TheNation Monitoring NEW DELHI - Home Secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India are unlikely to be held this month as Islamabad has not yet responded to the dates suggested by New Delhi, reported PTI on Friday. India and Pakistan had announced holding of the Home Secretary level talks in ...

ISLAMABAD - Shazia Marri would be the senior-most candidate for National Assembly membership on the reserved women seat to be vacated following the resignation of Sherry Rehman, who has been made Ambassador to US, it is learnt. However, Mari is unlikely to accept the NA slot. The seniority list of ...

LAHORE - The PML-N ticket-holders and sitting assembly members are unhappy over recent induction of some politicians into the party, while some are also perturbed at the expected joining of few more turncoats. At a meeting held at Raiwind the other day and presided over by Mian Nawaz Sharif, party ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Flour prices are expected to rise followed by the increase in wheat prices, Ex Chairman Sindh Flour Mills Associations, Mohammad Yousf told TheNation. He said that the increase wheat prices would raise the prices of flour to an extent. 20 kg flour bag will now sell at ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - PPP central leader and former foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi will make an announcement about his political future at a big public meeting during the current month, TheNation learnt. His close circles disclosed to this scribe here that that Makhdoom Shah Mehmood ...

ISLAMABAD - The ruling PPP led by President Asif Ali Zardari is likely to face serious opposition within the party when a group of dissidents would launch PPP Bachao Tehreek (Save PPP Movement) later this month. The group, which has been sidelined by the President Zardari, the Co-Chairman of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp, struggling with a loss-making television business, is considering dissolving its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday. The Nikkei business daily, which reported the news earlier, ...

LAHORE - The State Bank of Pakistan is due to announce its monetary policy on Saturday (today) for the subsequent two months. This will be the first monetary policy after Pakistan quit the IMF programme and the financial experts are forecasting a 50-100bps cut in the interest rates as external ...

ISLAMABAD - The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) is set to issue a regular license to Global Energy Infrastructure (GEI) Pakistan to set up a terminal, jetty and allied facilities at Port Qasim for import of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). GEI is likely to get a regular license very soon from a ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is expecting that India is likely to drop its strong opposition on Eurperon Unions trade concessions granted for Islamabad during the upcoming trade talks between two countries to be held in last week of ongoing month (September), it has been learnt on ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Excise and Taxation Department is going to establish yet another office in Johar Town to facilitate citizens at their door steps, said an officer of the E&T on Saturday. It is worth mentioning that two officers are already working including E&T Farid Court House ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Member Science and Technology and Planning Commission Dr Samar Mubarkmand on Tuesday informed National Assembly Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources that the first test burn of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Thar Coal Project might be conducted in the current month to ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Nishat Mills Limited (NML) is scheduled to announce its FY11 results on Tuesday, September 06, 2011. According to analysts, sharp increase in cotton prices during FY11 led to a manifold impact on the prices of all the products in the textile chain. Presently, low-cost ...

ISLAMABAD - In the absence of appropriate measures to counter the fast increasing prices of POL products, Pakistanis should get ready to bear further increase in the prices of fuel in the coming month of September due to the upward revision in the margins of the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Tuesday forecast widespread rains and thundershower in Punjab during next 24 hours. Isolated heavy falls are expected in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Multan and D G Khan division during next 24 ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's military ruler, will most likely testify in the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak if summoned after a request by the defence, a security official said Thursday. Fareed al-Deeb, who represented the fallen dictator at his murder trial, asked ...

ISLAMABAD - In order to make joint opposition strategy on various old and ongoing issues, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is likely enhance its contacts in near future. Party level discussions to play role of a strong opposition group from both the sides are ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan may import as much as 180,000 tonnes of palm oil for July and has covered a lot of its requirement of the vegetable oil ahead of Ramazan, a top industry official said on Wednesday. Ramazan will start in the first week of August, boosting edible oil consumption in the ...

LAHORE - Security concerns along with the mounting circular debt have adversely affected the E&P sectors drilling activities, as only 42 wells have been spudded in FY11 till July 17 against full years target of 80 wells. As per Pakistan Petroleum Information Services (PPIS), only 42 E&D wells were ...

KINGSTON (AFP) - Chris Gayle has failed to settle differences with West Indies officials, and could miss the three-Test series with India, starting next week, according to reports on Thursday. Media reports indicate the two sides failed to reach an amicable solution at a meeting, which took place ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may pick Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey as the US militarys top officer, filling a crucial post that in recent years has served as the main point of contact with Pakistans military, sources said on Wednesday. General Dempsey is a leading ...

LAHORE As countrys top military commanders and intelligence heads briefed the joint-session of the parliament on Abbotabad debacle in a closed-door sitting on Friday, senior defense officials said Islamabad was most likely to get divorce from his rude ally (US). A senior official familiar with ...

ISLAMABAD - What to say about the villages and remote areas when the main cities of country are facing up to 18 hours loadshedding thus pushing country into total darkness and closure of industries as political government have not taken steps to resolve the issue. The political leadership at the ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Egyptian-born doctor and surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri is al Qaedas second-in-command expected to succeed Osama bin Laden following his killing in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan. Zawahri has been the brains behind bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, and at times its most ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The international price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has jumped by $ 96 to record high of $ 980 per ton for May 2011, raising its import price by Rs 9,043 to Rs 97,560 per ton, the highest ever in countrys history. Owing to the monopoly of LPG marketing companies, ...

ISLAMABAD - The devolution of the agriculture ministry would create technical issues such as the status of projects and memorandum of understandings signed with other countries is not clear. Matters relating to agriculture at the platform of regional organisations such as the OIC, D-8, South Asian ...

KARACHI - Just like in the year 2008, Pakistans exchange rate may face downside pressures in the coming days due to abrupt spike in international oil prices and the probable weakening of the capital and financial accounts, according to a report from Standard Chartered Bank. The State Banks move to ...

Researchers have found first-born children are more likely to suffer from allergies than their younger brothers and sisters. Japanese scientists found that multiple births build up the immune system in the womb which is transferred to babies. It means second and third children are less likely to ...

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources is inclined to pass on the Jakhro field with oil and gas reserves worth million of dollars to the government of Sindh, The Nation learnt reliably. Petroleum Ministry is near to pass on the Jakhro field to the government of Sindh. Consequently ...

ISLAMABAD - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is most likely to come up with a tough stance in a couple of days over the recently imposed flood surcharge, as the party has almost decided to oppose the move adopted through a Presidential ordinance. MQM Rabita Committee has discussed in length the ...