The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) remains NATO’s top mission in Afghanistan, the alliance secretary general said, while welcoming new Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Mark Breedlove.“On your watch, Afghan forces will be taking full responsibility for the security ...

  ISLAMABAD Although overall female voters turned out in big number and it was heartwarming that women inPakistanrefused to bow down, yet in areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa women were barred from casting their votes. Due to this flagrant violation of election rules and code of conduct, the Gender ...

HOLLYWOOD: Tom Cruise is set to return as Ethan Hunt after signing a deal to star inMission: Impossible 5. The actor, 50, will reprise his role as the super spy following the success of the fourth installment of the action franchise. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have both confirmed ...

LONDON/ATLANTA: British film studio Pinewood Shepperton, home of the James Bond movies, plans to build its first movie, television and music studio in the United States, part of an international expansion strategy launched in 2009. The owner of Europe’s largest film studio, Pinewood said on ...

ISLAMABADA World Health Organisation (WHO) mission called on the Secretary Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination, Farid Ullah Khan, on Friday. Dr Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Regional Adviser for WHO's Stop Tuberculosis programme for the Eastern Mediterranean, gave a debriefing to the secretary and ...

SWAT - The girls of different schools of the Swat valley on Tuesday vowed that they would continue Malala Yousafzai’s mission. They said they would struggle hard for girls education in the country. Talking to this scribe, they said they were inspired from the bravery of Malala and would ...

LAHORE – PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said the mission of his party is to steer the nation out of the darkness.Talking to the Turkish ambassador to Pakistan who met him at Raiwind on Wednesday, Nawaz said the PML-N will contest the elections with a determination to change the ...

LAHORE – Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial has said that judiciary's mission is to serve the people with dispensation of justice.He was speaking to a 20-member delegation of Federal Shariah Academy, Islamabad, headed by Dr Abdul Hayee Abro. The delegation comprised judges, ...

The combat mission of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will over in 2013 and the Afghan security forces will take the security charge of the entire country, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.Addressing at the conference of Afghan ambassadors and diplomats in his fortified ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday announced a bonus equivalent to one week’s salary for all LWMC staff in recognition of their services to keep the City clean on Eidul Azha.Shahbaz lauded the management and workers of LWMC (Lahore Waste Management Company) in his ...

The UN delegation currently in Pakistan is meeting top government officials, political leaders, human right activists and relatives of the missing persons in Balochistan. Its attempt to seek a meeting with Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was rebuffed. Top military commanders also refused to meet. ...

ISLAMABAD - Confirming the arrival of a high-level UN delegation in Pakistan in connection with the missing persons issue, the world body on Thursday announced the launch of 10-day official mission of the UN experts on enforced disappearances, starting from Sept 10th.This would be the third visit ...

SCIENTISTS are embarking on a mission to capture a 3D image of every ant species known to science. The US team is visiting museums around the world to photograph all of the ant specimens in their collections. They are using a technique that, for the first time, allows microscopic anatomical detail ...

As the United States finally begins to wind down its military presence in Afghanistan, is the Obama administration poised to replicate that intervention in Yemen? The administration insists it has no such plans, but it has been evident for months that it regards the Yemen-based group Al Qaeda in ...

Stephen M. WaltWill we eventually look back on President Obama’s drop-in visit to Kabul as his “Mission Accomplished” moment? He’s got a tough re-election battle to fight, the endless war in Central Asia isn’t popular, and he wants to remind everyone that he’s ...

“No emancipation (is possible) without that of (the entire) society.”                  - Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) German Sociologist and Philosopher“Will you wake up to our plight when we are ...

RAWALPINDI  - A Pakistan Army contingent left for United Nations mission at Darfur, Sudan on Friday. According to the ISPR statement, the contingent comprises 22 officers, nine junior commissioned officers and 214 soldiers. At present, a contingent comprising 500 troops of Pakistan Army ...

MUZAFFARGARH - Naheed Khan, former political secretary of slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, claimed that the present party leadership had deviated from the vision and mission of the party’s founding chairman shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto shaheed Benazir Bhutto. The democratic identity of ...

UNITED NATIONS- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the new attacks against civilians in the Syrian city of Homs were “a grim harbinger of worse to come.”Speaking to reporters, he said the United Nations and the League of Arab States are considering sending a joint observer ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister and Pakistan People’s Party central leader Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry said on Monday that German people and members of German Parliament could better understand the stance of Kashmiri people than other European nations, as they ...

LAHORE – Progress of the province and to serve the people is the mission of the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.This was stated by PML-N leader Chaudhry Nasir Ramazan in a Press release issued here on Wednesday.He said, the Punjab govt was seriously working to complete the public welfare ...

Amazing how an inept, incompetent and generally-considered corrupt government has taken on the two most powerful national institutions. Its blatant defiance of the highest court of the country and point blank refusal to comply with some of the directives given in the verdict is not only ...

KARACHI – The senior members of Pakistan cricket team are not ready to accept Dav Whatmore as head coach and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials have turned to former cricketer Rameez Raja to make them work under the former Australian. Sources disclosed on Wednesday that the former ...

ANKARA  - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Monday of a “civil war” in neighbouring Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is persisting with a deadly crackdown on opponents.“The situation that has emerged there is right now heading towards ...

The commendable efforts by Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a Kashmiri by birth and naturalised US citizen, seized with a missionary zeal to project the tragedy of Kashmir not only in the USA, but also rest of the world, were doused by a heavy downpour of suspicion and intrigue when he was arrested on July ...

WASHINGTON - The US military and CIA are probing claims that classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden was given to Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, a Republican lawmaker said Thursday.Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said he requested an ...

LISBON  - An Arab League observer mission currently in strife-ridden Syria "remains useful" even if it cannot impose an Arab peace plan in the country, the leader of the main opposition group said Tuesday."We believe that this mission remains useful even if it does not lead to the ...

KARACHI - Today P&G Pakistan marketers of leading household care products Pampers, Safeguard, Pantene and others joined hands with Anwar Maqsood renowned playwright and literary personality to launch Mission Taleem, says a press release. The campaign aims to touch and improve lives of Pakistanis ...

LAHORE - Editor-in-Chief TheNation Majid Nizami has said that according to the sayings of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan and how could we survive without it. He expressed these views in his message to Abdul Rasheed Turabi, Ameer JI Azad Jammu Kashmir at ...

THE great sweep of water around Planet Earth has been captured from space in greater detail than ever before. New observations from Europes Goce gravity mapping satellite have allowed scientists to plot ocean currents with unprecedented precision. Understanding gravity is fundamental to being able ...