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 ...

karachi - Haleem Adil Sheikh, election candidate from Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid for election to PS-129, on Sunday made a tour to Ebrahim Hyderi to learn about problems of the voters. Sheikh visited the markets on foot to give a subliminal message that he cared for the people of his electoral ...

Chief of Awami Muslim League (AML), Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, on Saturday withdrew his nomination papers for Rawalpindi’s NA-56 in accordance with his pledge of support to Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.Imran Khan has assured Sheikh Rashid for his support for the latter in NA-55 ...

At least seven people‚ including 2 policemen‚ were killed in a rocket attack on Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station in Badabe‚ Peshawar early Tuesday morning.According to police‚ militants fired 7 rockets on the grid station. 2 people died on the spot‚ while bodies of 5 ...

PESHAWAR - Awami Muslim League President, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, has announced to back the Tahir-ul-Qadri’s long march on Islamabad, saying that it could bring a real change for 180 million people of the country.Talking to reporters, after offering Fateha for the departed soul of JI former ...

peshawar - Sheikh Panju shrine located in a graveyard near Phandu Chowk in Peshawar was blown up on Saturday evening. No casualties were reported in the incident. The explosion has damaged the boundary wall of the shrine. Police and Bomb Disposal Squad have been dispatched to the site for ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that Punjab government has shifted Bank of Punjab’s loan defaulter Sheikh Afzal from jail to Services Hospital Lahore for medical treatment.The court issued directives to Superintendent Services Hospital to produce medical treatment report ...

ISLAMABAD-Federal Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Wednesday reiterated demand for payment of US grant under the Coalition Support Fund to Pakistan, sources said.The minister made this demand in a meeting with visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides. He informed the ...

Federal State Minister for Production Sheikh Waqas Akram Friday said that they would not bear abusive language of the public by sticking with the corrupt government. While talking to Online , he said that Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif often criticize each other, but people know that they ...

WASHINGTON  - Nine years after his arrest in Pakistan, self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed could soon be back in court for the much-awaited “trial of the century.”After years of delays, a significant step took place last week when a former aide to Mohammed, Majid ...

Political forces watching their personal and party interests: Sheikh RashidThe Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that all political parties were busy in protecting personal and party interests and no one cares about public mandate and aspiration.Talking to media persons ...

Federal Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Thursday told National Assembly that the government was going to change national tax policy from 2012. Responding a call attention notice in National Assembly, the minister said that in 2009-10 there were 31 lakhs National Tax Number (NTN) holder in ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Dialysis machines at Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital, RY Khan have been out of order for the last couple of months. The patients dismayed that they were facing problems while getting treatment through dialysis machines. Hashim, a local, has told the media that his father, ...

LAHORE - Former Supreme Court Bar president and senior lawyer Muhammad Akram Sheikh has expressed surprise at the three-hour meeting between COAS General Kayani and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday night, which, according to reports, was also attended by the Attorney General for ...

Aamina Sheikh marks her silver screen debut in lead role in Urdu film 'Seedlings alongside her husband and acclaimed actor Mohib Mirza and Gohar Rasheed as the lead characters with HiraTareen, Mehreen Rafi and Tara Mahmood in supporting roles. The screenplay is written by Summer Nicks, directed by ...

ABU DHABI Hundreds of thousands of sports lovers thronged the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium to witness Pak-Lankan one-off Twenty20 on Friday as about three kilometres long queues were witnessed and fans waited for hours to enter the stadium. People travelled from all over United Arab Emirates to ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Bank of Punjab in the bail application of Sheikh Afzal, the main accused in Rs8 billion BoP scandal. A three-member bench headed by Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani heard the bail application of ...

Federal Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Saturday said the government realises the miseries of flood affected people and was doing everything for their facilitation. He said the government needed funds for their rehabilitation and it was everyones responsibility to pay taxes so that ...

ISLAMABAD - Unlike the hullabaloo and agitation faced in the Lower House of the Parliament, Federal Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh had smooth sailing in the Senate where he laid the finance bill 2011-12 with ease to make recommendations on it. None of the opposition parties including ...

Peter King, U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Chairman told reporters on Tuesday (May 03) in Washington, D.C. that waterboarding played a major role in bin Laden's capture and killing. "I have spoken to people who are very close to the situation who said initial information came from ...

The federal finance minister, Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has 'hinted at the 'possibility of at least one more tranche of IMF (International Monetary Fund) for 'equilibrium in its finances. According to a media report, the finance minister headed a delegation for talks with IMF and World Bank; during the ...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday vowed to further strengthen ties between the two countries through enhanced trade cooperation and joint ventures. President Zardari who arrived in Kuwait this afternoon discussed with Amir Sheikh Sabah ...

LAHORE (PR) - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif leading the delegation of Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) called on Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research of UAE at his palace in Abu Dhabi. Shahbaz led a 100-CEO ...

Federal Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said that a wrong impression is being given that Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) is being brought to create a rift between rich and poor. Not every rich person is a thug due to the rich investment is made in the country, Dr Hafeez Sheikh said while ...

Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs Manzoor Ahmed Watto has been admitted to Sheikh Zaid Hospital due to illness. According to a private TV channel report, Manzoor Watto has been admitted in Sheikh Zaid Hospital owing to some illness. While hospital administration confirming news of Watto's ...

President Awami Muslim League (AML), Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that the government and so-called opposition should not indulge in blame-game and to avoid politicization Data Darbar tragedy. Talking to a private TV channel here on Sunday, President AML said that the country is facing menaces of ...

George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again "to save lives". "Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the former president told a business audience in Grand Rapids, ...

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 ...

Rescuers on Tuesday found the body of the brother of the United Arab Emirates president, four days after his aircraft crashed into a Moroccan lake, investigators said. Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan was the managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, considered the world's largest ...

A notification has been issued regarding the appointment of former finance minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh as finance adviser to the Prime Minister here today. Dr Hafeez, a PhD in Economics, was Privatization minister in Musharrafs regime, and also served in the World Bank. Hafeez has got a 25-year ...