DASKA - Police have arrested a man, namely Abdul Rehman, for conducting celebratory firing at a wedding ceremony in Baddokey Cheema village on last Saturday. As a result of the firing, a minor girl, Laiba, 7, had been blinded in her right eye and also sustained serious gunshot wounds. She is still ...

There wahortage of adjectives and one liners to describe what President Mahmoud Abbas has done at the UN General Assembly on Friday when he pleaded the case of his people and declared that he had submitted on their behalf Palestines formal application to become a full member of the international ...

SIALKOT - The free, fair and peaceful polling was held at all the 257 polling stations established in the Sialkot district for the AJK LA general elections as 19,1319 registered voters (Kashmiris) in two constituencies (LA- 31, Jammu-II Sialkot and LA-32, Jammu-III Sialkot) cast their votes on ...

Late last month, when US air strikes caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan, an angry Hamid Karzai issued an ultimatum. If future US strikes are not restricted, we will take 'unilateral action and America may be treated like an occupying power. That brought this blistering retort from one ...

Travelers should not rely solely on technology such as GPS for navigation, after a Canadian couple lost in the Nevada wilderness for 48 days. Albert Chretien, 59, and his wife Rita Chretien, 56, sought a shorter route between Boise, Idaho and Jackpot, Nevada during a road trip from British Columbia ...

ISLAMABAD - Additional Attorney General KK Agha on Monday argued that the Federation has been denied full right of appeal in the judges appointment, which is breach of Article 10A of the Constitution and in violation of the injection of Islam in respect of maintainability. He in its written ...

SRINAGAR (Agencies) - Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over observed the Right to Self-determination Day on Wednesday to remind the international community that the UN resolutions on Kashmir have remained unimplemented even after the passage of more than six decades. On ...

Federal minister for information and broadcast Qamar Zaman Kaira has said democracy is to take all the parties on board however PML-N- wishes that whatever they say should be considered right. Talking to the media during national youth conference on Monday Kaira said that Pakistan is facing ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said that he was not afraid of unification of Muslim Leagues as most of the members of APML were his relatives. He said that it was oppositions right to criticize. Talking to media after a ceremony in Convention Centre Islamabad, the PM said that it was PML-Ns ...

ISLAMABAD Although most of it came out in the Information and Law Ministers joint press conference earlier in the day, Fridays meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani resolved to assert the PPPs right to rule. A divertive one-liner issued by the ...

LAHORE - In addition to its ongoing schemes, WAPDA has also initiated a number of projects including Kurram Tangi Dam, Munda Dam, Chashma Right Bank (lift-cum-gravity) Canal (CRBC) and other medium irrigation dams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Construction of these mega projects on priority basis will ...

Federal Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi has vowed to confront any conspiracy against democracy. Speaking at a press conference in Quetta, Abdul Qayyum Jatoi castigated the chief justice and also slated hearings of fake degree cases. He also said that Pakistan Peoples Party would ...

LAHORE - Power generation through steam turbines is one of the solutions to high cost electricity and acute power shortage. This was stated by Mian Suhail Hussain, Chief Executive Officer of a private turbine manufacturing firm while giving a presentation on power generation through steam turbine ...

LONDON (AFP) Australia great Steve Waugh has endorsed a proposal from Marylebone Cricket Clubs (MCC) world cricket committee for the immediate introduction of day/night Test cricket. I think it will be great, former Australia captain Waugh, a committee member, told a news conference at Lords on ...

In occupied Kashmir, illegally detained senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), Shabbir Ahmad Shah has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir will continue their struggle for securing right to self-determination till its logical end. According to Kashmir Media Service, ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday resumed hearing of the petitions challenging various clauses of the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Akram Sheikh Advocate, while arguing over the petition filed by his client Nadeem Ahmed, contended that the judiciarys authority to appoint judge was grabbed and ...

ISLAMABAD Secretary Narcotics, Tariq Khosa, during his stint as DG FIA, played a significant role in bringing back to the country, the main accused in Rs9 billion Bank of Punjab scam from abroad. It was because of his efforts that the return of former President BoP, Hamesh Khan from the US and ...

LAHORE- The Farmers Association of Pakistan (FAP) on Thursday strongly criticised the Punjab government and said that the Punjab Food Department has failed to protect the rights of the growers during the current wheat procurement campaign. According to a press release, the members of FAP during ...

KARACHI (APP) - The KESC Power Ltd has subscribed to 54.25 million un-subscribed right shares of minority shareholders for more than Rs 189.889 million. According to a communique sent to KSE by the power supply company here Wednesday, the process of subscription of 14.50pc right shares has been ...

Amid reports about possible civil nuclear deal between Pakistan and United States, China said that a peaceful use of atomic technology is the right of every sovereign country. Chinas foreign office spokesman said Tuesday that Beijing believes that atomic proliferation laws should also be ...

Gordon Brown took a major political gamble yesterday by describing Tony Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq as "the right decision for the right reasons" and insisting that "everything that Mr Blair did during this period, he did properly". Dogged by a reputation for disowning unpopular ...

President Asif Zardari on Friday said that the laborers have the utmost right on the country and the Pakistan Peoples Party will continue its struggle for uplift of this deprived group of the society, report said. Today we are in a new world where the laborer is not a subordinate of anyone but a ...

KARACHI - The Samba Bank Limited will inject additional capital through issuance of right shares to comply with the SBP regulatory requirement for both 2009-2010. This move is expected to capable the bank to meet the SBP minimum capital requirement of Rs6 billion and Rs7 billion for the years 2009 ...

Tony Blair would have invaded Iraq even if he had known that there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country, he has admitted. The former Prime Minister made the disclosure in an interview with Fern Britton for a BBC One religious programme. Discussing Saddam Hussein and the decision to ...

KARACHI (APP) - Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has relaxed the condition for issuing right shares twice in a year and allowed KESC to issue 2.501 billion ordinary or 14.50pc right shares at Rs 3.5/share. According to a communique to KSE here Wednesday, KESC said that SECP has ...

A committee of the UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution reaffirming the right of peoples to self-determination, and called for cessation of foreign military intervention, occupation and repression.The resolution, which was approved by consensus, serves to focus the ...

Lok Sanjh Foundation in collaboration with Pakistan Dehqan Assembly organised a Rice Conference: Rice/Food crisis and livelihood of small rice farmers, on October 15, 2009 at Dera Gujran, Sheikhupura. More than 600 farmers, tenants, landless workers and sister organizations from different parts of ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbass Fatah movement renewed its charter for the first time since the launch of the Middle East peace process in 1991 but Israel reacted angrily on Sunday to its insistence on the right to resist. At its first congress in 20 years and the ...

The hearing of a constitutional petition challenging the appointments of all such judges of the superior courts who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and imposition of PCO in Supreme Court is underway. A 14-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice ...

If you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear, say scientists. Italian researchers found people were better at processing information when requests were made on that side in three separate tests. They believe this is because the left side of the brain, which is known to ...