ISLAMABAD - The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said on Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country but the Pakistani ...

The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the ...

PESHAWAR - Zakha Khel tribe from Khyber Agency on Sunday threatened to boycott May 11 polls, if polling stations set up for Zakha Khel tribesmen in IDPs camps were not shifted to their respective areas.They announced boycott of May 11 elections in protest against shifting of polling stations to ...

quetta - Female teachers on Saturday took out a protest rally in Quetta, threatening to boycott elections if their demands were not met. Teachers’ leaders said female teachers were facing serious threats from banned outfits against performing duties at polling stations in different parts of ...

KARACHI - Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has demanded MQM Chief Altaf Hussain to take notice of MQM workers, active in Malir, Jinnah Square, Ice Depot, Jafar-e-Tayyar, who are threatening the MWM candidates and its workers. We demand action against them because they are defaming the MQM, said Allama ...

lahore - The representatives of trade and industry, while threatening civil disobedience because of government’s non-seriousness to control power outages, have urged the authorities to shun discriminatory attitude and provide electricity and gas to the industry in Punjab.President Sahiwal ...

KARACHI - After Shirazi brothers of Thatta, the Mahar group of Ghotki has threatened to quit the PPP and contest elections as independent candidates.The Mahar group has expressed reservations over the contesting of election by PPP candidate Khalid Lund’s cousin Babar Lund on PML-F’s ...

RAWALPINDI– More than 300 vaccinators in Rawalpindi, hired to carry on health campaigns funded by international institutions, have threatened to boycott the upcoming anti-polio campaign for not getting their payments.All the preparations of the anti-polio campaign to be held from April 15 ...

KARACHI - The PPP workers of Malir district in Karachi staged protest demonstration against unfair distribution of the election tickets, threatening to commit self immolation in front of Bilawal House here.Carrying placards and portraits of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and party’s chief Bilawal ...

KARACHI - The PPP workers of Malir district in Karachi staged protest demonstration against unfair distribution of the election tickets, threatening to commit self immolation in front of Bilawal House here.Carrying placards and portraits of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and party’s chief Bilawal ...

 RAWALPINDI - Students of government schools from class 1 to 10 in Rawalpindi district could not get free textbooks for their next classes so far due to slackness of concerned authorities.Teachers, parents and students deplored concerned authorities for delay in distribution of free textbooks ...

The Afghan Taliban said on Monday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or assassinate Britain's Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.Queen Elizabeth's grandson is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based out of Camp Bastion in volatile ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - College teachers observed a complete academic boycott across the district on the call of Punjab Professors and Lecturer Association. According to detail, professors of Government Postgraduate College for Boys Bahawalnagar held a protest meeting in which speakers demanded the Punjab ...

HAFIZABAD - The jewellers and goldsmith of Hafizabad continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday against biggest-ever dacoity in the shop of Haji Nasir Iqbal on the night between Wednesday and Thursday.Police have so far failed to get any clue in this respect. However, the ...

LAHORE – India formally recognised the state of Israel in 1950 but it was not until 1992 that the two established formal diplomatic relations with each other. Despite India’s support for Palestinian cause for a long time the two countries extraordinarily managed to come together on a ...

LAHORE - The Presidents of all Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the province have threatened to start civil disobedience if the federal government continued to discriminate Punjab in supply of natural gas.The heads of all Punjab chambers met at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday ...

FAISALABAD - The enraged industrialists and workers on Thursday threatened to go on a long march towards Islamabad if the government remained failed to ensure uninterrupted gas supply to the industries here. They took out protest rallies and blocked the Motorway-3 on the Sargodha Road for five ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Kohistan district will not allow execution of construction wok on Dasu Dam, if their demands allocation of 20 per cent of the royalty and free of cost electricity from Dasu Hydro Power Project in Kohistan are not met. The Dasu Hydropower Project is a run-of-river scheme ...

HAFIZABAD - More than 600 lady health workers and their 27 supervisors took out a rally to protest against non-payment of their four-month salaries, threatening boycott of polio drive here on Sunday. The workers and their supervisors thronged the old Civil Hospital premises and raised slogans ...

KIRKUK (APP/AFP) - Some 300 day workers at Iraq's state-owned North Oil Company on Saturday warned they would go on strike if their work conditions did not improve, threatening oil production that is the lifeline of the country's economy. "We are demonstrating peacefully for our rights, but if the ...

ISLAMABAD - While demanding establishment of a national price control committee to judge prices and profits of LPG sector, LPG Distributors Association Pakistan has warned of a countrywide strike from November 25 if the recent artificial hike in prices by gas are not withdrawn. Irfan Khokhar, ...

LAHORE - Sanda Police allegedly threatened the daughter of a former DSP when it barged its entry into a home located at Praim Nagar for implementing court orders of recovering a child on August 4. Almost 12 police officers led by a Sub Inspector (SI) Zahid Malik along with some media men reached ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The eurozones fiscal crises threaten the areas nascent economic recovery and could lead to persistent unemployment and dampened investment flows, the IMF warned Wednesday. The budding recovery, driven mainly by external demand, is likely to be slowed in the near term by market ...

ISLAMABAD People of Mauza Senu of Tehsil Murree have threatened to stage a protest sit-in on the Expressway if the Bridge & Road project involving Rs 30 million is not constructed at Point Samli Bramal and while talking to TheNation, a serving Wing Commander has categorically denied his influence ...

KARACHI - After increase in the petroleum products prices, the transporters community has threatened to increase the fares by up to Rs2 in the coming days. Karachi Transport Ittehad Chairman Irshad Bukhari told The Nation that the transporters have become tired of protesting against the price-hike ...

SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) - North Korea warned Tuesday that South Korean-US war games this month would torpedo efforts to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal if necessary. Despite tensions over the exercise the two Koreas went ahead with talks on ways to ease ...

Rawalpindi The National Command Authority met Wednesday with the Prime Minister in the Chair. This was the 16th NCA meeting, but the first meeting since the Prime Minister was made the Chairman by the President. A matter of great urgency was the formulation of a clear stance on the Fissile ...

LAHORE - All the representatives of textile related industry have threatened the government to go on hunger strike for indefinite period, and even to attempt self-immolation against the 12-hour power loadshedding and gas supply suspension to the industry located in Punjab and NWFP. A joint meeting ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbass Fatah group accused rival Hamas of arresting dozens of Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip on Monday. The recriminations threaten to derail Egyptian-mediated efforts to reconcile the two Palestinian groups. A Hamas spokesman said there had been ...

KARACHI - All Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Foundation (APVPDF) has threatened to close petrol and CNG pumps across the country if their genuine demands were not accepted by the government. The APVPDF meeting, presided by its Chairman Syed Zia Abbas here, demanded 6 per cent commission of petrol ...