LOS ANGELES: Tulisa Contostavlos has confirmed she will not be a judge on the next series of The X Factor. On her official Twitter account she said: “Just wanted to let you all know that I won’t be part of The X Factor panel this year. I’ve had a great time on the show, but this ...

LOS ANGELES: Usher is not returning to 'The Voice' USA next season. The 'Scream' hitmaker - who replaced Cee Lo Green on the judging panel of the reality TV show this year - has signed on to star in a movie so is unable to renew his contract with the NBC series. A source said: ''Usher is doing a ...

GOPAL RATNAM -  The US invaded Afghanistan more than 12 years ago with a contingent of special forces and Central Intelligence Agency officers, some of them on horseback, armed with laser pointers to direct airstrikes against al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts.Getting Americans out again will be ...

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has barred ex-prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other accused in Rs22 billion Rental Power Projects (RPPs) scam from leaving Pakistan.The former prime minister has also been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL). The FIA has ordered all the ...

LOS ANGELES: Veteran “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson said he was leaving the Fox TV singing contest to focus on his other business ventures. Jackson, who has been a judge on the show since its start in 2002, made the announcement amid falling ratings and rampant rumors about the ...

Tehran  - Iran has barred a Saudi diplomat allegedly involved in a deadly drink-driving accident from leaving the country, Fars news agency cited top lawmaker as saying on Sunday. The unnamed diplomat was “barred from leaving until the clarification of the (legal) status” of the ...

The US Senate approved by a heavy majority of 62 to 33 a resolution calling for the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. According to media reports, the mover of the resolution, Senator Jeff Merkley, said that the time had come to withdraw from Afghanistan as Al-Qaeda was no longer in a position ...

PESHAWAR - Leaving behind their memories, a number of war-affected Afghanistan refuges have at last resorted to repatriation to their war-torn country, as they have gathered at a voluntary repatriation centre in Peshawar.     Talking to TheNation, an elderly man Asmatullah, ...

Son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Ali Musa Gilani has said he will remain affiliated with Pakistan People’s Party.Talking to Online, Ali Musa Gilani said he is not going to leave PPP and observed that he owns the party to the same degree as Bilawal Bhutto Zardari does.He noted ...

ISLAMABAD - Abbottabad Commission, investigating the May 2 raid by US marines, on Tuesday imposed ban on travelling abroad of all the individuals including Dr Shakeel Afridi, who is allegedly linked with the American spy agency CIA. The judicial commission met in the chair of recently retired judge ...

LONDON (Online) Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that the United States and its allies had committed a big mistake by leaving Pakistan and Afghanistan alone after 1989. Addressing a British think tank on Sunday, he pointed out that the US had sidelined Taliban after the end of cold war ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association has said escalation of oil prices, coupled with frequent loadshedding has devastated the garmenting sector. The peace rate workers that were earning handsome amount based on their high productivity are losing heart and are ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will leave for Tehran tomorrow (Sunday) to attend 'the ECO Council of Ministers' meeting on Monday. The Council of Ministers' meeting of Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) will be followed by the 10th Summit Meeting of the regional ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) here Tuesday urged the government to let open market mechanism determine the price of wheat flour or co-relate it with wheat prices to stabilize the price of the commodity. Chairman PFMA, Punjab chapter, Habib-ur-Rahman claimed at a ...