LahoreBalochistan caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Barozai has said that the promise of peaceful polls in Balochistan was fulfilled while it is the most disturbed province in the country.He said that the office of caretaker CM remained unbiased and non-controversial. He was addressing a ...

ISLAMABAD : Water inflow in all major rivers has risen due to shooting up mercury level in the country and on Tuesday it was recorded as 255,250 cusecs against the outflow of 240168 cusecs. According to the data released by Indus River System Authority (IRSA), water inflow in Indus at Tarbela was ...

islamabad -  OUR STAFF REPORTER  - The newly elected govt is likely to make major reshuffles in state-owned entities in order to transform them into profitable units.Sources said that newly elected government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has no option but to bring independent ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson had levels of drugs in his body consistent with someone undergoing major surgery on the day he died in 2009, a coroner’s expert said.The 50-year-old died from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, given by his doctor Conrad Murray to help the singer with chronic ...

lahore -  Widening energy demand-supply gap is posing a major challenge to Pakistan economic health, which is estimated to have curtailed GDP growth by 200bps in last few years, financial experts said.After a brief tilt toward expensive imported oil in FY11 though the reliance on indigenous ...

SEOUL North Korea appears to be gearing up for a major military exercise, a report said on Sunday, amid tensions over an expected missile test and South Korea’s pullout from a joint industrial complex.Preparations are under way near the North’s western port of Nampo for a combined ...

Election Commission of Pakistan said vote would be considered as rejected if ballot paper is marked other than 9-Box stamp.Issuing the directions to Returning Officers related to acceptance or rejection of votes‚ the commission said marking the ballot paper in front of desired candidate with ...

Islamabad  -  In another major reshuffle at the federal bureaucracy ahead of the general election, the caretaker federal government Tuesday transferred and posted a number of senior officers including Chief Commissioner Islamabad Tariq Mahmood Pirzada and secretaries of commerce as well ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf gears up for the electoral campaign in Karachi and vows to give tough time to the major stakeholders of the City. The PTI is contesting election from 17 out of 20 seats of National Assembly of Karachi. It directed the party workers and leaders to kick off the ...

ISLAMABAD - Military on Thursday assigned key postings to the newly promoted major generals who were elevated to the two-star general ranks last month.According to details, new sector commanders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have been appointed. The posts of General Officers Commanding ...

GAO, Mali  - A French force of 1,000 soldiers has begun a sweep of a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao, an AFP journalist accompanying the mission said.Operation Gustav, one of France's largest actions since its intervention in its ...

ISLAMABAD - Acting High Commissioner to Malaysia Mohammad Nadeem Khan Friday said that bilateral trade between Pakistan and Malaysia continues to increase with two-way trade touching $2.8 billion last year.In a statement, Nadeem Khan said that due to a huge trade gap, Pakistan hopes to increase ...

RANCHO MIRAGE  - Stacy Lewis will be more concerned with adding another major title to her resume at the Kraft Nabisco Championship this week than with retaining her world No. 1 ranking.Lewis made her LPGA title debut one to remember when she won the first major championship of 2011 at Mission ...

YANGON  - A top UN envoy Friday raised concerns about the plight of hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes by unrest in Myanmar, after visiting camps in the country’s conflict-hit west and north. The United Nations’ humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said almost half ...

LAHORE – Homage was paid on Thursday to Major Shabbir Sharif, a valiant warrior who displayed unparallel courage while defending the motherland and embraced martyrdom on December 6 at Sulemanki Sector in the 1971 war. He earned the highest gallantry award of Nishan-e-Haider. According to ...

Frontier Constabulary (FC) Sunday foiled a possible massive terrorism attempt as it impounded a bus laden with huge quantity of explosive material and arrested five accused.Frontier Constabulary spokesman said the bus was seized at Quetta-Karachi Highway near Akhtar Abad area when it was checked on ...

THOUSAND OAKS  - Tiger Woods, buoyed by a return to form in 2012, is hoping 2013 will yield the one thing that in his opinion makes a season great: a major golf title."Any time you get a chance to be part of history and put your name on the biggest trophies in our sport, it's a great year," ...

VIENNA - Dietmar Machold, one of the world's foremost dealers in rare and expensive violins until his firm went bankrupt in 2010, has been sentenced in Austria to six years in jail for fraud."You played big and lost big," presiding judge Claudia Moravec-Loidolt told the Vienna court on Friday. "But ...

BEIJING - China's outgoing leader has acknowledged the ills that plague the Communist Party but insisted it can cure itself, indicating no radical surgery to either the economy or politics by his successor. In likely his final political testament given Thursday at China's ongoing Communist Party ...

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the New York City area Tuesday as Superstorm Sandy pounded the East Coast, killing at least 38 people, sweeping homes into the ocean, flooding large swaths of coastal areas, crippling public transit, and leaving millions without ...

RAWALPINDI – Poor patients are facing severe problems due to the out of order CT scan machines at Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi.Sources informed this agency that the MRI machine of Holy Family hospital has been out of order for last five years while the CT scan machine of Benazir ...

ISLAMABAD - At a time when the nation needs political unity to safely navigate through the turbulent waters, the two major political parties of the country are engaged in petty politics for their vested interests.Being out of power for over a decade, the main opposition party at the centre (PML-N) ...

LAHORE - The Budget FY13 has no major surprises for the capital markets. Financial experts said that the newly amended gain tax ordinance is now part of Finance Bill, which will bring some certainty to the investors related to tax issues. Contrary to fear, banks tax rate has not been increased ...

RAWALPINDI  – A simple but impressive book launching ceremony on Major Shabir Sharif Shaheed’s heroic life as military officer titled “What more can a solider desire” was held here in Rawalpindi on Friday. Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was chief ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that deep friendly and historic ties exist between Pakistan and Britain. He said that UK is a major trade partner of Pakistan and its cooperation in national construction sectors is commendable, adding the UK has always cooperated with ...

May 20, 1965: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 707 crashes on its inaugural flight while attempting to land at Cairo airport, killing 124 people.August 6, 1970: A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while attempting to take off from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 ...

ORLANDO - Now that Tiger Woods has ended his 30-month victory drought on the PGA Tour, the question turns to whether the former world number one can win again where it really counts - in a major championship, starting with the Masters.If it seems a little dismissive of Woods’ victory at the ...

LAHORE  - Diabetes, smoking, hypertension and high degree of cholesterol are major causes of heart attack in Pakistan.A 4-year extensive study conducted at Cardiac Surgery Department of Allama Iqbal Medical College and Jinnah Hospital revealed that diabetes, smoking, hypertension and ...

SANAA - Yemen’s southern separatists have emerged as a major challenge for Yemen, which is facing uncharted waters as the rule of long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh ends.The Southern Movement boycotted Tuesday’s referendum to endorse Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi as ...

LAHORE – The provincial government’s sudden interest in dozens of new development projects in Lahore has left most roads around the City trenched, raising problems in the everyday lives of Lahorites, a survey conducted by The Nation revealed.Rush hour traffic in Lahore was never less ...