NEW DELHI - Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains. He also ruled out deployment of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan.Karzai said: “We have a wish list that ...

lahore - The law and order situation at present is much better than it was expected to be so close to the general elections, Federal Minister for Law Ahmer Bilal Soofi stated this while talking to The Nation on Sunday.He said about a month ago it was being apprehended that killings during these ...

Students start to apply to different universities and institutions across the country for their graduation. Every institute has its own admission rules which parents have to follow. Most of these institutions conduct tests or interviews in different months till they finalize the list. The LUMS ...

STRASBOURG, France  - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawful, in a decision the opposition leader's camp saw as a key step towards her release."The court considered that the detention had been ...

SIALKOT - The dynastic politics cannot be ignored here especially in NA-111 constituency, and thus is gaining momentum with every passing day. The candidates fielded by the main stream political parties are also battling for getting support of influential families. The pre-polls political arena ...

ISLAMABAD (OUR STAFF REPORTER): - The SECP in order to facilitate the entrepreneurs has proposed important amendments to the Single Member Companies Rules, 2003. The SMC Rules were introduced in Pakistan in the year 2002 and detailed framework for registration of Single Member Companies were ...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the withdrawal of additional unprecedented perks and privileges to former interior minister Rehman Malik, his predecessors and to former prime ministers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Yousuf Raza Gilani.A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief ...

KANDIARO/KHAIRPUR - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has said that he had supported President Asif Ali Zardari with good intentions, but he betrayed him and did not honour his words.Addressing a rally here in Kandiaro on Friday, Nawaz said he had told Zardari that he would support him if he managed to ...

The Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Monday, ruled out sending reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry over alleged bribery scam against Arslan Iftikhar.“I think there is no need for sending a reference against Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for ...

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday reiterated in a meeting with a top American diplomat that new rules of engagements between Pakistan, USA/NATO/ISAF must respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Thomas Nides who is the second senior U.S. ...

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Logart has ruled out the possibility of organising an ICC World Test championship until 2017. He said this while talking to media during the second ODI played here between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. At the last [ICC] board meeting we decided ...

The Indian Government Friday ruled out recalling the '50 most wanted' list given to Pakistan after two more fugitives figuring in it were traced in India but said the document is being reviewed. "The entire list is being reviewed. We have no plan to recall the list from Pakistan," Secretary, ...

President Asif Ali Zardari while expressing concern over the ongoing political unrest in some countries of the Gulf region has ruled out the possibility of any such situation emerging in Pakistan. I dont think such political unrest can reach Pakistan, as it is a different country that has a strong ...

Patron Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has warned the government of severe action if corruption and bad governance continues in the country. Addressing his party workers here on Monday, Nawaz maintained that Corruption rules the roost in Pakistan, and if the situation persists we ...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ruled out a fresh war in the North Caucasus where the Kremlin fought Islamists in the 1990s, saying rebels lacked money and support for a new separatist conflict. "I don't think there are conditions for this today," Putin said in an interview with ...

U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have eased a rule covering the use of force that has been a source of discontent among American troops, according to military officials. As a result of findings during a review commissioned by Gen. David Petraeus, it has been made clear that troops are allowed to ...

Quaid Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Former Premier Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has made it clear his Party would not make any comprise on national interest, adding that, no one would be allowed to breach constitution in future. Addressing during Party's Central Parliamentary Committee, he ...

South Korea's new defence chief said Thursday there was no evidence that the sudden discharge of water from a North Korean dam which killed six southerners was a deliberate attack. The North on September 6 released millions of tonnes of water into a cross-border river, which killed six South ...

Close on the heels of the Obama Administration approving reconciliation efforts with the moderate elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US categorically ruled out any similar settlement with Al-Qaida. "We have no interest in any kind of reconciliation or any rapprochement by anyone with ...

PML(N) Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal has said that there is no question of making an alliance with the PML-Q. Talking to media here on Sunday, Iqbal reiterated that PML-N would participate in lawyers' long march at any cost. "We will continue our struggle for independent judiciary and ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday virtually ruled out a military conflict with Pakistan but asked the world community to nudge Islamabad to dismantle the "terror machine" in the wake of strikes on Mumbai, which was an attack on India's "ambitions to emerge as an economic power". Singh ...

Iran's conservative parliament speaker Ali Larijani has confirmed that he will not stand in next year's presidential election, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. "I will not stand in the presidential election, and I have said this many times and it is not a secret issue," the news ...

Democratic Congressman Edward Markey, who opposed the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, held President Bush responsible for weakening of the nuclear rules and ruining the vital arms control policy. "By destroying the nuclear rules for India, President Bush has weakened the rules for everyone else. ...

Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman said that electronic media is not abiding the rules in the coountry. Addressing a Psycho Trauma conference in Islamabad, Sherry said that news are being sensationalise to capture the audience. Media should abide the rules. Information minister requested ...

President General Pervez Musharraf has said that there is no room for martial law in the country and he would keep working to strengthen democracy in the country.During a meeting with the leader of Muslim League-Q Chaudhry Pervez Elahi at his camp office here on Monday, Musharraf said that he could ...

European Union Parliament passed controversial new rules for expelling illegal immigrants. Under the new guidelines, already approved by EU governments, illegal immigrants can be held in specialized detention centers not jails for up to 18 months before being expelled. But EU countries must provide ...