LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah, while reacting to the telephonic address of Babar Awan to a rally at Dera Ismaeel Khan, has said that Muslim League-N is a representative party of the people of entire country and the great love with Nawaz Sharif ...

LAHORE - Former Foreign Secretary Akram Zaki has said that boycott of Bonn conference on peace in Afghanistan is good decision. He said that only one declaration would be issued there and no international conference could do anything until internal resolution to Afghanistan problem is sought. In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite concerns that removing both of a womans ovaries would raise her chances of dying from diseases associated with aging, a large new study suggests the procedure may be safe. Looking at data on more than 130,000 California teachers, researchers found that women who were 45 ...

The detention of 7,000 people in prisons and camps by the anti-Gaddafi forces is not surprising. The conflict in Libya was always much more of a civil war between Libyans than foreign governments pretended or the foreign media reported. The winning anti-Gaddafi militia are not proving merciful. ...

US Senator Gary Ackerman has said Pakistans 'self-centred interest is in contradiction with the American interest, reported a private TV channel on Thursday. Pakistan military is not our ally. They are not supporting the US. Despite military aid, Pakistan did not change its policies, the US ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran on Sunday not to "miscalculate" the continuing US commitment to Iraq after the withdrawal of all American combat forces at the end of the year. "No one, most particularly Iran, should miscalculate about our continuing commitment to ...

The death of Muammar Gaddafi is good news in that it should enable the United States to immediately terminate all military operations in Libya, and to turn over responsibility for security in the country to the recognised leaders of the new government. Gaddafis death does not validate the original ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The controversial diagnosis social phobia is a legitimate psychiatric condition and is not the same as shyness, government researchers say in a new report. Based on a large national survey, they found cases of social phobia among teens who described themselves as shy as well as ...

Actress/model Elizabeth Hurley is in no rush to marry cricketer Shane Warne because she wants to spend more time getting to know her fiances family before they wed. The Australian sports star proposed to Hurley last month after a whirlwind romance, but the couple has yet to set a date for the ...

There wahortage of adjectives and one liners to describe what President Mahmoud Abbas has done at the UN General Assembly on Friday when he pleaded the case of his people and declared that he had submitted on their behalf Palestines formal application to become a full member of the international ...

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Washington respects the right of Libyans to decide their own future, a senior US official said Wednesday in Tripoli, as the African Union pushed for an inclusive government after Muamer Gaddafis ouster. The United States respects Libyas sovereignty, said Jeffrey Feltman, the highest ...

CANBERRA (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the fight against extremism was not finished, condemning it as a "barbarian form of violence" at Australian commemorations Sunday of the September 11 attacks. Juppe and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd laid a wreath at the National War ...

PARIS (AFP) - Ex-French president Jacques Chirac will not attend his corruption trial opening in Paris on Monday on medical grounds, his lawyers said Saturday. The lawyers said, they submitted a letter from their client to the presiding judge together with a copy of his medical file. "In the ...

A SUBTERRANEAN river said to be flowing beneath the Amazon region of Brazil is not a river in the conventional sense, even if its existence is confirmed. The river has been widely reported, after a study on it was presented to a Brazilian science meeting last week. But the researchers involved told ...

Sonia Gandhi must be ruing the day she picked up Dr Manmohan Singh to step in for her. When the Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi spurned the throne and instead chose the unassuming retired economist to lead India, the move was seen as an extraordinary sacrifice in true Gandhian tradition. It was ...

LAHORE Rs 10.1 billion bailout package for Pakistan Railways may not work for bringing improvement in the cash-stripped department, The Nation has learnt. The sources said railways authorities set the target to repair 100 locomotives and 400 coaches on the release of the package while the ...

KATE Middleton has a natural sense of style, according to Sara Buys, her step-sister-in-law, and a style guru Joanna Lumley said, a trifle unkindly, that the Duchess of Cambridge should hire a "fleet of stylists" to help her to get her look and wardrobe absolutely right. Three months after the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdaus Aashiq Awan has maintained no single can forge a grand alliance since it is only possible when all the rest of the parties unite on one platform. While asserting that the PPP would complete its term, she advised the Opposition ...

Reports from Kabul suggest Pakistan fired 'hundreds of rockets into Afghanistan. Such an unthinkable and unbelievable allegation comes from President Hamid Karzai whose voice is hardly heard within the vicinity of Kabul alone but globally his statements are circulated by strong US-backed media. At ...

LAHORE - PPPs Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich on Tuesday said that Benazir Bhutto had signed the Charter of Democracy with those who instituted baseless cases against her. Addressing a cake-cutting ceremony held in connection with Benazir Bhuttos 58th birth anniversary at partys Faisal ...

Justin Timberlake insists there are no particular qualities he looks for in a woman. The 30-year-old singer-and-actor - who has previously dated stars including Jessica Biel, Cameron Diaz and Britney Spears - enjoys meeting new people and is happy to go wherever life takes him because he cant ...

ROSIE Huntington-Whiteley insists shes nothing like her elegant persona. The model-turned-actress who stars in the new Transformers movie says shes the polar opposite of her public image. There is a big difference between Rosie the model and Rosie the normal girl, says the 24-year-old star. The ...

LAHORE - About 20.4 per cent school-age children in Pakistan are not going to school while13.5 never enrolled in any school and 6.5 per cent stopped going to school after enrolment, 50.1 per cent of all these categories are girls. This state of literacy and education despite high claims of ...

Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize the power of the Web to spawn an army of online followers who will prolong Al-Qaedas war against the West ...

Travelers should not rely solely on technology such as GPS for navigation, after a Canadian couple lost in the Nevada wilderness for 48 days. Albert Chretien, 59, and his wife Rita Chretien, 56, sought a shorter route between Boise, Idaho and Jackpot, Nevada during a road trip from British Columbia ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and Sui Northern Gas Pipeline (SNGPL) through their respective reply to a petition against the increase in the POL prices urged the Bench of LHC Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed Friday that the case may be dismissed as not ...

LONDON (AFP) - There is no evidence that the security services could have prevented the 2005 London bombings, a coroner found Friday while warning that changes were necessary to help prevent further such atrocities. The exhaustive inquests examining the deaths of the 52 victims of the ...

Osama Bin Ladens last wish, according to his will, was that his wives not remarry and his children not join al-Qaeda. Al-Anbaa, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reported Tuesday that the will, marked private and confidential was dated 14 December 2001, three months after the 9/11 attacks when US forces were ...

MUMBAI - Hashan Tillakratne may become a laughing stock in the end, if he does not name the players, involved in match-fixing. In the year 2005 when the tsunami waves hit the Sri Lanka shores (December 2004), the board had appointed him the Executive Director of Cricket-Aid, a body formed to ...

ISLAMABAD - Vehemently rejecting the critical US report, Pakistan on Thursday said it would not be held accountable for US-led failures in Afghanistan. I would like to emphatically state that we do not share the US assessment, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said in response to a ...