Writing in this column a few weeks back, this scribe tried to expose fabrications about the feasibility of Kalabagh Dam and the attempts made by blackmailers to cover up these lies. By quoting from the views and technical reports of national and international experts on dam construction, we had ...

DHAKA:-Seamer Shafiul Islam and allrounder Ziaur Rahman have been called up to the Bangladesh Test squad, as cover for pacers Rubel Hossain and Shahadat Hossain. Shafiul and Ziaur will fly to Harare on Sunday night. Rubel, who had back trouble during the tour to Sri Lanka earlier this year, hurt ...

AFPMANILA A top Philippine newspaper Saturday was taken in by a spoof cover of Time magazine depicting President Benigno Aquino with his mouth agape, running the picture on its front page.“We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake,” said a short statement issued by the ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s central bank will hold an exceptional foreign exchange auction for $600 million on Sunday to cover strategic imports such as wheat, meat and cooking oil, it said in a statement.The auction is 15 times the size of the three $40 million currency auctions the ...

Leader of PML-N Khawja Saad Rafiq Saturday said it is a fact that PML-N grown up under the cover of military but we pay reparation in the form of imprisonments during Musharraf’s regime. The PML-N leader said this while addressing a ceremony in Lahore; he added that if PML-N awards ticket to ...

LAHORE - The PPP would be the major loser if the proposed 20th amendment is not passed by the Parliament, as it would be losing nine of its legislators, including Finance Minister Senator Hafeez Sheikh, in different assemblies and the Senate after February 9, the deadline set by the Supreme Court ...

LAHORE-Amid strong opposition from the Opposition benches, the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday approved six amendments in Punjab Local Government Ordinance (PLGO) 2001, allowing the government to delay local government elections for another six months besides endorsing other changes in the ordinance, ...

KARACHI - SBP has with immediate effect revised and streamlined the instructions on forward cover facilities being provided by Authorized Dealers (Banks) against imports and foreign private loans. Maturity of forward contracts against import should coincide with the maturity of the underlying ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) Central Chairman Syed Nabeel Hashmi, expressing grave concern over the new Entrant Policy, said the notification issued by the ministry of industries is a formality. He called for providing legal ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution with majority vote seeking legal cover for Panchayat System in rural areas of Punjab to ensure prompt dispensation of justice to the people at the local level. The resolution, moved by Humaira Awais Shahid of PML-Q, demanded of the ...

Stageline, a top-seller across the world, launches an excellent cover foundation with a natural finish. The makeup is of high quality and depicts have wide range of shades according to the Pakistani environment. Made of silicones and pigments of mineral origin it is perfect for high definition. ...

LAHORE The Edhi Free Dispensary in Allama Iqbal Town provided free medical care to 22,300 patients during the year 2010. A spokesman of Edhi Foundation said on Friday that the foundation provided ambulance service to shift 17,252 bodies to their homes and 68,060 patients to hospitals. The ...

ISLAMABAD Capital Police have seized a container having more than 26000 bottles of liquor of foreign brands that was being illegally transported into the city in the name of diplomats leaving many questions unanswered how the container reached the posh area despite the presence of a number of ...

SHEs told millions of women not to succumb to societal pressure to be thin, but Oprah Winfrey couldnt help but shed the pounds after Vogue editor Anna Wintour told her to get skinny for the cover of the magazine. Even though the shoot was back in 1998, the revelation is sure to come as a surprise ...

KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin to give legal cover and protection to venture capital financing to strengthen financial support for SMEs in the country. UNISAME President Zulfikar Thaver said that Shaukat ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways ...

KARACHI - City Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal on Saturday asked the Chief Director of Tahir Traders-Landscape Consultants to consult all the CDGK departments before proposing a plan for the forestation of the city. He asked for a complete plan for city forestation while listening to the ...

NOT one to be typecasted in a tween role, "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe reveals that his dream role is to play a drag queen. The English film and stage actor looks very manly and more matured than his 19 years as he poses on the cover of Details magazine's October issue, ...

WASHINGTON: -- Barack Obama's campaign says a New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed in an Islamic dress and his wife as a terrorist is "tasteless and offensive." The illustration on the issue that hits newsstands today, titled "The ...

LONDON French-Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion is responsible for the world's worst cover version - a rendition of rockers AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" - Total Guitar magazine said in a poll. Dion has never released the song as a single but performed what the magazine called the "offence" ...