NEW YORK A leading American newspaper on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to invite PML-N President and Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif to Washington for an "early visit" in a bid to repair the "badly damaged" US-Pakistan relations."Nawaz Sharif faces staggering challenges," The New ...

SIALKOTA neck and neck contest is expected between PML-N's candidate Ehsan Iqbal and PTI's Ibrarul Haq, an international famed singer, in constituency NA-117 Narowal-III. The door-to-door election campaign by both of these rival candidates has gained momentum in the area and both of them are ...

LONDON TG - A triathlete can boast to having as many lives as a cat after cheating death nine times - surviving a cliff fall, several heart attacks, MRSA and cancer.Matthew Hawksley had his first escape when he decided to go for a swim while on a work weekend away. The 25-year-old welding engineer ...

SWATElection campaign is in full swing at Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Assembly constituency PK-80 with 13 candidates in the race for winning the seat on May 11. PML-N Senior Vice President Engineer Amir Muqam is facing a tough contest by the candidates of ANP, former provincial Minister Wajid Ali Khan, ...

CALIFORNIA BBC - An enormous hurricane raging at Saturn’s north pole has an eye 2,000km (1,250mi) across - big enough to cover the UK 12 times over.The striking images of the storm were snapped from a height of 420.000km (260,000mi) by the Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004. ...

lahore -  salman abduhu - There have been 25 major changes by the govt in auto policy in the country during last five years which hamper the growth in the industry, creating uncertainty due to which the industry is compelled to pull off expansion plans and further investments while ...

NEW YORK BBC - A film installation celebrating Nelson Mandela is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square.The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organisation co-founded by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro.Inspirational quotes ...

FAISALABAD - University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) has decided to offer Postgraduate admissions prior to the announcements of BA/BSc results while admissions to PhD programme will be offered four times a year. This was decided in Advanced Studies Research Board meeting (ASRB) held here with ...

LAHORE – In just 24 hours, dacoits struck the provincial metropolis for 28 times successfully, robbed residences, looted families, and motorists and made off with cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth millions of rupees, police sources claimed on Sunday. The robbers continued armed ...

CAIRO - It is not just Egypt’s politicians and experts who are keeping a close eye on loan talks with the International Monetary Fund: ordinary Egyptians suffering the squeeze of a devastating economic crisis are also watching with concern.Sami Mohammed, a 49-year-old civil servant, has been ...

 “After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government…….Economy is always a guarantee of peace.”–Calvin CoolidgeLike every government, the present coalition setup has some very impressive economic figures to support its claim ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A major US newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, on Monday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term in the White House, saying he has brought “steady leadership” to the office. “The nation has been well served by President Obama’s steady leadership. ...

India has blamed that Pakistan violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir eight time this year, prompting New Delhi to lodge strong protests with the neighbouring country. Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran told the Lok Sabha Tuesday that during the current ...

ATHENS (AFP) - Greece has seen an upsurge in small companies and shops offering to buy gold, driven by record prices and the need many people have to raise cash during hard times when jobs are uncertain and money scarce. "Sell your gold," "We buy your jewels," the signs read in Ermou Street, a ...

In a free society, the State does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among the men who conduct their own affairs. This is how things should function. Federal government had made Secretary Establishment Suhail Ahmed Officer on Special Duty (OSD) on Tuesday. The Federal ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - If ministers and diplomats have learned a single lesson from the WikiLeaks saga, it is this: write nothing down. Behind the closed doors of a supposedly confidential Davos forum panel discussion, policymakers, diplomats, journalists and a buzz of social networkers ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Foreign Office spokesman on Friday said the Indian Air Force aircraft violated Pakistan airspace 20 times in the year 2010 and 182 times since November 2007. In response to a recent statement by Indian Defence Minister regarding airspace violations by Pakistan, the spokesman ...

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million more secret documents in its next mass release of confidential material, according to its Twitter feed. WikiLeaks did not say when the release would be, nor on what subject, but the number ...

ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani conveyed profound gratitude of his government and the people of Pakistan to the custodian of two holy mosques and King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud for his personal appeal to the Saudi people for contributing towards relief ...

PAKISTAN is passing through testing times due to war on terror imposed by outsiders that now has penetrated on our soil. We have lost more lives in this war than any other nation. Not only our soldiers but thousands innocent civilians also lost their life in this brutal war. Pakistan with meager ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times critic may have panned the film, but that didnt stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspapers front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new movie, Alice in Wonderland. The ad, believed to be the first of its kind among ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - US President Barack Obamas fortunes will sink further and nuclear threats will grow, but the world economy will bounce back in the turbulent Year of the Tiger, Chinese soothsayers predict. Obama will start going downhill this year. He will not be able to achieve much, said Peter ...

A PROFESSIONAL singer who hiccupped constantly for three years has been cured after surgeons removed a brain tumour. Christopher Sands, 25, was struck down with the bizarre affliction in September 2006, leaving him hiccupping once every two seconds for 12 hours a day, adding up to 1,800 hiccups an ...

THE glowing embers left behind by one of the most powerful type of explosions in the Universe have been revealed for the first time. Remnants from giant fireballs unleashed by a supernova are still glowing at temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the Sun thousands of years after the event. They ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan Governor Syed Salim Raza has said that the central bank strived to strike a balance between price stability and growth in a challenging economic environment and ensured a stable financial system by proactively responding to emerging risks and challenges to the ...

NEW YORK - The rape and murder of two Shopian women in occupied Kashmir has become the focal point for "bottomless Kashmiri rage" at the continuing presence of roughly 500,000 Indian security forces in the disputed state, The New York Times reported Saturday. "The forces remain, though the violence ...

LAHORE - The merit for admission to intermediate disciplines in colleges and varsities of the City has increased tremendously as compared to the last year. As a result even the position-holders or toppers in respective colleges may not get admission to reputed educational institutes like the ...

SMALL but perfectly formed Pepquino micro melons have been launched, 20 times smaller than their full size counterparts. The rare Pepquino melon measures just an over inch (3cm) from tip-to-tip but has the identical external pattern and distinctive shape of traditional watermelons. Allsweet ...

WASHINGTON - US interrogators used the controversial waterboarding technique 183 times in a month on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has reportedly said that he planned the 2001 terror attack, federal records indicate. Citing a 2005 Justice Department memo, The New York Times reported Monday that CIA ...

KARACHI - Director Finance Media Times Limited, Sardar Ali Wattoo, in his first presentation of Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the group at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), said the group is planning to introduce several new products in the near future. Briefing the investors at KSE, he said the ...