LAHORE - Pakistan former cricketer Sarfaraz Nawaz has said that the hiring of a new batting coach is nothing but to show-off the cricket world that Pakistan have a batting coach. Talking to this scribe Tuesday, Sarfaraz said: “How can a coach improve the batting of Pakistan players in just ...

LAHORE – Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Aftab Sultan has directed the district police officers (DPOs) to hire the services of the retired policemen and army personnel for the security duties for elections. According to a spokesperson on Saturday, the police are also directed to ...

ISLAMABAD – Shelter is a basic human need but around 90 per cent of the teachers in the capital till today are homeless and are compelled to live in rented houses with meagre resources.Majority of them are the schoolteachers. The government provides them so-called hiring facility to get ...

A parliamentary panel on Wednesday showed annoyance over irregular hiring Oil and Gas Development Company limited (OGDCL) and directed the officials to submit detailed reports about qualification and experience of all applicants who applied for these posts. Meeting of sub-committee of national ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Newly election president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Muhammad Yasin Azad Monday called for making the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court based on merit. Addressing a press conference with former President of the Bar, Asma Jahangir, Azad said the method ...

LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister David Cameron made a public admission of regret over Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday, saying with hindsight he would not have hired a former tabloid editor as his media chief. As media mogul Rupert Murdoch wrapped up a turbulent visit to Britain, Cameron made ...

THE BBC has admitted to using private detectives to provide confidential information for some of its investigative news programmes. The corporation had been accused of employing Jonathan Rees, a private investigator with a criminal conviction for perverting the course of justice. Rees was also ...

KARACHI Foreign as well as local agencies are looking for persons understanding the languages being used by terrorists, TheNation has learnt reliably. According to the reports, a US-based company has established a language centre in Doha, Qatar, and is hiring people from across Pakistan on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Privatisation Commission has invited Expression of Interest (EOIs) from reputable firms/consortium of firms to act as Financial Advisor for the Pakistan Post Office Department (PPOD) transaction. According to a statement of the Commission, this decision has been taken keeping ...

WASHINGTON - The US Senate has approved legislation, refraining banks that will receive the proposed bailout funds, from appointing to foreign workers. The Senate added the restriction as part of the economic stimulus plan being debated in the house. Under the legislation, which has a two-year ...

KARACHI - Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has stressed the need to follow policies and programmes for quality education in the province with concerted efforts aimed at increasing the number of children in schools. He said that concrete measures should be evolved to utilise the abandoned schools ...

LAHORE - Financial institutions are hiring the services of tough guys for recovering money from defaulting customers. Incidents of scuffles and roughing up of customers on roads especially at night have become common. The leasing of cars by the banks has risen manifold in the last few years. ...