islamabad - Caretaker federal government has finally sent heads of two state owned gas utilities Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited & Sui Southern Gas Company Limited on packing. Interestingly, earlier Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Resources was found desperate to save both heads of gas ...

islamabad - Caretaker government on Monday sent heads of two oil and gas exploration companies packing following allegations of irregularities in appointment and corruption.Caretaker government issued notifications of sacking chief of country’s largest oil and gas explorer Oil and Gas ...

MUNICH- Champions League semi-finalists Borussia Dortmund confirmed on Tuesday thatGermanystar Mario Goetze will join Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich next season, in a deal reported to be worth 37 million euros ($48.2 million, £32 million). The talented 20-year-old attacking midfielder was ...

FAISALABAD - Divisional Commissioner Mushtaq Ahmed Anjum has said that the administration will mobilise all available resources to ensure fair and transparent elections in all the four districts of the division. He was chairing a meeting of District Coordination Officers (DCOs) and other heads of ...

ISLAMABAD- Interior Minister Malik Muhammad Habib Khan Thursday rolled big heads of some major departments, in his first significant administrative decision taken ‘in public interest’.He removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General (DG), DG of Immigration and Passports ...

PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari Saturday embarked on a two-day visit to Dubai amidst reports that the trip was aimed at persuading his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, to return to the country and lead the Pakistan People’s Party’s election campaign. Bilawal, 24, had left over a week ago after a ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will fly to Qatar within days to discuss peace with the Taliban and open the political office for the group, Karzai's office said Sunday.Karzai will also use the visit to further Afghanistan-Qatar relations and meet the country's officials, Karzai's spokesman Aimal ...

LAHORE - Mental Health Federation Pakistan (MHFP) organized a seminar on “Mental health issues, a recent perspective” here at a local hotel on Wednesday. President of MHFP Prof IAK Tareen, Prof emeritus King Edward Medical University Dr Khalida Tareen and Prof Aftab Asif were the ...

WASHINGTON - In what appears to be an attempt to irritate Pakistan, US special envoy Marc Grossman, who is tasked with gathering support for reconciliation talks with the Taliban, will go to India on his current trip around the region, only days after Islamabad said he was not welcome ...

AHMAD AHMADANIISLAMABAD - Due to the wrong step of the government, the gas companies have managed to put Rs 26 billion burden on the poor masses on account various non-operating income heads.Sources privy to the development informed TheNation that Ogra has written a letter to Petroleum Ministry ...

MELBOURNE  - Three weekend title winners head the field at the Kooyong Classic, with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tomas Berdych and Milos Raonic all due on court in the eight-man tournament starting on Wednesday.Tsonga is fresh from winning the eighth title of his career after beating compatriot and ...

JOHANNESBURG: Teenage fast bowler Pat Cummins took six wickets on his debut as Australia kept alive their hopes of squaring the series on the fourth day of the second and final Test against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. A century partnership between Usman Khawaja (65) and Ricky ...

LIMA (AFP) - Peru on Monday faced the prospect of a polarized second round vote for president, between leftist ex-soldier Ollanta Humala and right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the jailed ex-president. Humala, 48, who just missed out on the 2006 presidency, led with 29% of the vote, ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will fly home from India later on Monday after paying a fine of $33,216, an embassy official said. Rahat, 37, was charged at the weekend with carrying undeclared foreign currency in violation of Indias Foreign Exchange Management Act and customs rules. He ...

SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) South Korea Wednesday pulled the bodies of two civilians from wreckage left by North Koreas bombardment of a border island, fuelling calls for revenge on what one newspaper called a mad dog regime. The United States and South Korea announced a joint naval show of force ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, during the Question-Hour on Services and General Administration Department, discussed 'dissolved, much-criticised and equally celebrated task forces as if these were still functional. On the other hand, the Treasurys silence about it hinted at the thin ...

ISLAMABAD The role of the President and the Chief Justice in the appointment of top adjudicators is vanished and the basic structure of the Constitution is overruled under the Article 175-A of the 18th Amendment. Abdul Hafeez Pirzada said this while responding to the queries of Justice ...

LONDON (AFP) Tottenham booked a lucrative place in the Champions League in dramatic fashion as Peter Crouchs late header clinched a 1-0 win against Manchester City on Wednesday. Harry Redknapps team will finish at least fourth in the Premier League, guaranteeing a place in the Champions League ...

BANGKOK (AFP) Defending champion Vera Zvonareva heads the field at the 220,000-dollar Pattaya Open this week and the Russian appears to have a comfortable draw as she bids to win her ninth career title. Fifth seed and 2007 champion Sybille Bammer of Austria will be the first seeded hurdle she will ...

X Factor contestant Lucie Jones has been signed to Select Model Management, the modelling agency has announced on Sunday. The Welsh 18-year-old made it to the finals of the ITV1 show but was voted off in week five. But she received an early Christmas present when she discovered it was not just her ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) A goal by Rory Fallon just before half-time and some heroic goalkeeping by Mark Paston secured New Zealands ticket to next years World Cup as they squeezed past Bahrain 1-0 here on Saturday. In a match billed as the biggest sporting event ever staged in New Zealand, the single ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Asia-Pacific ministers representing 2.6 billion people pledged to pursue a vast free-trade zone Thursday, but faced more pressing tensions over the US and Chinese currencies at annual talks. Ahead of a weekend summit to be joined by US President Barack Obama, the 21-member ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rose towards 74 dollars on Tuesday, driven by prospects of improved demand as the economy recovers and as cold weather hits the United States earlier than expected, analysts said. World oil demand will decline slightly in 2009 but start growing again next year, the OPEC ...

GLASGOW (AFP) - The terminally-ill Libyan convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing headed home from Scotland Thursday after being freed on compassionate grounds despite US fury over the decision. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person found guilty of blowing up a US passenger jet and ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Cracking the whip, the Indian Election Commission on Tuesday moved against Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and a member of the Gandhi-Nehru family, for his anti-Muslim speeches and police quickly filed a case against him. Varun Gandhi, the grandson of late ...

WARNER Brothers are making a film adaptation of Stephen King's clown horror novel It, according to industry paper The Hollywood Reporter. The 1986 novel follows childhood friends drawn together as adults to fight the murderous clown Pennywise. The book was made into a three-hour TV miniseries in ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama and John McCain feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform on Sunday as their White House showdown roared into a frenetic eight-week final stretch. McCain campaign, meanwhile, denied that his vice presidential pick Sarah Palin was ...

HARARE (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki heads to Harare Saturday for meetings with the country's political rivals as the parties draw closer to a power-sharing deal to end Zimbabwe's political and economic crises. The Herald newspaper quoted President Robert Mugabe's spokesman George ...

LAHORE - A gang of alleged Pather Group has smashed heads of another two innocent people and killed them at the spot in Gulberg area leaving a big question mark on the identity of the said 'mysterious gang' operating in the provincial capital after many other such serial killing gangs had killed ...

BASEL (AFP) - Luiz Felipe Scolari will head for Chelsea with his pride and his reputation for getting the most out of his players having suffered bruising blows at the hands of a German side that has reclaimed the status of favourites at Euro 2008. Scolari claimed a blunder by referee Peter ...