mafia wafting its way towards Pakistan cricketers during the ongoing Sri Lanka series had Pakistan team management on its heels. Team manager Yawar Saeed was quoted in Indian media as saying: "We were told by some of the players that a few suspicious ...

KARACHI - The four newly brought baby elephants will be accessible to general public from today (Thursday) as the 48 hours monitoring period has come to an end on Wednesday, The Nations learnt. Great jubilation was observed in the Safari Park, when four baby elephants were witnessed trumpeting in ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - World No. 15 Aamir Atlas clinched the title after defeating his strong rival Farhan Mehboob in the 3-1 final of the National Senior Squash Championship played here at Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Monday. NWFP Minister for Sports Syed Aqil Shah was the chief guest on this ...

ISLAMABAD- "Dinner with an Idiot" a comedy play is going to be staged at the National Library Auditorium from March 28. Director Fahim Azam announced this here on Wednesday in a press conference at a local hotel. The comedy play would continue till April 7. The one hour and thirty-minute long play ...

President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. Bush had defined it, signaling to the world that the reach of the U.S. ...

KARACHI - Janey Pehchanay Ajnabi made a debut at the Arts Council the other day. Written by a York University graduate, Zain Ahmad, the play threw light on the various stage of a man. Somewhat like Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of a Man'; the dialogue, the monologues and the bi-lingual utterances all ...

VENICE (AFP) - Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and George Clooney kick off this year's Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of the latest quirky offering from Oscar-winning Coen brothers. The festival, running through September 6, is set to bring a bevy of stars to one of the ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) witnessing one of the worst landslides came crashing to its 18 months low, while the small investors bookies and punters, who had sidelined themselves after the earlier KSE plunge and later goaded into the market by the setting up of support fund, which was seen no ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices fell heavily on Tuesday as traders reacted to the stronger dollar, erasing earlier gains seen after energy giant Royal Dutch Shell suspended some of its crude deliveries from Nigeria. OPEC President Chakib Khelil described crude prices above 120 dollars a barrel as ...

KARACHI - The plan of establishing Sindh Revenue Authority may not materialize due to power tussle among the bureaucracy and ministers in the province. The proposed SRA, if established, would deprive various provincial departments from collecting revenues and shift the pattern of malpractices ...

ISLAMABAD - Refuting the allegations of renowned scientist, Dr AQ Khan, on the involvement of army and the then army chief and incumbent President Pervez Musharraf in nuclear proliferation, the Director General of Strategic Planning Division (SPD), Lt General (Retd) Khalid Ahmad Kidwai Saturday ...

ISLAMABAD - Siddiqa, a staff nurse working in the Service Care 11-22 which provides First Aid to CDA workers, after fighting for her life for more than 12 hours, breathed her last on Saturday at CDA Hospital known as Capital Hospital. Doctors were of the view that she lost her life due to excessive ...

KARACHI - Amid political uncertainty, currency devaluation, fear of imposition of new taxes on the stock market and monetary tightening, Pakistan equity market has come down sharply. The benchmark KSE-100 index has reached its 9-month low level of 12,235 points in just 28 trading sessions, plunging ...

LAHORE - Work on the remodelling of Maulana Shaukat Ali Road, which is the first project undertaken by the PML-N government in the City, has come to halt due to delay in the release of required funds and WASA's inaction to lay down central drain in middle of the road. The stoppage of the ...