ISLAMABAD -As is the case each year, this year too summer breaks are about to start from June 1 but the students of the schools are yet to obtain the necessary books.Walking on the previous track, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) that is supposed to provide Class I to Class X books free ...

Lahore - Chairman All Pakistan Cottage Industry & Small Traders Ghulam Sarwar Malik has said that growth of manufacturing sector and economic stability was not possible without strengthening the cottage industry and the PML-N government would have to evolve a comprehensive strategy and announce ...

LAHORE - Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf has been withdrawn by the ICC from officiating in the upcoming Champions Trophy in England following media reports that indicated he was under investigation by Mumbai Police. "In the wake of reports that the Mumbai Police are conducting an investigation into Asad ...

ISLAMABADThe Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF), after two failed attempts, finally managed to organise trial matches on the third attempt here at Mushaf Ali Mir Squash Complex on Tuesday with seven players excluding top seed Aamir Atlas Khan. Farhan Mahboob, Farhan Zaman and Nasir Iqbal as expected ...

ISLAMABAD - The caretaker federal government seems in a haste regarding removal and appointment of a number of key government functionaries even after the general elections, and has sacked two members of the Ministry of Information Technology (IT) without following the due process, TheNation has ...

MALAKAND - Junaid Iqbal - Dwellers of the area on Tuesday demanded the high-ups of the Education Department to appoint a science teacher in the Government Girls High School Malakand. They said that the Education Department transferred the lonely female science teacher of the school to the ...

Will PPP’s electoral journey in 2013 end up like that of the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic? Political pundits believed that the monolithic PPP will break up in May 11 elections and Zardaris will play as the iceberg that sunk the ship in the North Atlantic. Zardaris who hijacked the party ...

  WAH CANTT Students in Taxila and Wah Cantonment attend classes sans textbooks because the Punjab Education Department has not provided free books to them. Teachers, students and their parents have voiced against non-distribution of free books to the students.  Tahir Iqbal, a student of ...

Hearing petitions regarding initiating treason case against former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja remarked that the court will meet all the requirements of justice.A three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja heard the treason petitions against Pervez ...

ACCORDING to its creator, this thing is the closest a human being can get to skydiving without actually leaping from a plane. From where I’m dangling, I’d say it’s closer to being Superman - with a hefty dose of Eddie the Eagle. It involves flying face-down, head-first, for a mile ...

BAHAWALPUR - The fifth International Seeratun Nabi (SAWW) Conference has concluded at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur with participation of renowned scholars from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, India, Bangladesh and also Pakistan and presentation of their papers. The conference was addressed by notable ...

Warning about what he called blowback of consensus-less army operation anywhere in the country, President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday vehemently shunned calls for immediate offensive against the North Waziristan militants.“On Swat we had national consensus, and for Waziristan also, but this I ...

FAISALABAD - Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami Hakumat (JPJM) Chairman Daniyal Aziz has said that economic growth is impossible without political progress and stability, therefore, devolution of power at grass-roots level is the only solution to both the social and economic problems of the country. ...

ISLAMABAD - Without taking new loan, the country's external debt has surged by more than Rs 300 billion during the last few months due to sharp rupee depreciation against US dollar, as Pakistani rupee is trading at historic low level of over 90 to the US dollar, it has been learnt."The country's ...

GUJRANWALA - As many as 24 girls schools in the district have been running without Headmistresses, while 184 seats of teachers are lying vacant since long, TheNation learnt here Saturday. According to details, BPS 17, 18 and 19 posts of Headmistresses are vacant in 24 schools which are badly ...

GUJRAT - The sole official maternity hospital in Mangowal Garbi is running without free medicines facility whilst its x-ray machine and an ambulance which went out of order in 2006 are still knackered. Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Ashraf told this scribe that the hospital had been ...

RAWALPINDI - The political rivals of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were igniting the issue of memo that has been sent to the then US Admiral Mike Mullen through an American businessman of Pakistani origin, to just dent the party image and get their desired results in the upcoming elections. Mansoor ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RAJANPUR - Electricity supply to Saddar Bazaar, Jampur, has been suspended for the past two months while power cuts last up to 18 hours a day in the district. It has been learnt that grid stations allegedly disconnect power supply to torture the whole city. Hue and cry of the ...

LAHORE City District Government Lahore has launched metered parking system for over 300 parking stands of the provincial metropolis previous day but without installing meters, which meant the District Administration authorized the contractors to fleece the citizens, The Nation has learnt on ...

Our Staff reporter SIALKOT - The kidney patients have been suffering from great difficulties in the dialysis of their kidneys due to non-availability of any urologist at dialysis units established at Sialkots both DHQ hospitals namely Govt Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Hospital and Govt Sardar Begum ...

LAHORE - All major political parties, except PTI, have rejected PML-Ns suggestion regarding formation of a commission on new provinces, saying it was unconstitutional because solution to the problem lies in the Constitution. Talking to TheNation, PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich said ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan has the resources and human potential to rejoin the ranks of advancing countries if it has an effective leadership, former President Pervez Musharraf stated this in a speech. In a speech to hundreds of supporters in Addison, Texas, he presented All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) ...

MULTAN The Bahauddin Zakariya Universitys University Teachers Forum on Friday urged the government not to make any political appointment against vice-chancellor seat and choose the most eligible person out of those proposed by the Search Committee for this office. Addressing a joint press ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed cautioned that durable peace in South Asia was not possible without bettering the Pakistan-India ties at multi-levels. Majority of people in both these nuclear neighbours feel the urgency for the improvement in the ...

KARACHI Pakistan Peoples Party forgot its own benefactor Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when the session of Sindh Assembly was prorogued on Thursday without passing resolution on the 32nd death anniversary of the founder of the party which falls on April 04. On a day when five different resolutions ...

LAHORE Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (Tepa) has finally accomplished surfacing work on the massively dilapidated portion of Canal Bank Road from Thokar Niaz Baig to PU New Campus in four days but without levelling the road, TheNation has learnt here. Both sides of the said portion of the ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Irans national oil company has refused to accept payments for oil sales to India without Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guarantees, sources said, prompting a meeting of their central banks over another obstacle to trade with Iran. The Islamic Republic is under global pressure ...

LAHORE Reiterating his opposition to the governments plan to impose Reformed General Sales Tax, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said Rs 1,500 billion may be raised through better economic management. In an interview to Nawa-i-Waqt on Sunday, he said it would be wrong to claim that the RGST ...

LAHORE Taking advantage of absence of 'major heads of the PML-N at the Punjab Assembly floor, the PPP ministers and a vocal legislator of their coterie blasted the coalition partner by asserting that the former was ignorant of the public issues, and even creating hurdles if anything was being done ...

LAHORE - In view of increasing demand of water and electricity in the country, WAPDA is executing about 20 projects in water and hydropower sectors. This was stated by WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani while addressing a delegation of PAF Air War College Karachi, headed by Air Vice Marshal Azher ...