ATTOCK - The leadership of PML-N will take the country out of crises and put it on the track of development and prosperity, MNA-elect Sheikh Aftab Ahmad claimed this while talking to TheNation here at his residence on Saturday.He said that priorities of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif are to strengthen ...

SIALKOTPML-N candidate for NA-110 Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that his party made Pakistan a nuclear power by conducting the atom explosions after rejecting the foreign pressure and made Pakistan economically and politically strong. “Now, the PML-N will never allow any political jugular to ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that if voted to power‚ his party will bring the country out of existing crises.Addressing traders here on Wednesday‚ Nawaz Sharif said that his services for the nation are well known to the people.He said ...

The electricity loadshedding situation across the country is worsening by the day, despite repeated promises by the PPP regime during its rule of five years and there appears no relief in sight for the next decade either. What is painful is the fact that instead of doing something to resolve the ...

M RAFIQUE KAMBOkot radha kishan - Though all the political parties including PPP, PTI and the PML-N are claiming to bring about a change after coming to power, but the people are taking least interest in their slogans as they are disappointed with their oft-repeated manifestos, especially in Kasur ...

The power crises in the country is getting worse day by day as demand of electricity is 11545, production is 7245 and shortfall is approximately 4300 megawatt.According to Media Reports, as summers have started in the country, Ministry of Water and Power says that overall demand of the electricity ...

FAISALABAD – The rulers have made masses mentally sick while the government is presenting budgets every month by increasing prices of petroleum products and tariffs of gas and electricity, said speakers at a forum held under the aegis of Nawa-i-Waqt Media Group here on Saturday.“These ...

RAJANPUR - The three-day ceremonies of the Urs of Hazrat Khwajah Ghulam Fareed (RA) have concluded in his shrine at Kot Mithan Sharif, some 15 km from here.On the 2nd day of Urs, the city continued to sound with recitation of  Darood-o-Salam, religious congregations and Samaa, recitation of ...

Capt Farrukh MunirPakistan Steel is that one and only steel making organization whose foundation stone was laid in December, 1973. Consisting of a number of interdependent plants Pakistan Steel commenced production in 1985. Ever since it was set up Pakistan Steel has seen many highs and lows. Its ...

The flurry of activity surrounding the two major crises surrounding the government, the memogate affair and the NRO verdict, has obscured the opposition campaign for fresh elections. Because it was an opposition campaign, it seems that the only possible way out for the President has been ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations humanitarian office announced Wednesday the allocation of $104 million to support 13 neglected emergencies around the world, including Pakistan. “Millions of people need help around the world in places which have fallen out of the headlines. These ...

ISLAMABAD – Experts at a day-long workshop here proposed formation of an energy think tank namely Pakistan Energy Research and Information Center (PERIC) to help overcome the energy crisis. Workshop on Pakistan Integrated Energy Model was held at the Planning Commission to discuss the ...

MULTAN - Markazi Nazim-e-Ala of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith (JAH) Pakistan Allama Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer has warned the government to get the country rid of Americans otherwise masses will eliminate the rulers from Islamabad.Addressing a meeting of party workers here on Thursday, he said that all the steps ...

MOSCOW - Russia on Wednesday insisted it would not back sanctions on Syria and accused the West of suffocating the Iranian economy as it warned against military intervention targeting either regime.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated that Russia was prepared to wield its veto on the UN ...

SADIQABAD - An executive member of the Rahim Yar Khan Chamber of Commerce and Industries has been booked for selling fake fertilisers worth hundreds of thousands of rupees during a raid conducted by the district officer (agriculture). Rana Naseer Ahmad, a landlord, had submitted a complaint to the ...

SADIQABAD - Despite severe crises and loadshedding of gas and electricity, skyrocketing increase in their tariffs is tantamount to destroying the national economy and paving the way for civil disobedience and bloodshed, a traders’ leader and industrialist said. . “By putting burden of ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and COAS Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met on the sidelines of the latter’s address to the officers attending the National Defence University in Islamabad on Tuesday; their first meeting since the two sent differing replies to the Supreme Court in the memogate case. ...

PESHAWAR (APP) Chief Minister of Khyber Pakthunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday said that the government had decided to launch hydel power projects as part of its efforts to control energy crises. The construction work on two such hydel projects in the KP will commence from next month, he ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - Opposition Leader in Senate and JUI-F leader Mualana Abdul Ghafoor Haidari has said that the Nizam-e-Mustafa has not yet been promulgated in the country due to the mounted difference in religious parties and incumbent rulers. Therefore, he said, no democratic system or ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has alleged that the federal dispensation is diverting all crises towards Punjab with the sole aim of punishing people and damaging the provincial government. Addressing a press conference here at the Chief Ministers House on ...

HAFIZABAD - Jamaat-a-Islami General Secretary Liaqat Baloch has stressed the need for unity and cohesion across the political spectrum on one point agenda to steer the country out of prevailing state of affairs. Addressing a press conference at Jamia Al-Fateh here the other day, he said that grand ...

MULTAN - Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar lashed out at interior minister on Tuesday, saying it appeared from statements and activities of Rehman Malik that he was interior minister of the US and not Pakistan. Addressing gatherings of workers in Multan and Khanewal, he said that ...

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama came to New York on Thursday to make his case for US financial system reform, calling it absolutely necessary to prevent future crises. He called on Wall Street executives to work with Washington to pass tough common sense reforms that would protect consumers, end ...

KARACHI - General Secretary All Pakistan Railway Workers Union Muhammad Naseem Rao has said that their union has submitted recommendations comprising on 142 points to the Chairman Railways that can safe Rs10 billion of the institution and will be able to resolve the crises. He expressed these ...

KARACHI PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday underlined the need for implementing the Charter of Democracy (CoD) as decided by all the political parties, saying that the implementation of CoD is necessary to steer the country out of present crises. He was addressing a Press conference along with ...

UNITED NATIONS, A high-level UN commission on the world financial crisis has called for a new global reserve system that does not rely on a single currency like the dollar in an effort to avert future crises. In a report set to be released on September 22, the commission also recommended a new ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi has said that Punjab has been caught in the whirlpool of crises due to the mismanagement of the Punjab government. Addressing a press briefing at an Iftar dinner hosted by him for the senior journalists at his residence here Tuesday, ...

KARACHI/LAHORE - The unending political uncertainty has derailed the stock market during the past few months, leading to a massive erosion of 5,969 points of the KSE-100 index. The local stock markets have been under tremendous selling pressure for last four months as the key local and foreign ...