LAHORE - Advisor to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain has never issued any instructions regarding regularisation of services with any back dated financial benefits to 302 Management Trainees inducted into the countrys largest petroleum/gas producer Oil and Gas ...

LAHORE - Beware of the fake government officials who are performing duties as 'acting price magistrates and inspectors of various departments of City District Government Lahore and are minting money on behalf of the officials who have been hired for inspections and conducting raids, insiders ...

WASHINGTON - Republican Nikki Haley, an American of Indian origin, won the governorship of the US state of South Carolina, defeating the candidate of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party in the nationwide mid-term elections on Tuesday. Born as Nimrata Randhawa to Sikh parents who migrated ...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said the independent judiciary is providing justice to the people and giving judicious decisions. The Chief Justice was speaking after inauguration of Iftikhar Hall in the libarary of Supreme Court Lahore Registry on Saturday. He said the Bar room has ...

LAHORE Pakistans former Test captain Aamir Sohail has asked the current ODI and Twenty20 skipper Shahid Afridi not to give confusing and contradictory statements in the media. These statements are creating confusion and more problems for Pakistan cricket, Sohail said. The former chief selector ...

KARACHI - Lack of investigation skills made Al-Qaeda-linked Jundullah outer smart than security forces hence providing a ground for terrorism in the City. According to the reports, Jundullah a prominent militant outfit is directly operated by Al-Qaeda Commander Hamza Alias Jufi Al Misry, an ...

Moscow City Court has sentenced Russian Gennady Sipachev to four-years high security imprisonment for treason and divulging state secrets. Russia's Federal Security Service said on Thursday Russian counterintelligence caught Sipachev in 2008 when he sent the cartographic information from the ...

LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, facing a general election on May 6, admitted Wednesday he gave banks too much freedom during his 10 years as finance minister before 2007. Banks should have been more tightly regulated in the years leading up to the global financial crisis, Brown ...

Sources from the Indian Premier League have told a TV channel that there is 'no ban' on Wasim Akram commentating in India. The clarification comes after reports that emerged in Pakistan that the pacer-turned-commentator had reportedly been denied permission by the Indian government to commentate in ...

Spokesperson to President former Senator Farhatullah Babar on Wednesday contradicted reports in a section of the media that President Asif Ali Zardari had confirmed negotiations with the so-called international guarantors to give indemnity to former dictator General Pervez Musharraf. In a statement ...

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters/AFP) - The Arab League and Islamist movement Hamas said on Sunday Arabs should not normalise ties with Israel as long as the Jewish state sticks to plans to build more settlements on occupied Palestinian land. It is impossible to speak of normalisation when Israel rejects ...

U.S. military officials in Afghanistan have halted the practice of releasing the number of militants killed in fighting with American-led forces as part of an overall strategy shift that emphasizes concern for the local civilian population's well-being rather than hunting insurgent groups. The ...

KARACHI - The number of cellular phone warranty providers has climbed sharply in the last few months as no registration is required for the business. Muhammad Saeed Qureshi, Chairman Adhoc Committee Karachi Electronic Dealers Association, while talking to The Nation revealed that a certain number ...

Having started off by supporting the ruling UPA on dealing with terror following the Mumbai attacks, the BJP is gradually building pressure on the government for "climbing down" from its strong stand. BJP accused the government of "being down on its knees and meekly accepting" the verdict of the US ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has disappointed the selection committee by giving the right to management to select the playing eleven. Changing the policy of selecting the playing eleven in home series, the PCB assigned this responsibility to captain, coach and vice-captain whereas in the past, ...

KARACHI - Painting a doomsday scenario for the PPP government in Islamabad, former Governor Punjab, Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, has said that year 2009 would the year of political change in the country because the government of Asif Ali Zardari had failed to deliver the promises of Shaheed Benazir ...

Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has said that Nawaz Sharif and he was of the opinion that President Musharraf should not be given any safe exit under any circumstances and he should be made accountable in accordance with the constitution. Talking to media on the sidelines of the 42nd ...

ISLAMABAD - The scholarship programme of Higher Education Commission is benefiting people across the country and as a result the students from the lower-middle class and from far-flung areas get chance to study in the top class universities of the world. The commission has started the programme ...

Federal Information Minister, Sherry Rehman Saturday said Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan should give it a due thought before giving statements which could have implications on country's sovereignty.She said this while talking to media at the inauguration of a free medical camp here at Baba Island.The ...

A US millionaire who is the key witness in the latest corruption probe against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted in sworn testimony on Tuesday that he gave large sums of cash to the premier.  Morris Talansky's evidence in an investigation into claims that Olmert received illegal ...