NANKANA SAHIB - The district police organised a one-day refresher investigation course at the Nankana Sahib Police Lines on Friday. District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Abdul Hafeez delivered a lecture to police officers on the occasion. Nankana Sahib DPO Dr Haider Ashraf, DCO Hassan Iqbal, all ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has remarked from where the electricity was produced under one order of Prime Minister after protest rallies saying it means every thing can be done if PM orders. 32 percent electricity is pilfered in Karachi and its payment has to be made ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The Sindh High Court Friday issued production order for Afaq Ahmed, Chairman of his own faction of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi, on November 11, 2011. Justice Maqbool Baqir passed this order on application moved by under trial prisoner, Afaq Ahmed, from Malir District Jail. He ...

ISLAMABAD - A country where people are deprived of basic necessities of life, the government had spent a huge amount worth Rs 170 billion on law and order situation during the previous financial year 2010-11, revealed the official figures. According to the Finance Ministry report, the government ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday heard more than 40 new identical petitions against the Wapda for recovery of 20 percent fuel surcharge of two months of April and May in the bills of October imposed through a back dated notification. On Thursday, the court of Justice Muhammad Khalid ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday promulgated the Salary of Judges of Superior Courts Order, 2011. The order called 'Salary of Judges of Superior Courts Order, 2011 has come into force at once and deemed to have taken effect on and from July 1, 2011. Following is the text of ...

THE matter relates to the Indus Water Treaty, 1960 which was signed at Murree on 19 September, 1960 by FM Ayub Khan and Prime Minister Nehru as a sequel to a document of intention which was signed on 4 May, 1948 by Nehru and Ghulam Muhammad, the Governor General, Pakistan. Succinctly speaking ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE As many as 33,694 candidates (10,859 male and 22,835 female) appeared for medical and dental colleges entrance test conducted simultaneously in 12 cities of the Punjab on Tuesday amid elaborate security arrangements. No untoward incident was reported during the course of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan has spent around Rs 320 billion for maintaining law and order situation and controlling incidents of terrorism during last four years. Expenditure incurred in Punjab was Rs 160 billion, in Sindh 92b, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rs 50 billion, in Gigit-Baltistan Rs 4 billion and ...

WELLINGTON (Agencies) - Former New Zealand cricket captain Stephen Fleming has received the insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit from Governor-General Anand Satyanand, and said that Government House is right up there, as far as ceremony and protocol with Lords is concerned. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The evil troika - America, India and Israel is working on deadly anti-Pakistan plans. However, despite all the conspiracies [that we see today], Islam is emerging as a big force, which will soon establish a 'Muhammadi World Order, said Prof Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER HAFIZABAD - The dacoits deprived the villagers of cash, gold ornaments and cell phones worth Rs0.5 million at three different places. As per detail, newly-wedded man, his wife and mother where deprived of their gold ornaments cash and four cell phones by four armed bandits on ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu & Kashmir Supreme Court on Friday declared null and void, the recent order of AJK High Court directing holding of re-polling in five more polling stations in the electoral constituency LA-16 (Bagh-4 Haveili) of AJK Legislative Assembly, AJK SC sources told The Nation. 'The ...

RAHIM YAR KAHN - In private institutions, employees are taking Rs 3,000-5,000 per month salary against 10-12 working hours. Private institutions flouted the orders of Punjab government. It is learnt that if employees demand the increase in salary according to the provincial government, they faced ...

LAHORE The Punjab government has allocated Rs 69.244 billion for the law and order under head of Public Order and Safety Affairs in the fiscal year 2011-12 as compared to the last years allocation of Rs 63.017 billion. According to the budget document, expenditures of courts of law, police, ...

LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced that a state-of-the-art liver transplant and institute of urology to be established at the place of Zeenat Lab at Lawrence Road. He was presiding over a meeting here on Thursday, which was attended by Chairman Planning and ...

ISLAMABAD Petroleum Ministry has sent a case of two contractual employees to a high level committee just to prolong their stay in Ministry despite clear instructions of Supreme Court to sack those officials rehired on contract, TheNation has reliably learnt. Though Ministry of Petroleum has ...

LAHORE- A Civil Judge 1st Class Ghulam Mustafa passed injunction orders against Ramada Hotel, a global chain of hotels owned by the Wyndham Hotel Group of the United States of America, in a suit for recovery of damages to the tune of US dollars ten million, instituted by M/s Lahore Regency ...

KARACHI The stocks rose to a 31-month high on Monday on foreign and institutional buying in the energy and fertiliser sectors on hopes of strong corporate results due to be announced in the coming days. The Karachi Stock Exchanges benchmark 100-share index closed 1.18 percent, or 148.40 points, ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday approved the payment of Rs. 429.226 at the rate of 700 Saudi Riyal (Rs.16,100) per person as compensation for non-provision of accommodation and services to 26,660 affected Hujjaj. The Prime Minister gave the approval for compensating the Hujjaj ...

Over the past quarter-century, the global economy enjoyed a remarkable stretch of stable growth and low inflation. The so-called Great Moderation lulled many policymakers into a false sense of security about their ability to manage the economy and deal with financial crises. But as the Great ...

ISLAMABAD - Helplines of the Youth Affairs Ministry established with a purpose to facilitate youngsters as well asF general public regarding Ministrys programmes have been out of order since long thus causing difficulties for people especially for youth. Youngsters who had applied for the ...

Tube wells worth millions which were installed by the Local government of Islamabad in slum areas are out of order while sense of agitation has been prevailed among the inhabitants. The metropolis local government has expanded number of developmental projects across the city and in outskirts, ...

NEWPORT (Rhode Island) (AFP) For Nicolas Mahut, an 11-hour, five-minute Wimbledon epic still isnt over. Even when I sleep, Im dreaming about the match, he said of the record-setting battle in which he fell 70-68 to John Isner in the fifth set. Its a crazy story. In his dreams, does he ...

The Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras installed by district administration in all-important points of Rawalpindi have become out of order owing to negligence. As per details, CCTV cameras installed in all important locations of Rawalpindi have become out of order due to negligence of ...

ISLAMABAD To set aside the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order, 2009, a petition was filed on Monday in the Supreme Court under the Article 184(3) of the Constitution. Shaukat Aziz Siddique, the counsel for the petitioner Mir Tariq Mehmood, besides raising several questions and ...

ISLAMABAD In a new spin to the deportation saga of Danish journalist Ms Puk Damsgard Anderson, Danish Ambassador to Pakistan jumped into the fray to get the deportation orders of his countrywoman rescinded while Ministry of Interior was not putting its foot down to get the orders ...

Dr Rizwan Naseer, Director General Rescue 1122 said on Tuesday that the then CPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz had given out the order to wash the scene of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Dr. Naseer was addressing a news conference at the Lahore Press Club upon the completion of 500,000 operations ...

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva placed army commander Gen. Anupong Paochinda in charge of the peacekeeping force meant to stop violence by the increasingly aggressive Red Shirts Thailands Prime Minister talked tough and handed more law and order powers to the army after security forces were ...

Dr Ghairat Baheer said any political settlement would fail without direct negotiations with rebel leaders and military attempts to beat the Taliban were destined for failure. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has ruled out a role for the fugitive Taliban leader in any negotiations. Dr ...