The Institute of Public Policy (IPP), Beaconhouse National University, has brought out its annual report on the economy at a time when the nation was headed to elections. Without any real concern about which party was elected, the IPP team was able to make the report a blueprint for any incoming ...
NOTTINGHAM - Metro - At just 136cm (4.5ft) wide not even a Smart car could drive down this narrow cycle path painted with double yellow lines.But Nottingham council says they are essential to stop drivers blocking the narrow route in the city centre.‘We realise how this may look peculiar to ...
Pepe EscobarBased on the ear-splitting levels of hysteria deployed by American networks, mighty superpower Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is about to bomb the poor, undefended United States of America into the Stone Age. Oops, sorry, that was the mighty superpower itself ...
LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said President Asif Ali Zardari's policies of education‚ tolerance and stability have proven after 5 years that PPP was on the right path and we have strengthened the democracy in the country.He was addressing the inauguration of the COMSATS University ...
LAHORE – The survival of the country lies in safeguarding the ideology of Pakistan, as the same ideology brought into existence the State of Madina, said Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Ameer Jamaat-ud-Dawaa. He expressed the views while addressing a session of the ongoing Nazaria-i-Pakistan ...
WASHINGTON - With remarks that she likes to ‘consult and to act institutionally’, Pakistan's new Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has set herself apart from her predecessor, Husain Haqqani, whom a leading American newspaper on Wednesday described as ‘one-man political ...
LAHORE – Although the security and law and order situation in country’s largest province, Balochistan, is far from satisfactory yet economic and defence experts say that the mineral-rich part of Pakistan is fast treading on path of development. A couple of weeks ago, militants opened ...
LAHORE - University of Health Sciences Board of Governors Chairman Senator Ishaq Dar on Monday said that improvement in the health sector for the provision of modern medical facilities to the masses is the top priority of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The provincial government has increased the ...
LAHORE - Deutsche Post DHL, the worlds leading postal and logistics group, continued the sound performance of the first half of 2010 during the third quarter, generating another double-digit increase in revenue, says a press release. Despite a slight decline in the MAIL division, also resulting ...
PUNE (India) Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is actively involved in charity work in India. However, Sharne Warne, who has been earning through playing the IPL matches in India, has no such immediate plan. This was revealed by leg-spinners brother Jason Warne. Jason Warne will be assisting ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - South Asia appears to have escaped the worst effects of the global economic crisis as the regions GDP growth of 6pc in 2009 remains unchanged from 2008, according to a recently released World Bank report, 'Global Economic Prospects 2010. The report cited that the global financial ...
MADRID (AFP) Sevilla breathed new life into their Champions League ambitions with a 2-1 victory over fellow European hopefuls Valencia on Sunday with Alvaro Negredo grabbing both goals. It was a key game for Sevilla who had suffered a worrying slump since Christmas, losing three of their last ...
ISLAMABAD-As many as 450 graduates were awarded degrees at the 5th convocation of Riphah International University, on Saturday with good wishes for future and a bit advice at the outset of a new chapter in their lives. Shehnaz Wazir Ali, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Sector ...
They ask thee, what they should spend in charity. Say: whatever ye spend that is good, is for parents and kindred, and orphans, and those in want, and for wayfarers. And whatever ye do that is good. God knows it well (II: 215). This verse amply defines what charity is. It addresses what can be ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Germany's Benjamin Becker outlasted American Robby Ginepri in three tie-breaker sets Tuesday to book himself a spot opposite US top seed Andy Roddick in the second round of the ATP Washington Classic. Becker fired 27 aces to defeat Ginepri 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (1/7), 7-6 (7/4) and ...
PARIS (AFP) - A strategic tack in the quarter-century-old effort to devise an AIDS vaccine, which last year became darkly clouded by problems, could be more promising than thought, according to a study published on Sunday. Research - among lab primates, not humans - shows that a vaccine based on ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - For John McCain to confound the pundits and upset favourite Barack Obama in Tuesday's election, he must navigate a perilous path on which a single slip could hand his rival the White House. McCain is battling to hold onto many of the key states, which pushed Republican ...






