MIRPUR (AJK)Rich tribute was paid to eminent Kashmiri nationalist leader, President of the left-wing Jammu and Kashmir National Alliance and Chairman of All Parties National Alliance (APNA) Sardar Arif Shahid at a condolence reference held here to mourn his tragic demise and pray for the rest of ...

WASHINGTON : A combined meeting of several Kashmiri and Sikh organizations on Sunday paid high tributes to late A Sheikh for his devotion to the cause of Kashmir freedom and for his strong advocacy of Muslim-Sikh friendship. Sheikh, a retired Pakistan Army Captain, died in his sleep of cardiac ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has paid tributes to it’s Pakistani peacekeeper, who was killed in an attack last Tuesday, according to a UN report.During a ceremony held on Thursday in Kavumu, South Kivu province, ...

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer hauled in $36.6 million in pay, bonuses and stock last year after just six months at the helm of the Internet firm, with some of that time spent on maternity leave.Mayer’s base pay of $454,862 was fattened with a $1.12 million performance bonus and ...

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

KARACHI - Political leaders and civil society activists have expressed profound sorrow at the passing away of Barrister Taj Muhammad Langah, founder of Pakistan Seraiki Party and a veteran leader of Pakistan’s progressive democratic political movement. In a statement issued here on Monday, ...

After fixing scandal, Indian Premier League (IPL) come with new controversy as Indian Bookie Sonu Yogendra Jalan has told investigators that he paid Rs100 million to a Sri Lankan cricket player for fixing a match, Indian media reports said on Saturday.According to media reports, he also revealed ...

KABUL  - Relatives of 17 people shot dead in a rampage by a US soldier in southern Afghanistan have been paid tens of thousands of dollars in compensation, a tribal chief and government officials said Sunday.The money - provided by the US military - was handed over at a private ceremony at the ...

Swiss voters rejected a proposal to increase employees’ annual minimum paid vacation entitlement to six from four weeks on Sunday after firms warned it might hurt competitiveness and threaten jobs. The initiative was put forward by trade union Travail.Suisse, which argued that four ...

KARACHI - The Teach for Pakistan (TFP) Foundation held an introductory seminar here on Sunday to facilitate the students of the Karachi University (KU) to participate in mobilizing communities.While addressing the students, Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr Shahana Urooj Kazmi said that it was important to ...

LAHORE – Governor Latif Khosa paid rich tributes to the legendary classical singer Reshma and said that she was the greatest artiste of the era. Her silken sound that surfaced from the desert land of Sindh was behind countless folk songs that gave them an identity. He also announced that he ...

FAISALABAD - An academic reference for economic experts late Prof Dr Ahmad Saeed and Prof Dr Muhammad Asghar, former deans of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad was held at New Senate Hall. The reference was meant to commemorate their valuable contributions to academia as well as rendering ...

FAISALABAD - The Punjab government is committed to setting up model educational institutions in the province, in which quality students like late Arfa Karim, would be produced in order to develop the country and bring it at par with the developed nations, said DCO Nasim Sadiq. Addressing a ...

LAHORE – Celebrated Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was remembered by his followers and fans on his centennial birth anniversary on Sunday.Like the pervious year, Faiz Foundation organised ‘Faiz Amn Mela’ at Open Air Theatre, Jinnah Garden to pay tribute to the veteran poet wherein a ...

ISLAMABAD - National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has paid an outstanding amount of Rs 109.78 million to the Ministry of Housing and Works that was payable by the Bureau in form of rent and renovation of Chamba House, Senate Standing Committee on Housing and Works was informed the other day.Chamba ...

KABUL - A renegade Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops paid a bribe to rejoin his country's army after deserting, the US news website McClatchy said on Saturday.The 21-year-old soldier had already bribed a recruiter to enter the army a first time, he said during questioning after the ...

LAHORE – A presentation celebrating the life and achievements of Professor Abdus Salam was conducted at the Amjad Chaudhry Library. Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector of the Lahore School of Economics greeted the speakers and audience for gathering together to honour Pakistan’s only ...

LAHORE - The Government College University Lahore Tuesday paid a glowing tribute to the music maestro, Prof. Tariq Suleman Khan Farani for his 40 years invaluable services for the art, music and GC University Lahore. Renowned musicians and globally famed singers Ustad Hamid Ali Khan, Ustad Shuakat ...

NEWS DESK LAHORE - Idara Sirat-e-Mustaqeem chief Allama Dr Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali has said that today (January 4) is the day to pay homage to Mumtaz Qadri, who assassinated former Punjab governor Salman Taseer one year ago. He expressed these views at Aiwan-e-Waqt on Tuesday. A rally for the ...

PATTOKI - The labourers rights’ organisations, activists and scores of bricks kiln workers on Friday paid rich tribute to former Lahore High Court Chief Justice Afzal Zulla (Late) for declaring the bricks kiln work a worst form of bonded labour in his historical verdict he had announced in ...

Can anyone in the Government give details of the amount of money spent on the treatment of President in Dubai instead of any hospital in Pakistan. More importantly, was this amount paid from the National Exchequer/Tax-Payers hard earned contributions. DR. IRFAN ZAFAR, Islamabad, December 28.

LONDON (Reuters) - British director Guy Ritchie says the biggest danger when making the sequel to his 2009 box office hit Sherlock Holmes was complacency. Madonnas former husband was on the red carpet in London late on Thursday for the European premiere of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, in ...

Our Staff Reporters MULTAN/FAISALABAD/HAFIZABAD/BAHALNAGAR/GUJRANAWAL - Youm-e-Ashur, the 10th of Muharram, was observed with religious fervour and solemnity in entire Punjab province amid tight security on Tuesday to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions at ...

PADMA Lakshmi isnt very popular. According to a report from New York Post gossip column Page Six, the audience paid to get the Top Chef host off the stage at The Moths storytelling event at Cooper Union Tuesday night. Sources say Padma was so grating as a host that a guest in the front row stood up ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER BUREWALA - Defence Day was celebrated here with great enthusiasm and people paid homage to the martyrs of 1965 war. A special ceremony was held at the mazar of Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed, Nishan-e-Haider, in Chak 253/EB Tufailabad, where Garrison Commander Okara Cantt ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Rich tributes were paid to the Kashmiri martyrs at a special ceremony held here Wednesday under the auspices of the National Events Organizing Committee to commemorate the supreme sacrifices rendered by the Kashmiri martyrs on this day in 1931. The ceremony to mark the martyrs day ...

KARAK Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department will not run its water supply schemes if the people did not start depositing their monthly water bills on regular basis, as there was a huge gap between the consumption and the revenue. This was informed by the XEN Public Health Engineering ...

LAHORE Speakers at a ceremony have paid glowing tributes to a worker of Pakistan Movement and founder of Fatima Memorial System Begum Saida Waheed, saying that the simple and down to earth lady fulfilled dream of her father-in-law by working with devotion and dedication. Justice (r) Nasira Javed ...

ISLAMABAD - The auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) has observed that National Assembly Secretariat had paid Rs 252.60 million to PIA for air tickets of Member National Assembly sans maintaining proper record of it. These air tickets worth Rs 252.60 million were paid to PIA during the last three ...

LAHORE Former President Muhammad Rafique Tarar paying glowing tribute to renowned journalist, orator, poet and political activist Agha Shorish Kashmiri (917-1975) at Hameed Nizami Press Institute of Pakistan (HNPIP) here on Saturday said that Pakistan need such great people to steer country out of ...