moscowUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday sought to narrow differences over the conflict in Syria with President Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian strongman to find common ground to help end the bloodshed.Kerry is making his first trip to Russia since taking over as the chief US diplomat ...

  ISLAMABAD- POF Wah chairman Lt Gen M Ahsan Mahmood HI (M) on Monday said POF administration was endeavouring to provide every possible sporting facility to the youth of Wah Cantt so that healthy activities can be promoted in the society.  Inaugurating the newly-established cricket ...

DUBLIN (AFP) - Europe’s biggest countries gained ground Saturday in their bid to recover some of the one trillion euros lost each year to tax fraud and money laundering, despite hold-out Austria railing against government “snooping” into bank accounts.After a first day of talks ...

PESHAWAR - Vice Chancellor University of Engineering and Technology Imtiaz H. Gilani performed the ground-breaking ceremony of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Jalozai Campus in the presence of faculty members and the administrative staff the other day. The Jalozai Campus of ...

PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, has said that land dispute of Regi Lalma Township will be resolved keeping in view the ground realities and no injustice would be made to any stakeholder. He directed a committee established in this connection for final ...

Election Commission Secretary, Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan ensured to provide level playing ground to all the political parties and contesting candidates to make sure fair, transparent and credible elections.While talking to an eight-member delegation of National Democratic Institute (NDI) led by Joe Clark, ...

ISLAMANBAD - Pakistan’s water resources are rapidly plummeting and by 2035 its per capita water availability would decrease to lesser than 1,000 cubic meter, said experts at a forum.The second symposium under Human Appeal International Forum (HAI-Forum) “Exploring Opportunities for ...

ISLAMABAD - The newly-constructed football ground at Sector I-10/2 which was supposed to help youth in building their characters and provide them with healthy activities, is in shambles. Thanks to CDAs sheer negligence, although millions of rupees were spent on this ground which was completed in ...

LAHORE Commissioner Lahore Division Nadeem Hassan Asif has inaugurated Sir Sayed Cricket Stadium on Thursday here at Iqbal Housing Society Khyaban-e-Jinnah Road, one of the play grounds of governments proposed new 100 grounds for the City. Addressing the inauguration ceremony, the commissioner ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysians are embracing gold dinars which were introduced last month by the northern state of Kelantan to promote usage of Islamic currency as an alternative to paper money, an official said Saturday. The gold coins and silver dirhams were introduced in early August by the ...

CHITRAL Former-legendary polo player Ghayasuddin of Reshoon has demanded of the Khyber PK Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti as well as Minister for Sports and Tourism Syed Aqil Shah to expand the existing Reshoon Polo Ground by further 10x120 feet. Ghayasuddin said that the area of the Reshoon ...

ISLAMABAD - India seems to have realised ground realities and has showed willingness to resume the peace process with Pakistan in the greater interest of the entire region, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday. Addressing a news conference at the Foreign Office here, Qureshi said ...

LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices firmed on Wednesday before the eagerly-awaited weekly snapshot on US energy inventories in leading consumer the United States. Traders meanwhile digested news that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has lifted its forecast for world oil demand ...

Bellerive Oval, Hobart, where the third and final Test match between Australia and Pakistan will be played from Thursday (January 14) is happing hunting ground for Australia. They have won six and drew two in eight Test matches played at this ground. On the other hand Pakistan have lost both ...

Sydney Cricket Ground (SGC), where the second Test match between Australia and Pakistan will be played from Sunday (January 3), is happy hunting ground for Australia. They have won 53, lost 27 and drew 17 in 97 Test matches played at this ground. On the other hand, Pakistan have won two, lost ...

ISLAMABAD Violating the 1973 Constitution,former President and the then COAS, General Pervez Musharraf, compelled CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry to tender his resignation as Chief Justice of Pakistan when he (CJ) refused to resign, said the detailed verdict of the Supreme Court issued here on Wednesday ...

KARACHI - President FPCCI Sultan Ahmad Chawla has expressed his serious concern over monetary policy statement of the Governor State Bank of Pakistan. He said that the State Bank of Pakistan has issued only statement to continue the present monetary policy. In fact, it was mere information not a ...

NEW YORK - President Asif Ali Zardari, whose popularity has sunk nearly a year after assuming his office, has done little to connect with the Pakistani public or attempt to address popular concerns, a dispatch in a major US newspaper said Saturday. 'Pakistanis still call him 'Mr 10 per cent, a ...

LAHORE - Deputy speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mashud Ahmed paid a surprise visit at the Baba Cricket Ground in Islampura and got it vacated from illegal car parking occupants. He also got detained four persons for supervising the illegal parking stand and also confiscated token slips of the stand. ...

AFTER a sudden shift in the Earth's crust, the ground has cracked open. What was terra firma is now a gaping crevasse. And into it - his arms raised in terror - plunges a hapless pedestrian on a shard of rock. In another apocalyptic scenario, a family desperately struggle to cross what remains of a ...

ST JOHNS (AFP) - Cricket's World governing body says the immediate future of the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground (VRCG) will now be subject to the start of its pitch and outfield monitoring process. Haroon Lorgat, chief executive officer of the International Cricket Council (ICC), suggested that the ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices fell on Friday, a day after slumping close to 50 dollars, despite growing expectations the OPEC crude exporters' cartel could cut output again later this month, traders said. Brent North Sea crude for January fell 54 cents to $55.70 on London's InterContinental Exchange ...

Pakistan Peoples Party had undergone a huge transformation under the dynamic leadership of Benazir Bhutto, who was slain in her struggle to re-establish democracy in Pakistan, but unfortunately some disgruntled and unscrupulous elements in the party with the connivance of establishment are bent ...

LONDON  - The dollar rose against the euro and yen on Monday as markets cheered measures by Washington to bolster US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, dealers said. But the greenback's gains were limited amid ongoing worries about the health of the US economy and a slew of ...