LAHORE:-The intra-court appeals of Malik Zulfiqar and Ch Anwar against the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on appointment of the interim regions committees in the Lahore High Court (LHC) were dismissed Wednesday, upholding the PCB’s stance. According to the PCB statement, the two-member bench ...

BERLIN : “Pakistan has always been a potentially rich country. Now it has the resolve to realize that potential, making Pakistan a regional economic hub sooner than one may imagine. Democracy has begun paying its dividends”. This was observed by Ambassador Abdul Basit while addressing ...

LAHORE - Former Test cricketer Mushtaq Ahmad has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to lift the ad-hoc set up from the regional cricket association to ensure their independence. “Regional bodies are serving as basic institution to flourish cricket across the country and putting them under ...

KARACHI - Former Pakistan captain Wasim Bari has said that cricket should be played on the grounds and not in the courts. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Bari stressed that the litigation has sent a negative image of Pakistan cricket across the world. “As Pakistan cricket is ...

  ISLAMABAD Pakistan's military chief has recommended setting up an internationally-supported regional military forum against the growing threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as representatives from over two dozen states showed up at an international event here on Monday to join hands ...

LAHORE - Rawalpindi Regional Cricket Association (RRCA) president Major (retd) Syed Naeem Akhtar Gilani, RCA Hyderabad president Mir Suleman Khan Talpur and RCA Hyderabad secretary Wahid Hussain Pahilwani felicitated Ch Zaka Ashraf on becoming the first elected chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board ...

ISLAMABAD – A regional peace conference will be held on April 18 by PAIMAN Alumni Trust in the federal capital.The objectives of the conference are to provide a platform for a discourse on root causes of extremism, its impact on women and youth and ways of engaging mothers and youth in ...

ISLAMABAD – The US Ambassador Richard Olson addressed the International Young Alumni Conference, a gathering of more than 400 alumni of US exchange programmes from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and the United States.“The people in the room today are the future leaders of South Asia. I ...

As a good omen of greater regional cooperation in the future, the diplomats of China, Pakistan and Russia who met in Beijing on Wednesday decided to join hands in bringing about peace and stability in Afghanistan, especially as the process of US withdrawal comes to a close end-2014. It should be no ...

BANGUI - The Central African Republic's neighbours took steps Friday to tackle the crisis in the chronically unstable nation, where rebels have advanced towards the capital Bangui, stoking local and international alarm. President Francois Bozize's appeals for help from former colonial power France ...

LAHORE - The two-day regional business conference of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) concluded here on Friday with a consensus to share viable ideas, knowledge and strengths of the organisation with provincial governments as well as international development agencies ...

LAHORE – The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has opened a two-day Regional Business Coordinators’ Conference at its head Office. The conference was attended by 22 Regional Business Coordinators based in 22 business centers of Pakistan including the four ...

ISLAMABAD - Two-day Regional Ministerial Conference on Counter-Narcotics began here on Monday with ministers from 12 regional countries participating in the moot.Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani opened the conference and told the participants that the two-day conference was aiming at stanching ...

RAWALPINDI – The Regional Food Festival 2012 was inaugurated here at a local hotel on Saturday. The food festival was inaugurated by Sheharyar Mirza, GM of a local hotel, along with High Commissioner of Malaysia to Pakistan, Dr Hasrul Sani Bin Mujtabar, Ambassador of Nepal to Pakistan, Bharat ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, current chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, travels next week to Azerbaijan and Kuwait to attend forums on boosting cooperation in Asia, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.He will attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation in Baku ...

ISLAMABAD  - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said that the government was committed to create a conducive environment for economic activities and make the country an attractive destination for investors and businessmen.He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of the ...

LAHORE - In finding a regional solution to Afghan conflict in the wake of its likely exit from Afghanistan, the United States is not only facing the tough challenge of uniting all Afghan factions to agree on the contours of a future setup for the war-torn country, it is also confronting the uphill ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Dictionary of Regional English has finally reached its final word - “zydeco” - as researchers wrap up almost 50 years of work charting the rich variety of American speech.The dictionary’s official publication date is March 20 but lexicographers ...

PESHAWAR – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl Chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has said that international forces are interested in the politics of their region, as they wanted to change its map create a disruptive situation.“These forces, seeking change in the map of the region, though succeeded in ...

ISLAMABAD  – The materialization of two mega energy projects of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) and Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipelines could lead to regional integration, bring prosperity and change the destiny of the region and the world as well.“Flow of energy ...

KABUL (Agencies) - Afghanistan ran its first train on Wednesday on a short stretch of track linking the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif with the Uzbek border, part of an ambitious plan to build a rail network and spur regional trade despite a raging insurgency.The government has been trying to lure ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that regional peace hinges on the peace and stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan was ready to train the Afghan army, police and administration to cope with the aftermath of the 2014 period when the allied forces would withdraw the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Federal Minister for Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Fahim Tuesday stressed the need for strengthening regional trade bloc in South Asia to tape the maximum possible business and trade potential among the regional countries. Regional trade has been found to be the most effective and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The regional Customs Collectorate has collected Rs16.26, surpassing its target of Rs15.89 billion set for the fiscal year 2010-11. The net collection of duty and taxes during 2010-2011 stood at Rs5.8 billion as against the net collection of taxes of Rs4.42 billion during ...

ISLAMABAD - After a brief verbal brawl among its members, the NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice rejected the bill with majority about giving status of national language to regional languages. With Begum Nasim Akhtar in chair, the committee met on Wednesday and took up several issues ...

LAHORE (APP) - SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI),an apex body of chambers Saturday urged upon the respective governments of SAARC member countries to play proactive role for removal of irritants and non-tariff barriers to foster regional economic integration for implementation of SAFTA ...

The Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), comprising Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and six Muslim former Soviet republics, recently held its latest summit meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where President Ahmadinejad handed over the rotating presidency of this regional organisation to President ...

ISLAMABAD Commander United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), General James N Mattis called on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Khalid Shameem Wynne at Joint Staff Headquarters, Chaklala. General Mattis congratulated General Wynne on assuming the appointment of CJCSC and ...

ISLAMABAD - General James N Mattis, Commander United States Central Command, called on Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, at General Headquarters on Monday. The visiting dignitary remained with him for some time and discussed matters of professional interest. According to ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - PTA Chairman Dr Mohammed Yaseen Thursday called for shifting maximum focus on the development of local and regional contents which could help grow broadband manifold. He was addressing the participants of a seminar titled Promoting ICT Sector: Enabling Information Based Society ...