ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), which rejected the commission set up by the government to probe Abbottabad incident, Saturday said that it appeared that the government was deliberately to conceal facts about the incident. Commenting on the notification issued by the Cabinet Division ...

LAHORE (PR) - In reference to the press conference held by Sheikh Haris Afzal, who is one of the main accused in Banks largest loan-fraud case of Haris Steel and its group concerns, The Bank of Punjab, (BoP) wishes to clarify: 1. Allegation against the officials of BoP or any other functionary ...

OKARA - JUI-F Punjab President Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi has demanded that the nation should be informed about the whole mystery surrounding the Mehran Base and Abottabad incidents which have shaken the confidence of the nation. He said it is a matter of great shame besides having been there a large ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Massive floods in Pakistan that killed up to 1,600 people also destroyed crops over an estimated area of more than 1.6 million acres (647,497 hectares), farmers and industry officials say. The government says exact damage to crops is yet to be assessed. More damage is expected ...

US Vice President Biden and his predecessor, Richard B. Cheney, engaged in a virtual debate Sunday that highlighted how little progress has been made over the past year -- and across consecutive administrations -- in resolving the central national security questions raised by the attacks of Sept. ...

NEW DELHI (APP) In a rebuttal to recently retired Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkars claims about success of Indias 1998 thermo-nuclear explosions, a former senior nuclear scientist K Santhanam said Kakodkars was ignoring facts and called him a liar. In an interview to a news channel on ...

K Santhanam, a retired DRDO scientist, on Monday accused former AEC chief Anil Kakodkar of ignoring facts about the yield of the nuclear tests done at Pokhran in May 1998, calling him a liar motivated by institutional loyalties. Figures dont lie, but liars will figure. He chose to ignore facts for ...

North Korea, which fired a long-range rocket Sunday, has for decades been developing missiles both for what it terms self-defence and as a lucrative export commodity. The hardline communist North said it was launching a communications satellite as part of a peaceful space programme, and the South ...

IT may be possible to "read" a person's memories just by looking at brain activity, according to research carried out by Wellcome Trust scientists. In a study published in the journal Current Biology , they show that our memories are recorded in regular patterns, a finding which challenges current ...

KARACHI - Law and order in the interior province and particularly in the constituency of Shaheed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is not as good as the Sindh Home department has vainly tried to portray by giving statements and statistics. Despite tall claims by the officials of the Home Department, ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan is determined to uncover the "full facts" behind the Mumbai attacks and needs India's cooperation for the trial of any suspects linked to the terror strikes. Zardari, during a meeting with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband at the ...

LAHORE - With Dengue fever spreading like an epidemic, the deadly disease has claimed two more deaths in the city brining the death toll to 14 so far. The patients breathed last early Wednesday morning are identified as Janat Bibi, 55, resident of Krishan Nagar, Sadi Road and Sheikh Ibrahim, 65, ...

"I may disclose on a suitable time the reason behind the confession I made about transferring the nuclear technology", said nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer arguing his move, "One man's confession was favouring the whole country at that time." In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Dr ...

S. Pervez Qaiser   Three left-handed batsmen have scored centuries while two right-handed batsmen made hundreds in first 47 matches in the Indian Premier League matches. Sohail Tanvir, the left arm medium fast bowler recorded the best bowling in this tournament as well as ...

LAHORE - For a while now, on various issues the PCB has remained under the cosh. But coming out to bat aggressively to defend the PCB, its director, media and public affairs, Mansoor Suhail in a meeting with this reporter rubbished the rumours. "There is a lot of misinformation being ...