TEHRAN : Women cannot contest Iran's June 14 presidential election, a member of the Islamic state's electoral watchdog said in media reports on Friday, dashing the hopes of some 30 female candidates. "The law prohibits women from being president," said hardline cleric and former judiciary chief ...

SAN JOSE : Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla was embroiled in scandal Thursday amid revelations that she used a private jet made available by a Colombian suspected of links to drug trafficking.The disclosure has prompted the resignation of her communications minister and sent Costa ...

ISLAMABADPresident Asif Ali Zardari is not resigning any time soon and he will complete the constitutional term of his office, said his spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar on Friday, dispelling rumours that Zardari was planning to resign following his party’s crushing defeat in the general ...

KARACHI  : President Asif Ali Zardari on the Prime Minister’s advice has approved confirmation of three Additional Judges of Sindh High Court and one Additional Judge of Islamabad High Court as judges of SHC and IHC respectively. Additional Judge IHC, Mr Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi has ...

ISLAMABAD Protesting against the dynastic political practices, President PML-Q Women Wing, Mrs Farrukh Khan, has ended her 12-year association with the party by tendering resignation from the party’s office and basic membership.A source in Q-League told APP that Farrukh Khan, who had kept the ...

KARACHI : President Asif Ali Zardari has felicitated the nation on the holding of elections to mark the first democratic transition in the country. Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the President while felicitating the nation said that the holding of elections in ...

Senior PPP leader Mian Manzoor Wattoo has tendered resignation from his office reportedly over party’s failure to grab sufficient seats from Punjab in May 11 general elections.Wattoo, who is president of Pakistan Peoples Party’s central Punjab chapter, has dispatched his resignation to ...

ISLAMABAD -Five-star Kaleemullah helped Khan Research Laborites (KRL) FC thrash Yeedzin FC 8-0 in the AFC President's Cup group B match played on Sunday. Talking to The Nation on Sunday, KRL media manager Ali Zaidi said: “Kaleem was at his usual best, as his five goals were a treat to watch ...

    LAHORE    As the PML-N has emerged as the single largest party in the National Assembly, Mian Nawaz Sharif will set a new record in the country’s history by becoming the prime minister for a third term. And with the PML-N assuming power, the fate of President Zardari ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on the advice of the Prime Minister on Saturday approved the “Representation of the people (amendment) Ordinance, 2013”.Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said the Ordinance which amends the representation of the people Act, 1976 by ...

PARIS - German Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach Thursday officially announced his candidature to succeed Jacques Rogge as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president. He is the first IOC member to declare intention to take over from Rogge who is retiring after 12 years. In a ...

SYDNEY: Australian actor Hugo Weaving, best known for his roles in “The Matrix” and “The Lord of the Rings”, will head the jury for next month’s Sydney Film Festival, organisers said Wednesday.Weaving, who stars in murder movie “Mystery Road” which opens ...

President Asif Ali Zardrai has promulgated an ordinance, allowing over six million overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes.According to the ordinance, the overseas Pakistanis would have to get themselves registered with the Pakistani embassy in their respective countries.President Asif Ali Zardari ...

Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Ghous Bux Barozai called on President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi on Wednesday.They discussed overall situation and conduct of peaceful elections in the province.

SAN JOSE : The United States is watching "crackdowns on the opposition" in Venezuela, President Barack Obama said in a television interview aired on Friday when asked if he considered newly elected Nicolas Maduro to be the country's legitimate president. Maduro, elected in April by a narrow margin, ...

karachi - US Secretary of State John Kerry Friday telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed Pak-US bilateral relations.The conversation also focused regional issues, a press release by the President House said.

islamabadKhan Research Laborites (KRL) Football Club is leaving to Philippine today (Saturday) to play three matches of the AFC President's Cup. KRL FC is in Group B and they will play all their matches at two venues Cebu City and Philippines from May 8 to 12. The Group B comprises Global FC ...

LONDON- FormerEnglandcaptain Mike Gatting was named President of the historic Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The 55-year-old, who played his county cricket for Middlesex whose home is the MCC-owned Lord's Ground, will assume his duties on October 1. He was chosen by the current President, Mike ...

MOSCOW :Turkmenistan's equestrian-mad President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov suffered a spectacular fall from his horse after a race, according to Internet videos, but state media in the isolated ex-Soviet state maintained a rigid silence on the incident. Berdymukhamedov suffered the fall seconds ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered an investigation into the closure of a popular restaurant after the daughter of the country’s consumer watchdog was denied a table. In a bizarre episode worthy of Mexican telenovela, Pena Nieto has waded into the furore ...

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari Monday said “Open Schooling System” project of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will help empower the people.He stated this during a meeting with the AIOU Vic Chancellor who briefed the president about “Open Schooling System” ...

GABORONE,Botswana: Botswana's President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, a government spokesman said Monday. The incident occurred at a Botswana Defence Force barracks last week, spokesman Jeff Ramsay told AFP. "He was scratched by a cheetah last ...

PARIS (AFP):Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was in aParishospital Sunday after suffering a mini-stroke, raising media doubts about his ability to govern less than a year before a presidential election. The 76-year-old, in power since 1999, suffered a “transient ischaemia” ...

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 ...

In a letter from the Presidency to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), President Asif Ali Zardari has complained that the PML-N and other parties were committing character assassination against him, and asked the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice. To lend emphasis to this complaint, ...

Islamabad - Spokesperson to President Senator Farhatullah Babar has deplored the ‘unsubstantiated accusations’ hurled at President Asif Ali Zardari by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in a public meeting, saying it was an effort to drag the president into controversies.In a statement on ...

Islamabad - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the chief election commissioner seeking his intervention to prevent some political parties, especially the PML-N, from a vilification campaign against him in the interest of free and fair elections. Farhatullah Babar, ...

DHAKA  - Bangladesh Parliament Speaker Abdul Hamid on Monday was elected unopposed as the country’s president, a potentially crucial role as the restive country heads for elections next year, officials said.Hamid is a 69-year-old stalwart of the ruling Awami League and has been serving ...

Pakistan set a new record in the last week, when the arrest was carried out of Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. The really interesting thing was the surprise was not that a former President had been arrested, but that a former COAS had been. Well, it wasn’t a normal arrest, with a grabbing by the ...

KARACHI - The Shirazi group said that President House was influencing the government officials to rig the elections in favour of PPP candidates in the Thatta district.They appealed to the Election Commission and the Supreme Court to take notice of the partial role of caretaker government of the ...