ISLAMABAD - A letter written to Pakistan by Switzerland Tuesday revealed that the corruption cases cannot be reopened against President Asif Ali Zardari in any Swiss court of law, a media report said.Pakistan's law ministry, which received the Swiss government’s response to the letter written ...

ISLAMABAD- Islamabad High Court directed the federal government to pay 20 per cent special allowance without any discrimination to the employees of all the attached departments and corporations of federal ministries.Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui issued these directions while hearing some 23 ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Railways Khwaja Saad Rafiq, on first day after assuming charge of his ministry, ordered withdrawal of perks and privileges especially vehicles above the entitlement of Pakistan Railways (PR) officials.This little action would not prove enough to put on track the sinking ...

LAHORE- Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) senior vice president Col (retd) Asif Dar has demanded removal of the incompetent PTF officials for not only choosing the wrong venue to hold the Davis Cup tie but also for bringing disgrace to Pakistan tennis and sports. Talking to The Nation on Friday, Col ...

ISLAMABAD - A two-day training workshop on 'Competition and Consumer Protection' for the officials of the Afghanistan's Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force, and Afghanistan's Competition and Consumer Protection Directorate (CCPD), was held at ...

RAWALPINDI -A court of district and sessions judge on Monday directed police to nab the top officials of Adiala Jail for subjecting the inmates to severe torture and producing false statements in the court.DSJ Kaleem Khan ordered the police to arrest Adiala Jail Superintendent Malik Mushtaq and ...

NEW DELHI - Two top officials of the Indian cricket board quit on Friday over an escalating spot-fixing scandal, reports said. Sanjay Jagdale, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and treasurer Ajay Shirke submitted their resignations to the board president, the NDTV ...

BHAKKARDCO Mumtaz Zahid has directed all district departments’ head to follow financial discipline strictly by cutting down non-development expenditure. Chairing a meeting of the District Council budget 2013 here the other day, he said that budget provided by the district government for ...

At least two security personnel were killed and some others injured in militants attack on a security check post here in Bannu on Monday.According to details, armed miscreants stormed a security check post located in Janikhel area of Bannu district.Two security officials deputed at the check post ...

KARACHI - Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Khalid Mahmood on Thursday said that corruption in cricket can only be rooted out when officials are also given punishment and held responsible for failing to stop the menace in the sport."I think some serious legislation is required through ...

Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said.The attack took place at Shagai area, 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Landi Kotal, the main town of the troubled Khyber ...

KUWAIT - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.2 billion in damages to Dow Chemical Co over a scrapped plastics joint venture.Nizar Mohammad al-Asani replaced Farouk Zanki as CEO at the oil firm and the ...

lahore - Two officials of Punjab Planning Development Department have been found to embezzle about Rs 21.35 million in their department.This was revealed in reference case sent to the Punjab government for taking action under PEEDA Act 2006 and lodging of FIR against the officials in the ...

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) chairman Syed Ali Akber Shah Qadri has nominated 20 technical officials for the 35th Velo Cup National Boxing Championship to be held at Sialkot from May 25-30. The officials include Ali Akber Shah Qadri (AIBA) technical delegate, Ghulam ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed the driver of a NATO supply truck driving through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said.The shooting took place in the Jamrud area of Khyber. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local government official ...

WASHINGTON : Federal authorities have charged a Texas man with illegal possession of bomb making materials, but would not say whether the arrest is linked to a probe into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant.The US Justice Department said in a statement that Bryce Ashley Reed, ...

Two people were killed and 23 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife ...

Islamabad - A report of a non-governmental organisation indicates that a total of 70 government officials have been found involved participating in political activities in 25 constituencies across the country.Among those thirty-six officials were seen seeking votes for different candidates in 12 ...

North Korea has taken a major step back from a planned missile test, US officials said, even as Pyongyang and Seoul exchanged fresh threats Tuesday of swift military retaliation to any provocation.A US defence official said two North Korean missiles -- primed for imminent test firing -- had been ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

TRIPOLI:Libya’s General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office. Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries ...

A group of officials from the Pakistani High Commission to India on Saturday visited Sanaullah Haq who had been injured in a brawl with an Indian inmate in a Jammu jail at PGI Chandigarh, the Times of India reported.Pakistan was granted consular access to Sanaullah by India on Friday night, as well ...

LAHORE Government of Pakistan will send 270 officials from across the country including 23 from Punjab to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under Hujjaj Muhafiz Scheme of Ministry of Religious Affairs, TheNation has learnt.  Sources in the S&GAD confided that applications from government ...

A passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing at least 30 people, many of them heading for the poppy harvest, officials said.The accident happened in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province as passengers on the packed bus were travelling to join ...

PULI ALAMAfghan village elders negotiated with the Taliban Tuesday to try to win the release of a group of foreign hostages, officials said, but no progress was reported so far.The insurgents seized eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan after their civilian helicopter made a forced ...

Peshawar - A roadside bomb targeting an army convoy killed four soldiers and wounded another four in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.The blast occurred when a vehicle of the military convoy of security personnel rolled over an improvised explosive device near Khawaja Khar checkpost. The convoy ...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reshuffled tax officers with transfers and postings of 18 high-ranking officers in last few days.Sources informed that reshuffle in FBR was expected with new chairman took the charge of the tax department. The notification revealed three officers of Pakistan ...

COLOMBO:- Jayantha Dharmadasa and Nishantha Ranatunga won uncontested elections for the posts of Sri Lanka Cricket president and secretary on Tuesday in the national governing body's first secret ballot.  The election, which lasted eight hours, was held under tight security with several ...

ISLAMABAD - Noticing frequent media appearances of its officials outside their authority and despite order for not doing so, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday appeared to have cut down to size its third-tier management, with the issuance of new directives instructing the ECP ...

LAHORE – District Coordination Officer Lahore, Rizwan Mehboob on Sunday suspended Sub Inspector Market Committee Shadman Ijaz Bhatti and officials Gulberg Town Shahzad and Waheed Gulzar on their absent from Model Town Sunday Bazaar. He also issued showcause notice to District Officer ...