Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has said Asif Ali Zardari is a constitutional president and constitutional way be pursued for his removal from his office. He said this while talking to journalists here in Lahore Saturday. He held the slogans chanted in PML-N rally were inappropriate. 'I used to stop people ...

Our Staff Reporter SAHIWAL - Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan has claimed that Pakistani rulers have taken dictation from America on the eve of Hillary Clintons recent visit. He said that America is hell-bent on making India super power of the region. America wants excess to ...

SIRTE, Libya (AFP) - Anti-Gaddafi fighters launched an all-out assault on Wednesday against the ousted strongmans remaining holdouts, now pinned into a small corner of his hometown Sirte. The fighting was concentrated in the outer streets of Sirtes Number Two neighbourhood, with both sides trading ...

Our Staff reporter BHAKKAR - EDO Health said Friday that preventive measures were the best way to keep dengue at bay and all the people should play their vital role in this regard. The EDO was talking to the media before an anti-dengue awareness walk Head of Trade Union Haji Abdul Hakeem Mughal, DO ...

Our Staff Reporter MARDAN Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Hadier Khan Hoti Saturday said that people should not think that Pakhtuns of Karachi were 'orphans adding that Pakhtun community and the Awami National Party (ANP) were their guardians. He said, instead of giving answers to the ...

HYDERABAD (Agencies) Announcing his decision to quit politics, Former home minister of Sindh Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Tuesday said he was retiring from politics as some elements were hell-bent to get his basic membership of PPP cancelled. He said presently he was passing through the most crucial phase ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Injecting a bacteria into mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries, scientists said. In two papers published in the journal Nature on Thursday, researchers in ...

OOPS, she did it again Britney Spears leads Billboards Dance/Club Play Songs chart and this weeks 411 Playlist. The pop divas hit I Wanna Go off her Femme Fatale album takes her straight to the top. Spears will be honoured at an award show that she is no stranger to, the MTV Video Music Awards. She ...

KARACHI - The implementation on Karachi Strategic Development Plan 2020 is continued partially due to involvement of approximately 20 different land owning agencies operating in Karachi under the federal and provincial governments. The Local Government Department of Sindh stated this in its ...

LAHORE Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan has said that only self-reliance could free the country from the US interference and drone attacks. Addressing Jago Pakistan Conference organized by Jamhoori Roshan Party at Lahore Press Club on Friday, he said that the country was ...

SCIENTISTS has developed a technique to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time, bringing them closer to creating a computer model of the human brain. An emerging area of research in neuroscience known as 'connectomics has parallels to ...

LAHORE (PPI) - The Pakistan Business Council (PBC), a group comprising of leading Pakistani companies, hosted the Pakistan Economic Forum (PEF) earlier in the week in Lahore. The purpose of the economic forum was to highlight and identify solutions and a way forward to five key socio-economic areas ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Investigation Agency Director General Wasim Ahmed on Saturday accepted before the Senate body that the owners of Khanani and Kalia Foreign Exchange Company allegedly involved in money laundering case used heavy amount of money for their release, despite the fact that enough ...

There's no practical way for U.S. troops to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so they are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on Afghan soil, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday. Army Col. Viet Luong said ...

Robert Booth and Haroon Siddique THE largest-ever leak of US government classified documents streamed out online, revealing never publicly seen details about Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Russia. Throughout the week the stream became a torrent of information about how US diplomats ...

LAHORE - Instead of elaborating his own answers on floor of the House, ill-prepared Punjab Minister for Auqaf Ehsan Uddin Qureshi frequently asked legislators to bring fresh questions, saying supplementary queries were irrelevant. Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal rescued and defended the minister on a ...

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday termed mid-term polls only way to get rid of the incumbent government which has become a hub of corruption. Talking to media outside Punjab Assembly, Sanaullah said there are many allegations of corruption against Prime Minister and President Zardari ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said the faces could be changed but not the system, report said on Saturday. Talking to media addressing a ceremony on the occasion of inaugural of Rescue 1122 here, he said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has reservations over Kerry-Lugar ...

Devastations due to the flood continues along the length and breadth of the country. New wave of flood inundates the Gandakha area of Balochistan. Approximately, 60 feet of sand was swept away by the flood into the sea at Aqillo Bank. High level of flood is reported in Kotri barrage. According ...

ISLAMABAD The police have claimed success in tracing a girl, who reportedly fell into a ravine near Pir Sohawa the other day, from the home of her parents in Multan. The Koshar Police have registered a case under Section 182 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against her husband for misleading police ...

Researchers from Uppsala University have now presented a conceptually new model for the development and progression of multiple myeloma- one of the most common blood cancers, and at present considered to be incurable. Using large cohorts of myeloma patients, the researchers have identified a ...

LAHORE - Over 8,000 low-scale officials of the City police and the Elite Force have not yet received their salaries for June owing to the monopoly of some 'black sheep accountants in Punjab Police Finance Department, The Nation has learnt. The Punjab Police Finance Department has not released the ...

KARACHI - The asset-base of the Islamic banks increased by 13.3 per cent in Oct-Dec 2009 compared to 7 per cent growth in total assets, posted by conventional banking system during the same period under review. According to the SBP latest report, Islamic banking operations remain profitable and ...

The Jordanian triple agent behind the December suicide bombing that killed eight CIA agents in Afghanistan claims in a new video that he lured American and Jordanian intelligence officers into a fatal trap by sending them misleading information about terror targets, and videotapes he had made of ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Kariana, aged three, has a lonely existence in the New York homeless shelter her parents moved into last year. Lonely, but not alone there are nearly 16,000 children just like her. Homelessness in New York has soared as a result of the damaged US economy and children make up ...

Former Supreme Court Bar President, Prominent lawyer and PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan has said under the constitution the President and Governor enjoy immunity in criminal cases. Talking to media outside the Supreme Court building Aitzaz said even if the court disqualifies the President the matter will ...

HONG KONG (AFP) China and Japan once again shared the spoils in the swimming pool while South Korea dominated the taekwondo at the fifth East Asian Games in a soggy Hong Kong on Monday. After the sixth day of action in Hong Kong, China were as widely anticipated out in front at the top of the ...

ISLAMABAD As the Government lost the moral authority to defend the controversial NRO in the Supreme Court (SC), Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday termed this infamous ordinance as a law paving way for reconciliation with corruption. Justice Jawwad S Khawaja termed NRO as a law ...

WORK has begun on building a super-fast car to smash all previous records and reach the breathtaking speed of 1,000mph. The Bloodhound Supersonic car will be driven by Wing Commander Andy Green who set the current land speed record of 763mph back in 1997. He told Sky News Online it is not a ...

COLOURFUL, swirling clouds of cosmic dust interspersed with glowing star clusters are revealed in this extraordinary image of the Milky Way. The dazzling image combining reds, yellows, blues and purples, was created by layering stunningly detailed pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ...