PESHAWAR - The Pakistani government has ordered hundreds of journalists in its militancy-hit tribal regions to stop receiving pay as public teachers. The recently-issued edict surfaced in a government letter sent to the Tribal Union of Journalists (Tuj), reported BBC on Wednesday. It asked them to ...

OKARA - Federal Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Minister Mian Manzoor Ahmad Khan Wattoo has advised the people who according to him are dreaming political change in the country before 2013, to stop daydreaming and come out of self-delusion. There will be free, fair and transparent elections ...

WASHINGTON (Online) - For years, US officials have pushed Pakistans military to attack the Haqqani network, or at least block its ability to cross the Afghan border, or at least cut off whatever financial and other support Pakistans spy service continues to provide to the insurgent group, reported ...

LONDON (Online) - TTP commander Maulvi Faqir Muhammad said on Tuesday that the government should stop operation against the Taliban if it was serious in holding peace dialogue. Talking to BBC from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, he said: Since peace dialogue and operation (against the ...

ISLAMABAD - The government seems failed to protect the basic rights of the citizens as the masses are at least paying extra amount of Rs 40 billion annually on behalf of electricity thieves in terms of paying their bills but no action is being taken against the culprits. TheNation reliably learnt ...

ISLAMABAD - The US-led war against terror continues unabated even after ten years in Afghanistan, the main theatre of this war. However, the objectives of this war remain illusive despite relentless use of bombing including sophisticated bombs and drones. Pakistan, which played the role of a ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Former England skipper Michael Vaughan feels Ravi Bopara should stop idolising Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricketers should not "worship" opponents while their teams battle it out on the field. "There comes a time when you have to make the transition from a ...

MULTAN (APP) Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) announced here Saturday to stop buying Phutti (seed cotton) against what they call the complex procedure of collection of 3.5 per cent withholding tax on Phutti purchase. Chairman PCGA Mian Masud Majid told a news conference here that ginners ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States waged a secret diplomatic campaign in the 1970s to prevent Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons by pressing countries to control exports, declassified documents said. In remarks with striking parallels to current US debates, officials in President Jimmy ...

PATTOKI - The people using public transport braved heavy downpour and gusty winds on bus stops without shelters in the city, highlighting the city managers disregard for addressing the problem. The people from all walks of life have deplored the situation. They said that the problem confronted the ...

Sports Desk LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has no intentions of stopping any cricketer from playing in the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) next month, a PCB spokesman said on Saturday. The official also dismissed reports that the PCB would not issue a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to ...

KARAK Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department will not run its water supply schemes if the people did not start depositing their monthly water bills on regular basis, as there was a huge gap between the consumption and the revenue. This was informed by the XEN Public Health Engineering ...

China warned Asian neighbors Thursday to stop searching for oil near the Spratly Islands and vowed to assert its sovereignty over the potentially petroleum-rich territory in the South China Sea that several nations claim. China and the Philippines have swapped diplomatic protests over the islands, ...

Multan - Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Deputy Secretary General Rao Zafar Iqbal has warned that national losses will shoot up to $ 1 trillion if the government launched operation in North Waziristan on American pressure, asking the rulers not to bow down before foreign pressure. Addressing a press ...

PARACHINAR (APP) - The Para Chamkani tribesmen of Kurram Agency here Tuesday slammed the brazen attack by Afghan Taliban on peaceful citizen and police force in Upper Dir district a few days ago and demanded NATO, US to ensure prevention of such gory incidents. Para Chamkani tribal jirga led by its ...

The United States feared that consignments were meant for Pakistans nuclear programme. The United States had persuaded Turkey and France in 2008 to stop ships navigating in their respective territorial waters with consignments for Pakistan, claims WikiLeaks. The Turkish government had demanded ...

MULTAN - The owners of private schools staged a protest against the Punjab Education Foundations FAS Programme and demanded its immediate suspension here at Chowk Shah Abbas on Monday. The demo was organised by Non-FAS Schools Association and a large number of protesters including students and ...

LAHORE Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan has said that only self-reliance could free the country from the US interference and drone attacks. Addressing Jago Pakistan Conference organized by Jamhoori Roshan Party at Lahore Press Club on Friday, he said that the country was ...

BAHAWALPUR - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated wheat harvesting here at Chak 153/M, Hasilpur, some 100-km away from here on Wednesday. On the occasion, addressing a gathering, the Punjab CM said that the Punjab government had been providing maximum facilities to the growers for the ...

FIRST they told us not to eat meat because of climate change. Now scientists are telling the public to adopt a 'demitarian diet, that contains half as much meat, to stop an even more dangerous threat to the planet - nitrogen pollution. The first study in the world to calculate the total costs of ...

LAHORE Pakistan Railways, on the eve of the annual Urs of Astana Alia Nooria, has announced one-minute stop of trains 19-up / 20-down Khushhal Khan Khatak Express, 127-up / 128-down Mehar Express, 175-up / 176-down Mianwali Express and 345-up / 346-down Kohat Mixed Train at Chura Sharif.

David Cameron will today pledge to make Britain 'a lot less tolerant towards Islamic extremists who whip up hatred against the West. In a major speech on terrorism, the UK Prime Minister will argue that Britain has been too 'passive towards organisations and preachers who poison the minds of young ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - The government must put a check on its non-developmental expenditures and stop extravagant spending to reduce the gap between revenue and expenditures. High fiscal deficit and rapid increase in circular and foreign debt that have doubled in the last three years, demand strict ...

LAHORE - No constitutional bar exists on a presidents affiliation with any political party or his heading a party, however, the president is not permitted to the use the presidents house for the purpose of political activities. Abid Hassan Minto advocate told the full bench of the Lahore High Court ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly (NA) was informed on Friday that over 4,000 Pakistanis were imprisoned in Middle East countries for their alleged involvement in murder, rape, smuggling, forgery and other cases. Answering a question posed by Mohammad Pervaiz Malik during the question-hour, State ...

In occupied Kashmir, the father of a teenage student, Tufail Ahmad Matoo who was killed by Indian police on June 11, this year, has said that Indian secret agencies are forcing him to drop the case. According to Kashmir Media Service, Ashraf Matoo, the father of the martyred student, in a media ...

Washington dispatched two senior diplomats to London in October 2007 amid growing concern about the rise of militantcy among Muslim youths in Britain and the number of attacks involving British Muslims. The diplomats met Foreign Office officials, then International Development minister and ...

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to control illegal construction in sector G-12 while, the illegal constructions is increasing in the sector day by day. As per details, despite the fact that CDA has acquired sector G-12 but dozens of illegal shops are being constructed in the sector. ...

RACHEL McAdams has been told to stop making stupid movies The Canadian actress has revealed how she was criticised by an immigration official as she tried to enter America. She kicked me to the curb, Rachel said. She was tough. I had pink hair at the time, and she said 'Dont dye your hair that ...

Thousands of foreign prisoners are to be sent back to serve their sentences in their own countries. David Cameron, who will spearhead the cost-cutting drive, plans to tear up agreements that mean convicts cannot be returned home without their consent. As the number of foreign inmates in Britains ...