LAHORE  - The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which promised a grassroots governance system in its manifesto, is planning to hold local bodies’ elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on party basis through electronic voting.The PTI will start full gear preparations for the local elections soon ...

Lahore - Keeping in view of gas shortage in the country, the Planning Commission of Pakistan has recommended that the practice of allocating gas directly from gas fields to the fertilizer sector should be reconsidered, till a market-based mechanism for the auctioning of gas resources is ...

ISLAMABAD - The SPI for the week ended on May 16, for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000, registered increase of 0.35 per cent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 186.78 points against 186.13 points registered in the ...

ISLAMABAD : The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on May 2, for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000, decreased by 0.19 per cent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 185.40 points against 185.76 points ...

ISLAMABAD - Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation fell to 5.8 per cent in April 2013 over the corresponding period of previous year, marking a new low since 2007.Inflation based on CPI was registered at 5.8 per cent in April 2013 over the corresponding period of previous year, revealed the figures ...

ISLAMABAD : The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on April 25, for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000, slightly decreased by 0.01 per cent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 185.76 points against ...

ISLAMABAD :-The SPI for the week ended on April 18, for the lowest income group up to Rs.8,000, decreased by 0.54 per cent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 185.78 points against 186.79 points registered in the previous ...

KARACHI - Speakers at the 3rd annual convention of home-based women workers federation (HBWWF) demanded the government to declare status of 10 million informal workers equal to those of formal sector.The convention held at PMA House, was attended by women workers from different parts of the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on April 5, for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000, registered decrease of 0.26 per cent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the combined group also decreased by 0.19 per cent as it went down from 192.91 points in the ...

KARACHI – Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawwar Hassan has said that the journey of change is unstoppable and the old oppression-based political system of the country is taking last breathes.Addressing a big ‘Umaid-e-Pakistan Youth Convention’ here on Sunday, he said the Pakistani ...

MIRUR (AJK) - At least 37 members of the British and European Parliament have called upon the Indian government to immediately hand over the mortal remains of Shaheed Muhammad Afzal Guru and shaheed Maqbool Bhat, presently buried in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jal, to their families for formal ...

FAISALABAD - The speakers of a training workshop urged the youth for making statistical analysis of various issues and keep an analytical eye on the surroundings to execute correct decisions on the basis of meaningful and substantial information supported with empirical evidence.They were ...

FAISALABAD - The speakers of a training workshop urged the youth for making statistical analysis of various issues and keep an analytical eye on the surroundings to execute correct decisions on the basis of meaningful and substantial information supported with empirical evidence.They were ...

LAHORE (PR) – Land grabbers sequester land owned by an overseas Pakistani journalist.Ghulam Hussain Awan, an oversees Pakistani journalist, reached his land and found concrete pillars to form boundary wall disappeared. It triggered awful shock. Sensing alarm, he visited the land on December 9 ...

KARACHI  - The University of Karachi has announced that need-based scholarships under the Higher Education Cobe submitted up to December 15. A university statement on Wednesday said that these scholarships are with the financial assistance of the USAID. It said that the students of Masters, ...

The United States believes that investing in women and girls is one of surest ways to achieve economic progress, political stability, and greater prosperity for Pakistani women.U.S. Ambassador Olson joined politicians, human rights advocates, and religious leaders at an event called “Engaging ...

WASHINGTON -  Pakistani Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman laid stress on reinventing Pakistan-US engagement on the basis of parliamentary review regarding the current status of relationship between the two countries.  She was referring to the Parliament’s strategic review of ...

ISLAMABAD  - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday observed that the decisions of Supreme Court stood only on the affirmation of rule of law and constitutionalism.Addressing a Full Court reference held here to pay homage to former chief justice Afzal Zullah, he said cases were ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - The US-Pakistan relationship should be anchored on bilateral economic cooperation as it would help Islamabad step up the pace of economic development and overcome many challenges facing the country simultaneously, a Pakistani-American businessman said. If the United States gives ...

WASHINGTON With the Middle East in turmoil, President Barack Obama made a strong pitch for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that would create a "non-militarized" Palestinian state on the basis of Israels borders before 1967. At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are ...

ISLAMABAD PILDAT, an NGO that issued the report regarding the assets of Parliamentarians, has stated in a letter that its analysis is based on the declarations about assets made by MNAs themselves, which the ECP publishes every year. PILDAT neither attempts to verify the information provided by ...

CHICAGO (PPI) Chicago-based Indian businessman Feroze Jalal says Ayesha Siddiqui is no pained wife, and that she tried to trap him the same way she framed Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. Hyderabad is my hometown which I will soon be visiting, probably in June. Im currently settled in Chicago ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Reacting on Supreme Court verdict on NRO against the government, Chairman Pakistan Human Rights Commission Asma Jehangir has said that the judiciary has crossed its limits and issued verdict on the basis of morality of the parliamentarians which is a dangerous thing. Talking to ...

A PAIR of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech. The two new studies found that the musical scales most commonly used over the centuries are those that come closest to mimicking the physics of the human voice, ...