LahoreThe Lahore High Court has been requested to initiate legal proceedings against Altaf Hussain for uttering words against the ideology of Pakistan in his speech of May 12, and cancel his leadership of Muttahida Qaumi Movement being not a Pakistani national. Hussain on May 12 threatened the ...

peshawarChairman Pakistan Patriotic Movement (PPM), Abdur Rashid Yousafzai, has strongly condemned MQM chief Altaf Hussain for his statement regarding the severance of Karachi from Pakistan and asked the government to stop Altaf’s speeches in Pakistan.Addressing a news conference here on ...

Islamabad - The British police have taken notice of hundreds of complaints lodged by British and Pakistani citizens against MQM chief Altaf Hussain for his recent remarks inciting violence. “The London Metropolitan Police are looking into the floods of complaints and may take action ...

British High Commissioner (HC), Adam Thomson has said that UK police have received countless complaints against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain’s remarks about detaching Karachi from Pakistan.In a statement, the British HC said Pakistan should take serious notice of Altaf ...

London:-  Malala Yousafzai, who emerged as a global icon for female rights after being shot at by Taliban for advocating girls’ education, will give her first public speech in New York on her 16th birthday on July 12, a day that would now be marked as ‘Malala Day’. UN Special ...

LAHOREThe Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust held a speech contest in connection with Allama Iqbal celebrations at the Pakistan Movement Workers’ Trust on Thursday. NPT Vice-Chairman Prof Rafique Ahmad has said that students can make the country developed and powerful according to its ideological ...

ISLAMABAD - Aimed to bring the youth forward to work for peace and to enable them to play an active role bringing peace in Pakistan Individualland Pakistan organised a speech competition on Thursday. A number of male and female students of different educational institutions participated in the ...

A petition filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday challenged the “political” nature of a recent speech made by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.The petition, filed in the IHC by Colonel (Retd) Inam Rahim, argues that General Kayani had exceeded his ...

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, denouncing the anti-Islam film as “disgraceful, shameless”, said Wednesday that “free speech” has limits, especially when religious beliefs are involved.“All of this freedom of expression should not be abused by ...

ISLAMABAD – Students from various branches of Dar-e-Arqam School System participated in the speech contest organized here at Allama Iqbal Auditorium by the school management.Regional Director of the School System, Malik Azhar Mahmood, was the chief guest on the occasion while a large number ...

QUETTA - The dictatorial regime of Pervez Musharraf was the blackest era in the history of Balochistan in which several Baloch leaders, including former Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Nawabazda Balach Marri and thousands of political workers had been brutally killed in military ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A heckler yelling Barack Obama is the antichrist on Monday disrupted a speech by the US president as he trawled for campaign funds in Los Angeles. The bearded man jumped to his feet just as Obama was about to begin his campaign appeal, at the House of Blues theater in West ...

LAHORE After the Treasury in Punjab Assembly laughed away Opposition Leaders speech on the budget, Raja Riaz had the last laugh when he declared on floor of the House that nothing could stop creation of a Seraeki province now. While launching bitter diatribe against the government for presenting ...

Obama's speech on the Middle East is extraordinary for its comprehensive dishonesty involving egregious deceit, lying by commission and lying by omission. Obama's ignoring of the US-imposed Muslim Genocide (about 12 million indigenous deaths in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan) is far worse ...

As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is delusional and blood-drenched while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel described Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's speech on Tuesday, in which he vowed to cling to power, as very frightening and said he had virtually declared war on his own people. Merkel told a news conference she would support eventual sanctions ...

THE Kings Speech has won the best film accolade at the Producers Guild of America Awards, beating off competition from Oscars favourite the Social Network. The British film about King George VI also beat other strong Academy Awards contenders including Black Swan, 127 Hours, Inception, The Kids Are ...

ISLAMABAD - Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday expressed serious reservations on, what he claimed, distortion of the facts and basic essence of his budget speech. The facts were deliberately distorted in an effort to defame me through an organised spin ...

LAHORE - The last round of series of Chief Ministers essay-writing and speech contests both in English and Urdu languages of all institutions including medical, technical colleges, government and private universities, and sports competitions from primary to degree level commenced here on Friday. It ...

A PAIR of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech. The two new studies found that the musical scales most commonly used over the centuries are those that come closest to mimicking the physics of the human voice, ...

ISLAMABAD - Mark Siegal, the American lobbyist for Pakistan appointed by President Asif Ali Zardaris government, has become so influential that he was even assigned to write the speech the President delivered to the General Assembly last month, according to reliable sources in the presidency. And ...

Speech DeBelle, the rapper, has won the Mercury Prize for her album Speech Therapy inspired by a spell of homelessness. She won the revered music prize ahead of 11 other shortlisted acts at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London on Tuesday night, following in the footsteps of ...

UNITED NATIONS/CAIRO - US President Barack Obamas speech calling for an end to the rift between the West and the worlds Muslims was a 'crucial step in bridging differences, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. I strongly welcome its message of peace, understanding and reconciliation, the UN ...

KARACHI (APP) - Following is the text of the speech of Governor SBP Syed Salim Raza delivered at a press conference on MPS held at SBP Karachi Monday. In a deregulated and substantially open economy, such as Pakistan, sustainable growth will need the confidence of domestic and foreign ...

LAHORE - It was fantastic rather a happy surprise to see a 9th class student of Dar-e-Arqam, Model Town, speaking English fluently with fine accent. Not only she but the budding students from the playgroup to secondary school level also communicate in English, although the school is considered, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The original handwritten copy of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 calling for the United States to unite in the midst of its Civil War will be auctioned in New York, according to Christie's auction house. The rare manuscript will go under the hammer on February 12, the ...

KARACHI - Eminent religious scholar Allama Talib Johari is unlikely to deliver his speech at the main congregation of the holy month of Muharram at Nishtar Park because of ailment and security concerns for the second consecutive year. He may address some majalis in surrounding areas of his ...

At least five protestors were killed and many others injured when police resorted to indiscriminate firing during a protest at Nishat Chowk area of Mingora. According to sources, local people continued their protest against the ongoing operation in Mingora that has claimed so far many civilian ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday rebuked British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for issuing an "inaccurate" warning that Tehran risked further sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme. Brown made the remarks on Monday in a speech to the Israeli parliament, where he also attacked Iranian ...

ISLAMABAD  - Following is the text of trade policy 2008-09 speech of Commerce Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar. "It is a privilege for me to present before you the trade policy for the year 2008-09; the first by a democratic government after a period of nine years. This is your government ...