SIALKOTMs Sharon Hamilton Getz, Chairperson of USA’s International Social Development Institute for Education Development, visited the 148 years old Iqbal Manzil (the birthplace of Poet of the East Allama Iqbal) in here. She paid rich tributes to Allama Iqbal for his marvelous services ...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - The United States should offer Pakistan a conditions-based civilian nuclear deal as a way to save the relationship, severely tested during the last decade, as well as secure long-term interests with regard to containing militancy and atomic safety, an American analyst on ...

LAHORE – Famous researcher and Director of ‘Bazm-e-Iqbal’, Professor Muhammad Hanif Shahid during his address at the Aiwan-i-karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan at a inter-schools speech competition in connection with “lqbal Day Celebrations” on Wednesday, said that we need ...

ISLAMABAD - Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Washington DC, Alex Vatanka who is also a lecturer at the US Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field has said that the strained relationship between the US and Islamic Republic of Iran is likely to continue in the foreseeable ...

KARACHI – The British Independent South Asia Political Risk Analyst & Consultant Jennifer Harbison has apprised that she frequently visits Pakistan to have an insight on political and economic affairs during visit to Karachi Chamber of Commerce.She informed that it was an information ...

KARACHI - A senior physician and an infection control expert has appealed to the people to dedicate sites and ensure collective slaughtering of animals during Eid ul Azha so as to confine the blood of sacrificial animals vis a vis prevent series of ailments.“We need to develop a healthy ...

A senior bomb disposal officer was killed on Friday as he attempted to defuse a device in Peshawar, police said.Bomb squad veteran Hukam Khan, aged in his late 50s, successfully defused one device but was killed when a second one exploded as he tried to make it safe. Three police officers were ...

LAHORE – Dr Farid A Malik, the ex-chairman of Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), has advocated the use of standard and commercially feasible technology to consume the world’s single largest reserves at Thar for the benefit of the country, instead of the underground coal gasification ...

FAISALABAD - Dispelling the impression that only clean water is suitable for dengue mosquito, a scientist said that it lays eggs on every type of stagnant water accumulated for six days.Entomologist Dr Anjum Sohail, Chairman, Department of Entomology, UAF was addressing an awareness seminar on ...

WASHINGTON - A noted South Asia defence analyst who spent six years in Pakistan as Australia's military attache has condemned as "unpardonable" Nato's attack on border posts in Mohmand in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed. "The US assault is unpardonable," wrote Cloughley in CounterPunch, a ...

The nuclear information director of Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Hans M Kristensen, has sought to settle the debate on India and Pakistans nuclear arsenal by declaring that Pakistan doesnt only have more warheads and fissile material but also better delivery systems for such weapons, ...

BEIJING (Agencies) With the US and India raising concerns over the Sino-Pak nuclear agreement, a top Chinese expert on Monday said double standards should not be applied to the routine cooperation, given that Washington has a similar but much larger deal with India, reports Zee News. Fu Xiaoqiang, ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The use of sweet betelnut (Chalia) manufactured with hazardous chemicals, results growing cancers, especially mouth cancers, and now such cancers are also found in kids which is an alarming development, said former Director of National Child Health Institute (NICH) and President ...

WASHINGTON - Yusuf Buch, a former Pakistan Ambassador and a legendary Kashmiri voice, was honoured by the Kashmiri-American Council at an impressive ceremony for his life of courage, conviction and unwavering commitment to the rights of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir. Buch, 85, is an ...

NEW YORK - A top American expert has urged US politicians to stop talking about securing Pakistani nuclear weapons by force and instead pursue a consistent policy toward Pakistan that also ends double standards vis-a-vis India. The remarks by Bruce Riedel, a chief architect of Obama admins policy ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Commissioner Indus Water Treaty (IWT) Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said on Saturday that Pakistan would approach the World Bank for the appointment of a neutral expert over the Kishanganga hydropower project being built by India in occupied Kashmir. Talking to PTV, he said, differences ...

KARACHI (APP) - The nature has the solution to the water crisis, says an IUCN statement issued here. 'Governments have to realise that nature has a vital role to play in giving people clean drinking water, food and livelihoods, said Julia Marton-Lefhvre, Director General of IUCN. 'We don't want an ...

KARACHI - Renowned surgeon Prof Adibul Hassan Rizvi has said the organ trade was on the rise in various parts of the country despite the government ban on this inhuman practice. "Some religious people have moved to the Shariat Court against the organ trade bill claiming that it is contradictory to ...

KARACHI - Chief Executive Officer, eSolar Company of United States, Asif Ansari has underlined the need for due exploitation of Pakistan's big potential of solar energy. "Pakistan having mostly sunny days is an ideal of solar energy," he remarked during his presentation on solar energy as viable ...

WASHINGTON - Asserting that parts of Pakistan have become ungovernable and a menace to international security, a US foreign policy expert has called for establishing an international force to work with the Pakistanis to root out terrorist camps in Kashmir as well as in the Tribal Areas. At the same ...

KARACHI - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai which claimed more than 190 lives in the port City of India seems to be a result of big conspiracy hatched by those elements inside India who have multipurpose benefits, analysed Dr Mutahir Ahmed, professor of department of International Relations of Karachi ...

UNITED NATIONS - US military tribunals slated for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are not likely to meet international fairness standards, a U.N. expert has warned. Martin Scheinin, an independent U.N. expert monitoring the promotion and protection of human rights in the ...

ATHENS (AFP) - Over a dozen Greek athletes who failed doping tests prior to and during last month's Beijing Olympics thought a rare anabolic steroid would help them elude tests, a leading anti-doping expert said Monday. But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been on the lookout for ...

BERLIN  - Next year will mark the end of the economic recovery in Germany, the head of the Cologne Institute for Business Research said, in comments to appear in a German newspaper Sunday. "The creation of work which has allowed the fall in unemployment for nearly two million people since ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Mobilization of political will at top level was imperative for achieving sustainable economic growth of Pakistan, Kevin Murphy, President and Chief Executive Officer of J E Austom said. Speaking at a seminar on "Creating value together" was jointly organized by United States ...