lahore - The upcoming government of the PML-N has no other option but to approach International Monetary Fund to control its fiscal imbalances, which country has been facing due to dwindling foreign reserves, balance of payment crisis, weakening exchange rate and financial mismanagement during the ...

In 1959, Professor Arnold J. Toynbee was invited by the Peshawar University to spend a month on the campus to deliver a series of lectures on a subject of his own choice. I was Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar. Once a week, thanks to my friend, Abu Kureshi, who was his guide and constant companion, ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has called upon the international community to extend full support to Pakistan for the eradication of extremism and terrorism.Addressing a seminar on Innovating Pakistan and Gulf Relations here in Islamabad on Thursday‚ he said ...

In the backdrop of heavy rains in September that have inundated Sindh, Balochistan and parts of Southern Punjab portray a scene of misery for poor masses turned refugees in their own country with meager belongings. Does it not bring tears to the broad smiling faces of our rulers who boast of ...

PESHAWAR – A 14-member probationary officers of 39th common training of Civil Services Academy NIPA Lahore attended a briefing on policing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at CPO Peshawar on Saturday. The group leader Athar Mansoor led the delegation. The Provincial Police Officer Muhammad Akbar Khan ...

In the teeth of US opposition, the Russian gas company Gazprom has made an offer reportedly on behalf of the Russian government to fund the Pakistan-Iran pipeline. This is no small gesture of support because first of all Gazprom has made a name for itself for being one of the leading gas companies ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has made it clear that the option for early elections is open.  “All those political elements who want early elections can talk to me but after the budget session,” added the Prime Minister. He was talking to MNA Asim Nazir, who ...

BAHAWALPUR PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said that utterly poor performance of PPP-led government has forced his party to seek change but clarified that any change has essentially to come through democratic means. Despite the fact that present civilian government has failed to deliver on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Part-nationalised bank Lloyds said on Sunday that a flotation of some 630 bank branches which it has been ordered to dispose of by regulators remained an option, along with a sale of the branches. "Lloyds has always said that an IPO (initial public offering) is an option, as part ...

LAHORE I know that papa will not let me purchase my favourite trouser as it is expensive and he has not enough money to buy one for me and now I will not force him to do so. These views were expressed by a 10-year-old young boy who came for Eid shopping along with his father at Naqi Market, The ...

LAHORE - Civil Aviation Officer Association Pakistan (COAP) Chairman Jafar Abbas Cheema has warned that Go by Book would be one of the options of COAP members to get their demands accepted. He expressed these views while talking to The Nation on Wednesday on the occasion of three-day long token ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has floated a new option that the provinces share of General Sales Tax on services be distributed on collection basis instead of population. Earlier, the Sindh government was firm on its stand to get control of the collection of GST on services. A senior official of ...

Quite frankly, the uncertainty is simply killing Nothing can be more harmful to business and the corporate world than confusing signals and continued uncertainty. One can plan and prepare for disaster, but not for the unknown. What we see is that from the present government's supposedly harmonized ...

JENNIFER Lopez says divorcing her husband is "not an option." The singer-and-actress has been dogged by rumours her four-year marriage to musician Marc Anthony is on the brink of collapse, but insists the reports are wide of the mark. She told In Touch Weekly magazine: "Every time I'm not wearing ...

NEW DELHI (APP) - Expressing satisfaction over the modifications made by India in Baglihar hydro-electric as recommended by international neutral expert, Syed Jamaat Ali Shah, Pakistan Indus water Commissioner said Pakistan can use third option if issue of Kishanganga project is not resolved ...

ROME (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that failure was not an option as world leaders hammered out a plan of action to address the global crisis of soaring food prices. "We simply cannot afford to fail," the UN secretary general said at the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) summit on ...