ISLAMABAD Although overall female voters turned out in big number and it was heartwarming that women inPakistanrefused to bow down, yet in areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa women were barred from casting their votes. Due to this flagrant violation of election rules and code of conduct, the Gender ...

islamabad - In its initial report on election monitoring, Aurat Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to declare polls null and void in constituencies where women were barred from voting.Over 100 women domestic election observers of Aurat ...

islamabad - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday turned down a petition challenging the notification of Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA) declaring Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse as sub-jail. IHC judge Justice Riaz Ahmad declared the action of Chief Commissioner Islamabad as ...

KABUL (AFP/Reuters ) - The Taliban in Afghanistan vowed on Saturday to start a new campaign of mass suicide attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas, as well as damaging “insider attacks”, as part of a new spring offensive this year.The offensive was announced via emails ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has announced he will declare war on illiteracy in the country and will treat it as a national emergency when he assumes office.Khan said that he intends to create a specialist cabinet of advisors and implement a ten-year multi-pronged plan to reach full ...

PARIS (AFP) - French ministers lining up to publicly declare their personal assets are sparking a revolution in political thinking in France, where experts say it is often easier to talk about sex than money.Under new measures aimed at restoring public confidence in politicians after a major tax ...

RAWALPINDI – Hamdard think tank Tuesday vehemently denounced the bill tabled in the National Assembly to declare eight languages as national languages. Hamdrad Shura Islamabad Branch Speaker and former Naval Chief, Admiral (Retd) Iftikhar Ahmed Sarhohi, at a press conference held at Hamdard ...

HAFEEZ SHAIKHHYDERABAD - Sindh Taraqi Passand Party Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has demanded the government to declare Pakistan as a country of five nations including Sindhi, Balochi, Siraiki, Pakhtun and Punjabi with different cultures and civilizations.He said this while addressing a public meeting ...

A petition requested the Supreme Court to declare President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ineligible for their posts.According to a private television channel, the petition was filed in the apex court on Monday by senior lawyer Wahab Al Khairi.The petition requested the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHOREThe Lahore High Court has been moved for declaring all the military dictators of the past as 'traitors of the nation for committing the offence of constitutional subversion and overthrowing the civil governments. Gazi Illum ud din advocate has filed the petition contending ...

KARACHI Human Rights Commission for South Asia (HRCSA) on Wednesday moved a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court challenging the current format regarding appointment of the judges in the apex courts. HRCSA representative Syed Iqbal Kazmi pleaded to term the process of the appointment of ...

LAHORE - Cable Operators Association (COA) has demanded of the government to declare cable sector an industry and also demand security from the Interior Ministry. They also demanded withdrawal of fines, imposed by the Pemra on cable operators. Addressing a joint Press conference at Lahore Press ...

ABIDJAN (AFP) - Rivals contesting Laurent Gbagbos claim to the presidency of Ivory Coast declared Sunday they had formed a new government for the country under the incumbent prime minister, former rebel Guillaume Soro. Soros spokesman Sindou Meite read out to reporters a list of 13 people named ...

AB de Villiers notched a career-best 263 runs and a last-wicket partnership of 91 on Sunday helped South Africa reach 568-9 at tea against Pakistan in the second and final Test. The tea break was extended by half an hour but de Villiers and Morne Morkel (34) were unbeaten at the crease. Earlier in ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US and the UN Friday designated Pakistans Harkat-ul-Jihad Al-Islami (HuJI) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and targeted its commander for supporting acts of terrorism, the US Treasury Department said. Mohammad Ilyas Kash-miri, who the US labelled a Specially Designated ...

Sri Lanka declared at 520-8 in its first innings against India at tea on day three of the first test on Tuesday. Tailenders Rangana Herath and Lasith Malinga scored their maiden test half-centuries. Malinga made 64 off 75 balls, hitting nine boundaries and two sixes before being dismissed. Herath ...

A group of influential religious leaders in Yemen has threatened to declare jihad holy war if foreign troops intervene to stem the spread of al-Qaeda in the country. The edict is a clear warning to the United States as it plans to step up its military involvement in the country. The leaders said ...

KARACHI- Arif Habib Investments Limited (AHIL) has declared the monthly dividend for two of its open-end fixed income funds namely Pakistan Income Enhancement Fund (PIEF) and Pakistan Cash Management Fund (PCF) for April 2009. Interestingly these two are the only funds distributing monthly ...

Pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday declared an indefinite ceasefire in Swat valley, where they have been fighting for nearly two years to enforce sharia law, a spokesman said. The announcement came after militant leader Maulana Fazlullah convened a consultative council in Swat's Matta district, ...

The militants on Sunday announced a 10-day ceasefire in Swat where 3 persons are reported dead and 7 others injured as a result of a mortar shell landing on a house in Kabal Tehsil today. Spokesman of the banned outfit, Tehreek-i-Taliban Swat Haji Muslim Khan told a private TV channel that decision ...

Israel's security cabinet is expected to meet Saturday night to declare a cease-fire in Gaza and will keep its forces there in the short term while the next stage of an agreement with Egypt is worked out. "It looks as if all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together," Mark Regev, a spokesman for ...

Braving sub zero temperature and cold wind, more than 200 supporters and workers of dozens of Indian American organisation held a demonstration outside the UN, seeking the world body declare Pakistan a terrorist state. The demonstrators, from New York and adjoining New Jersey and Connecticut states ...

LAHORE - The constitutional experts have floated a suggestion to restore the judges saying that the parliament should pass a comprehensive resolution declaring November 3 steps extra-constitutional because in this way the judges would stand restored automatically. They said Pervez Musharraf ...