ISLAMABAD - All the state institutions should work within their legal ambits in order to avoid confrontation and derailment of the system, as it could flourish democracy in Pakistan, law experts said. The renowned lawyers and legal experts shared their views while talking to TheNation on Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON (Online) - Hardening stance on Pakistan, leading Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said that the country is in danger of becoming a failed State. 'You are dealing with a nation like Pakistan, with a hundred-plus missiles, which is a fragile State, and could be become a ...

In Occupied Kashmir Chairman All Parties Hurriyet Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has warned Indian government to desist from settling non-Kashmiris in the held state. Addressing a gathering in Srinagar he said India is trying to settle five hundred thousand non-locals in the occupied territory. He ...

As we step off the Turkish Air flight and walk across the dusty tarmac to the terminal, we are greeted by a large billboard. In big, bold English it proclaims, Welcome to the Home of the Brave. It stops me in my tracks. I shake my head, thinking, damn weird and continue in to passport control. ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - SITE Association of Industry Chairman Mohammad Irfan Moton, has taken a serious note of State Bank of Pakistan dishonouring the sales tax refund cheques due to change of Banks name. Expressing concern Irfan Moton said that there is a general complaint from all over ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has appointed Acting Governor Yaseen Anwar as Governor State Bank of Pakistan. Official sources have confirmed that appointment of Yaseen Anwar as new governor of SBP. He assumed the duties on an interim basis three months ago after the former governor of SBP resigned ...

The western Indian state of Gujarat legislative assembly has unanimously cleared a bill to control the transportation of cattle within the state and outside to protect the cow, a holy animal in Hindu religion, reported The Times of India Thursday. The Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, ...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik revealed that land mafia had grabbed around fourteen thousand acre valuable land in Karachi and indicated that same action would be taken against land grabbers like being done against target killers and extortionists. While talking to media in Karachi, after ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, on Monday, asserted that the government, by indulging in a confrontation with the judiciary, was converting the country into a failed state. The government is using the parliament to hide its corruption and institutions are being ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that the government by indulging in confrontation with the judiciary was converting the country into a failed state. Speaking to the media before and after the PML-N parliamentary party meeting after a gap of 12 years, here ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER BAHAWALNAGAR - About 2,177 acres of TMA, highways and railway land worth millions has been retrieved from the grabbers during a crackdown launched in Bahawalnagar district. Talking to mediamen, ADC Asad Ali Khan said that anti-encroachment drive had been stopped temporarily as ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed some relaxations in the Export Finance Scheme (EFS) for the benefit of exporters whose export proceeds are overdue, the SBP said on Saturday. An exporter shall be eligible to avail financing under EFS Part-I and/or Part-II, ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the serial blasts that claimed 18 lives in Mumbai on Wednesday night were a grim reminder "that India continues to be high on the terror list of terror outfits operating from Pakistan". Speaking to rediff.com on Thursday morning, the ...

Lahore The CIA designed a plot to create a rift in Pakistan as well as other Islamic states and China for the supremacy of the US and India in 1994, it has been revealed. The CIA planned to create rift among the Army, other sensitive departments and the political forces in Pakistan to establish ...

Our Staff reporter AHMEDPUR EAST - On the directive of Punjab Chief Minister, the local administration has got vacated 57 acres and 5 kanal of state land worth Rs7.5 million from land mafia in different parts of Subdivision Ahmedpur East during over last one week. Ahmedpur East Assistant ...

Foreign Office on Wednesday said Pakistan is a nuclear-weapon state and it does not comment on its strategic programme. Pakistan is a nuclear-weapon state. This is an established fact. We do not comment on our strategic programme said the Foreign Office spokesperson in response to a question ...

WASHINGTON - Lawrence Eagleburger, a career US foreign service officer who rose to the position of secretary of state, passed away Saturday, aged 80, according to media reports. Eagleburger, who was involved in rallying diplomatic support for the Afghan war, especially after President Ronald Reagan ...

ISLAMABAD - In average, 10 incidents of armed conflicts and 39 consequent deaths were reported in three main South Asian states - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan - on every day of last month. Every fourth victim of violence was a civilian. Afghanistan continued to be worst hit state by violence in ...

WASHINGTON With the Middle East in turmoil, President Barack Obama made a strong pitch for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that would create a "non-militarized" Palestinian state on the basis of Israels borders before 1967. At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are ...

Libya's state television said on Friday at least 16 people were killed in a NATO air strike at the eastern city of Brega, which is still reportedly controlled by forces loyal to embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The television said the air raid targeted a guest house in the city, but no ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Sunday that it is often misunderstood that the judiciary acts against the measures and steps of the executive but it is the Constitution which provides this important role to the judiciary to regulate the state ...

As he prepared to step down as secretary of state in 1996, Christopher said his proudest accomplishments included helping promote a ban on nuclear weapons tests. A law firm spokeswoman says former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who worked for peace in Bosnia and the Mideast in the Clinton ...

WASHINGTON - Philip Crowley is out as chief spokesman at the State Department after he publicly criticised the Defence Departments handling of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a senior administration official said Sunday. The resignation came under pressure from the White House, where officials ...

LAHORE - Clarifying the confusion over Shahbaz Sharifs statement that politicians, army and judiciary should sit together to find solution to countrys problems, PML-N spokesperson, Senator Pervaiz Rashid, has said owing to divergent views of the stakeholders on different issues, especially those ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar Tuesday said that all the state institutions are in complete unison on the Raymond Davis issue, adding that no compromise would be made against the sovereignty of the nation. Talking to journalists after inaugurating the 7th ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria promised to end a 19-year-old state of emergency and provide more political freedoms on Thursday, concessions designed to keep out a wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world. The announcement by the energy exporting nation followed pressure from government opponents, ...

Iran hanged three rapists in Tehran 's Evin prison on Monday, the state IRIB TV reported. "The convicted men had threatened to stab and forced a teenage to a quite place and raped it" the report said without specifying whether the teenage was a boy or girl. The three hanged men were identified as ...

Gareth Porter Fifty years after Dwight D Eisenhowers Jan 17, 1961, speech on the military-industrial complex, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a permanent war state, with the power to keep the United States at war ...

ISLAMABAD - Justice Jawwad S Khawaja while hearing the PCO judges case on Tuesday said it was the collective responsibility of all the institutions to talk about 'high treason' that was committed on 3rd November, 2007, as the court's job is to deliver only justice and not prosecution. Justice ...

Mike Hanna Much has been reported about the details of the cables that were sent from US embassies around the world to the state department in Washington - the content ranging from the highly informative to what some ex-diplomats describe as little more than political gossip. But embarrassing as ...