LONDON : Brent crude tumbled towards $102 per barrel after the US, nearly doubled the estimate of its shale oil reserves, while prospects of a slowdown in Chinese demand sapped prices. US oil production has soared as new drilling techniques have unlocked shale deposits countrywide. The Energy ...

PESHAWAR - Scores of Certificate Training (CT) and Primary Teaching Certificate (PTC) qualified candidates hailing from Peshawar on Monday held a protest demonstration here at the Main Sher Shah Suri Road outside press club.The protestors demanded the KPK chief minister and authorities concerned in ...

Peshawar - The elders of Utmanzai and Ahmadzai tribes from North Waziristan Agency have demanded the government to end the US drone strikes in Fata and sort out a peaceful solution to the turbulent situations via holding negotiation with Taliban.Addressing a news conference here at press club on ...

PESHAWAR -The tribesmen on Saturday said that reforms process could only be viable to constitute an independent and sovereign Fata Council, as past practices were proved intangible in this regard.They regretted that efforts for bringing Fata into mainstream were remained unproductive due to lack of ...

QUETTA - Rejecting May 11 polls, majority of political parties in Balochistan have demanded fresh polls in the province, saying the establishment rigged elections to bring certain parties to power.The demand was made during an All Party Conference (APC) organised by JUI-Ideological at MPAs hostel ...

PESHAWAR  - Collector Customs Peshawar Zulfiqar A Kazmi has agreed in principle with demand of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KPCCI) of allowing rebateable export from Ghulam Khan check post in Bannu. In this regard, Collector Custom has also held out assurance of sending ...

MARDAN  - Majority of the Awami National Party (ANP) workers of Mardan have rejected the inquiry committee constituted by the party leadership to search the reasons of defeat in recent elections. They demanded immediate resignation of all office-bearers for their failure in the elections ...

ISLAMABAD - Students and their parents have demanded summer vacation be announced from June 1 in the educational institutions in the federal capital as a precautions against heat-related ailments . The scorching heat has become unbearable for the school going children as dozens of cases of fainting ...

lahoreThe Ministry of Water & Power, LESCO officials and political representatives have manipulated their inclusion on LESCO Board throwing out genuine representatives of trade and industry, as a cursory glance of the new board will reveal that cronyism, political affiliation and retired ...

HAFIZABADShopkeepers of Gujranwala Road, Jalalpur Road, Fawara Chowk, Post Office Road, Alipur Road, Rail Bazar and Vanike Road have called upon the Market Committee Administrator and DCO to immediately relocate both the grain markets from the congested areas of the city to resolve traffic problem ...

FAISALABADPakistan will have to feed more than 200 million people in 2015 and wheat demand by the time is expected to go up to 29.06 million tonnes.This was stated by University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad while addressing a reception held here in honour of newly ...

FAISALABAD - Pakistan will have to feed more than 200 million people in 2015 and wheat demand by the time is expected to go up to 29.06 million tonnes.This was stated by University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) VC Dr Iqrar Ahmad while addressing a reception held here in honour of newly elected ...

LAHORE  - Electricity shortfall on Saturday touched around 6500MW. The generation is hovering around 10000MW and the demand has crossed 16000MW all over the country. Power plants have no fuel and major share of the generation in energy basket is coming from hydel sources. The Lesco’s ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to crank up pressure on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad Thursday, but offered no concrete new measures to do so.Obama warned there was no “magic formula” to force Assad to leave power, ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/SADIQABAD/SIALKOT/TT SINGHPTI candidates were defeated as a result of rigging in elections, alleged PTI's defeated candidates in NA-93, PP-86, PP-87, PP-90 and PP-296 Muhammad Ashfaq, Saeed Akbar, Khawar Gadhi and Saeed Ahmad Saeedi, Shaukat Dawood respectively.In Toba Tek Singh, PTI ...

LAHORE (PR): Thousands WAPDA Workers took out a large procession under the aegis of" ALL PAKISTAN Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (Regd) from Bakhtiar Labour Hall led by Trade Union leader Khurshid Ahmed accompanied by Rana Abdul Shakoor, Malik Ehsanullah, Zajiod Kazmi, Rana Muhammad Akram, ...

PESHAWARRejecting the election results of NA-46 Khyber Agency, a group of aspirants belonging to different political parties and independent candidates from the constituency, has demanded re-election under the Army supervision, and deployment of impartial polling staff from any other ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - Despite reasonable cut in fuel prices with the start of May, transporters are still overcharging passengers, while the concerned authorities are ostensibly reluctant to stop the violation and commuters are demanding transport authority revise fares in line with ...

GOSHTAAfghan border police, enraged by recent clashes with their Pakistani counterparts, are pleading for more weapons, escalating the tension between the two sides.The fighting, in which an Afghan border policeman was killed last week, has caused a sharp deterioration in relations between the ...

WASHINGTON : Senators alarmed by a jump in sex crimes in the US military called on Wednesday for a cultural overhaul of the Air Force and a lawmaker exposed a web page used by Marines that she said depicted a "culture of misogyny and sexual harassment.""I'm just fed up with this sexual assault ...

TRIPOLI Gunmen in Libya’s Tripoli kept up their siege of ministries on Monday despite the adoption of a law to purge Gaddafi-era officials from their posts, with some demanding the government’s resignation. Different groups at the justice and foreign ministries, however, failed to reach ...

DHAKA - Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down an Islamist television station on Monday after 37 people died in some of the fiercest street violence for decades.Hundreds more people were reported injured in running battles as riot police ...

lahore -  Widening energy demand-supply gap is posing a major challenge to Pakistan economic health, which is estimated to have curtailed GDP growth by 200bps in last few years, financial experts said.After a brief tilt toward expensive imported oil in FY11 though the reliance on indigenous ...

ISLAMABAD (APP):  The Ministry of Railways would demand around Rs 75 billion budget for next fiscal 2013-14 to meet its expenditures. “We are in the process of finalizing a draft for the demand for grant.  This demand would later be forwarded to the Finance Division during next ...

PESHAWAR  - Speakers at a seminar have demanded the caretaker government and Election Commission of Pakistan to take steps to ensure holding of free, fair, and transparent elections in a peaceful atmosphere.The seminar titled "Peaceful, transparent Election and Steps for Resolution of Problems ...

lahore - salman abduhu - The water sector experts and well-known engineers of the country Saturday unanimously advocated early construction of Kalabagh Dam, saying that Pakistan’s economy has been facing a loss of Rs132 billion annually due to inordinate delay in execution of the ...

ISLAMABADOne year on, the affectees of Bhoja Air crash are still demanding an independent inquiry so that those who were responsible for the deaths of their loved ones should be brought to justice.The relatives of the victims gathered here on Saturday to observe the first anniversary of the tragedy ...

KARACHI - Speakers at the 3rd annual convention of home-based women workers federation (HBWWF) demanded the government to declare status of 10 million informal workers equal to those of formal sector.The convention held at PMA House, was attended by women workers from different parts of the ...

RIYADH (AFP) - The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday called for international inspectors to be sent to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant over concerns of possible radiation leaks after an earthquake hit the area.The body demanded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “send a ...

LONDON (AFP) - Brent crude oil sank this week to an eight-month low, hit by the poor outlook after a raft of demand forecast downgrades and in line with the stronger dollar, analysts said.Precious metal gold meanwhile dived under $1,500 per ounce, reaching the lowest level since July 2011 on the ...