MULTAN Once the PPPP leadership rose a slogan, telling the masses that democracy is the best revenge. The people seem to have crammed this slogan and perfectly applied it in Election 2013. An analysis reveals that the PPPP lost almost 40 per cent of its vote in four national and nine ...

lahore - The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz is no longer the most favourite party for business community, as traders, once regarded as natural allies of the PML-N, are now divided over support for political parties.Most of the traders’ bodies adopted the stance of not interfering in politics ...

LONDON: Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world’s best restaurant from Denmark’s Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with a bout of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery. The restaurant in Girona, run by three brothers and known for ...

 NEW YORK: Lindsay Lohan has lost an endorsement deal due to her recent legal troubles. The actress landed a lucrative contract with Odaingerous clothing Co but when Lindsay was sentenced to 90 days in rehab after pleading no contest to charges for lying to police about driving during a car ...

    LONDON   ControversialPakistanleg-spinner Danish Kaneria failed in his appeal to overturn his lifetime ban from cricket on Friday. Kaneria was banned last year for his role in a spot-fixing plot, but denied all involvement and immediately indicated his intention to contest the ...

LAHORE – A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death as the former refused to give up his love in Mustafabad, police said on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Nazeer, a resident of Mian Mir Colony of Mustafabad. Police said Nazeer wanted to marry to a girl of the same locality. But, the ...

LONDON   - Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird handed over a case of beer to his US counterpart John Kerry after losing a bet on a women’s ice hockey championships. “While the Canadian women played tremendously well and almost pulled it off, they didn’t quite make it ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AFP) - A British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking drugs into Bali faces a last-ditch appeal to Indonesia’s highest court to avoid the firing squad, after her first bid to lift the sentence was rejected Monday. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in ...

LAHORE - Image problem and energy shortage are two major challenges of textile industry in Pakistan that lost $10 billion export opportunity in last seven years while the regional competitors grew enormously during the same time. This was stated by Secretary APTMA Punjab Anis-ul-Haq during a ...

LAHORE – The Unification Bloc, which stood by the Shahbaz Sharif government in Punjab through thick and thin, has lost worth for PML-N tickets over internal differences and load of ticket aspirants.The main character and architect of the Bloc, Dr Tahir Ali Javed is in America after resigning ...

London High Court has ordered Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to pay £35,000 to Travel Agents as fuel surcharge commission within 21 days.The court also dismissed the appeal of national flag carrier, in which PIA had contended that fuel surcharge is government tax and it could not ...

ISLAMABAD  – It is estimated that Pakistan loses over 2.3 million cotton bales every year due to Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCV), which is considered to be the one of the top reasons of Pakistan’s low cotton yield, especially in Punjab.An official on the condition of anonymity told ...

ANDREW G. REITERAfter 33 years, Yemen is finally rid of its autocratic ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh – but not necessarily free of his shadow.With hope in their hearts, Yemenis surged to the polls this week to elect his replacement as president, the US-backed Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Mr. Hadi ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - After rallying by 520 points in last 2 days, market took some correction as investors preferred to book profit and index closed below the psychological level of 12,000.At local market the benchmark KSE-100 index ended the day at 11991.38 points, decreased 46.28 points ...

BASHIR TARIQLAHORE - Arfa Karim Randhawa’s death has saddened everyone in Pakistan and abroad. But it looks that Microsoft President Bill Gates has been distrusted more than anybody else by the IT wizard’s early departure for the hereafter. “This is the black day of my life and ...

KARACHI - The Karachi stock market witnessed panic selling across the board on Thursday on renewed foreign selling, led by blue-chip oil stocks.The KSE 100-index decreased 1.47 percent or 174.09 points to close at 11187.88 levels, KSE-Allshare Index lost 1.44 percent or 113.08 points to finish at ...

APIA, Samoa- Samoans celebrated in the streets at midnight Thursday when, with a song, a prayer and the ringing of bells, they wiped Friday off the calendar this week in a historic leap across the dateline.The midnight switch from Thursday, December 29 to Saturday, December 31 brought the Pacific ...

The rights to Marvel Comics hero Ghost Rider - played by Nicolas Cage in two films - belong to the firm and not the writer who conceived him in the 1970s, a New York judge has ruled. Gary Friedrich launched a legal bid to cash in on film rights in 2007. The judge ruled that, as he had cashed ...

KARACHI The Karachi stock market witnessed bearish trend on the last trading day of the week due to panic selling across the board, with the KSE 100-index closing at 5-week low. The KSE 100-share index shed 185.16 points and closed at 11,372.21 points. It had closed at 11,557.37 points on ...

KARACHI (Reuters) Share prices at stock market ended lower on Tuesday, taking a cue from world markets, but losses were contained as interest in the fertiliser sector remained strong on hopes of strong corporate results, dealers said. Companies are due to announce results for the quarter ended ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani stocks ended lower on Wednesday as investors booked profits at higher levels after the market closed on a two-month high the previous day, dealers said. The KSE benchmark 100-share index fell 0.55 per cent, or 65.11 points, to end at 11,868.17 on turnover of 82.64 ...

LAHORE The skyrocketing gold rates, high inflation, worsening law and order and dwindling economy, have dragged down the gold ornament business to zero level, market operators said. The rising gold prices in the international market have forced the customers to use artificial jewellery, pushing ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): The Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE-10) here on Monday witnessed bearish trend, as the index fell to 22.86 points to close at 2411.62 as compared to previous days trading. Senior Equity Dealer, Ismail Iqbal Pvt Ltd, Zaheer Ahmed told APP that the decline in international markets and ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Andy Whitfield, the former star of TV show Spartacus: Blood and Sand, died on Sunday of lymphoma in Sydney, Australia, at age 39, his representatives said. Whitfield played the indomitable hero Spartacus in the Starz network show when it launched last year. The actor, ...

KARACHI (Reuters) The Karachi stock market fell more than 3.2 per cent and closed at an almost nine-month low on Tuesday, taking a cue from world markets. Dealers said healthy corporate results were unable to spark any investor interest, either. The Karachi Stock Exchanges benchmark 100-share ...

LAHORE Foreign selling spell continued for the second consecutive week, keeping the investors at bay, despite strong major corporate financial results. The equity market continued to remain under pressure, losing 286 points or 2.3 percent to close at 12,190 level; while average daily volumes ...

LAHORE Ushna Suhail and Zixian Zhang lost their semi-final against Egyptian pair Marina Albert and Nour Tohamy by 3-6, 4-6 in the Junior ITF Tennis Tournament in Amman, Jordan, it was learnt here. The Sino-Pak pair played quite well but the other side was much better and did not provide any chance ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's Nobel-winning Muhammad Yunus lost a final appeal Tuesday against his sacking from the pioneering microfinance bank he founded and reportedly told his staff it was "time to leave." "The appeal has been dismissed by the Supreme Court," Yunus's lawyer Tamin Husain Shawan ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari has said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), that came into power through political strength, power of votes and the support of masses, will sit in opposition if it loses the masses support. We will remain in power until we have the support of masses,... ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Fortescue Metals Andrew Twiggy Forrest has bumped News Corps Rupert Murdoch down to second place in this years list of the 200 richest Australian executives released Wednesday. Forrests wealth jumped more than a third to Aus$6.2 billion ($6.2 billion) due to soaring iron ore ...