OUR STAFF REPORTer SADIQABAD - The All Pakistan Clerks Association has warned the Punjab government to cancel membership of the PML-N MPA, who along with his aides allegedly beat up a junior clerk in Hafizabad on Monday for not doing an alleged illegal work, within 48 hours or face pen-down strike ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Assistant Commissioner Nabeela Irfan on Thursday during surprise visits fined and ordered registration of cases against two famous bakers of the city for not following food hygienic standards. As per detail, following a host of complaints from consumers, AC Nabeela Irfan suddenly ...

SADIQABAD - The district police officer has ordered departmental action against a sub-inspector for constructing his house by pilfering electricity for the last five months in Ilyas Colony here. In addition, the SIs sons thrashed their neighbour for exposing the secret of pilfering electricity. ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan are all set to face host Australia in the opening match of Lanco International Super Hockey Series today (Thursday) at Perth Hockey Stadium. Hockey Australia introduced the annual International Marquee Tournament inviting the best Commonwealth nations including Pakistan, India, ...

LAHORE The chairperson of the Punjab University Institute of Education and Researchs Masters in Technology Education programme has allegedly passed as many as 20 failed students by tampering their awards sheets. The award sheets were submitted by a visiting teacher, who had refused to change these ...

CASTLE ROCK , US (Agencies) - Former CIA contractor Raymond Davis who was freed by Pakistan after killing two men earlier this year may face felony charges for a weekend fight authorities said started over a parking spot. Raymond Davis, 36, appeared briefly before a magistrate judge in Douglas ...

KARACHI Immediate relief must be provided to millions of people hit by floods in Sindh or more lives will be lost of hunger, Oxfam has warned. Spokesperson of the international aid agency Oxfam, Dr Noreen Khalid, while talking to BBC, said number of flood afectees had now reached 8.9 million but ...

The worlds hairiest man has discovered his animal magnetism after being signed up to promote a dating agency. Yu Zhenhuan - declared the hairiest man on the plant by Guinness records bosses - was besieged by young nurses at the launch party for the agency in Hunan, southern China. Since deciding to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook and Twitter on Thursday will meet with riot-spooked British officials to discuss how social networks can play roles in keeping people safe during civil unrest. The focus of a lunchtime meeting with the British Home Secretary has shifted from the notion of blocking ...

Sports Desk KARACHI - The Pakistan and Indian cricket boards are facing a logistical headache scheduling their bilateral Test series next year in March-April as the Asia Cup tournament is clashing with the much anticipated series. According to a senior official of the Pakistan cricket Board, the ...

NYON (AFP) - Arsenal must overcome Serie A opposition in the shape of Udinese if Arsene Wenger's team are to make it to the Champions League group stages for the 14th successive season. The Gunners were pitted against the Italian side in the draw for the Champions league play-offs held at UEFA ...

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - An 80-year-old American woman who was enjoying a doughnut at her kitchen table was hit in the face by a stray arrow apparently shot by a neighbor honing his archery skills, police said on Wednesday. The woman, great-grandmother Margaret Shofner, calmly pulled the arrow out of ...

SIALKOT - Sialkot District Police Officer Bilal Sadiq Kamiyana has issued show cause notices to the station head officers who could not achieve their target of arresting proclaimed offenders during a month-long drive against criminals. During the special campaign against the criminals, the Sialkot ...

ISLAMABAD The Afghanistan exit strategy unveiled by the US President Obama last month is likely to fail largely because of the repositioning of remaining troops from one place to another within Afghanistan, sources said on Saturday. The sources said US troops drawdown plans to be finished by 2014 ...

WIMBLEDON (Agencies) - Maria Sharapova looked like a champion under the Centre Court roof at Wimbledon, advancing to the semi-finals at the All England Club for the first time since 2006 with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Dominika Cibulkova on Tuesday. Sharapova, the only Wimbledon champion remaining in the ...

FAISALABAD - A case has been registered against three traffic wardens on being absent from duty here on Friday. Senior Traffic Warden Ali Asghar in an application given to the Civil Lines Police said that three wardens Muhammad Arshad Javaid, Naveed Sultan and Muhammad Kashif despite of duty ...

ISLAMABAD Masses in the country at present are victim from both sides as they are suffering from the unscheduled and long hours power outages and at the same time are forced to pay double amount electricity bills as compared to previous years corresponding month. The Nation has reliably learnt ...

BELGRADE (AFP) - A judge ruled Friday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court. The ruling came amid pleas from Mladic's family that he was too ill to be transferred to ...

For many people, a camping trip is enough to get them sweating before theyve even put up a tent pole. But for these daredevil explorers, scaling cliffs and pitching tents at the height of more than 300 double decker buses. Hanging precariously in tents off a 4,000ft shear cliff face, these climbers ...

LAHORE - FIA can take action against the witnesses and employees of Allied Bank Limited (ABL) who have backed-out of their witness against Moonis Elahi in NICL case, said a senior FIA officer seeking anonymity on Thursday. The FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) on Wednesday failed once again to ...

Seagrasses around the world are disappearing, with some species now threatened with extinction. The first global survey of individual seagrass species has found that 14% are at risk of going extinct. More common species are also in decline, meaning both seagrass habitat and diversity is being ...

BASSETERRE (AFP) - Pakistan have declared their second innings at 377 for six and set 427 runs victory target to West Indies in the second Test on Monday. Taufeeq Umar (135) and Misbah-ul-Haq 102 not out lifted Pakistan total to 377. Earlier, Taufeeq Umar completed his fifth career hundred before ...

LAHORE - A women Twenty20 cricket match between Shiren Javed XI and Kinnaird College XI will be played on Friday (today) here at Kinnaird College ground to pay tribute to former Chairperson PCB Shiren Javed. Nausheen Hanif will be organiser of the event. The match will start at 1:30pm and prize ...

RAWALPINDI - Six armed dacoits riding bikes were free in looting and injuring several citizens in various localities of the city on Thursday while police, who are responsible to protect the lives and property of the people, miserably failed to do their prime duty. Interestingly, officials of police ...

MULTAN - Deputy Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Rao Zafar Iqbal said on Monday that merely swapping faces would make no difference and the people would have to replace existing entire political leadership with honest and God fearing leaders. Talking to the journalists here at local JI ...

KOLKATA (AFP) - The Indian state of West Bengal went to the polls Monday in a vote that looked set to end three decades of uninterrupted rule by the world's oldest democratically elected communist govt. The Left Front, led by the Communist Party of Indian (Marxist), or CPI-M had, until recently, ...

A TRAINEE accountant discovered an incr-edible image of royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton - on a jelly bean. Shocked Wesley Hosie, 25, spotted her perfectly-formed face while tucking into a 700g Jar from The Jelly Bean Factory with his girlfriend. Her long hair, strong facial features - and even ...

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q is considering taking punitive action against those party MPs who have allegedly disregarded the leaderships directives to stage walkout from the joint session of the Parliament. Source in the party told The Nation that the party leadership was strict to its decision for staging ...

LAHORE City District Government is all set to re-launch ticketing system for imposing fine on violation of food bylaws and that too on a larger scale to curb the menace of adulteration and improve revenue collection, sources informed TheNation on Thursday. Earlier, only District Officer Food was ...

LAHORE - The three-year rollercoaster relationship between the PPP and the PML-N appeared heading to an all-time low on Sunday when Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza, a close aide of President Zardari, threatened that no PML-N office in Sindh would be safe if the party of Mian Nawaz Sharif removed ...