MIRPUR (AJK) : The water level in Mangla dam has started raising swiftly due to rapid melting of glaciers at the upper reaching of the areas. The water level in the dam raised up to 1149.45 feet on Sunday against the dead level of 1040.00 feet. According to expert, the raising of water level would, ...

LAHORE  - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Senator Ch Shujaat Hussain has welcomed the unanimous election of Dr Abdul Malik as the chief minister and described it the first step towards solution of Balochistan issue. In a statement issued here Sunday, Shujaat felicitated Dr Abdul ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday avoided answering questions during an informal meeting with journalists at the Presidency.However, replying to a question on the strategy of Pakistan after withdrawal of Nato forces from Afghanistan, the army chief said: ...

SRINAGAR  - Moderate Hurriyat Conference on Thursday asked the new government in Pakistan to take up the Kashmir issue with India on priority basis to find a just and durable solution. "The new Pakistani government should raise the Kashmir issue on priority basis and ensure participation of ...

LAHORE - Council for Indian Foreign Policy Chairman Dr VP Vaidik on Sunday said that the Kashmir issue is resolvable through dialogue among Pakistan and India. While addressing a session “Future of Indo-Pak relations” at TECH Society Club, he said “Independence of both India and ...

PESHAWAR -  The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday issued a fresh threat to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is currently facing a barrage of legal cases in police custody.The retired general has been detained in his farmhouse on the edge of the capital Islamabad since April 19 ...

MIRPUR (AJK)The Norwegian Parliament has conducted an important debate for the second time in a year, emphasizing the need for settlement of the Kashmir conflict, said a press communiqué issued by AJK PID here on Saturday.“An earlier debate was held in September 2012 when the Norwegian ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - The Norwegian Parliament has conducted an important debate for the second time in a year, emphasizing the need for settlement of the Kashmir conflict, said a press communiqué issued by AJK PID here on Saturday.“An earlier debate was held in September 2012 when the ...

Islamabad - Rejecting the proposed mini-budget by the caretaker government, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Friday urged President Asif Ali Zardari not to issue any ordinance in this regard.The JUI-F, which is yet to decide either to sit on treasury benches or go for ...

LAHORE  : Punjab United Front Chairman Engineer Faisal Malik has urged the government-in-waiting to take economy as the basic issue to resolve in the next two years. “Apart from political and social reforms, the PML-N should work and take extra measure to fix the economy taking ...

ISLAMABAD  - A delegation of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) led by its president Zafar Bakhtawari had a meeting with Tariq Fazal Chaudhary and congratulated him on winning election from NA-49 Islamabad in recent elections. Speaking on the occasion, Tariq Fazal Chaudhary said ...

Justice Jawwad S Khawaja  remarked Pervez Musharraf as an army chief had no authority to issue Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).He gave these remarks while presiding over  a 3-member bench of Supreme Court (SC) during the hearing of treason case against Pervez Musharraf ...

lahore - The PTA has been reluctant to issue NOC for the import of tablet PCs under the pretext of preventing terrorist activities in the country.“The PTA is seeking various test reports including safety, EMC and Radio Test Reports from the importers of tablet PCs having WiFi, HSPA, UMTS, ...

  ISLAMABAD National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigators had to wait patiently for three hours in the morning hours on Tuesday for the former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to appear in person in the Rental Power Projects (RPPs). They were, however, communicated from NAB Chairman's ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday warned that his party would launch a protest if rigging issue was no addressed in three days.In a written message read out by PTI leader Ejaz Chaudhry at a press conference here, Imran Khan said PTI believes in democracy and that his ...

SHEIKHUPURAThe sole brother of six sisters was brutally tortured to death here on Monday by landlord over a land issue.According to sources, goons of a local influential landlord had been pressurizing the poor man Zafer Iqbal since long time, demanding a route through a plot which was in his ...

MIRPUR (AJK)The Kashmir Council EU emphasized that Pakistan’s upcoming government should concentrate on Kashmir issue and accord top priority to it.In a meeting of the Council held in Brussels the other day to review political affairs of South Asia region particularly situation in Kashmir, ...

SHEIKHUPURA - The sole brother of six sisters was brutally tortured to death here on Monday by landlord over a land issue.According to sources, goons of a local influential landlord had been pressurizing the poor man Zafer Iqbal since long time, demanding a route through a plot which was in his ...

Lahore - Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan from hospital bed on Sunday welcomed the high turnout in elections as a step forward for democracy, but claimed ‘foul play’ on the polling day and vowed to submit a report on alleged vote-rigging shortly. Khan, who fell from a hoist ...

BULAWAYO - Since Mushfiqur Rahim surprised everyone by resigning as Bangladesh captain two days ago, the Bangladesh team has been kept away from talking about it to the media. The management finally let allrounder Ziaur Rahman take questions ahead of the first Twenty20 in Bulawayo. A relative ...

manama - Oman is considering whether to issue a U.S. dollar-denominated sovereign bond, its first international bond since 1997 and its second ever, to facilitate debt sales by its private sector, finance minister Darwish al-Balushi told Reuters.“This year we do not plan but maybe for next ...

islamabad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) published an analysis on manifestos of Pakistan’s political parties titled, “A Socio-Economic Assessment of Manifestos: Election 2013”.This analytical review presents a broad overview of the parties’ take on ...

karachi - War is nothing but destruction while table talk is the only solution to the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Muslim League (N) wants Kashmiri people to fight their legal case by their own will, said PML-N Vice President Azad Kashmir, Kashan Masood while having special talk with The Nation here on ...

ISLAMABAD - Bailing out military establishment from Musharraf’s episode, a former general, considered to be the right-hand man of ex-president, has denied any official contact with army regarding prevailing scenario involving arrest and trial of General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf in different ...

LAHORE  -Chief Minister Punjab Najam Sethi has asked both the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources as well as the Minister for Water & Power to resolve energy supply issue of textile industry in Punjab by Sunday morning.He has constituted a committee of both the ministries and ...

islamabadThe US Embassy on Friday said that the United States takes no position on the return of former president Pervez Musharraf or the legal proceedings against him.In a statement, a US Embassy spokesperson said: “This is an issue to be resolved solely in accordance with Pakistan’s ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Foreign Office spokesperson Friday said that no foreign country or foreign mission has contacted or approached the foreign ministry on the issue of General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf.Foreign Office spokesperson Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry stated this while responding to a query during ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director General Syed Amir Hamza Gilani has said that the board has already released first and second quarter grants to all the affiliated federations but third quarter grant will only be released to those federations who abide by the sports policy as per ...

LAHORE - Punjab University VC Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that Pakistan’s number one issue was the money which has been plundered in the last five years.  He was addressing the book launching ceremony of “Pakistan Fights Extremism and Terrorism” by Dr Umbreen Javed here on ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) despite former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s instruction on March 13, 2013 had refused to grant licences to 200 CNG stations, as they didn’t meet the criteria.A three-member bench of ...