LAHORE  - OUR STAFF REPORTER - Aleema Khan, PTI leader and sister of party chairman Imran Khan on late Sunday night, following the directions of Imran Khan, asked the party volunteers to call off the protest against the poll rigging at Lalik Jan Chowk, Defence and gather in the federal capital ...

KARACHI -The Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Sunni Tehreek and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan have reached an electoral alliance for the polls to be held on May 11. Addressing a news conference here at the Press Club Thursday, MWM’s Allama Sadiq Raza Taqvi, ST’s Matloob Awan Qadri and JUP’s ...

MUNICH - Veteran Tommy Haas rolled back the years on Saturday to enjoy a straight sets semi-final win over Croatia Ivan Dodig and set up an all-German final at the ATP clay-court tournament in Munich. Haas, 35, needed just 89 minutes to claim a 6-4, 6-3 win over the 28-year-old Dodig and will now ...

new york - US oil stocks reached a new three-decade high and pressed crude prices lower Wednesday, as US oil production continued to surge while domestic demand remained anemic.US commercial stocks stood at 395.3 million barrels for the week ended April 26, the highest weekly inventory figure since ...

ISLAMABAD-UniversityofNew Mexico(UNM) Lobos, in their best win of the season, upset the No 1 seed San Diego State Aztecs 4-3 in the semifinal contest at the United States Air Force Academy Tennis Facility to advance to the championship match against defending championsBoiseStateUniversity.New ...

    STUTTGART   German car maker Porsche on Monday made what some might consider to be a surprising announcement. It's first global endorser would be a woman. The brand, which is dominated by male buyers, chose tennis player Maria Sharapova to be the face of its company for the next ...

    LAHORE   Pakistan U-14 football team has reached Iran to take part in the AFC U-14 qualifiers being played in Mashad from today (Tuesday). The green shirts will launch their campaign in the event by taking on Turkmenistan on April 24 at the Samen Al Aemeh Stadium. Pakistan team ...

our staff reporter sadiqabad - PTI candidate Rafiq Haider and PPP candidates Syed Murtaza Mehmood, Tariq Mehmood Khan and Ibraheem Khalil Leghari held separate public meetings in the tehsil to persuade the local people to vote for their respective party in the forthcoming general elections, while ...

WASHINGTON  - The US Supreme Court heard the most high-profile genetics case in history on Monday, as justices considered whether private firms should be allowed to patent human genes linked to breast cancer. The court's decision could have broad implications for research, patient health and ...

THE UK downloads chart has passed a major milestone after single sales topped the one billion mark - nine years after the format was officially launched.According to figures from the Official Charts Company, the magic number was passed late Monday, following a surge in sales which has seen an ...

PARIS - Argentina are into the Davis Cup World Group semi-final after their world number 71 Carlos Berlocq beat 13th-ranked Frenchman Gilles Simon to hand the South Americans a 3-2 win on Sunday.A distraught Simon, who saved five match points before finally succumbing, said it was the lowest point ...

CHARLESTON  - Serena Williams crushed her older sibling Venus 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final of the Family Circle Cup in the most lop-sided match of their WTA Tour careers between the American sisters.In the first match between them in four years, Serena needed just 54 minutes to send Venus ...

ISLAMABAD - An eleven-member team of world’s top skiers arrived at Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday to chip in a weeklong Heliski event “Pakistan Pure Discovery”. Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) is organising the event in collaboration with walkabout films, the only film ...

ISLAMABAD – Worldwide Information Technology spending is projected to touch $3.91 trillion in 2014, driven by growth in spending on devices and enterprise software, research firm Gartner said.This will be driven by the short-term boost on spending toward  premium mobile phones, spending ...

Amid sit-in of victims of Quetta deadly blasts, Prime Minster Raja Pervez Ashraf Saturday directed Chief Minister Balochistan Aslam Raisani to cut off his foreign trip and reach the troubled city immediately.The Prime Minister also directed Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira to reach Quetta to ...

PARIS - AC Milan and defending champions Barcelona are both well placed to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League as the first four of this season's last-16 ties conclude this week.Milan take a 4-0 lead to Arsenal on Tuesday evening, while Barcelona -- who got the better of the ...

LAHORE – Giving new hope and a fresh air to commuters across the province, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said that 350 new buses were coming soon and would ply in the cities of Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala and Bahawalpur.Presiding over a meeting, Shahbaz said his ...

QUETTA – At least nine missing persons belonging to different parts of Balochistan have reached home in past three days.Nasrullah Baloch, chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a local organisation struggling for safe recovery of missing persons and forced disappearances, ...

MOSCOW  - Gazprom's inability to pump extra gas to Europe during the big winter chill has cast clouds over the Russian giant's vision of becoming the world's fail-safe supplier of last resort.Analysts said the snag's emergence, during one of Europe's coldest spells on record, points to supply ...

MULTAN  – About 14,094,233 cotton bales have been reached in 609 operational ginning factories till February 15 which is 23 per cent higher than the last year.According to Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) sources, 13,989,519 cotton bales have been prepared while the remaining ...

KARACHI – Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh Sheikh has said that hopefully remittances will reach $12 billion during the current fiscal year.While talking to the media, he further said that provinces are responsible for collecting agriculture tax. Sheikh said that ...

ISLAMABAD :The export of kinnows from the country to Indonesia is expected to reach 40,000 tonnes during the current season. Pakistan and Indonesia have signed a preferential trade agreement to enhance trade between the two countries. The agreement stipulates Indonesian reduced tariffs to Pakistan ...

MOSCOW  - Russian researchers said Monday that they had succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a subglacial Antarctic lake which could yield important scientific discoveries.Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica and scientists want ...

MELBOURNE  - Top seed Novak Djokovic survived a brief injury scare before setting up an Australian Open semi-final with British rival Andy Murray on Wednesday.The Serbian defending champion grimaced and clutched the back of his thigh during the second set against David Ferrer, and repeatedly ...

LAHORE – On behalf of the Punjab Government Rs30,000 were delivered to each of the 216 under-treatment patients whose condition worsened after reaction of the free medicines given to them by the PIC. Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi, MPAs Kh Salman Rafique, Kh Imran Nazir and ...

MELBOURNE  - Australian teenager Bernard Tomic beat France's Gael Monfils 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/2) on Thursday to book a place in the final of the Kooyong Classic, a warm-up event for the Australian Open. The 19-year-old, who is tipped to fill the shoes of ageing compatriot Lleyton Hewitt, will ...

LAHORE - Indian rugby team, which was issued visas to visit Pakistan, will reach here in the city tomorrow (Wednesday) in order to participate in a local tournament. Indian team will play its 15-A side match against local university students on January 12. Then they would participate in a six-team ...

The Taliban have announced that they want to open an office in the Gulf region, mentioning Qatar as a possible site. This is obviously controversial since the Taliban are formally at war with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nato and the ISAF (which includes UAE forces). Therefore such an office should not ...

As Arab revolts began last year, it was inevitable that people would compare them to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.And that comparison suggests that the emancipation of Arab societies will likely stumble on the matter of memory, as did the former communist societies.A useful keyhole ...

ISLAMABAD - Power shortfall may break all previous records in the very start of October by reaching the figure of 7,500 megawatt, thus adding 30 per cent more to the existing worst loadshedding, TheNation reliably learnt through the sources of Ministry of Water and Power. At present the power ...