LAHORE Intelligence has started gathering information regarding postings of senior officers in Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), said sources in FIA on Monday. A senior officer seeking anonymity said that two senior officers of an intelligence agency visited FIA provincial headquarters at Regal ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland does not need to consider an automatic exchange of information with tax authorities in the European Union, its president said in a newspaper interview. Switzerland and Austria have come under even more pressure to abandon bank secrecy after Luxembourg accepted to ...

LAHORE – A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday directed the Federal Board of Revenue to make information regarding defaulters’ candidates available for public on its website by April 17 and also inform the Election Commission of Pakistan of it.The bench, headed by Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday hearing petitions of two senior anchors regarding the accountability of media, was surprised to know that gifts worth millions of rupees had been distributed among journalists by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting from its secret fund in ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan on Friday directed different state institutions including FBR and the State Bank of Pakistan to submit details about potential election candidates within 24 hours.Afzal Khan, Additional Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan, told media that ECP has written ...

FAISALABAD - Mother of Federal Information Secretary Ch Rashid Ahmed was laid to rest at the ancestral village graveyard in Faisalabad on Tuesday.She was passed away after a protected illness on Monday night at a hospital in the federal capital.  Her funeral was attended by family members, ...

KARACHI - Sindh Information Department Director General Dr Zulfiqar Ali Shallwani has clarified an advertisement published by the APNS in different newspapers on December 15, 2012, in which it was claimed that the department owed outstanding dues to PNS member publications and such dues pertained ...

SAHIWAL - Former federal minister Noraiz Shakoor has said that the purpose of the establishment of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal Campus was to impart modern information technology education to the local students, and the institution is absolutely serving the ...

NEW YORK - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says he is “very concerned” about a Pakistani doctor who was arrested for providing key intelligence for the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, while also repeating US claims that someone in authority in Pakistan knew about al-Qaeda ...

ISLAMABAD - A 9-member delegation of International Centre for Journalists of USA called on Chairman Press Council of Pakistan Shafqat Khan Abbasi here on Thursday. The delegation is currently visiting Pakistan under the programme “US-Pakistan professional partnership in Journalism”.The ...

WASHINGTON - The US military and CIA are probing claims that classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden was given to Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, a Republican lawmaker said Thursday.Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said he requested an ...

WANA (Agencies) A military official has blamed the US for attempting to embarrass Pakistan by delaying information regarding bomb-making factories in the tribal areas. Talking to media persons here on Thursday, Major General Rizwan Akhter, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) in South Waziristan, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US officials Wednesday offered a reward of up to $5 million for information on Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, head of a Pakistani group linked to Al-Qaeda and suspected of launching a 2006 suicide attack on the US consulate in Karachi. The State Department said Kashmiri is the ...

ISLAMABAD - (APP) A PPP activists has been appointed as Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Deputy Information Secretary. The PPP workers from across the country have lauded party decision of bringing dedicated activist like Mian Shams to its mainstream. Mian Shams remained spokesperson of President Asif ...

TURNING off mobile phones, avoiding the Internet and tuning out of the television and radio can leave people suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to go cold turkey, researchers have found. The scientists asked volunteers to stay away from all emails, text messages, ...

ISLAMABAD - Mysterious activities, in guise of aid in kind and construction policy to assist the flood affectees in Dera Ghazi Khan, by a France based non-governmental organisation, ACTED, need a high-level inquiry and vigilance in connection with safeguarding national interests. It is a matter of ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Telecom Authority has developed 'National Rabta Information Portal (www.pakistan.pk), a single source facilitation web portal that provides information and content repository to information seekers from within and outside the country at one place. Minister of State for ...

LAHORE A Lahore High Court bench, headed by Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, on Friday restrained Dr Abdul Qadir Khan from disclosing classified and sensitive information in his interviews to the media. Dr Abdul Qadir had filed an application, complaining that the government, in violation of the ...

LAHORE - Chief Justice Lahore High Court, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif Wednesday directed Federal Information and Broadcasting minister and chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to immediately restore broadcastings of all private news channels being blocked allegedly in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Government has earmarked Rs507.880 million for the ongoing schemes and projects undertaken by Information and Broadcasting Division in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2010-11. The document shows there is no allocation of money for any new project in the ...

LAHORE (PR) - The Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) launched the Microfinance Credit information Bureau at Avari Hotel on Friday. Governor SBP Syed Salim Raza launched the bureau by conducting the first transaction/query on the system. Pakistan is amongst the few countries where a specialized MF ...

ISLAMABAD US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson asked NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti to take notice of information leakage (related to Americans) to media from CM Secretariat, highly placed sources informed TheNation on Tuesday. Please help us to promote soft image of United ...

ISLAMABAD - The SIM Information System introduced by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has exposed terrible mismanagement of users data by franchisers and retailers, revealing that dozens of SIMs have been registered in the name of nearly each cell phone user. I was really horrified to see ...

KARACHI - Iranian Ambassador Mashallah Shakiri has said that his country has provided the evidences of Sistan incident to Pakistan and is waiting for the answers from Islamabad. He was talking to media men during Meet the Press programme at Karachi Press Club on Saturday. The Iranian envoy claimed ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has not yet officially launched a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) information system 668 to address associated risks on security and ensure subscription regulations in cellular sector. Pakistan is one of those countries wherein millions of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Monday asked India to share with it the real time actionable information on terrorist threats, if any. In response to a recent statement by the Indian home minister expressing apprehensions on terror strikes being planned by certain groups in Pakistan, the Foreign Office ...

ISLAMABAD - Former minister of state for information Senator Tariq Azim Sunday resigned from his position of PML-Qs Central Secretary Information. Senator Azim resigned just six days after partys central polls in which Ch Shujaat Hussain and Mushahid Hussain Sayed secured partys top slots ...