LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari, who arrived in the provincial metropolis on Sunday on a two-day ‘fact finding’ mission, told a Safma delegation at Bilawal House that PPP could not run its election campaign in Punjab due to threats from the Taliban. The insiders also quoted the ...

SADIQABAD Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood who has recently resigned from his office but his resignation has not be accepted by President Zardari, said that the public had rejected the PPP for its bad governance during the last five year tenure and elected new ones.Mr Mehmood was meeting with various ...

KARACHI - PPP central leader Senator Raza Rabbani, unveiling a seven-point agenda to monitor the performance of the next PML-N government, has announced that the party will play an effective and constructive role as opposition in and out of the parliament.Addressing a press conference at the ...

The feeling of being ‘shell-shocked’ is a part of an average sportsman’s life; it is likewise not tormenting Imran Khan for the first time, given his experience as a cricketer. Defeat and its bitterness, where every day is a day of reckoning, happens and even to the legends.His ...

WARBURTON - PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif has reiterated his pledge to end loadshedding in two years if their party is voted to power in centre, though he said he was not a supernatural being who can end power outages overnight.Addressing a public rally in Warburton area of Nankana Sahib, he said the ...

ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has strongly condemned yesterday’s bomb blast on ANP’s corner meeting in Karachi and termed it a battle between two mindset.Speaking to a TV channel on Saturday, Wali said that liberal democratic parties were being barred from taking part in the coming ...

karachi Former chief minister of Punjab and PML-N leader, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the ten-party alliance of opposition parties in Sindh has finalised the consensus candidates to defeat the PPP in the province.He was addressing a press conference after chairing a parliamentary board ...

PPP leader Manzoor Whattoo has said that his party will beat PML-N in Punjab in the polls.Addressing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) workers in Lahore after former MPA of PML-Q joined PPP, Manzoor Wattoo claimed that he very well know how to beat Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif cannot defeat PTI on the political ground.“Zardari and Sharif both together cannot defeat the PTI,” he stated this while addressing a public gathering ...

LAHORE -  President Zardari’s sister and MNA, Faryal Talpur has called party’s Punjab leaders at Islamabad for a meeting discuss its candidate, Aslam Gill’s defeat in the recent Senate elections. Gill’s defeat in Friday’s Senate polls came as a great surprise for ...

LAHORE – The PPP is now worried about the rebels in the provincial Parliamentary Party, who deliberately denied the Senate vote to the party’s candidate, Mr Aslam Gill, and preferred to vote for the candidate of the Unification Bloc, Mr Mohsin Leghari. The traumatized leaders and ...

KABUL  - The Taliban used the 23rd anniversary of the humiliating Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday to taunt the United States that it would suffer the same fate as preparations to hand over security to a shaky government are underway.“Selfish Americans must learn a lesson ...

ADELAIDE  - India were lurching towards defeat and a 4-0 series humiliation against Australia after another batting collapse in the fourth Test in Adelaide on Friday.The beleaguered tourists, chasing a record 500 runs for an unlikely win, took the Test into a fifth day for the first time in ...

KARACHI - Chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Friday warned the establishment of the country to stay away from patronising ‘particular’ political parties in elections and demanded that let the election process be transparent and independent. Addressing a mammoth ...

LAHORE – Pakistan middle order batsman Umar Akmal says though the chances of scoring century at number six are less yet he would try his best to steer the team to victory with his good performance during the series against England in UAE. Talking to the reporters during the second day of the ...

TOYOTA (AFP) - Mexicans Monterrey sealed fifth place at the Club World Cup on Wednesday after seeing off the African champions Esperance of Tunisia 3-2. The CONCACAF winners fell behind in an open and entertaining fixture in the Japanese city of Toyota, but struck back with three goals in a ...

LONDON (AFP) - Mario Balotelli inspired the worst loss of Sir Alex Ferguson's career as Manchester City thrashed 10-man Manchester United 6-1 to go five points clear at the top of the Premier League on Sunday. Balotelli -- who was forced to flee his home on Saturday following a bizarre late night ...

DEPALPUR - Jammatud Dawa Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has said after the success of 'Jihad' in Afghanistan the war will start against infidels. India is losing its illegal grip in Held Valley. He was speaking on the topic of "Gazwa-e-Hind" here at the park of regional municipal administration ...

Our Staff reporter NANKANA SAHIB - Nazria Pakistan Trust Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Daily TheNation Majid Nizami has stated that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah materialised the dream of Pakistan through day and night struggle in just six years after the concept was presented by Allama Muhammad ...

COLOGNE (AFP) - Supporters of Bundesliga strugglers Cologne made death threats to the players after their thumping 4-1 weekend loss at Wolfsburg which left the once proud side just two places off relegation. Several fans burst into the club's training complex early Monday and brandished a banner ...

LAHORE - The PPP leadership is analysing the factors which led to defeat of its candidate, Shabbir Leghari at the hands of late Farooq Legharis son in the recent by-election in DG Khan. The constituency-NA-172-falls in the home town of Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa, and for which the federal ...

KARACHI - Javed Inayat, Jahangir brothers Danyal and Aadil and Karachi's Waheed Baloch all made the cut at the end of the second round of the Grameen Bangladesh Masters now in progress at Kurmitola golf course in Dhaka, according to information received here Friday. Though lying far low on the ...

ISLAMABAD The Pakistani cricket team maintained its rich tradition of losing matches in its own style. The top order fell like ninepins in both the innings. Thanks to the marvellous performance of Umer Gul in the first innings, the team managed to avoid the follow-on. The bowlers, as in the past, ...

ROME (AFP) AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri was unconcerned by his teams 2-0 defeat in a pre-season friendly against second division Varese. Allegri fielded a team full of experienced and first-team regulars for the clubs first pre-season match on Sunday but Milan were beaten by two first half ...

ISLAMABAD - General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of the Army Staff, has said that Pakistan Army is well-equipped, highly motivated to defeat conventional and unconventional threats. In his address to officers of the Command and Staff College, Quetta on Tuesday, General Kayani emphasised the need for ...

LONDON (APP) - Britains first Muslim Minister Shahid Malik lost his Parliamentary seat in Dewsbury, north west England, following severe boundary changes. Maliks election agent Paul Moore in a statement said the boundary changes meant that 26 villages mainly Conservative leaning, being placed in ...

ROME (AFP) Inter Milan followed up their passage into the Champions League final with a 2-0 defeat of Lazio on Sunday as Jose Mourinhos side edged closer to a fifth successive Serie A title. With just two games left, Inter restored their two-point lead over Roma, who won 2-1 at Parma on Saturday, ...

MINGORA (Reuters) - Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears on the front-page of a newspaper identifying her as a would-be suicide bomber, still at large in the Swat Valley, a former Taliban bastion seized by the Pakistan ...

MELBOURNE Michael Clarkes first match as official Australian Twenty20 captain began with a win, but it only came after Pakistan - for the second time this summer - lost the unloseable match. After being bowled out for just 127, the hosts mediocre record looked set to continue when Kamran Akmal ...

LAHORE P&T Gymkhana failed to capitalize on world no.1 cricket umpire Aleem Dars brilliant 80 and suffered five wicket defeat at the hands of Apollo Club in the League Phase (Group-C) of Col. Fateh Sher Ali Khan Memorial Cricket Cup 2010 at Cricket Centre ground, Model Town C-Block today. The ...