The notion of a modern political awakening in the Arab world was first whispered more than a decade ago in Syria, when an assortment of intellectuals, artists, writers and activists lit the spark of what would become known as the Damascus spring. Having risked carefully crossing the regime's red ...

LONDON (AFP) - Liverpool cruised into the League Cup third round with a 3-1 win over minnows Exeter City, while fellow Premier League sides Everton, Blackburn and Bolton also avoided early exits on Wednesday. Kenny Dalglish's team were playing in the second round of the competition for the first ...

The Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the PPP had not learnt from its past mistakes and had created the same conditions in Sindh that had caused the conversion of East Pakistan into Bangladesh. Addressing an Azmat-e-Quran Conference in Model Town, he said that if the results ...

The results from a recent Gilani Poll, conducted by Gallup Pakistan, indicated that more than three-fourths (79%) people did not travel by train in the past year, whereas 21 % claimed to have used the train service at least once. A follow-up question to those who had replied in the positive showed ...

Pippa Middleton had a short-lived stint as a model, it has been revealed. The 27-year-old took part in a fashion show while studying at Edinburgh University in 2004, wearing clothes by designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Jean-Paul Gaultier. By participating in the event, which was hosted by ...

LAHORE - Former world squash champion Jansher Khan shown glimpses of his glittering past by playing two back-to-back exhibition matches here at the PSA Complex on Saturday. Jansher, who ruled the squash world for over a decade by winning all the major titles at stake, was in good physical shape ...

CHENNAI (Reuters) - South Africa are determined to make a new start at the World Cup opening on Feb. 19 after semi-final exits in 1992, 1999 and 2007 and a shock quarter-final loss to West Indies in 1996. AB de Villiers, who will add the wicketkeeper's role to his batting duties, said on Friday the ...

LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while presiding over a high-level meeting with regard to promotion of technical education, has said that equipping the young generation with modern knowledge was a must. The meeting was also attended by Provincial Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, ...

MELBOURNE (Agencies) - Questions remained over Rafa Nadal's health after he said he was still feeling the effects of a flu bug during a 6-2, 7-5 and 6-3 victory over local hope Bernard Tomic at the Australian Open on Saturday. The world number one was given a thorough workout by the 18-year-old ...

KARACHI The Karachi stock market witnessed bullish activity on Monday amid strong valuations in the scrips of the fertilizer companies across the board. The upward movement in the KSE 100-share index was attributed to a 23 per cent hike in the prices of urea by fertilizer companies owing to ...

ISLAMABAD In view of some past incidents of hostility between executive and judiciary during the elevation of LHC Judges Asif Saeed Khosa and Saqib Nisar to Supreme Court, the new procedure for the appointment of judges in superior court assumes much significance. The Judicial Commission, whose ...

Federal Minister for railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said the recent floods in the country have damaged the railways system immensely. However rehabilitation work is being done on it. Talking to media after addressing the passing out ceremony in Lahore Bilour said that in the past railways have been ...

KARACHI - The stocks closed on more than a two-and-a-half month high on Thursday, helped by blue chip companies such as Oil and Gas Development Co Ltd (OGDCL). The Karachi Stock Exchanges benchmark 100-share index closed at 10,409.02 points after gaining 19.05 points. The index ended at 10,428.12 ...

ZILINA (Slovakia) (AFP) Nicolas Anelka scored twice for Chelsea to help the English champions breeze past MSK Zilina 4-1 on Wednesday in their Champions League opener. Michael Essien opened the scoring in the 13th minute with a low shot after an Anelka pass from the left wing. In the 24th minute, ...

In occupied Kashmir, Ahtishamul Haq Gilani, the grandson of veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, is in police custody for past many days. According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian police arrested Ahtishamul Haq Gilani, son of Zahoorul Haq Gilani, on July 31 near his residence at ...

ATLANTA (Georgia) (AFP) Andy Roddick had to battle a slow start before bludgeoning his way into the semi-finals of the Atlanta Tennis Championships Friday over the opponent he beat for the title in 2001. The American rallied to defeat Belgian Xavier Malisse 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a re-run of the final ...

PEBBLE BEACH (California) (AFP) When it comes to his many and varied near-misses at the US Open, Phil Mickelson prefers to look on the bright side. Five runner-up finishes in 11 years may seem like an agonizing array of almosts, but for the American who celebrated his 40th birthday on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advanced economies must make good on pledges to tighten regulation and curtail government debt or the fragile recovery could unravel, a top European official said on Saturday. There is a real risk that we repeat the mistakes of the past, especially if the recovery takes hold ...

PONTE VEDRA (Florida) (AFP) American Melanie Oudin shruggd off a slow start to battle to a 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Chinas Peng Shuai Thursday, reaching the quarter-finals of the 220,000-dollar WTA green clay tournament here. It took everything, said Oudin, who lost the first 10 points of the ...

LAHORE (APP) - The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom (IT&T) performed well in all its spheres during the past two years as the overall teledensity increasing from 58.7 percent to 63.5 percent and a total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) recorded at US$ 2.253 billion. As per the ...

KABUL (AFP) - As the UN complains about Western inaction to stem a booming drugs trade, experts believe efforts to end opium production in Afghanistan, the worlds biggest producer, are inadequate and misguided. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the ...

The World Health Organisation said Friday that at least 2,837 people had died from swine flu virus infections. "There are now at least 2,837 deaths attributable to pandemic H1N1," said Gregory Hartl, spokesman for the UN health agency. The data mark an increase of 652 deaths from the last toll of ...

Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif has vowed not to repeat his past mistakes which saw him being banned from international cricket for a year. In an interview, Asif expressed happiness over his selection in the 15 member squad for the ICC Champions Trophy and said he would justify the selectors decision ...

LAHORE - Assuring the businessmen that law and order situation would soon improve, Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has urged them to import state-of-the-art machines of industrial units being closed down around the world due to global recession. He was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of ...

WASHINGTON - The United States is sending $110 million in emergency aid for tens of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by military operations to clear the Swat region of violent Taliban militants, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. Hillary detailed the aid package at the White House ...

INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - Vera Zvonareva captured the biggest title of her career Sunday, defeating former world number one Ana Ivanovic 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 to win the Indian Wells WTA title. Russia's Zvonareva, the fourth seed, denied fifth-seeded Ivanovic a second straight title in the 4.5 ...

Iranian President Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for past US "crimes" against the Islamic republic, after the new US leader extended a hand of diplomacy to Tehran. Iranian leader also called on Washington to withdraw its troops from across the world as a ...

The foundation of Islami Jamiat Talaba Pakistan was laid down by 25 students gathering from all over the country on December, 23, 1947. Their objective was to convey the message of (Dawah) if Islam to Pakistani students, encourage them to seek the knowledge of Islam with fondness and to struggle ...

China on Tuesday distributed a draft proposal on how to verify North Korea's account of its past atomic activities, the latest attempt to resolve a deadlock that has held up the implementation of a disarmament-for-aid accord reached last year. Verification is the focus of the international talks, ...

ISLAMABAD - The universities must generate funds for themselves, as government cannot afford to continue issuing funds to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on past pattern in the present financial crunch. Special Assistant to Prime Minister of Social Sector Shehnaz Wazir Ali stated this on ...