Hafiz Gul Bahadur, head of his own faction of Pakistani Taliban in northwestern tribal region near Afghan border, has threatened Pakistani government to tear up a peace accord and turn his fighters against the Islamabad. According to Reuters news agency, Bahadur criticised the government for ...

QUETTA - The Balochistan Assembly could remain in session only for ten minutes as only six legislators turned up at the scheduled meeting on Saturday and the session had to be adjourned due to lack of quorum. The session of the assembly started under the chairmanship of Deputy Speaker Matiullah ...

LAHORE As part of preparations for the next general elections, the PML-N is making contacts with parliamentarians and other potential winners, especially in Sindh, while several noted politicians from PML-Q and PPP are likely to join the PML-N soon. The Nation has learnt that Liaquat Jatoi, Ghulam ...

SYDNEY (Agencies) - Australia's fielding coach Steve Rixon is impressed with Michael Clarke's leadership skills in Sri Lanka. Rixon, who played key role in turning Stephen Fleming into one of the most respected captains of New Zealand, feels Clarke will also turn out to be champion leader. The ...

KARAK - Indus Highway from Krappa to Karak has turned into a 'death trap, as thousands of precious lives have been lost herein so far, locals said Saturday. They said that Speena Turn on Indus highway became the most fatal spot, as almost one accident took place after each three days. They ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Two people including a girl were injured when the roof of a dilapidated house caved in at Batapur here on Thursday. On information, Rescue 1122 staff reached the spot and pulled the victims out of the debris. The injured were identified as Muhammad Boota (70) and Iman ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A city in northern Taiwan is trying the Midas touch to persuade reluctant residents to clean up after their canines: offering a chance to win gold bars to anyone handing in bags of doggy deposits. Starting from August 1, dog owners and other residents of New Taipei City, ...

SWABI - The measures adopted by Awami National Partys (ANPs) provincial leadership to arrange reconciliation between two rival groups of the party could not yield any positive result. According to details, following the directives of the party leadership, Jehan Zeb Khan arranged on Thursday a ...

The fresh rain spell has turned the weather pleasant in Lahore and Islamabad on Friday. The showers washed away the heat wave of summer turning the weather pleasant in the city. Downpours caused to amass water on roads posing holdup to flow of traffic. Meantime, Lahore received lashing downpours.

RAWALPINDI - Six armed dacoits riding bikes were free in looting and injuring several citizens in various localities of the city on Thursday while police, who are responsible to protect the lives and property of the people, miserably failed to do their prime duty. Interestingly, officials of police ...

LONDON (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in London Saturday in protest at the governments austerity measures, amid a heavy police presence that failed to stop outbreaks of violence. Huge crowds thronged the streets of the British capital holding banners and playing music in the ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Protesters marched through central Tunis on Friday, demanding religious freedom, while police fired teargas at anti-govt protesters who have camped out around the prime ministers office. The march by about 200 people was the first significant Islamist protest since the fall of ...

SHANGHAI (APP) - Chinas commerce minister has warned that measures being taken in Europe to fix the sovereign debt crisis are turning an acute disease into a chronic one, state media said Friday. The comments from Chen Deming come after China said this week it supported measures taken by the ...

ISLAMABAD Political intervention and favouritism has plagued the affairs of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to such extent that in last one year the administration of the Authority has allotted out of turn 400 government accommodations by ignoring general waiting list, TheNation has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market landed at a technical crossroads following its best week in a year, yet the potential for positive earnings surprises beginning next week could give an edge to the bulls. Analysts turned increasingly bearish before the start of earnings season. Sentiment ...

KARACHI - Sindh Liberation Army (SLA), a separatist movement of the province, is gaining strength in the metropolis and posing a serious threat to the security agencies. These agencies despite strict vigilance in the current turmoil have not noticed presence of a billboard of SLA placed on the ...

ISLAMABAD - More than 100 lawyers of the District Court, Islamabad on Saturday acted violently and entered the offices of Islamabad police and publicly thrashed two police official against, what they said, their some chambers were demolished under the patronage of police. However, according to ...

MULTAN - The Punjab Minister for Agriculture Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh has lashed out at Indus River System Authority (IRSA), saying the authority was acting upon a vicious policy to turn Punjab barren. Talking to the journalists here, the other day, the minister said that IRSA committed gross ...

LAHORE - Duststorm and rain hit the provincial capital on late Friday night, which further turned the weather pleasant and slowed down the heat of summer. Rain, overcast conditions and continuously blowing winds caused considerable decrease in mercury level, making the City weather a bit cold. The ...

ATHENS (AFP) - Greece appealed for a debt rescue from the EU and IMF on Friday and said that help should arrive within days, in a dramatic turn for the eurozone at risk from Greek contagion. Prime Minister George Papandreou told his nation in a televised speech that the aid was a national need ...

LONDON (AFP) Arsenal swept into the Champions League quarter-finals as Nicklas Bendtner silenced his critics with a hat-trick in a majestic 5-0 win against Porto on Tuesday. Arsene Wengers side had trailed 2-1 from the first leg of this second round tie, but Bendtner overturned that deficit within ...

LAHORE, Pakistan Umar Kundi was his parents pride, an ambitious young man from a small town who made it to medical school in the big city. It seemed like a story of working-class success, living proof in this unequal society that a telephone operators son could become a doctor. But things went ...

UNITED NATIONS Enforced disappearances continue to be one of the worst human rights violations, a UN expert said Friday, marking the 30th anniversary of the creation of a body to look into the scourge. While many people think this is a practice of the past, it has become a global problem affecting ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet E. coli to digest simple sugars from plant waste and turn it into valuable biofuel. They said their study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the first demonstration of a ...

MUMBAI Ijaz Butt, Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed his desire to host the ICC WT20 in Pakistan in 2014 but his dream may not be realised, according to Jalal Younis, the Media Director, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Speaking over his mobile from Dhaka Wednesday, he said, ...

THESE incredible photos could have been taken in an alternate universe. The extraordinary pictures show ordinary situations distorted in impossible ways - even allowing a man to iron his own body. Erik Johannson, 24, used a computer programme to manipulate his original pictures into mind-boggling ...

LONDON (AFP) - Commodity prices traded mixed this week amid caution over future demand for raw materials despite positive economic data from the United States and Europe, where recession ended for some countries. Sugar prices reached a 28-year peak, however, pushed higher by tight supplies of the ...

LONDON (AFP) - China's Peng Shuai was narrowly beaten by Polish number 11 seed Agnieszka Radwanska in a thrilling second round match at Wimbledon on Thursday. The Chinese number three lost 6-2, 6-7 (7/6), 9-7 in a three-hour clash on Court 14, but showed plenty of guts and determination ...

EVEN by the miraculous standards of the natural world, its a feat almost beyond imagining. Scientists in California have shown that a small bird known as Annas hummingbird, when attempting to impress a mate, can dive through the air at speeds of around 50 miles per hour. So far, so what? After ...

ISLAMABAD (APP)- Italian Ambassador to Pakistan, Vincenzo Prati, profoundly lauded the endeavors of the Rotary Club to meet the need of the needy and deserving class of the Pakistani community through its various community welfare projects. He stated this while addressing the 19th Annual Cosmo ...