Tehreek Minhajul-Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said his organization is preparing 10 million workers to lead a revolution in the country.“We are also working on the document of a new state system,” Tahirul Qadri stated while addressing the workers convention in Lahore.He said everyone is ...

NORWICH, UK: Police had to be called in to separate rival Star Wars and Dr Who fans at a sci-fi convention in Norwich. Trouble flared at the fourth Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia, organised by the Norwich Star Wars Club. Police were called after members of the ...

ISLAMABADPakistan’s pride squash champion Aamir Atlas Khan met Dr Waqar on Monday for medical check up and sought his advice regarding participation in the trial matches for the selection of Pakistan team for the World Team Squash Championship. Talking exclusively to The Nation on Monday, ...

    UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned in “the strongest terms” the killing of a Pakistani peacekeeper serving the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A statement issued late Tuesday by the Secretary-General’s Spokesman Martin ...

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s doctor, Dr Faisal Sultan has said Imran will not be allowed to cast his vote in Mianwali due to his health.While speaking to the media, Dr Sultan said it was not possible to discharge Imran Khan from the hospital before Election Day. Dr ...

SIALKOTThe massive participation of the masses in PTI Chairman Imran Khan public meeting held at Jinnah Stadium here on Monday has proved that the “winds of political change” have started blowing and Sialkot might witness a big political upset, especially in National Assembly ...

MQM Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar has said that a conspiracy was being hatched to keep his party out of the election race.Addressing a gathering of traders and industrialists here on Saturday, he said that the coming election was being turned into selection."A new model will be devised to ...

LAHORE - Sargodha University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Akram Chaudhry has said that the poetry and thoughts of Allama Iqbal are derived from the Holy Quran and the reference of various Quran’s verses and Hadiths are found in his poetry. He was addressing a special lecture organised by PU ...

Lahore - Dr Ghazanfar Mehdi, a candidate for general elections 2013, has announced to contest elections from NA-40.  Dr Mehdi also presented his manifesto comprising seven major salient features. He said that he was going to take part in active politics to save the country and its people from ...

NEW YORKASKaty Perry has reunited with mega record producer Dr Luke for her follow-up to her 2010 album “Teenage Dream”.The 28-year-old entertainer revealed this during her appearance at the ASCAP I Create Music Expo, adding that she’s halfway finished with her forthcoming new ...

LAHORE - Veteran politician Dr Mubashir Hasan has apologised to Anwar Majid, a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, for the allegations he had levelled on him. Taking back all the allegations over Majid’s sugar mills, Dr Mubashir has also withdrawn his petition filed in the Supreme ...

KARACHI - Pasban has urged all political parties to withdraw their candidates from NA-250 Karachi to support Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Pakistani mother Dr Aafia Siddiqui, presently languishing in a US prison. Pasban Pakistan president Altaf Shakoor said the Pakistani woman scientist Dr ...

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court has issued notices to Dr Mubashar Hassan and other parties to NRO on intra court appeal filed by former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani against his disqualification.The notices have been served to seek the arguments from parties concerned on the maintainability of ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Pakistan Chairman Dr Abdul Qadir Khan phoned Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP) Chairman Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi and exchanged views on prevailing political situation and upcoming elections.Both leaders agreed to meet in the near future. Meanwhile, BNAP ...

KARACHI (Agencies) – Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui has said that she has filed papers on NA-250 Karachi to contest polls against Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.Talking to media, Dr Fauzia said by challenging dictator Musharraf she is reviving the tradition of mother of the ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Pakistan Chairman Dr Abdul Qadir Khan phoned Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP) Chairman Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi and exchanged views on prevailing political situation and upcoming elections.Both leaders agreed to meet in the near future. Meanwhile, BNAP ...

WASHINGTON - Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark on Friday visited Fort Worth, Texas, to show support for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, who is incarcerated at Federal Medical Center Carswell, according to a media report.Clark, attorney general from 1966 to 1969, was joined by a ...

UNITED NATIONS  - The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved the first-ever ‘offensive’ UN peacekeeping brigade to battle rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo.A council resolution gave the force of more than 2,500 troops orders to “neutralize” ...

ISLAMABAD  - Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) “ISESCO Women in Science Chair” has been awarded to Dr. Bushra Mirza, Professor and Chairperson of Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Dr. Bushra did her Ph.D from University ...

KARACHI  - Dr Mohammad Ali Shaikh, Vice Chancellor of Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU), who had also additional charge of Principal Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET), has relinquished his charge as principal.He wrote to the Sindh chief secretary on March 9 that the ...

LAHORE - Former member Punjab Assembly Dr Asma Mamdot called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at Model Town on Sunday and announced to join the PML-N expressing confidence in the party leadership.     Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Mamdot said she will work as a party ...

ISLAMABAD  - Adviser to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain has served Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha, Chairman Supreme Council APCNGA, with a legal notice demanding one billion rupees as compensation for his views that he said appeared in press, criticising policies and massive ...

LAHORE – Renowned columnist, poet and educationist Dr Hassan Rizvi's 11th death anniversary was observed on Friday. Dua was held after the Friday prayer at his residence. Later, literary organisations, his family members and friends visited his grave and paid tribute to Dr Rizvi, said a press ...

PESHAWAR - Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-ePakistan, a newly emerged political party, has decided to field it candidates for the provincial and national assemblies seats in the upcoming general elections. The Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan (movement for protection of Pakistan), founded by renowned nuclear ...

LAHORE: Dr Waseem Anwar, Dean of Humanities and Professor of English at Forman Christian College, Lahore presented his papers at the 128th Modern Language Association (MLA) and the 13th South Asian Literary Association (SALA) annual conferences in Boston, USA, according to a press release. At SALA, ...

ISLAMABAD - Prof. Dr. Rai Niaz Ahmad has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR).Dr. Rai Niaz Ahmad carries a remarkable academic career throughout his education. He got Doctorate degree in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State ...

Dr Tahirul Qadri - Islamic scholar, Professor of Law, founder of the socio-religious organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran and ‘citizen of two worlds’ - Pakistan and Canada -  has returned  after years and taken, if not Pakistan, at least Islamabad by storm. He has arrived, like a deus ...

LAHORE – Prof Dr Balqees Ftima, a renowned gynaecologist and former Fatima Jinnah Medical College Principal passed away on Tuesday. Her prayers will be offered at 29-Mason Road after Zuhr prayers. Dr Fatima was mother of Dr Moeed Ahmad Khan.

FAISALABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Secretary General Liaquat Baloch said on Sunday that Dr Tahirul Qadri’s ‘drama’ of forming the technocrats’ government for three years in the name of accountability had flopped due to unity among the opposition democratic ...

The Islamabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition of two directors general of Higher Education Commission (HEC) against the possible reappointment of Dr Sohail Naqvi as executive director of the commission.A single-member bench of IHC comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi resumed the ...