ISLAMABAD - Apparently alarmed with the rapid political extinction of his party, the President Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has moved the electoral body against the five Parliamentarians-elect, accusing them of violating their oaths to join PML-N instead of ...

CAMBRIDGE: South Korean rapper Psy said he “partied hard” when his dance number drew its first 10 million views on YouTube last summer. Little did he know “Gangnam Style” would become the most-viewed video in the online service’s history, with a global following and ...

Lahore - Qari Zawar Bahadur, a Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan candidate in NA-126, has moved the Lahore High Court against the wrong printing of electoral symbol of his party by the Election Commission of Pakistan.The petitioner said the ECP had allotted symbol of key to his party, but the sign of ...

NEW ENGLAND, US: Taylor Swift has moved into her $17 million oceanfront mansion in Rhode Island. Arriving via private plane in Watch Hill, RI, with her parents and bodyguards, Swift, 23, quickly got to work making herself at home. According to TMZ, the country music superstar had been eyeing the ...

karachi - Muhajir Qaumi Movement-Haqqiqi Chairman Afaq Ahmed has vowed to continue his sit-in protest for indefinite period at Dawood Chowrangi, Landhi against restraining Haqqiqi from election campaign by the law-enforcement agencies.He took out a rally along with hundreds of his workers and ...

ISTANBUL The Turkish government welcomed a planned withdrawal by Kurdish militants as significant progress towards ending three decades of conflict on Friday, and it warned its nationalist opponents not to sabotage the peace process.The main nationalist party, however, was quick to reiterate its ...

SEOUL :  North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday. Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide with ...

LONDON (AFP) - G8 foreign ministers strongly condemned North Korea over its nuclear programme on Thursday but failed to bridge divisions over Syria beyond calling for more humanitarian aid for victims of the conflict.After a two-day meeting in London, ministers including US Secretary of State John ...

ISLAMABAD – After Higher Education Commission placed Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan among the parliamentarians whose academic credentials could not be verified, the top PML-N leader snapped back on Saturday with a plea calling for placement of record before the Supreme Court as regards the efforts ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Ahsan Iqbal Friday submitted an application before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to bar former president Pervez Musharaf from contesting the elections from any constituency in Pakistan.Ahsan Iqbal maintained in the application that ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea said Thursday as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.Seoul's defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin said the missile could reach a "considerable ...

Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Wednesday said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would continue to render sacrifices until the dream of a democratic Pakistan was fulfilled.The minister said the PPP had from its inception been made a victim of accusations, adding that the ...

ISLAMABAD - Former MNA Marvi Memon on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court regarding the funds obtained by the government for the development projects and the information for the allocation of the said funds.The petitioner has made respondents Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation ...

LAHORE – The Punjab government has so far distributed only 4,800 yellow cabs among the selected candidates against the target to handover 20,000 vehicles by the month of March, The Nation has learnt. An official of the provincial government told this scribe on Monday that completion of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Masoor Ijaz, the main figure of memorandum scam, has filed an application at the Supreme Court praying that his statement be recorded and forensic evidence be received from him outside Pakistan.Akram Sheikh, who filed the petition Saturday on behalf of Ijaz, stated that the judicial ...

ISLAMABAD - MQM on Monday submitted two resolutions in the Senate Secretariat that demand creation of more provinces in south Punjab including Seriaki province and Hazara in Khyber Pakhtu-nkhwa.   The first resolution pertaining to the creation of more province in south Punjab states. The ...

Kanye West is moving to the UK. The rap star has obtained a property in London and has decided to make the move from the US in a bid to make a success of his new fashion label DW.The ‘Otis’ rapper believes if he is based in the British capital he will be able to improve his reputation ...

KARACHI (INP) - MQM-H Chief Afaq Ahmed on Thursday filed a petition against the Director General  Rangers in the Sindh High Court for contempt of court. The application was filed after the Rangers failed to provide security to the MQM-H chief on the court’s order. The application ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Ali Arshad Hakeem filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court on Monday against opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. In a petition filed in the Islamabad High Court on Monday through his council, Ali Arshad ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan and Turkmenistan on Monday signed a bilateral agreement over the price of gas through the planned Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, officials said. The Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement (GSPA), which was dubbed as a historic step towards the ...

LAHORE - The Punjab govt on Wednesday moved appeals before the Lahore High Court against the acquittal of five accused persons in Sialkot killing of two brothers as well as to seek enhancement in the life sentence awarded by the Special Court, Anti-terrorism, to six others. Additional Prosecutor ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United States and European powers stepped up a diplomatic scramble Sunday to avoid a UN showdown on the Palestinian plan to seek full UN membership, which the US administration has vowed to veto. US, European Union, Russian and United Nations officials were all involved ...

RAWALPINDI - Wife of former president and military dictator Sehba Musharraf on Friday submitted an application with anti-terrorism court seeking release of the confiscated properties and accounts of her spouse in Benazir Bhutto Assassination case. She said that the orders against her husband ...

MONZA (AFP) - Defending drivers world champion Sebastian Vettel moved within sight of retaining his title with ease on Sunday when he drove to a comprehensive victory at a crash-hit and thrilling Italian Grand Prix. As the 24-year-old German steered his Red Bull car clear of the field, his nearest ...

WINSTON-SALEM (AFP) - Andy Roddick finally won his first match of the summer, advancing to the second round of the ATP Winston-Salem Open on Tuesday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Local boy John Isner, seeded fourth, also won his opening match in the last event before the start of ...

NEW DELHI (Online) - Pakistan has moved the Court of Arbitration asking it to direct India to stop work at the 330 mw Kishanganga hydro-power project in Held Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the two countries are fighting a legal battle in a court of arbitration, Pakistan has filed a petition in the ...

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company has moved the Sindh High Court against non-action of the provincial govt and law enforcement agencies upon the SHC orders of June 23 for reopening of its offices, protection to management and employees and free movement of repair and maintenance teams ...

KARACHI The MQM on Monday filed a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court against the deferment of AJK June 26 scheduled elections for two Karachi seats. It pleaded to declare null and void Election Commissions orders regarding cancellation of polling on selective seats of Azad ...

SYED DANISH HUSSAIN ISLAMABAD Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan has requested the Capital Development Authority to issue a 'temporary no objection certificate (NOC) for the placement of anti-bomb blockades around the embassy building located in the residential area of the Capital, The Nation ...

VLADIMIR PUTIN has been showing off his 'macho skills again - this time with a spot of his favourite sport, judo. Russias prime minister is a black-belt in the sport and was taking part in a sparring session at the inauguration of a sports complex in St Petersburg. He was given tips on how to ...