JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis presided over his first Good Friday which will culminate in a torch-lit procession at Rome’s Colosseum and prayers for peace in a Middle East “torn apart by injustice and conflicts”.The new pontiff attended a recital of the Passion of Christ - the story ...

LAHORE - On the back of a lower than expected 50bps discount rate cut by SBP last Friday, sentiment at the local bourse remained subdued this week. The KSE-100 closed the week at the 15,694 level, down 0.4 per cent WoW while average daily volumes dropped to 117m shares, down 12.7 per cent WoW. On ...

We’ve got guided missiles and misguided leadership. It is Friday September 21, 2012. Pakistan is burning. There’s mayhem on the roads of major cities. The air is polluted with tear gas and punctuated with the rat-a-tat of gunfire. Enraged crowds are running amok, smashing windows, ...

The session of the National Assembly will be summoned on Friday for the election of the new Prime Minister.This was stated by Senior PPP leader Khurshid Shah while talking to the newsmen here in Islamabad on Wednesday. He said nomination papers for the election of the prime minister will be ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has finalised the schedule of its protest movement against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani which begins from May 4 with a rally in Taxila. PML-N will speed up its campaign after detailed verdict of the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case. According to a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave another opportunity to FIA to arrest Khurram Rasool, former media coordinator to the PM, and others by Friday.Warning Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials of serious consequences, the court told them to ensure the arrests as names of some ...

APIA, Samoa- Samoans celebrated in the streets at midnight Thursday when, with a song, a prayer and the ringing of bells, they wiped Friday off the calendar this week in a historic leap across the dateline.The midnight switch from Thursday, December 29 to Saturday, December 31 brought the Pacific ...

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet that was scheduled to meet today (Wednesday) would now convene on Friday. The federal cabinet meeting has been rescheduled for Friday (27th July) to discuss 10-point agenda and other important matters happened in near past, sources in Cabinet Division told TheNation. ...

ISLAMABAD The National Economic Council (NEC) would meet on Friday in order to finalise the economic targets and developmental budget for the coming fiscal year, which were proposed by the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) last Friday. NEC headed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would ...

KARACHI - Sunni Rehbar Council (SRC) President Mufti Muneebur Rehman on Tuesday announced to observe a shutter-down and wheel-jam strike on Friday (Jan 1) against the suicide attack on the main Muharram procession on MA Jinnah Road. He announced the strike call while addressing a Press Conference ...

LAHORE - The board of directors of HBL will meet on Friday to announce it full year 2008 results. Financial market experts believe that HBL to post earnings of Rs10.9bn (EPS of Rs14.3) in 2008 versus earnings of Rs8.0bn (diluted EPS of Rs10.6) last year - a substantial growth of 35%YoY. The sharp ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Ninety thousand Muslims attended the first Friday prayers of Ramazan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City amid tight security, police said. Thousands of policemen were deployed and no incident was reported in the Holy City, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld ...