LAHORE  A majority view in PPP’s Punjab Executive Committee meeting on Friday was that BISP funds if spent to generate electricity could have averted party’s defeat in the recent elections. The Committee which met at Model Town office with Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo in the chair to ...

In the past civil government was unable to complete its constitutional mandate and the democracy was always derailed. Now for the first time an uninterrupted five years have passed. However, the process has not been completed yet. May 11 will be a decisive day for the future of Pakistan. There are ...

In the past civil government was unable to complete its constitutional mandate and the democracy was always derailed. Now for the first time an uninterrupted five years have passed. However the process has not been completed yet. May 11 will be a decisive day for the future of Pakistan. There are ...

LAHORE - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, who believes he will become prime minister for a third time after the May 11 elections, says the army is and should be subservient to the civil government. He also suggests the country should reconsider its support for the US war on militancy and says that he ...

ISLAMABAD - Unveiling the party’s manifesto with special focus on law and order, economy, education, health, JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday appealed to the Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to refrain from attacking political parties’ leaders currently engaged in election ...

SADIQABAD - The PML-N central and Punjab leadership finally stepped in to remove the intra-party differences between the two factions each led by NA-197 candidate Arshad Leghari and Muhammad Shafiq, the party’s candidate for a Punjab Assembly seat. Against the PPP candidates, the PML-N ...

SADIQABAD - The PML-N central and Punjab leadership finally stepped in to remove the intra-party differences between the two factions each led by NA-197 candidate Arshad Leghari and Muhammad Shafiq, the party’s candidate for a Punjab Assembly seat. Against the PPP candidates, the PML-N ...

Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Admiral (Retd)  Fasih Bokhari said Pakistan has entered a new phase with strong political leadership.Talking to media before appearing before a three-member bench of the Supreme Court hearing the rental power projects corruption case, he said the ...

I have gone through some beautiful articles that appeared in The Nation recently. Written about the happenings of the Yaum-e-Ishq-e Rasool, they were a real treat to read. Actually lack of education is the basic ill in this country. Our illiterate lot is at the mercy of the illiterate section ...

ISLAMABAD - Unilateral decision of PML-Q’s 47-member Unification Bloc (UB) supporting PML-N Punjab government to pitch Mohsin Leghari as consensus candidate for one of the Senate berths from the province has put Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and PML-N leadership in quandary, sources said on ...

MUZAFFARGARH - Naheed Khan, former political secretary of slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, claimed that the present party leadership had deviated from the vision and mission of the party’s founding chairman shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto shaheed Benazir Bhutto. The democratic identity of ...

ISLAMABAD - The top Kashmiri leadership in the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) was detained following a crackdown launched on Saturday, seemingly to foil the preparations for the Kashmir Solidarity Day being observed in Pakistan and both sides of Line of Control (LoC) today (Sunday).The leading political ...

LAHORE - Sindh Olympic Association (SOA) president Dr Syed M Ali Shah has called for a change in the leadership of Pakistan Olympic Association (PAO) adding the upcoming elections of the body will bring a change by electing new faces. "As far the SOA is concerned, it is a big supporter of bringing ...

LAHORE - While addressing the foundation day function of Pakistan Peoples Party here on Friday, Punjab Governor, Sardar Latif Khan Khosa cast aspersions on leadership qualities of Mian Nawaz Sharif, saying that how could a person afraid of mosquitoes become a leader. One has to give blood and ...

Iraqis have plenty of room to criticise the US war, which was launched on false premises and sometimes waged with a staggering degree of incompetence. Even those who celebrated the fall of Saddam Hussein have rarely been silent on Washingtons failings. But with the deadline for a full US troop ...

ISLAMABAD - Political leadership in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) has slammed the Occupied Valleys Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for what they termed as yet another failure, after the discovery of unmarked graves in IHK, to bring the rape culprits to justice. In separate conversations with this ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said Sunday that investors had lost confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries, warning global markets were in a new danger zone as a result. Zoellick said a convergence of events in the United States and Europe had rattled ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan has the resources and human potential to rejoin the ranks of advancing countries if it has an effective leadership, former President Pervez Musharraf stated this in a speech. In a speech to hundreds of supporters in Addison, Texas, he presented All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) ...

Multan - Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the time has come to promote honest and pro-Pakistan leadership as corrupt elements have jeopardized national security and stability. Addressing a public gathering here in his constituency on Monday to inaugurate different ...

LAHORE America, India and Israel are eyeing the nuclear assets of Pakistan, so a daring leadership is need of the hour to counter such conspiracies. These views were expressed by former DG Military Training General (r) Javaid, Editor TheNation Salim Bokhari and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei plans to run in the Egyptian presidential election scheduled for the end of this year. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses the arrest of former President Hosni Mubarak and the growing mistrust of Egypts military SPIEGEL: Mr ElBaradei, more than nine ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pakistanis are a brilliant nation. They need a true leadership, discipline and positive thinking for bringing revolution in the country. Youth should follow the teachings of Allama Muhammad Iqbal to face the hardships of life bravely. Prof Humayun Ehsan stated this while ...

LAHORE (PR) Evacuee Tru-st Property B-oard Chairman and PPP central leader, Sy-ed Asif Hashmi has said that Zulfiqar Ali Bh-utto was the leader of Islamic world. The country was on way to progress in his leadership. Talking at a ceremony held in connection with the 32nd death anniversary of ...

ISLAMABAD - The Chairperson Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party (JKPP) Lawyers Forum Nabila Irshad has said that the masses in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir are suffering, and sincere leadership is required to address the plight of the masses. Talking to The Nation on Tuesday, she said that the ...

KARACHI The die-hard workers of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have expressed their disappointment with the party leadership as well as functioning of government as senior party activists are being constantly ignored. The jialas believe that outsiders have occupied the important posts of ...

LAHORE - WikiLeaks cables have rightly termed PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif not trustworthy, as the entire leadership of PML-N is double-faced, claims PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. He expressed these views while talking to media on Saturday after condoling with the family of Haji Maqsood Butt on ...

ISLAMABAD The ruling PPP and main opposition party, PML-N, are gearing up for a bitter legal battle with the later is likely to move the Supreme Court to challenge the appointment of NAB Chairman, Justice (Retd) Deedar Hussain Shah. Instead of implementing decisions of the apex court, the PPP ...

WASHINGTON - The seven-year bloody US combat role in Iraq is over, President Barack Obama told Americans on Tuesday night and added that it was time to focus on repairing the US economy. In a prime time address from the Oval Office, Obama claimed no victory. He balanced praise for the troops who ...

UNITED NATIONS In a confidential end-of-assignment report, an outgoing official charged with combating corruption at the UN has accused Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of having failed to maintain accountability, a media report said Tuesday. The 50-page memo by Inga-Britt Ahlenius, a Swedish auditor ...

ISLAMABAD Former Director General ISI, General (R) Hamid Gul strongly rejected the media reports that Hamid Karzai had met Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of a major anti-government faction. Earlier media reports claimed that President of Afghanistan had held a secret meeting with Sirajuddin Haqqani ...