ISLAMABAD - The Asian Squash Federation (ASF) has awarded nominated Pakistan as the sole contender for hosting the Squash World Cup 2015 and awarded Junior World Cup to Jordan. In an exclusive interview with The Nation on Friday, Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) Senior Vice President Air Vice ...

LAHORE : All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran central general secretary Naeem Mir and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhary have announced that traders of Lahore is going to organise a reception in honour of PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, which will be attended by a ...

KARACHI - The Sindh caretaker government will host an All Parties' Conference on April 30 to share and consult administrative, logistic and security arrangements made for the forthcoming elections.Interim Chief Minister of Sindh Justice Retired Zahid Kurban Alvi informed the caretaker Prime ...

SEOUL  - Dealing with monetary policy and interest rates is the Bank of Korea’s main role, but in May it will start hosting weddings - in an auditorium hung with the portraits of former central bank governors.Employees from the Bank of Korea will be allowed to get married inside the ...

‘AMELIE’ actress Audrey Tautou host opening and closing ceremonies of 2013 Cannes Film Festival. French actress Audrey Tautou, best known for the 2001 film Amelie, will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival next month. The opening ceremony of the 66th ...

LAHORE - Pakistan has been allocated the hosting rights of the inaugural World T20 Deaf Cricket Cup in September-October next year. “In all, 10 countries including Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa and hosts Pakistan will be taking ...

ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly of Pakistan will host the first ever General Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of Economic Cooperation Organisation (PAECO) to be held in Islamabad from today (February 10).The PAECO conference will last for four day (10th to 13th February, 2013). The ...

President Asif Ali Zardari announced that Pakistan would host the next Summit of the organisation in 2014 in Islamabad.Attending the 12th ECO Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, he called for unity to collectively defeat the mindset behind the assassination attempt of Pakistan’s daughter Malala ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Chapter and Karachi Branch of Pakistan Dental Association (PDA) are jointly organising three-day conference ‘PDA 10th International & 30th National Dental Congress’ from March 23 at Expo Centre. The theme of the congress is ‘A New Dental Era.’Briefing ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan (NNI) The 16th Turkmenistan International Oil & Gas Conference, OGT 2011, will be held at Ashgabat Exhibition Palace with the organization of the Turkmen Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources. Turkmenistan celebrates 20 years of independence in 2011. OGT 2011 will ...

WARBURTON - The annual general meeting of the Government Secondary Schools Headmasters Association (GSSHA) District Nankana Sahib was held here at Govt High School Warburton City on Friday. District Education Officer Liaqat Ali Kharal presided over the meeting while GSSHA President Javed Ashraf ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Eddie Murphy is on an Oscar producers shortlist to host the Academy Awards in February, showbusiness website Deadline reported. A meeting is scheduled for this coming Tuesday between Oscar producer Brett Ratner and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, at ...

NOORPUR THAL - The citizens of Thal are facing a lot of problems nowadays. The word dichotomy fits in its perfect connotation to the current state of the city. Although other several villages of Tehsil Noorpur also lack basic facilities but THQ Noorpur can truly be called their king clogged and ...

A red dwarf star 20 light-years away is again providing hints that it hosts the first definitively habitable planet outside our Solar System. The planet Gliese 581d is at the colder outer edge of the Goldilocks zone in which liquid water can be sustained. Now a study in Astrophysical Journal ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - South Korea and Pakistan were on Friday handed wildcard entries for field hockeys Champions Trophy in India next year that will feature eight teams instead of six. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) said the two Asian nations will join world champions Australia, England, ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Television and Pakistan Police announced their football teams for the Super League of PFF League - Departmental Leg on Monday. The match between the two top outfits will be played at Garhi Shahues Railway Stadium, Lahore on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 (2 PM). PTV have won the event ...

KARACHI The Executive Board of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has awarded mens and womens 2014 World Hockey Cups to Holland, according to information received here Friday. The Executive Board meeting was held on the sidelines of the FIH Congress in Switzerland on Thursday and gave nod ...

LAHORE As many as 60 Thalasaemia patients left for Murree from Thalasaemia Centre, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore on Monday. They would be the special guests of Chief Minister Punjab for 4 days at Punjab House Murree. The General Secretary Pakistan Society of Thalasaemia, Prof Yasmin Rashid and ...

KARACHI The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association is planning to host an eight-nation snooker event some time in coming September, it was announced here Tuesday. The event will be held only after approval from the government and the availability of sponsors. Invitations to Thailand, India, ...

KARACHI Cricket fraternity in United States of America is excited with the prospect of watching the first ICC officially recognised three T20 match series between New Zealand and Sri Lanka to be played in Florida from May 20 to 23. According to a message received from Masood Akhtar also known as ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama will lay a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world next week when he hosts a summit to boost economic development in Muslim nations. In a step the White House hopes will help shift relations beyond decades of talk about terrorism and ...

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon is to host a two-day retreat early next week on the boosting cooperation between the United Nations and the regional and subregional organizations in maintaing international peace and security, a UN spokesperson said. The retreat is set to begin on ...

MUMBAI Fort Lauderdale is set to be the International Cricket Council (ICCs) new venue for Twenty20 Internationals, it is learnt here. It may also be the base venue for IPL matches. IS Bindra (the ICC principal advisor) visited the stadium in Ft Lauderdale the other day and was very happy to see ...

LAHORE Pakistan U-19 Football team will be in action for only 180 minutes as they will face only Iran and Uzbekistan today (Tuesday) as the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has confirmed that two more teams - Lebanon and Turkmenistan - have withdrawn from the 36th AFC U-19 Championship. The ...

LAHORE Lahore Polo Club president Irfan Ali Hyder looked fairly optimistic about the coming season in his maiden media appearance after assuming office early this year. In the season-launching media appearance in the heart of the now-walled-and-guarded GOR-1, veteran Irfan came up with a promise ...

MUMBAI Ijaz Butt, Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed his desire to host the ICC WT20 in Pakistan in 2014 but his dream may not be realised, according to Jalal Younis, the Media Director, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Speaking over his mobile from Dhaka Wednesday, he said, ...

MELBOURNE (AFP) - England is being considered as an alterative venue for Pakistan's scheduled Test series against Australia next year, Cricket Australia said on Wednesday. Spokesman Peter Young said negotiations began with Pakistan before the militant attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore on ...

LAHORE - Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has been tipped as one of the possible venues to host the Australian team for the March-April 2008-postponed series against Pakistan. It has been learnt that the PCB authorities are considering Kuala Lumpur to host Australia in split series expected to be ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will host five Islamic Financial Services Awareness Programmes in Karachi from 27 - 31 October 2008 under the auspices of Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). The programmes will be held in conjunction with the 13th Meeting of the Council of the ...

The chief of the MQM, Altaf Hussain, has said that the country was facing socio-economic crises and impeachment of president at this point in time but the conspiracies to escalate Talibanization in Karachi was the chief issue to be addressed. In his telephonic address with the gathering present at ...