QUETTA - Rejecting May 11 polls, majority of political parties in Balochistan have demanded fresh polls in the province, saying the establishment rigged elections to bring certain parties to power.The demand was made during an All Party Conference (APC) organised by JUI-Ideological at MPAs hostel ...

A great number of students, who have recently graduated or appeared in their MBA and BBA exams, thronged to attend the 8th Annual Job Fair, which was arranged by the Department of Management Sciences at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, on Wednesday.There were a total ...

KARACHI - The Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS, an extensive, ground-breaking study in the developing world, has come up with the clearest picture yet of the most common causes and impact of diarrheal diseases — the second leading killer of young children globally after pneumonia.The ...

LONDON  - British Prime Minister David Cameron is bracing for a fresh Conservative rebellion over Europe this week as about 100 of his party's lawmakers look set to defy him in a parliamentary vote.Tory divisions over Britain's membership of the European Union, never far below the surface, ...

quettaBalochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has rejected the election results of various polling stations, demanding recount of votes or fresh polls.Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference here, BNP-M Vice President Sajid Tareen, PB-5 candidate Akhter Hussain Langov, PB-4 candidate Ahmed ...

MOSUL (AFP): Fighting in northern Iraq killed nine police Friday, while a car bomb targeting worshippers near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad left nine dead, security and medical officials said. The fighting between police and armed men in west Mosul, including mortar rounds fired at checkpoints, ...

YANGON - Police in central Myanmar fired warning shots to disperse a crowd after a mosque and shops were attacked Tuesday, the president's spokesman said, in the latest religious unrest to hit the country.The fighting was sparked in the small town of Oakkan, around 100km north of Yangon, after a ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - In a bid to facilitate development of alternate sources of energy in the country, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has set Rs13.1998/kWh fresh upfront tariff for wind power generation for the delivery of electricity to the power purchaser.The ...

MAIDUGURI: An attack Thursday in restive northernNigeriawhere suspected militants stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. "Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been confirmed dead when some Boko Haram Terrorist ...

karachi - Britain would like to become largest investor and trading partner for Pakistan, presently its rank is second in respect of investment and trade. British government hopes the new elected government will bring immediate favourable federal and provincial structural economic reforms ...

Dhaka   - A truck driver died in a northern Bangladesh city on Tuesday as clashes erupted during a nationwide strike called by the opposition to protest against the arrests of their senior leaders. The unrest is the latest to hit Bangladesh stemming from an on-going war crimes tribunal at ...

ISLAMABAD - Army held Face Fresh in the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II 2012-13 Group B match at Army Cricket Ground on Friday. Face Fresh resumed their second innings at the overnight total of 144 for the loss of four wickets in 36 overs and they managed to score 191-4 in 51.1 overs before the ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s prosecution is probing complaints of “threatening public security” against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, who is already on bail facing charges of insulting the president and offending Islam. Judicial sources and Youssef said the public prosecutor ordered ...

Probable next US secretary of state John Kerry called for "fresh thinking" Thursday as he outlined his foreign policy agenda and plans for relations with Iran, China and the Middle East."American foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone," he told the Senate Foreign Relations ...

DAMASCUS  - A fresh outbreak of fierce fighting has gripped the strategic Syrian city of Homs, a watchdog said Tuesday, as Russia warned of a protracted civil war and helped its citizens flee the violence.A day after Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said a UN-backed peace mission has yet to ...

LAKKI MARWAT – The district health department confirmed on Saturday a fresh polio case in Mohallah Michenkhel, locality of Lakki, raising the number of cases to three in the last year’s data in the district.Muhammad Sadiq’s son Muhammad Shezad, an eleven months infant suffered ...

CAIRO - Egypt’s opposition launched fresh protests on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to scuttle a draft constitution pushed by President Mohamed Mursi and his Islamist backers ahead of a second round of voting.Hundreds of people had already begun gathering in Cairo by late afternoon ahead of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Terming the walkout staged by the MQM senators and demand of an army action in Karachi by the ANP legislators an attempt to hoodwink the masses, a PML-N senator said as the allied parties had failed to deliver, the government should announce a schedule for the next general elections if ...

KARACHI  –Thousands of medical graduates pass out each year but many of them end up going abroad instead of paying back to society due to lack of proper career guidance and opportunities. These views were expressed by doctors associated with Pakistan Islamic Medical Association ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s economic team led by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has reached Tokyo to attend annual meetings of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank wherein discussions regarding fresh loan programme from the Fund could start.The annual meeting of IMF-World Bank ...

BEIJING - Tens of thousands of anti-Japan demonstrators rallied across China over disputed islands on Tuesday, a key historical anniversary, as Tokyo said 11 Chinese government vessels had entered the area.The moves followed several days of protests, some of them violent, that have raised ...

MOSCOW - Russian authorities said Wednesday that a flash flood had killed four people in the southern Krasnodar region where 172 people drowned in rising waters last month, many trapped in their homes. “Four people have died,” a spokeswoman for the regional emergency situations ministry ...

ISLAMABAD - Fresh spate of cross-border hostility looms in the rural Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa following deadly skirmishes between security forces and unidentified armed men at the Afghan side of the border just months after Pakistan’s military claimed to have cleared the area.After months of ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, continuing his mass contact campaign, would visit Bhakkar and Chichawatni on April 12 and 13, respectively. He will also address a women’s convention in Sahiwal on April 13, in which a member of prominent political family from the area ...

LAHORE – The fresh supply of some vegetable items and fruits have started to ease their rates, but the unfortunate consumers could not got benefit of it, as the profiteers become hurdle in their way.Due to the stallholders’ unholy liaison with the Sunday bazaars administration, the ...

BRUSSELS  - Six major world powers and Iran are to hold fresh talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the EU has said. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday sent Iran an offer to restart key diplomatic talks between global powers and Tehran.“On behalf of China, France, ...

KHARTOUM  - Fresh fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed 12 government soldiers, according to a rebel statement received on Friday, but an official said 10 civilians were the victims. The Sudan Liberation Army faction of Minni Minawi said it attacked a government position at ...

MUZAFFARGARH - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar warned that if the parliament recommended the restoration of Nato supplies, millions of patriotic people would besiege the parliament house. He said that Pakistan is not only our home, it is the fortress of Islam, millions of ...

JOHANNESBURG  - Madonna announced she has teamed up with an American charity to build schools in Malawi, reviving a project she had earlier dropped due to financial mismanagement and lawsuits.“This remains a very big priority in my life and I am excited that with the help of buildOn we ...

DAMASCUS - The European Union prepared on Wednesday to tighten sanctions against Syria over its repression of anti-regime protests, as long-time Damascus ally Moscow warned against punitive measures.The move came as Syria accused Qatar of fuelling the crisis by financing and arming rebels, a day ...