Karachi - The constituency of NA-250 and its two corresponding constituencies of provincial assembly of Sindh – PS-112 and PS-113 – will undergo a revote under heightened supervision of additional election staff amid tight security measures today (Sunday). At least 86,000 registered ...

PESHAWAR The PML-N Central Senior Vice President and losing candidate from NA-9 Mardan-I, Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, has accused the caretaker government and Election Commission of Pakistan’s officials of favouring his opponent former chief minister Haider Hoti in the general election, and ...

LONDON: Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political unrest, the Foreign Office said. Tensions have risen in Libya since ex-rebels besieged two ministries at the end of last month in a row over a law that would ban ...

  quetta   The Balochistan government has decided to take strict action against the staff that would not perform duty on the polling day. As per spokesman of the government, all resources are being used for conducting free, fair and peaceful election. “The governmental has decided a ...

  ISLAMABAD  As the country is about to go to the general elections on upcoming Saturday, preparations are in full swing and the staff of educational institutes working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has been engaged in the election preparations. The staff of schools and ...

ISLAMABAD - More than 700,000 out of over 750,000 government employees trained by the UNDP would be joining election duties at the 69,876 polling stations across Pakistan on coming Friday while the remaining personnel have already joined their duties.Following the ECP's announcement on appointing ...

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday issued code of conduct for polling stations staff.ECP has directed the polling staff not to follow the orders of anyone except the presiding officers.ECP further asked the staff for not showing their affiliation with any political party besides ...

KARAK - The enraged residents of Mithawal, Tehsil Karak, blocked the Indus Highway near Jail Chowk after a clash between the Pesco personnel and the local people, which also left three persons injured. Eyewitnesses informed here on Wednesday that the Pesco Karak personnel along with police party ...

PESHAWAR – Four kidnapped employees of WAPDA mysteriously reached home, when militants released him from an unknown location in tribal area on Sunday.On April 02, a dozen of armed militants attacked Sheikh Mohammadi grid station with rockets and sophisticated weapons and also killed three ...

LAHORE – After transferring officials backed by PIA’s employees union Peoples Unity (CBA) from passengers handling section, national flag carrier has started earning billions of rupees in the head of Excess Baggage and saving of millions through transit flights expense, said well-placed ...

LAHORE - Following the poor results in South Africa, Pakistan Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez has called for improvements in country's domestic circuit, which will help produce complete players who can cope with any conditions anywhere in the world. He was speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing ...

RAWALPINDI – Despite unending efforts of the district health department to make anti-polio immunisation campaign successful, the Short Interval Additional Dose (SIAD) is feared not to get 100 per cent target. The garrison city, for maintaining a polio-free city status has launched unscheduled ...

 Pakistan has withdrawn its diplomatic staff from Syria due to deteriorating security in the country, the foreign ministry said Thursday."We have temporarily withdrawn our diplomatic staff, including the ambassador, from Syria and they have all returned home," ministry spokesman Moazzam Ahmed ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN – Police claimed to have arrested two car snatchers on National Highway here the other day.The police said that the car snatchers had hired cab of Ahsan Pathan's from near by the Sheikh Zayed Hospital for Pooran village. On the highway, they threw Pathan out of the car and ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Wapda Hydro-Electric Central Labour Union held a protest rally at Banazir Bhutto Road (BBR) against the privatisation of the IESCO and other electricity supplying companies and in favour of a raise in their salaries.The union leaders threatened the government to move the ...

ISLAMABAD  - Children suffering from extreme social anxiety often misread faces, confusing angry faces with sad ones.“If you misread facial expressions, you’re in social trouble, no matter what other social skills you have,” says Emory University psychologist Steve Nowicki, ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is relocating international staff from its office in the Afghan city of Kunduz which was attacked over the weekend by protesters angry over last week’s burning of copies of the holy Quran by United States soldiers, the UN said Monday.“This temporary ...

NEW DELHI - A hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnetic bomb on an Israeli embassy car in the Indian capital on Monday, police said, in one of two attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi blamed by Israel on Iran.The embassy car exploded in a ball of flames in a diplomatic area of central New Delhi, ...

Recently, it has been reported that the Islamabad police along with other security agencies, has been combing the surrounding hills of the capital for militants, which according to sources have been hiding there for carrying out nefarious activities. It is to be noted that the police department ...

LONDON - Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid and a policeman on Saturday in a probe into suspected payments by journalists to officers for information, police and the newspaper's publisher said.Police also searched the London offices of Sun ...

VEHARI - The district government of Vehari has urged the people to get their under five year children administered polio drops to defeat the disease. DCO Ihsan Bhutta said that polio is a very harmful and lethal disease while chairing a meeting. He also observed the arrangements made for the ...

ISLAMABAD - An untoward situation may occur at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and employees may clash with each other as young doctors have decided to open outpatient departments closed by the striking medical and non-medical employees who are opposing new service structure and ...

MAILSI - The Health Department’s employees of grade 4 are ready to commit suicides over the alleged bad behaviour of the department towards them, said Para Medics Alliance District General Secretary Sadiq Ali Mirza. He warns the Health Department’s high-ups to solve problems of lower ...

WASHINGTON  - White House chief of staff William Daley is to step down and will be replaced by President Barack Obama’s budget chief Jacob Lew, a White House official said Monday.Lew is a veteran of Washington and has served in President Bill Clinton’s administration, on Capitol ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Thousands of citizens, who visited City’s zoo on Sunday, had to pay double charges for their entry into the museum located inside the zoo, as they were charged Rs10 instead of Rs5 per head fixed by the administration. The officials had received such complaints since long ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at an insurgent organizations announcement that three abducted employees of a gas company in Balochistan have been sentenced to death by a court of the insurgents and would be executed soon. HRCP has ...

WARBURTON - The Government High School Warburton's Old Students' Organization congratulated their former school fellow Muhammd Asif Sandila on assuming the charge of new Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan. Mr Sandila belongs to Mehmoon Wali, a Sandhila family village near Warburton while there is a ...

ISLAMABAD - The All Parties Conference (APC) after nine hours of intense brainstorming over new challenges to the national security succeeded in adopting a unanimous 13-point declaration in the wee hours of Friday, vowing to defend countrys sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs. The ...

LAHORE The work-charge employees are running from one office to another for getting their salaries of three months, but the Punjab government has so far not considered the issue despite the fact they are still working and carrying out their responsibilities. Secondly, the sword of sending them ...

Our Staff Reporter KHAN GARH - The Mepco technical staff, working with the utility for the last 15 years have been deprived of promotion to the next cadre despite qualifying the eligibility criterion. This situation has caused severe disappointment and sense of deprivation among the staff who has ...