KUALA LUMPURBahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa fought back against allegations of human rights abuses Thursday as he became Asian football's new leader with a landslide election win.The royal, who has also denied vote-buying claims, won 33 of the 46 votes to become president of the ...

LAHORE – Managing Director of Pakistan Super League (PSL) Salman Sarwar Butt Wednesday resigned from his post citing some personal reasons. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told this scribe that PCB Director General Javed Miandad has been appointed as an interim MD of the league. ...

LAHORE – Salman Siddique will wear the crown of the Lahore Gymkhana Club for the year 2013. His penal swept club elections with eight seats while his opponent Ziaurrehman bagged 4.Election results for 2013 revealed that Salman Group’s major supporter Miam Misbah ur Rehman, while Salman ...

 Two petitions were filed in the Supreme Court’s Karachi registry on Monday -- one calling for the disqualification of Dr Asim Hussain from the position of Advisor to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources and the other challenging the assigning of an additional charge to ...

MAKKAH  - Saudi Arabia on Sunday buried crown prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz during a sombre ceremony in holy city, as defence minister Prince Salman appeared poised to become the new heir apparent.The 79-year-old Nayef died on Saturday of ‘cardiac problems’ at his brother’s ...

LAHORE – Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Health Khawaja Salman Rafiq has directed TMAs to expedite the process of registration and issuance of licences to tyre shops in their respective jurisdictions. Chairing a meeting of Cabinet Committee held here Tuesday to review arrangements for ...

LAHORE - Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Health Salman Rafique has directed the administration of teaching hospitals to ensure implementation of system evolved for compiling the data of dengue patients so that correct figures could be provided to the Punjab Information Technology Board. ...

Leading rock icon of Pakistan, Ali Azmat added fuel to controversy between him and his former Junoon members saying he never had resentment towards the band but Slaman Ahmed was unbearable for him.“I have never had any resentment towards Junoon but its Salman Ahmad that I have a problem ...

LONDON (Agencies) - The lawyer of M Asif accused the player's former captain and fellow defendant at the alleged spot-fixing trial, Salman Butt, of "pressurising him" before he bowled his infamous no-ball at the Lord's Test last year. Earlier in the trial that is now into its tenth day, Aftab ...

LAHORE Dr Salman Malik Kamboh gets his MPhil degree in the field of Physiotherapy. He is also first MPhil Graduate of King Edward Medical University in all disciplines. KEMU Vice Chancellor Dr Asad Aslam Khan, Principal College of Physiotherapy and other senior doctors and professors have ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, on the invitation of Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Javid Lodin, has left for Kabul for bilateral consultations and second trilateral meeting of the senior officials of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States to be held in Kabul today ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Salman Aqeel Butt won the gold medal in the 60 kg category on the first day of the Senior National Power Lifting Championship here at the Punjab University Old Campus. In the 52kg weight category, Asim Shehzad of Wapda won gold medal with 300 points, Vicky of Police ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE: Wicket-keeper Mohammad Salman, allrounder Hammad Azam and left-arm seamer Junaid Khan are the new faces in Pakistan's 15-member squad for the upcoming two-Test series against West Indies. Misbah-ul-Haq who led the Test side creditably in the aftermath of the spot-fixing ...

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Foreign Affairs Salman Bashir left for Washington on Tuesday in an effort to bring Pak-US relations to normalcy, which have been in tatters following the Raymond Davis episode. Sources said that Bashir accompanied by two director generals was visiting US on special invitation ...

ISLAMABAD - Washington has invited Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir for crucial talks to mend ties with Islamabad that have been in tatters since drone attack on a peace congregation in North Waziristan Agency on March 17, which left over 39 innocent people dead. Foreign Secretary has received an ...

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter Monday called on Secretary Foreign Affairs Salman Bashir and urged him to certify the diplomatic status of Raymond Davis to bring the deepening diplomatic standoff to end. Sources privy to these developments told The Nation that the US envoy ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt told the International Cricket Council's (ICC) spot fixing inquiry that he did not know how his agent had predicted with such accuracy when no-balls would be bowled in the Lord's Test match against England in August 2010. Butt's evidence came as ...

KARACHI Chief national hockey selector Hanif Khan praised Pakistan for clinching a berth in the final of the 16th Asian Games Hockey Championship after a lapse of 20 years. He said it happened because of the experience of keeper Salman Akber and confidence of Haseem Khan who scored the winning ...

LAHORE Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt said here Tuesday that he has taken the vice-captaincy as a challenge and urged the PCB to be patient with him and give him ample time to prove his leadership credentials. The vice-captain of the Pakistan team said that the players at the training camp ...

LAHORE Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt is likely to be named vice captain of the Pakistan team for the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka and the tour of England, it was learnt on Monday. Butt will be assisting Shahid Afridi during the coming assignments. Butt was frontrunner for captaincy before Afridi ...

LAHORE - Former Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Dr Salman Shah said the PPP and ANP were opposing the construction of Kalabagh Dam. Speaking at the Pre-Budget Seminar of The Nation in Lahore on Saturday Dr Shah said the KBD cannot be built until and unless the PPP and ANP stop opposing this mega ...

LAHORE - National Bank of Pakistan humbled Lahore Eagles by ten wickets in the RBS Cup here at the LCCA ground on Saturday. Uzairul Haq had four wickets while Qaiser Abbas had two with Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Talha and Salman Butt taking one wicket each to contain Lahore to 122 in 40.3 overs. ...

KARACHI - The Ministry of Finance has constituted a Committee, headed by the Acting Chairman SECP Salman Ali Shaikh, to review and finalise the draft Corporate Rehabilitation Act (CRA), through a notification issued on January 31, 2009. Shaikh has already been involved with the said Act when he ...