LAHORE - However strange it may seem, PTI election candidate for PP-140, Zubair Khan Niazi, has called on Nawaz Sharif to visit the national assembly constituency he announced to contest elections from to learn the bitter reality that the entire situation has changed. In an interview with The ...

Posters are up on lampposts, television advertisements blare, but only some politicians dare hold election rallies. Campaigning for Pakistan’s general elections on May 11th has so far been subdued. Threats by the Taliban, and the killing of at least 34 people, discourage public events. Yet ...

LAHORE Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has accepted that he will now have to serve the rest of his ICC ban after his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected although he remains determined to resume his career in little more than two years. Talking to the reporters ...

NOORPUR THAL - The PML-N will wash away the corrupt rulers and will change the course of national politics after coming into power. PML-N candidates for NA-70 and PP-42 Malik Shakir Bashir Awan and Malik Muhammad Waris Kallu stated this while addressing a public gathering at dera Raja Muhammad ...

MUZAFFARGARH - Former Punjab governor and PML-F Provincial Chief Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar said that the PML-N will support his party candidates in Punjab and in turn his party will back its candidates in Sindh as agreed by PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif.He said that the PML-N would emerge a major party ...

MUZAFFARGARH - Former Punjab governor and PML-F Provincial Chief Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar said that the PML-N will support his party candidates in Punjab and in turn his party will back its candidates in Sindh as agreed by PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif.He said that the PML-N would emerge a major party ...

KHAR  - Badam Zari, who cannot read or write despite being married to a headteacher, has made history by becoming the first woman approved to run for election in the tribal belt.Zari, 53, may have little chance of winning, but her enthusiasm has been seized upon as a step towards emancipation ...

Pakistan's cricket board said Sunday it hopes to arrange a tour by Bangladesh as part of efforts to revive international cricket in the country.Pakistan have not hosted any international series since a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009. Foreign teams have refused ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Tuesday expressed hope that Pakistan would soon reopen the crucial supply routes to Afghanistan, but said no negotiations were being carried out on the issue. "I am not aware of any negotiations as such to get them open," Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt John Kirby told ...

LAHORE - General Secretary Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Asif Bajwa has said that discussions are underway with India as well as other countries to resume the international hockey in the country during this year. He said during a press briefing here on Tuesday at National Hockey Stadium. ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) Aides to President Asif Zardari expressed confidence Wednesday that Islamabad and Washington could amicably resolve a growing diplomatic crisis over the fate of a former US Special Forces soldier held for killing two Pakistanis. None, however, would directly respond to ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The operator of a $3 billion joint venture copper and gold project in Pakistan is hopeful the project will go ahead despite a government threat to scrap it because of misgivings about the share of benefits. The project is owned by Canadas Barrick Gold and Chilean copper miner ...

WHISTLER (Canada) (AFP) American skier Lindsey Vonn is finding it hard to contain her excitement after putting the finishing touches to what could be a multiple gold bid at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. But while fans the world over expect the 25-year-old star to deliver, some rivals, including ...

KABUL (AFP) - A candidate for the Afghan presidential election in an interview with AFP Saturday accused incumbent Karzai of having tried to buy him off. Abdullah Abdullah said Karzai had offered him a prestigious post in the next govt if he was prepared to withdraw from the August 20 election. I ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is hoping that an improvement in bilateral relations with India would pave the way for its local Twenty20 champions Sialkot Stallions' participation in the Champions League in October. "If political and diplomatic relations improve before October, anything is ...

SPIDER-Man director Sam Raimi has revealed that Kirsten Dunst is still not confirmed for the fourth instalment of the superhero franchise. Speaking to Sci-Fi Wire, Raimi admitted that he was scheduled to meet with the actress soon to talk about the possibility of reprising the role of Mary-Jane ...

NORTH SOUND (AFP) - England seek to draw level in a Test series that they were favoured to win when they face West Indies in the second Test, starting on Friday at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground. England were upset in the opening Test at Kingston, where they were bowled out for 51 in their ...

KARACHI - Political maneuvering is gaining momentum in Sindh as the Senate election dates approaches nearer. A total of 11 Senate seats in the province will fall vacant on March 11, out of which the ruling coalition partners, the PPP and MQM, are expected to bag eight and three seats respectively. ...

UNITED NATIONS - The senior UN political official has expressed his hope that talks between Israel and Palestine will both continue and intensify - in spite of the transition under way in Tel Aviv - in line with the peace process launched last year in the US city of Annapolis. Lynn Pascoe, ...

GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire, (AFP) - John McCain warned rival Barack Obama not to get cocky with his comfortable lead in the polls Wednesday as he hammered away at the Democrat's plans to "redistribute wealth." "My opponent's looking pretty confident these days," McCain told a rally in Goffstown, ...