Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has claimed he repeatedly ignored requests from Mazher Majeed to become involved in spot-fixing while playing for Pakistan in Test series and tournaments around the world. Butt said Majeed asked him for inside information about tours to Australia, England and the ...

LAHORE The manufacturers and the trade bodies representatives, unanimously showing their grave concern over inadequate funding for power generation in budget, have said the federal budget 2011-12 has altogether ignored the energy crisis, which is crippling the economy. They said that despite ...

The former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said that he disregarded legal advice warning that attacking Iraq would be illegal without further backing from the United Nations because it was "provisional." In a written statement submitted to the Iraq inquiry, Mr. Blair said that he believed ...

LAHORE Education has not been a priority of any government and public spending on vital education sector as percentage of GDP has been amongst the lowest in the world. Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran expressed these views in an exclusive interview with TheNation on ...

KARACHI The PML-N Sindh while nominating office-bearers in the interior of Sindh for the party reorganisation in the province has preferred turncoats and weathercocks after sidelining the loyalists, who had stood solidly behind the party when it was in dire striates in Oct 1999. The loyalists and ...

A week of official mourning has been declared as thousands of Poles light candles to mourn the death of their president and 96 others in a plane crash. A somber vigil, stretching into the early hours of Sunday, was observed in central Warsaw's Pilsudski Square to mourn the president and the other ...

LAHORE The Federal Government has decided to proceed under the Civil Servants Act of 1973 and conduct rules of 1964 against officials who have been agitating the issue of their being ignored for promotion to grade 22 by the Prime Minister. The Establishment Division is already seized with the ...

LAHORE - One of the ignored historical monuments in the City, the tomb of Bhuddu situated on opposite side of the University of Engineering and Technology, was an ample proof of the least interest on the part of authorities concerned in preserving the monuments. The distressed look of limping ...

ISLAMABAD-The government has ignored two important stakeholders of the health system-the National Council of Tib and the National Council of Homoeopathy- while finalising the third health policy. The government was supposed to consult them during formulation of the health policy as it made these ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Action hero Jackie Chan said Thursday a museum dedicated to his career would have been built in Hong Kong rather than Singapore if the government had not ignored his repeated requests for land. The Hong Kong-born "Rush Hour" star said he had decided to donate his costumes, awards ...