lahore - Despite repeated efforts, MQM has failed to make a foothold in Punjab, which is evident from the fact that no candidate of the party from the province emerged victorious in the elections. According to a party leader based at the MQM headquarters Nine-Zero, the party fielded candidates from ...

WARBURTONIndependent candidate for PP-173 Ameer Ali Joyia has been mustering public support as a large number of notables are joining his campaign vigorously.He is ceaselessly carrying out his campaign and is making contacts with people of the area, especially the educated people.He believed that ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the 15-member squad for the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 scheduled to be played in England from June 6 as per expectations. Chief selector Iqbal Qasim instead of going for the ground realities preferred the blue-eyed players who had strong backing ...

KARACHI - Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has decided to organize a large public gathering at Nishter Park on Apri21 to show its strength in the metropolis.“Our supporters will fill the Nishtar Park on April 21,” said Allama Sadiq Raza Taqvi, MWM Karachi Secretary General, in a party ...

MALAKAND - As 2012 is considered to be the year of elections, the political scenario is getting changed fast in Malakand and PTI and JI are gaining popularity, while PPP is loosing public support.Malakand Agency is considered to be the region of PPP supporters, as at present all the three members ...

PESHAWAR - Amidst growing differences among the leadership of PK-77, PK-78 and PK-79, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is flexing its muscles to emerge as a third force and attract the dissidents of Awami National Party and other political parties.   Insiders of ANP said that after the election ...

Lahore has been decorated with banners and posters ahead of a PML-Ns rally against the PPP government today. The PML-N is set to demonstrate its strength in Lahore, a move which is likely to widen the gulf between the two main architects of the charter of democracy (CoD). Every tactic is being used ...

our staff repoRE The expected cut in the SBP key policy rate and the drop in National Savings Schemes yields drove the bullish trend at the local bourses though uncertainty at global financial markets along with deteriorating US-Pak relations kept the investors nervous throughout the week. ...

LONDON (AFP) - Sir Alex Ferguson will have an embarrassment of attacking riches at his disposal as Manchester United aim to cement their lead at the top of the Premier League against Stoke on Saturday. United travel to the Britannia Stadium having made a blistering start to their title defence, ...

JOSEPH A. KECHICHIAN In a thought-provoking opinion essay in the International Herald Tribune, Kishore Mahbubani, the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, lamented the absence of global leaders. His essay titled Rudderless World concluded that ...

139th Corps Commanders Conference was held at the GHQ on 9th June 2011. COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting, ISPR press release said. While reviewing the internal security situation, the participants voiced their concern on the blowback of the Abbottabad incident which has ...

LAHORE The Punjab Assembly on Thursday was told that in all the districts of the province posts of professors and lecturers were lying vacant in the public sector colleges, and the government is yet to chalk out a plan to fill the slots. Minister Excise and Taxation Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, ...

President Asif Ali Zardari while reiterating governments commitment to honour labour and working people and give them their due rights, has stated that the Pakistan Peoples party (PPP) derives its strength from the working classes.Both Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto ...

KARACHI - Due to the subdued operation in the early part of the year on account of negative domestic Gross Refinery Margins (GRMs), refinery throughput continued trailing in the 9th month of the current financial year, down 7 per cent to 6.1 million tons on year-on-year basis. However, GRMs ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Japanese exporters made gains Monday on growing optimism over the global economic recovery as the dollar remained near seven-month highs following the highest US jobs growth in three years. The greenback stayed near the 95-yen level despite a slight easing in Tokyo trade ...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira has paid glowing tributes to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and said that she would always be remembered as a leader who gave voice to the weak and ordinary people. In a message issued here in connection with the second death ...

ISLAMABAD - After slamming their doors on Chaudhrys of Gujrat last week, Saifullah Brothers from NWFP, who are leading the dissident group in the PML-Q, would soon challenge strength of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in the Parliament, sources told TheNation on Sunday. The sources in the like-minded ...

RIYADH (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday reassured nervous Saudis over a possible warming of US relations with Riyadhs regional rival Tehran, stressing Washingtons strong ties with the kingdom. The relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia has been one of the mainstays of ...

Backing the US stand, Britain has also pushed for raising the strength of the Afghan National Army to help focus on rebuilding of the war-ravaged country. "The greatest increase in troops over the next few years is going to come from Afghans, because it's the Afghan National Army that is the focus ...