SEOUL : North and South Korea struck Monday a patchy agreement to hold a high-level meeting in Seoul, following marathon talks aimed at rebuilding trust after months of soaring tension and threats of nuclear war.Sunday’s preparatory talks, held in the border truce village of Panmunjom where ...

ISLAMABAD- The Cambridge International Exams (CIE) has announced that all students across the country who sat Cambridge O Level and Cambridge IGCSE Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies in May 2013 will be required to take new examinations for these subjects.Uzma Yousuf, Senior School Development ...

FAISALABADPakistan’s per capita water availability has dwindled from 5,260 cubic metres in 1951 to 1,000 this year, a threshold value under the global criteria, putting the food security at risk, reveals an expert at a seminar which was titled “Water and Biodiversity” and held in ...

ISLAMABADIslamabad Feetball Association (IFA) president Syed Sharafat Bukhari has vowed to develop this sport in the capital at grassroots level and give registrations to new clubs. Talking to The Nation on Tuesday, Sharafat said: “We will organise a summer camp for the players from June 7 ...

WASHINGTON:Chinalaunched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to aUSscientist atHarvardUniversity. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at theHarvard-SmithsonianCenterfor Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched ...

KARACHI (PR): Lucky Cement Limited, the largest cement manufacturer in the country is honored to be the first and only Pakistani company to receive level check ‘A+’ for its Sustainability Report 2012 by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI is a multi-stakeholder, network-based ...

 Water inflow in all major rivers has substantially increased due to the rising of mercury level in the country as on Wednesday it was recorded as 142,127 cusecs against the outflow of 138,950 cusecs.According to IRSA, the water inflow in the Indus River at Tarbela was recorded as 37,700 ...

Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said he cautioned then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto that Talibanization would not remain confined to Afghanistan and his apprehensions came true.In an interview, Asfandyar Wali said it was because of political ownership of the war against ...

ISLAMABAD - Indonesia has enjoyed free access to the Pakistan market for many items, including palm oil, for the past six years and part of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) signed by two countries recently, Pakistani exporters expect the same unhindered market access for kinnow export, said ...

LAHORE - High level of security will be in order during the entire Faysal Bank National Twenty20 Cricket Cup and its main venue Gadaffi Stadium has been declared ‘high alert security zone’.DIG Operation Punjab Police Rai Tahir said this at a press conference held here on Friday at ...

PESHAWAR  - Khyber Pakthunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that a high level committee has been formed to investigate the attack on Paul Lutheran Church in Mardan.Talking to reporters during his visit to the damaged Church in Mardan, the ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakthunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that a high level committee has been formed to investigate the attack on Paul Lutheran Church in Mardan.Talking to reporters during his visit to the damaged Church in Mardan, the Information ...

BHAKKAR - Iodine deficiency is decreasing rapidly from all over the Pakistan due to regular use of iodized salt, said the Executive District Officer (health) of Bhakkar said. During a refresher training of sanitary & food inspectors, he stressed the need for providing adequately iodized salt at ...

CAPE TOWN  - Pakistan Under-19s registered a four-wicket win against South Africa Under-19s in a low-scoring one-dayer on Friday, to level the three-match series at 1-1. Pakistan chose to bowl and Ziaul Haq justified their decision by quickly getting rid of South Africa's openers, leaving them ...

RAWALPINDI – A two-day workshop held under the auspices of Punjab Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) with the collaboration of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), UNDP and WFO concluded on Friday.Child Protection Specialist Punjab Jawadullah, Advisor NDMA Nighat Siddiqi, DG ...

ISLAMABAD - A Senate Special Committee reached consensus in its meeting Thursday to form Healthcare and Drug Regularity Authority (HDRA) at the federal level after the assurance of the committee to redress the objections of Punjab. Senator Ishaq Dar representing the Punjab government gave the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The water level in Mangla Dam has touched 1209.40 feet which is below only 0.60 feet from its maximum conservation level of 1210 feet while the Tarbela has already attained its conservation level of 1550 feet. According to the data released by Indus River System Authority (IRSA) ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER MAILSI - Irrigation Department Sub Divisional Officer Muhammad Arshad Khan has said that there was low level flood in all the eastern rivers wherein water level was steadily increasing. At Tarbela, he said upstream water is 1,82,200 cusecs and downstream water is 1,52,600 ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Health experts have said that the utilisation of iodised salt at the household level was only 17 percent in the country despite 56.4 percent people were aware about importance of this salt. According to them, low consumption of iodised salt at domestic level can have adverse ...

KARACHI - The present government has increased the burden of foreign debts to an alarming level of $58 billion; this was stated by the leader of business community and Vice President, Asia Pacific Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tariq Saiyeed. Addressing a luncheon meeting at Korangi Association ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has produced many legends in almost all the sporting fields and Raja M Asif, who played Davis Cup for Pakistan in 1992 and 1993 against Bangladesh and Singapore, is one of the examples. In an exclusive interview with TheNation here on Monday, Asif shared memories of his ...

LAHORE Plains of the country including the City remained in the grip of severe heat wave on Tuesday with frequent outages adding to the woes and miseries of heat stricken people. Experts have forecast the prevailing weather conditions to persist during the next couple of days. Jacobabad remained ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago. The reassessment to a major accident with widespread health and environmental effects was based ...

Japan put its nuclear calamity on par with the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, on Tuesday after new data showed that more radiation had leaked from its earthquake-crippled power plant in the early days of the crisis than first thought. Officials said it had taken time to measure ...

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Air Chief Marshall Jayalath Weerakkody met Friday and agreed on holding the foreign secretaries level consultations. They discussed matters of mutual interest to both counties and agreed holding of 10th ...

KARACHI - The local equity market fell below the psychological level of 12,000 points on Tuesday due to decline in the global capital and commodities markets caused by a nuclear crisis that emerged after 8.9 magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan. Bearish activity was witnessed in ...

Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Shahbaz Bhattis murder will shatter Pakistans image at international level and the country has been deprived of a good politician. While talking to media at Lahore Airport, Qureshi said that Shahbaz Bhatti was a nice person and a mature ...

India beat South Africa by 87 runs in Durban Test to level the Test series 1-1 here. Ashwell Prince stranded not out after the Proteas lost the 10th wicket. Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan took three wickets apiece for India. Earlier, India took four South Africa second innings wickets before lunch on ...

KARACHI The Karachi stock market witnessed bullish activity on Monday amid strong valuations in the scrips of the fertilizer companies across the board. The upward movement in the KSE 100-share index was attributed to a 23 per cent hike in the prices of urea by fertilizer companies owing to ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said Pakistan was determined to further cement its relationship with Turkey on geo-strategic and economic level by taking it to new heights. Both the countries share a similarity of perceptions on a wide range of regional and international issues, he said ...