MULTAN Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that the elections are held in peaceful environment in Punjab and there is no complaint regarding large scale rigging in the province.“If there is any tiny complaint, it’s just a local issue,” he added while talking to ...

MOTHESE schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run ...

THE HAGUE - The Netherlands' food watchdog on Wednesday asked hundreds of companies across Europe, supplied by a Dutch wholesaler suspected of mixing beef and horsemeat, to check 50,000 tonnes of suspect meat. The latest saga comes after a vast food scandal that erupted across Europe after ...

Corruption in Afghanistan is "pervasive" at every level of government and society, according to US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The cables from the U.S. ambassador in Kabul portray Afghan President Hamid Karzai as paranoid, with an "inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of ...

KABUL (Agencies) Media coverage is inadequate to convey the scope of the floods that have ravaged Pakistan for more than a month, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Friday. Admiral Mike Mullen on Thursday toured flood-stricken areas of Pakistan with Pakistans Army Chief General ...

ISLAMABAD - Growth of Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) has shown slight increase of 0.67pc in the first four months (July-October) of the ongoing fiscal year over the corresponding period of 2008-09, FBS reported on Thursday. According to the figures released by Federal Bureau of Statistics, the ...

The permanent residents of Mohmand Agency have decided to migrate on massive scale in coming few days. Local notables, on condition of anonymity, said militants activities and operation from security forces made life miserable for locals, therefore several families in Dara Jarobi, Sahib Kalay, ...

Several parts of Pakistan, including the federal capital, were today rocked by an earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale. The quake, which had its epicentre in the Hindu Kush mountain range and occurred at about 4.15 am, shook Islamabad, the North West Frontier Province, parts of Punjab ...

ROBOTS that can climb walls have been developed by scientists in the United States. The robots can scale surfaces using the same principles behind electrostatic charges, which make balloons stick to ceilings after being rubbed. Developed by a team in SRI's Mobile Robotics and Transducers ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Education Department has turned down the request of Punjab University's former acting Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Arif Butt seeking MP-II scale for the services he rendered during September 24, 2007 to January 2, 2008 for the varsity. The education department has taken ...