OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Imran Khan included former caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mian Afzal Hayat and ex- Punjab Minister Hussain Jehanian Gardezi on Wednesday in his party and told the media that all 1,000 candidates the party planned to put up in the next elections would not be new faces. ...

LAHORE The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, which according to its supporters is becoming home to traditional political figures of the country, is about to welcome soon many more old faces from South Punjab, TheNation has learnt. Many of the PTI founding members and supporters, who want a change ...

Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, failed to stand down as a company director after being declared bankrupt, Telegraph reported Sunday. Tony Blairs sister-in-law, who has spoken about her shame and embarrassment of becoming insolvent, could face a criminal investigation into her ...

LAHORE Divisions have emerged among PTI ranks on the issue of inclusion of traditional politicians in the party. One group is opposing taking in the old faces while another is supporting their entry citing their electoral potential, The Nation has learnt. Many supporters of the PTI are raising the ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Czech Tomas Berdych outpowered top seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to take a 6-4 4-6 6-1 victory on Saturday and reach the final of the China Open. He will face Marin Cilic, who deployed his powerful serve to ease past fellow Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-4 6-3. In womens play, ...

RAWALPINDI - A baby with two faces was born here at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) on late Thursday night. The baby, whose weight is 3.2-kg, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for his ears, all of babys facial features ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers return to work next week after a month-long break, facing pitched battles over government spending, trade, and boosting the job-starved economy as the 2012 White House race heats up. Polarized politicians got bracingly bad news Friday as the US government reported ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Asma Mahfuz, an activist and blogger involved in the uprising earlier this year that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, will be tried by a military court for defamation, a judicial source said Tuesday. Mahfuz was questioned Sunday for "speaking inappropriately about the military council ...

QUETTA (INP) - Balochistan has been facing 16 to 18 hours of loadshedding in all the district headquarters. The electricity crisis in the province has been intensified as, according to sources in Qesco, only 450MW power against the demand of 1250MW is being provided to the province, leaving a ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER WARBURTON - The Headmasters Association asked the District Monitoring Officer Shakeel Ahmad Bhatti not to threaten Senior Headmaster Waqar Waheed of Govt High School Rehan Wala. Reportedly, Mr Waqar Waheed, who is former district education officer, had refused to appoint a ...

NOORPUR THAL - The Government Institute of Commerce (GIC) Noorpur Thal is facing a dearth of senior teaching staff. According to sources, two posts of BPS-18 senior instructors have been shifted from the institute. Now it has only one post of BPS-18. It is to be noted that all the government ...

RAJANPUR - The residents of Village Daajal, a suburban village situated 20-km west of Tehsil Jampur, have been facing shortage of drinking water and have been in dire need for the last 3 weeks. As per detail, the residents of Village daajal have been confronted severe shortage of drinking water ...

Our Staff Reporter KHAN GAHR - Call it apathy or indifference on party of the Multan Electricity Supply Company (Mepco) that it has failed to post Sub-Divisional rank officers (SDO) here in Khan Garh as the posts of SDOs have been lying vacant since long. The absence SDO rank officers has been ...

LAHORE King Edward Medical University Vice Chancellor has constituted an inquiry committee to look into a sexual harassment incident wherein Director Human Resource and KEMU PRO Dr Tabassum allegedly harassed a female student of Allied Health Sciences (Speech Therapy) couple of days ago, sources ...

One of the heaviest flying birds in the world is in danger of going extinct, conservationists are warning. Great Indian bustards stand a metre tall and weigh up to 15kg, yet as few as 250 may now survive. That is according to the latest edition of the IUCN Red List for Birds, which reports that the ...

LAHORE The emerging PPP-PML-Q alliance surely poses a serious challenge to the PML-N if not now than certainly for the next general elections when an IJI-like situation emerges against the Sharifs. Through this alliance, both parties have made a tangible effort aimed at damaging the PML-N, which ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The City, like various other parts of the country, received the rain on Sunday which provided the people the well sought-about respite from the hot weather. As the mercury level has decreased, the experts have predicted a wet spell to continue during the next couple of ...

ISLAMABAD - The cash-strapped Pakistan State Oil (PSO) management is seriously contemplating to encash the performance bond of M/S FAL Oil, which reportedly remained failed so far to sell cargoes of fuel oil to the company, TheNation learnt. M/S FAL Oil has caused a huge loss to the national ...

LAHORE-The recently sacked Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has alleged that Punjab is facing a default of over Rs 520 billions, while 96b had been wasted due to corruption out of total development budget of Rs193 billions. Addressing a news conference along with ex-PPP minister ...

SAN JOSE (Agencies) - Defending champion Fernando Verdasco will face unseeded Canadian Milos Raonic in final of the 600,000-dollar ATP SAP Open after defeating Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-4. Top seed Verdasco needed one hour and 36 minutes Saturday to beat del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion who ...

THE world is edging closer to overpopulation Armageddon as swelling cities drain the planet of its vital resources, a report warns Wednesday. Population growth, especially in newly developing countries, is the 'defining challenge of the 21st century. It represents a greater potential threat than ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has begun a second criminal investigation into the affairs of the previous government led by Yulia Tymoshenko, the prosecutor general said on Friday. Charges have not been drawn up yet but the investigation is determining those responsible, Viktor Pshonka told ...

MUCH acclaimed comedian Katt Williams is hogging the spotlight these days but not for reasons his fans would be very proud of. According to recent reports, the noted comedian has been slammed with a fine for supposedly instigating his dog to launch a vicious attack on the pet canine of a leading ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Army officer who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he believes President Barack Obama is not a legal citizen pleaded guilty Wednesday to disobeying orders. Lieutenant Colonel Terrance Lakin was found guilty at court-martial proceedings to charges he failed to follow a ...

LAHORE - The WikiLeaks cables have exposed the faces of opportunist politicians, while the revelations in the cables have deeply shocked the nation, says Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri, senior leader of PML-Q (Like-Minded Group). He expressed these views while addressing members of the Like-Minded at ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Technical problems are slowing down Irans uranium enrichment, allowing more time for diplomacy to defuse tensions over its nuclear program, a former official with the UN atomic watchdog said. It looks like that there might be still time for a negotiation, said Olli Heinonen, ...

A cricket tournament was held last week in this South Waziristan town for the first time in eight years - testament, the Pakistan army says, to its victory over Taliban militants who long used the area to stage spectacular attacks across the nation. But a few miles northeast, Pakistani soldiers ...

An official of a Pakistani civic organization fears Bosnia-like ethnic cleansing could take place Karachi, where over a thousand people have been killed in targeted political killings so far this year, according to a dispatch in The New York Times on Thursday. Amber Alibhai, the secretary general ...

The Prices of sacrificial animals for this Eid may go sky high, as people are witnessing their shortage in the city markets. Traders in very small number bring sacrificial animals in Rawalpindi markets from inner Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kacha area of Sindh and Balochistan. The residents of ...

KARACHI (Reuters) The Pakistani governments lack of credibility, both with its own citizens and donor agencies, has placed it in a double bind and hampered efforts to raise critically needed revenue. Pakistanis say the lack of clarity, transparency and accountability on where the government spends ...