ISLAMABAD SBP Governor Yaseen Anwar on Thursday gave away the 5th PCP Corporate Philanthropy Awards to companies that are actively engaged in contributing to social development in the country. The award distribution ceremony was organised by Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) at a local hotel, ...

KARACHI - Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has provided artificial limbs to more than 2,500 limbless people free of cost. Dow University Artificial Limb (DUAL) Centre is well equipped with all the required machines and material so as to fabricate light weight artificial limbs, almost free ...

Political demonstration campaigns initiated by different political parties have given a boost to the advertising business and people related to it. These days protest demonstrations are on peak by different parties against the government and all these parties are using banners, Pena flex and other ...

LAHORE Member National Assembly (MNA) and PPP leader Yasmeen Rahman on Tuesday disclosed that a driver at the State Bank of Pakistan was getting Rs 91,000 salary per month. The MNA stated this while speaking at a TV talk show on Tuesday night. She also said that such huge amount of salary for a ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to adopt resolution 2011, which gave one-year extension to the US-led 130,000 international force deployed to quell insurgencies in Afghanistan. The resolution welcomed the agreement between Afghanistan and troop-contributing ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US dollars 17.6 million for urgent help to over five million of the vulnerable families affected by the Pakistans floods, a UN spokesman said on Thursday. The UN has stepped into sustain the humanitarian operations in view ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT A woman gave birth to three sons at a private hospital here in the city on Saturday. According to the doctors, 30-year-old mother Asifa Jamshaid, a resident of Behlool-Kotli Loharaan Village, and her newborn babies are healthy. The babies grandmother Sakeena Bibi ...

ISLAMABAD - Central leaders of Pakistan Muslim League (Likeminded) Hamid Nasir Chattha, Senator Salim Saifullah Khan, Humayun Akhtar Khan and Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri announced Rs 1 million for the flood victims of Sindh here on Saturday. Chairman of the party Hamid Nasir Chattha while expressing ...

QUETTA (APP) - US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Wednesday announced Rs 8.6 million for the construction of two houses in the SoS village in Quetta. SoS Chairperson Roshan Khurshid Barocha and Executive member SoS village Brigadier (r) Abdul Razaq accorded warm welcome to the US ...

LAHORE Huawei Technologies signed a contract with UET, Lahore on 29th July, 2011 (Friday), says a press release. Under this contract Huawei granted UET Lahore the Authorized Learning Partner status for Datacom Networking Training and Certification. Huawei under this contract is providing its ...

Supreme Court gives one day deadline for the restoration of Suhail Ahmed as Secretary Establishment. Hearing in the Hajj corruption case continued in the 5-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. DG FIA Tehsin Anwar finally appeared in the court. He informed the court ...

NEW YORK A cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier found in the unilateral U.S. raid in Abbottabad last month that killed the al-Qaeda leader contained contacts to a militant group that allegedly has ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency, The New York Times reported Friday. Citing unnamed ...

RAWALPINDI (Online) - A woman from Hazro, Nahid, 28, on Thursday gave birth to four babies, three boys, one girl at the Holy Family Hospital to the joy of the family and the Gynaecology, Obstetrics Ward. According to Dr Nasira, incharge of the gynae ward, there was a slight complication in the ...

MIANWALI - A woman has given birth to four children (quadruplet) here at Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Hospital in Chashma near here the other day. The father of the newly born kids has called it divine blessings. According to detail, a lady was admitted to the Pakistan Atomic Energy ...

LAHORE Newly-appointed DIG Operations Ghulam Mehmood Dogar has directed the divisional SPs to ensure better situation of law and order in the City. Supervising a meeting at his office here on Saturday, he has given them 15 days with strict directions to hunt all the proclaimed offenders A&B ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani hopes of reviving international cricket rose after successfully hosting a one-day series against Afghanistan, but experts on Monday warned against any imminent breakthrough. Pakistan's second string whitewashed Afghanistan -- the first international team to tour since the ...

QUETTA Young doctors continued their strike in all the state-run hospitals of the province on Saturday, mounting up pressure on the government to press their demands. The Young Doctors Association (YDA) held a demonstration at the main Science College Intersection in support of their demands. ...

Lasith Malinga, the Sri Lankan fast bowler, has given up Test cricket because of a "long-standing degenerative condition in the right knee". He intends to continue playing the shorter formats, though, and hopes to play in the 2012 World Twenty20 and the 2015 World Cup. Malinga, 27, made himself ...

LAHORE Punjab Governor Mohammad Latif Khosa has said that in a bid to serve special children, he pledges to help National Centre by giving it a piece of land on 99-year lease, says a press release. He made this announcement while addressing at the 30-year concluding ceremony of Special Education ...

KARACHI - The Standard Chartered Bank print campaign captioned 'We respect and value your beliefs has been awarded the Runner Up Award for the year 2009-10 by the All Pakistan Newspaper Society, says a press release. The advertising campaign was launched by SCBs agency, Manhattan International ...

KARACHI - If Pakistanis work together, there is no limit to what they can achieve. Thats the message from the 2011 Azm Awards, which were given out at a special gala award ceremony in Karachi recently. The Azm Awards, organised by Pakistans social movement, Azme Alishan, were designed to celebrate ...

BANGALORE (Agencies) - The much-debated UDRS System came into sharp focus for third time in the World Cup on Sunday as on-field umpire in the India-Ireland match gave an Irish batsman out LBW even though the point of impact of the ball on the pad was more than 2.5 metres from stumps, The Times of ...

YOUTUBE footage of what viewers have already dubbed the 'coolest cat in the world' shows mega moggy Jimmy giving his owner the thumbs-up. Go Jimmy In a clip entitled 'Amazing Cat Gives Thumbs Up', Jimmy's female owner can be heard asking him to do his thang while she films him. After gazing ...

A MOTHER gave birth to a very healthy baby boy that was much bigger than your average baby. At Holy Family Hospital in Methuen the nickname Big Baby has nothing to do with the Celtics star, Glen Davis. Around Methuen, its Jonathan Patrick Rozzi. Hes the big star with all the doctors and nurses. ...

The parliamentary party of PPP in Punjab set Monday February 07 as deadline for the PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to reply to the letter of its 19-point agenda, report said. Addressing a news conference, Raja Riaz said the provincial parliamentary party of PPP had sent a 19-point agenda to Nawaz Sharif ...

In a meeting of government team with PML-Q leaders in Islamabad, the team briefed Q-league about financial challenges facing the government. The team includes Dr. Hafeez Sheikh, Syed Naveed Qamar, Hina Rabbani Khar, Waqar Masood and others while PML-Q leaders Ch. Shujaat, Mushahid Hussain, Marvi ...

KARACHI - Following the persistent energy shortage in the country, President Asif Ali Zardari has directed for devising a comprehensive plan for extraction of oil and gas from abandoned wells as well as for setting up captive power plants for selected industrial zones and areas. The president ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The newly-elected President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) Syed Kaleem Imam on Friday said the federation had prepared a four-year plan for promoting tennis in the country. Provision of better training to junior players and a strong transparent system for utilising the ...

A FRENCH duck farmer has been given a one-month suspended sentence and fined 500 euros after feeding cannabis to his birds saying it was an excellent dewormer. The farmer admitted that he smoked some of the drug himself but said most of it was given to his 150 ducks for medicinal purposes. Theres ...

GENEVA (APP) - The EU provided at least 18 billion dollars (13.1 billion euros) in illegal subsidies to aviation giant Airbus, the United States charged Thursday at a WTO appeal hearing on the issue. We are here today because the panel in this dispute found that the European Union and certain ...