MUNICH: Justin Bieber has just hours to reclaim his pet monkey from the animal shelter where it has been since it was seized by German customs, but he will have to pay thousands for the two-month stay even if he doesn’t take the animal back. A customs office spokesman said the teenage singer ...

karachi - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has extended the deadline for all banks/DFIs to submit claims of textile exporters against payment of export finance mark-up rate facility and mark up rate support for textile sector against long term loans from April 15, 2013 to May 20, 2013, according to ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan has extended the date of applications for postal ballot from the 15th to 25th of this month.It has also urged the prisoners and government employees including the members of Armed Forces who are entitled to exercise their right of vote through postal ...

PESHAWAR - After showing lack of interest for seat adjustment in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl gave the final deadline of April 15 to the leadership of the PML-N for holding talks regarding seat adjustment, warning that the door of dialogues would be close after the ...

ISLAMABAD - The deadline given by the Supreme Court to parliamentarians to get their academic credentials verified ended Friday midnight. As many as 77 out of the total 183 lawmakers got their academic certificates verified by the given time.“Degrees of as many as 77 parliamentarians have ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stated that the deadline for verification of degrees of parliamentarians has not ended as yet.Talking to media, additional secretary Muhammad Afzal Khan said that the lawmakers were directed to submit their degrees within fifteen days after receiving ...

PHEW! You can let out your breath now - the earth is still safely on its sphere despite ‘Doomsdayer’ predictions of an impending apocalypse to coincide with the end of the Mayan age. The human race has successfully navigated the 11.11am deadline on 21.12.12 - at least it appears so with ...

ISLAMABAD: Total defiance of the government to comply with Supreme Court’s last warning for writing letter to Swiss authorities in National Reconciliation Ordinance case expires today (Tuesday) leaving the apex court with no option but to proceed with contempt of court.Institutional tension ...

LAHORE–The Lahore High Court on Friday provisionally restrained federal government from implementing deadline for surrendering arm licenses to Nadra.Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan issued this order on petitions by many arms license holders who challenged the direction of Ministry of Interior ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed that Multan Road project be completed by September 15 so that better traveling facilities could become available to the people as early as possible. While presiding over a meeting regarding development projects on Sunday, the chief minister also ...

Supreme Court gives one day deadline for the restoration of Suhail Ahmed as Secretary Establishment. Hearing in the Hajj corruption case continued in the 5-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. DG FIA Tehsin Anwar finally appeared in the court. He informed the court ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite the fact that Supreme Court granted three weeks time, which is expiring tomorrow (Tuesday), to find out ways to resolve controversy over parliamentarians elected in bye-polls after the passage of the 18th Amendment, the federal government has taken no step yet. However in many ...

ISLAMABAD - The Statistics Division on Tuesday extended house-census drive of the 6th Population Census for six days i.e. till April 25 due to operational reasons. The house-listing phase had to be completed on Tuesday. When contacted, Secretary Statistics Division Asif Bajwa confirmed The Nations ...

The parliamentary party of PPP in Punjab set Monday February 07 as deadline for the PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to reply to the letter of its 19-point agenda, report said. Addressing a news conference, Raja Riaz said the provincial parliamentary party of PPP had sent a 19-point agenda to Nawaz Sharif ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - In order to accommodate the concerns and views of all stakeholder adequately, the Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan (SECP) has extended the deadline for submitting comments on the amended Code of Corporate Governance to December 5. This has been done to give the ...

ISLAMABAD - The SECP has said that its deadline for second phase of the amnesty schemes will close on August 31, 2010. Talking to TheNaiton Media Coordinator SECP said that under these schemes the companies had been provided an opportunity to get themselves regularised by filing their overdue ...

The government contractors have given five day's deadline to the government and district administration for the non payment of more than Rs 5 billion dues. According to details the contractors warned the government to stop all the ongoing development projects of the city if their dues were not ...

ISLAMABAD - Expressing strong reservations regarding the federal capital polices negligence in recovering the missing son of Shakeel Ahmed Turabi, Editor-in-Chief of a news agency (Sana News), Supreme Court, Friday, gave police 10-day deadline to ensure safe recovery of Turabis son. The court ...

DASKA - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday gave 72 hours deadline to Daska city police to arrest the culprits, who assaulted and killed two minor girls in Daska city about 16 days ago. The Chief Minister visited the houses of the victim girls Farwa Afzaal, Fatima Asif and ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Federal Communications Commission extended the deadline for public comments on the proposed purchase of NBC Universal by cable television giant Comcast. The FCC said it was extending the deadline to allow the companies to submit requested reports on the economic benefits ...

PESHAWAR (Online) Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has given 48 hours deadline to police for recovery of a student who has gone missing since the last one and a half years from Mansehra. While hearing a case of missing student Mazhar Hayat from Mansehra, in SC Peshawar ...

RAWALPINDI The Action Committee of Ghakhar Plaza on Thursday gave a three-day deadline to Federal and Punjab governments to compensate the affected shopkeepers of ill-fated plaza that gutted due to fire 14 months ago otherwise the traders would launch a massive protest movement for fulfilment of ...

After three months of waiting and debating, President Obama finally announced his conclusions on Tuesday about the future of the campaign in Afghanistan. In all, 30,000 additional US troops are to be deployed, with the balance of what General Stanley McChrystal requested to be supplied by the rest ...

KARACHI - Pakistans ratification of proposed amendment in Article 31 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement would allow the country to create mechanisms to grant compulsory license for production and export of patented ...

President Obama has not set a deadline for determining a new strategy or for committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan, despite an urgent request from his top commander, his national security adviser said Saturday. In a lengthy telephone interview, retired Gen. James L. Jones outlined ...

There would be no further extension in last date of submitting Hajj applications under the private scheme after the deadline of August 31, said Joint Secretary (Hajj) Ministry of Religious Affairs Aftab-ul-Islam Raja here Sunday. The Ministry will not entertain any application after expiry of the ...

ERUM ZAIDI and RAMZAN CHANDIO KARACHI - Giving the concession to sugar millers, the State Bank of Pakistan has set the new deadline of repayment of Rs 30b worth loans obtained by the sugar mills from the domestic banks. Earlier, the SBP has directed the banks and DFIs that all existing loans or ...

A deadline set by Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad to set up Darul Qaza in Malakand division is going to end today. Sufi Muhammad set April 23 deadline for the government to set up Darul Qaza (appellate court) and appoint Qazis in the region. He said Ulema would be the ...

Maulan Sufi Muhammad, chief of banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), has extended his earlier-given deadline for the establishment of Darul Qaza in Malakand agency to an unspecified time, report said. Banned TNSM, that brokered a peace deal between NWFP government and Taliban militants in ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - The Interior Ministry has asked the Foreign Office to convey to India that it needs to reply by mid-March to the 30 queries on the Mumbai attacks Islamabad had submitted in response to New Delhi's dossier. This deadline is likely to be communicated to India during the meeting ...