SYDNEY: An Australian woman who now speaks with a French-sounding accent after a head injury eight years ago has revealed the experience has left her feeling frustrated and reclusive.Leanne Rowe, born and raised on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, was in a serious car crash which left ...

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan People’s Party leader and former federal minister Syed Naveed Qamar is likely to become new chairman Public Accounts Committee (PAC) instead of Leader of Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah. As expected Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is all set to offer the slot of chairman PAC ...

LAHORE (Our Staff Reporter): The Lahore High Court on Wednesday suspended a notification pertaining to appointment of Anwarul Haq as Chief Executive officer of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation. The court allowed Khalid Mahmood Chattha, who was replaced by Anwarul Haq, to continue to work ...

VIENNA  - The head of the UN atomic agency upped the ante with Iran Monday, saying Tehran may have literally bulldozed a key part of its probe into alleged efforts to develop a nuclear bomb.Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that because of "very extensive" engineering ...

SIALKOTA number of people from Sialkot district and its adjoining areas swarmed the Head Marala which is a famous picnic spot along the banks of River Chenab. Meanwhile, a Sialkot city-based youth has lost his life while taking a bath in the Upper Chenab Canal. Due to the sizzling hot weather and ...

BAHAWALPUR Islamic University of Bahawalpur Vice-Chancellor Dr Muhammad Mukhtar has expressed pleasure over the appointments of faculty deans and head of departments of the newly-established Government Sadiq College Women University (GSCWU). He hoped that now the academic and administrative set-up ...

ISLAMABAD (PR): Mr Masood Siddiqui has assumed the charge of MD/CEO of OGDCL Thursday. The decision of his removal has been reversed in the light of Supreme Court orders to suspend all the orders of appointment and transfers by caretaker setup.OGDCL performance remained excellent during the tenure ...

NEW DELHI - Indian doctors said Wednesday they have successfully carried out a first round of reconstructive surgery on the skull of a baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to nearly double in size.The surgery on the skull of one-year-old Roona Begum was carried out on Tuesday ...

IslamabadIn the face of race between the party heavyweights for securing berth in the federal cabinet, central leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and former leader of opposition Ch Nisar Ali Khan has decided not to take a ministerial slot in the future cabinet of Mian Nawaz Sharif and would ...

NEW DELHIDoctors carried out life-saving surgery Wednesday on an Indian baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell to nearly double its size, in a case that aroused sympathy worldwide.AFP was given access to film the surgery on 15-month-old Roona Begum, during which doctors ...

LOS ANGELES: Kanye West was nursing more than a bruised ego during a house hunting trip in LA after he walked into a sign post in front of a group of paparazzi. The Stronger hitmaker was leaving a property viewing in Beverly Hills with his girlfriend Kim Kardashian when he accidentally walked ...

ISLAMABAD  -  A group of sixty-nine senior civil servants participating in the 98th National Management Course (NMC) and faculty of National School of Public Policy (NSPP) visited Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) house.Member Facilitation & Taxpayers’ Education (FATE) Riffat ...

ISLAMABAD - Older people who play video games challenging their mental processing speed could delay the ageing of their minds, a new study has found.According to the study from the University of Iowa, researchers found that elderly people who played just ten hours of a game priming their mental ...

lahore - Society of Aircraft Engineers Pakistan (SAEP) President Shoukat Jamshed has termed the technical advice of Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (PALPA) President Captain Sohail Baloch on aircraft maintenance baseless. He reacted upon the statement of Baloch wherein he said that aerodynamic ...

LAHORE - Is the judiciary really as strong and independent as it appears to be? And has the army really made itself subservient to the government, leaving its former boss Gen Pervez Musharraf to the mercy of law and circumstances?  Is the army monitoring the situation to retaliate at an ...

HAFIZABAD - PTI District President Ch Amanullah Sindhu advocate and other office-bearers of 42 union councils have announced to resign from the party membership, protesting against the leadership for ignoring Rai Fakharuz Zaman Kharal and awarding election ticket to Qasim Tarar who has never been ...

HAFIZABAD - PTI District President Ch Amanullah Sindhu advocate and other office-bearers of 42 union councils have announced to resign from the party membership, protesting against the leadership for ignoring Rai Fakharuz Zaman Kharal and awarding election ticket to Qasim Tarar who has never been ...

LAHORE – A 20-year-old girl was found shot dead in the Valencia Town on early Sunday, Kahna police said. The dead body was removed to the morgue for autopsy as the police began investigations to track down the killer(s) behind the blind-murder. Police sources revealed that unidentified ...

LAHORE - Influential Wilayat Butt family head Amjad Iqbal Butt and other community chiefs of Mangowal town of Gujrat have dissociated themselves from Ahmad Mukhtar and PML-N leaderships and announced their full support to PML-Q leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Moonis Elahi at a big gathering in Mangowal ...

KARACHI (PR) - A meeting was called in EPZA to take immediate steps to increase investment in Export Processing Zone Authority. During the meeting a committee was formed by Chairman EPZA, Saadat S Cheema with a mandate to initiate steps to open and revive the sick units which stopped functioning ...

KARACHI - The POSCO Chairman and CEO Chung Joon Yang has been honoured with ‘Steelmaker of the Year’ award at AISTech 2013 — The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition, managed by Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).Chung is recognised as a visionary ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A four-year-old American boy shot and wounded a six-year-old friend in the head Tuesday, police said, the second such accident involving children in a day. Police in the New Jersey town of Toms River said the young boy took a .22 caliber rifle and shot his friend at a distance of ...

KASUR – District police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a proclaimed offender involved in 40 cases.The DPO Kasur Rai Ijaz Ahmed disclosed that accused was arrested during a surprise raid at his hideout following a tip-off. He said the PO was ring leader of an intra-district gang and ...

KARACHI - A senior inspector of Karachi police became victim of target killing on Tuesday night while a cop was injured in an armed attack on his car by unidentified assailants in Saddar area.Police said that unidentified armed riders resorted to indiscriminate fire on the car of victim Inspector ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will not be part of the Supreme Court bench that will hear the petition against former president Pervez Musharraf seeking action against him under Article 6 of the Constitution, TV channels reported on Sunday.Now, reports say, Justice Jawwad S ...

LAHORE – Administrative secretaries of various departments have been made heads of emergency response committees set up for taking timely protective steps against dengue. According to the notification , LG Secretary Sikandar Sultan Raja will head Data Gunj Bakhsh Town committee, Schools ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan has nominated 22 judges of the High Courts to head tribunals for disposal of appeals against the decisions of Returning Officers on the nomination papers for general elections. The scrutiny of the nomination papers of the candidates for the general ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - The head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday that infectious diseases will spread more easily in the future due to globalisation, changing lifestyles and rising population densities. “The future looks very bright for microbes, not so good for humanity,” ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN - Twelve people shaved off the head, moustaches, beard and eyebrows of a prayer leader allegedly on charge of sexually assaulting a boy here in suburban village Sattoki. The accused, including Naseer, caught Ismail and took him to the rear side of the mosque where they tortured him ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN - Twelve people shaved off the head, moustaches, beard and eyebrows of a prayer leader allegedly on charge of sexually assaulting a boy here in suburban village Sattoki. The accused, including Naseer, caught Ismail and took him to the rear side of the mosque where they tortured him ...