Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Tuesday warned against administering spurious anti-measles vaccine to children, observing that guilty people would jailed no matter whether they are ministers or advisers.The court issued warning while hearing a petition over the deadly measles outbreak. Directing ...

LONDON - The single biggest risk to Britain’s nascent economic recovery is continued eurozone weakness, the Bank of England’s outgoing governor Mervyn King said in a television interview on Sunday.He called for a “credible medium term plan” to get the economy back on track ...

NEW DELHI - India faces at least “a one-in-three” chance of losing its prized sovereign grade rating, S&P’s has warned, amid new threats to economic growth and reforms. The announcement surprised the finance ministry, saying the govt has taken strong steps to improve public ...

washington - Cyprus should return to growth in 2015 after three years of deep recession, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, but will need to ensure that its sweeping austerity programme does not slip off the tracks.The IMF agreed in March to provide Cyprus with some 1 billion euros in ...

  LAHORE   The PML-N is continuing to attract other parties and candidates after its victory in May 11 elections. After JUI-F’s coming on board the other day, National Peoples Party (NPP) chief Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi on Friday announced to merge his party into N-League. Sardar Jamal ...

islamabad - Hizbul Mujahideen commander Syed Salahuddin has said that no government would be able to survive in Islamabad, if it abandons the "Kashmir cause" and warned the new regime not to make the "mistake" of pursuing friendship with New Delhi at the cost of Kashmir. "No government in Pakistan, ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama warned Thursday that national security leaks to the news media could cost lives, defending his administration’s pursuit of those who reveal classified information.But Obama said it was important to find a balance between security and press freedom, as he ...

karachiRejecting the decision of Election Commission of Pakistan about re-polling on 43 polling station of NA-250, MQM continues sit-in outside the ECP Sindh office on Wednesday.A large number of party workers were present outside the ECP office with the demand to conduct re-polling in entire ...

LAHORE JI chief, Syed Munawar Hasan has warned that his party and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would launch joint protests if the Election Commission fails to address the complaints of polls rigging. Talking to the media after inquiring about the health of PTI chief, Imran Khan on Wednesday, he ...

RIYADH The Saudi government warned on Friday that illegal foreign workers risk being slapped with prison sentences and fines after a three-month grace period runs out on July 3.Additionally, employers or those who shelter illegal workers will be liable to up to two years in prison, the interior and ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that the shadow banking system continued to pose a threat to financial stability, and that bank funding markets might still not be able to cope with a major default.In a wide-ranging speech explaining the Fed’s role in monitoring the ...

quetta - Chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti has warned that if his reservations were not addressed and displaced people of the Bugti tribe were not rehabilitated, his party might boycott the elections.Addressing to a press conference in Quetta on ...

TEHRAN:Iranon Tuesday warned against any “provocations” in the Gulf as a US-led international naval force began a massive minesweeping exercise. “Any movement in the region will be fully monitored by our defence forces,” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told ...

ISLAMABAD  (Our Staff Reporter/Agencies) - Pakistan warned Afghanistan on Tuesday that it would not be responsible for the consequences if a border spat between the two countries escalated further.The Foreign Office summoned the Afghan Charge d’Affaires and conveyed protest of the ...

WASHINGTONAngry at the role of pro-Khalistan elements in the launch of a Sikh Congressional Caucus last week, the Indian government has cautioned the Obama administration and US lawmakers who joined the group against helping revive what was a violent separatist affair that has largely faded away, ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - There seems no respite from spiraling up power outages, as government does not have funds to release KESC’s outstanding dues of Rs 71 billion while power utility has warned of massive power loadshedding in the port city of Karachi, parts of interior Sindh ...

WASHINGTON - A US government-appointed panel urged Washington Tuesday to step up pressure on Pakistan over religious freedom, warning that risks to its minorities have reached a crisis level.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also raised concerns about what it ...

NEW DELHI - India has warned Pakistan that it will retaliate massively even if Pakistan used tactical nuclear weapons against it. As Pakistan is developing "tactical" nuclear warheads to miniaturise its weapons to be carried on short-range missiles, India will protect its security interests by ...

ISLAMABAD (PR): PTCL has cautioned its customers regarding hoax calls, misinforming customers that they have won valuable prizes.  Recently, a number of PTCL customers have received calls from individuals, claiming to be representatives of the company and asking them to reveal their personal ...

mardan - The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mardan has issued a letter in which it warned the religious parties not to use the name of Islam in their election campaign. Source said that the Mardan Press Club had received a letter Saturday written on the TTP’s letter pad. They said ...

  LOS ANGELES TS PIERCE Brosnan was the deadliest James Bond - but he thinks society is being damaged by violence in films and video games. The actor, who relinquished his licence to kill in 2004, told The Sun he does not let his two teenage sons play shoot ‘em up style computer games in ...

ISTANBUL The Turkish government welcomed a planned withdrawal by Kurdish militants as significant progress towards ending three decades of conflict on Friday, and it warned its nationalist opponents not to sabotage the peace process.The main nationalist party, however, was quick to reiterate its ...

Islamabad - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stopped political parties and candidates from making personal attacks against one another during campaigning for the upcoming elections.  The ECP states that personal attacks during campaigning violate the code of conduct and action ...

BAGHDAD (AFP/Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Thursday of attempts to return the country to “sectarian civil war,” as a wave of violence killed more than 140 people over three days.At least 10 Iraqi policemen and nine militants were killed in clashes on Thursday ...

TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister vowed to “expel by force” any Chinese landing on islands at the centre of a territorial row, after eight Chinese govt vessels sailed into the disputed waters. The latest clash over the islands came as nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers visited the ...

ISLAMABAD  - Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf  has said that certain elements are out to derail the electoral process on one pretext or the other. He warned that deferment of the elections would be tantamount to playing with the very future of the country and asked the political ...

Lahore - The authorities dealing with the Pervez Musharraf treason case must handle the matter with caution and avoid taking any step which could get out of control afterwards, warned PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. Talking to media people on Sunday, he said, “This is a sensitive issue ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said the country risks civil war if the opposition wins polls later this year and tries to prosecute ex-Khmer Rouge members in his government.His comments were issued as a rebuke to opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has pledged ...

washington/ homsUS Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday that the conflict raging in Syria could cleave it into rival enclaves, as he prepares for weekend talks on the crisis in Turkey.The aim of the next Friends of Syria talks in Istanbul on Saturday is "to get everybody on the same page ...

Spain, which wants Brussels to agree to relax its deficit targets, should avoid a "drastic" reduction to its public deficit, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in an interview published Thursday in Spain."Countries that are under financial stress and which follow a pattern of high ...