The UN General assembly has unanimously decided to appoint Pakistan as a permanent member of the UN Scientific Committee (UNSCEAR), a top international body dealing with nuclear radiation. A press release of Pakistan Mission to the UN said the 193-member Assemblys decision is an acknowledgement of ...

ISLAMABAD - Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi has been unanimously elected as a Member of the Executive Committee of from Asia-Pacific region of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). He will be representing the Asia-pacific region in the IPU political and parliamentary affairs. ...

Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail has called on the ICC and member boards to enforce the use of the Decision Referral System (DRS) in Tests and One-day Internationals. Sohail insisted that the controversies surrounding the DRS in the ongoing Test series between India and England made it ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) became the first Central Asian exchange to acquire the membership of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE). With the addition of Kazakhstan, the number of countries having stock exchanges from their countries as the members of SAFE has ...

UNITED NATIONS - Ban Ki-moon, who was unanimously approved by the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for a second five-year term as the secretary-general, said he would work as a "harmonizer and bridge-builder among member states," to advance the cause of world peace in these turbulent times. Ban, who ...

UNITED NATIONS - Ban Ki-moon, who was unanimously approved by the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for a second five-year term as the secretray-general, said he would work as a "harmonizer and bridge-builder among member states," to advance the cause of world peace in these turbulent times. Ban, who ...

NAWABSHAH (INP) - Unidentified armed men gunned down former president of District Bar Association, Ali Muhmmad Dahri on Thursday. According to police, unknown assailants opened fire at member Sindh Bar Council (SBC) while he was on his way to home, killing him on the spot. Police reached the scene ...

ISLAMABAD - The government on Monday appointed a new member of Competition Commission of Pakistan besides reappointing three existing ones including CCP chief, while the CCP moved against exclusive rights' grant to a private TV channel.

After the assassination of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer three ministers of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa including 22 members assembly have hired private security guards in their security squad, these security guards are from their own constituency. As per details three ministers including 22 members ...

The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has formed a five member bench on Friday to probe into Haj corruption. The notice has been issued to the Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi. According to a private television channel, the five member bench will be headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

Leaders of the countries involved in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan will meet on Saturday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lisbon to discuss further steps aimed at establishing peace and order in the war-ravaged country. Two major issues are to be discussed during ...

Pakistan Cricket Board has said Pakistan Team wicket keeper Zulqarnain Haider left the team hotel without informing any member of the Pakistan Team Management and a full inquiry will be held into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and no further comments will be made until the facts ...

Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has nominated Khalid Ranjha as the member of Judicial Commisson after which the process of nomination has completed, report said on Thursday. Dr. Khalid Ranjha has been appointed as the member for a period of two years. Fakhar-Ud-Din G. Ibrahim was nominated by Hamid Khan ...

ISLAMABAD Justice Ali Hussain Qazlibash, former judge of the Supreme Court, has been nominated as member of the Judicial Commission responsible for the appointment of judges in the higher judiciary under the Constitution. Chief Justice and Chairman Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), Iftikhar ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The BA degree of PML-N member Pir Nizamud Din Sialvi has been proved fake on Wednesday. According to a private TV channel, in a statement submitted at Lahore High Court by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), it has been confirmed that the degree of Pir Nizamud Din, elected at ...

Only one parliamentarian turned up for hearing out of nine including two Federal Ministers in pursuance of the Election Commission's summon in fake degree case; consequently EC has decided to refer case of Federal Minister Mir Israullah Khan Zahri to Session judge for further action after he failed ...

Civil Line police station has arrested four-member dacoit gang and seized weapon and cash from their possession here from Rawalpindi on the other day. As per details, civil line police station has arrested four-member dacoit gang. The gang has confessed to the robberies in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. ...

The 13 member delegation of Pakistan Rangers Punjab (PRP) has left for India through Wahga border here on Monday to attend Border Protection meeting. As per details, the 13 member delegation is led by Brigadier Shafqat Nawaz Khan, before leaving for India Shafqat Nawaz said that during the meeting ...

Six men have been killed over old enmity in Fatahpur in the town of Dipalpur. According to police, the deceased Nawaz and accused Fazal shah both had old enmity. On Wednesday morning Fazal Shah entered in Nawaz home with his associates and killed six people of Nawaz family with the strikes of axe ...

MACAU (China) (APP) - Pakistan on Tuesday unanimously elected on the nine-member Executive Board of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) for a period of two years. Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Director General Murtaza Solangi represented Pakistan in the 36th Annual ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has been elected as member of Management Committee of International Mail Services User Group (IMSUG), says a letter of International Bureau of Universal Postal Union dispatched to Pakistan Post. Fazli Sattar Khan, Additional DG (Operations) from Pakistan Post will represent as ...

SWAT - Unknown militants on Tuesday gunned down a former union council nazim and a leader of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf here in tehsil Kabal. Sher Khan and his brother Majeedullah Khan were sitting in their hujra in Koza Banda area, Kabal, when unknown militants opened indiscriminate fire on them, ...

KARACHI - After culmination of campaign in Punjab, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has started the party membership drive in Sindh, which aims at providing opportunities to the new generation, especially the youths. However, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah who is also PPPs ...

LAHORE - The degrees of the three leading member Directors of Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) have been found bogus after verification from the educational institutions concerned, it was learnt. According to the sources, the degrees of Chaudhry Azfal Rahat of Rahat Securities, Omar Khalil Malik of ...

ISLAMABAD Acknowledging its constructive role in making the region free of chemical weapons, Organisation of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has re-elected Pakistan as its member of Executive Council for the next two-year term starting from May 2010. According to a press note issued from ...

The eldest member of the Ottoman dynasty, Ertugrul Osman Osm-anoglu, died at 97 on Wednesday evening in Istanbul, reported BBC. Osmanoglu had been hospitalised for one week at American Hospital with renal and respiratory failure. Osmanoglus wife Zeynep Tarzi said, He died at around 8:30 pm. I did ...

Gujranwala police have recovered 600 bags of sugar during a raid at a covert godwon of brother-in-law of PML-N member provincial assembly Sheikh Mumtaz. According to cantt police station, in Raholi area, the sugar bags were loading at a truck to shift to other district last night. When police ...

KARACHI - Member of World Bank -TVET Identification Mission under Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Program (BBSYDP), David Fretwell along with his fellow member Yasin Janjua visited KCCI to notify KCCI members on Employer Survey Appraisal. In his address during the meeting, he explained ...

A 20-member Ulema delegation has left for Swat from Peshawar to hold talks with Maulana Suif Mohammad and members of shura of Tahreek-e-Nifaz Shariat Mohammadi(TNSM). The delegation would discuss Nizam-e-Adl regulation and other issues during these meetings. The JUIs member NWFP assembly Mufti ...

KARACHI - A builder and member of underworld, Salman Hyder, 40, was found dead from his car on late Friday night in Ferozeabad police precincts. He was gunned down by his business partner, revealed by the police official. He was said to be close associate of underworld don, Shoaib Khan. He used ...