LAHORE - Former Lahore City Cricket Association (LCCA) president Khawaja Nadeem Ahmed has called for forming a commission comprising former judges of apex court to award Pakistan cricket TV rights through a transparent bid. "It is imperative to constitute a commission to sell the rights at a ...

ISLAMABAD - Former coach Moshin Khan said Pakistan needed better planning to overcome their now long-standing batting problems. "Our batting has been hurting us badly and if we don't address it quickly our team will go down further at the international level," Mohsin said. "It is time we take ...

Karachi- Jamaat-e-Islami leader Liaquat Baloch has said the PPP-led previous government had to suffer a lot politically just because of its reconciliation policy towards the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He called the MQM a fascist group which according to him is often used by the establishment as per ...

RAWALPINDI : President Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Manzar Khurshid Sheikh has said that current energy mix must be addressed in the upcoming budget and need to reverse it on emergency basis. “1.9m people are paying tax in the country out of 180m population, solid step ...

KARACHI : Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Acting Ameer Barjees Ahmed has expressed serious concerns over the recent attack and violence against Dr Aafia Siddiqui.  He demanded the new government to ensure safe release and return of the daughter of the nation from the US jail.He strongly condemned ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim has congratulated Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on his election as the leader of the House. Speaking on the floor of the House after losing the election to Nawaz Sharif, he said his party will extend full cooperation to the new ...

LAHORE - The central Shoora of the Jamaat-e-Islami has called upon the Election Commission to nullify the polling held in Karachi, Hyderabad and Fata on May 11 because of the irrefutable evidence of rigging and announce fresh elections there. The JI Shoora, in a resolution adopted at its meeting ...

GENEVA - The international community must impose a moratorium on robot weapons which can make their own decision to kill, a UN expert told the world body’s top human rights forum Thursday, warning that they could enable war crimes to go unpunished.“Human rights require that human beings ...

BAHAWALPURThe Young Doctors Association (YDA) has demanded that the Punjab government should exempt the hospitals from loadshedding which has added to the hardships of patients.YDA leaders Dr Zulqarnain, Dr Aamir Majeed, Dr Afzal Randhawa and Dr Wasim Akhtar made­ the demand while talking to ...

GUJRANWALAScores of people including the relatives of three person injured by the firing of Kassoki Police staged a protest in front of RPO office, denouncing the alleged "police shootout" and demanded action against the police officers involved in the incident, on Saturday.As per detail, the ...

MIRPUR (AJK)Branding the PPP-led AJK government a product of ‘massively rigged’ 2011 elections, the PML-N AJK’s main opposition party has demanded immediately holding of general elections in the territory.Talking to media, AJK Legislative Assembly opposition leader and former AJK ...

MIRPUR (AJK)-Branding the PPP-led AJK government a product of ‘massively rigged’ 2011 elections, the PML-N AJK’s main opposition party has demanded immediately holding of general elections in the territory.Talking to media, AJK Legislative Assembly opposition leader and former AJK ...

United NationReaffirming its support to the Palestinian cause, Pakistan has asked Israel to cease all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian territories so as to promote peace in the Middle East."Settlement activity must stop, Palestinian detainees must be released, religious freedom should be ...

ISLAMABAD Central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Jahangir Khan Tareen, has accused a few returning officers of favouring certain candidates to change the election results and urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold recounting of votes in 25 constituencies of the National ...

JhangScores of supporters and voters of Muttahida Deeni Mahaz (MDM) defeated candidate Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi who lost election on NA-89 and PP-78 Jhang, took out a huge rally against the what they called "worst rigging" in May 11 general elections. It is to be noted that Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi ...

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Railways has demanded Rs 67 billion from the Finance Ministry to meet with non-development expenditures during 2013-14 fiscal year.“We have finalized the non-development budget of official expenditures, salaries, pensions and other heads and sent the same to the ...

  london British member of Parliament George Galloway, in a series of parliamentary questions and a parliamentary motion, has asked the British Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to remove MQM leader Altaf Hussain's British citizenship. Hussain is currently living inLondonafter successfully ...

karachiJamaat-e-Islami candidates for National Assembly and Provincial Assembly have sent their written complaint to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Fakruddin G Ibrahim against the alleged rigging, manipulation and capturing of polling stations, kicking out the polling agents at gun-point ...

MIRPUR (AJK) The AJK Police Welfare Association (AJKPWA) has demanded immediate allocation of jobs quota for the children of retired Kashmiri refugees to eliminate sense of deprivation and discrimination among them.Central Senior Vice President of the AJK Police Welfare Association DSP (r) Raja ...

JHANGA protest rally was taken out by defeated candidate of Muttahida Deeni Mahaz (MDM) Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi who contested election from NA-89 and PP-78 and lost to PML-N candidates - Sheikh Muhammad Akram and Begum Rashida Yaqoob. The rally which was participated by hundreds of people started ...

karachi Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct thorough investigation into massive rigging in elections. Addressing a reception in honour of newly-elected MNAs and MPAs from Sindh through video link at Bilawal ...

ATTOCKBesides pointing out different irregularities in the polling process, the PTI candidate has demanded the re-counting in all the polling stations of NA-57, especially ascertain the authenticity of the signatures of the polling agents.Former State Minister and PTI candidate for NA-57 Attock ...

KARACHI The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct re-polling in the entire constituency of NA-250 instead of its 42 polling stations.Addressing a news conference here Monday, MQM candidate Khushbakht Shujaat said the ECP failed to monitor properly the ...

LAHORE - PTI Chairman Imran Khan has demanded recounting at 25 seats of the National Assembly, while two of the party candidates from provincial capital.Imran Khan on Monday, alleging the PTI opponents for carrying out rigging in the general elections, demanded recounting at 25 NA seats. He said ...

KARACHI The Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen on Sunday demanded re-polling in Karachi’s three seats of National Assemblies (NA-252, 253 & NA-257) and five Sindh Assembly seats (PS-117, 118, 126, 127, & 128). In a statement, MWM central deputy general secretary Allama Amin Shaheedi accused ...

quettaBalochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has rejected the election results of various polling stations, demanding recount of votes or fresh polls.Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference here, BNP-M Vice President Sajid Tareen, PB-5 candidate Akhter Hussain Langov, PB-4 candidate Ahmed ...

PESHAWAR  - The Frontier Printers and Publishers Association (FPPA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has rejected the allegations of printing fake ballot papers and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court to probe the matter.Speaking at a news conference here at press club on Tuesday, ...

KARACHI -The PML-F has demanded the caretaker government to deploy Army personnel at polling stations, ensuring peace during the electoral process on May 11.PML-F candidate for PS-113 and PS-114, Sardar Abdul Rahim said this while addressing a news conference here at the Press Club Monday. He ...

ISLAMABAD  - Demanding the removal of KPK and Balochistan governors, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUI-F) spokesman Jan Achakzai, on Wednesday said that pre-poll rigging was being made in FATA and Balochistan."Both the Governors should be replaced as soon as possible to ensure security so that ...

PESHAWAR  - Expressing grave concern over the massive usage of funds in election campaign, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Khyber Agency leader has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of the alleged pre-poll rigging in constituency NA-45 and NA-46 of tribal ...