There are many kind of heinous crimes committed everyday in Pakistan, people sell bad and low quality stuff bottled in labels which have a brand. A few days back while travelling by bus, when a hawker entered with mineral water bottles; I bought one and drank it. The water did not taste good. Being ...

KARACHI (PR): Lucky Cement Limited, the largest cement manufacturer in the country is honored to be the first and only Pakistani company to receive level check ‘A+’ for its Sustainability Report 2012 by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI is a multi-stakeholder, network-based ...

  Michael Shank and Matt Southworth A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed after the attacks of11 September 2001, and provides the ...

islamabadIslamabad was abuzz with the speculations suggesting that former army chief Pervez Musharraf could fly back to Dubai until government gives him a green signal in this connection. There were rumours circulating in top circle of federal capital suggesting that a medical board has advised the ...

ISLAMABAD -Former military dictator and President Pervez Musharraf would enjoy almost all luxuries of life at his Chak Shahzad sub-jail house, but for the first time in his life the former four-star general will have to seek prior permission from Islamabad Commissioner to meet anyone ...

LAHORE - Where prevalent gas curtailment advocates for higher oil consumption, notorious circular debt along with higher prices is keeping a check on overall oil sales in the country, industry experts said. Extrapolating for last few days of March, country’s oil sales stood at 14.1 million ...

LAHORE - It is important to check the wheat crop on a regular basis to avoid aphid attack on it. These views were expressed by Punjab Agriculture Director General Dr M Anjum Ali in an interview to APP on Saturday. He said if growers observed an aphid attack they should shake the affected area b do ...

 Unknown miscreants blew up a security forces check post with explosives here in Lakki Marwat on Wednesday but no causality or injury was reported.According to details, unidentified assailants had planted explosive material outside a Khasadar Force check post located in Paakhel area of Lakki ...

BAHAWALPUR - Despite clear directions of the Punjab government, frequent violations of the Marriage Act continued in marriage halls and public places throughout the city. People are using fireworks without caring for infants, elderly people and patients particularly during night functions at ...

LAHORE - The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has declared that after rechecking, Haider Iqbal shared the 2nd position with Naeemur Rehman of the General Science Group in the Intermediate (Annual) Examination 2012.Haider Iqbal, a Government College University (GCU) student (Roll ...

RAWALPINDI  – Despite its tall claims, the city administration has failed in taking any effective measures against cattle pins, encroachments, illegal constructions and unsafe factories in the residential localities.According to sources, many cattle barns in the garrison city are the ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Young motorcyclists doing wheelies have been causing great panic among public without caring for the fact that their so-called stunts, as they say it, not only will end up in a fatal road accidents but also incur a heavy loss to the national exchequer. The social circles demanded DPO ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Young motorcyclists doing wheelies have been causing great panic among public without caring for the fact that their so-called stunts, as they say it, not only will end up in a fatal road accidents but also incur a heavy loss to the national exchequer. The social circles demanded DPO ...

RAWALPINDI  - The increasing trend of one-wheeling continued unchecked on various roads of the city particularly at night as motor bikers, mostly teenagers, are witnessed performing dangerous stunts and driving their motorcycles on one wheel on the busy roads of the city.The one-wheelers most ...

RAWALPINDI – Rawal Town police have deputed AVDS mobile squads at 11 security check posts of the city for verification of vehicles through modern software.According to detail, the police have taken special steps for checking vehicles through modern IT lab within a few seconds. Several stolen ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza.Pulling teeth by day and devising inventions by night, Ng Tze-chuen, 59, said he organised a team working ...

Chinese scientists are investigating a bizarre case in which a cockerel apparently started laying eggs after all the hens were eaten.The birds owner Huang Li, 47, kept the rooster together with seven hens on his small farm at Chumiao village, Mengcheng city, in central China’s Anhui ...

LAHORE – Believe it or not, almost every van plying at City’s routes during CNG holidays use substandard LPG cylinders as alternative fuel while 70 per cent of them have already poor CNG kits.The Punjab Transport Department and law enforcement agencies are silent over this criminal act ...

Noor Ilahi Atif NOORPUR THAL - Following numerous complaints regarding the black-marketing and artificial shortage of fertilizer, the District government has taken action against those elements involved in such practices. Talking to The Nation, Khushab DCO Mehr Sultan Ahmed said that the government ...

LAHORE – Realising that senior leader Javed Hashmi’s defection to the PTI is a serious loss, the PML-N leadership has decided to increase contacts with the party legislators and redress their grievances to prevent them from following in the footsteps of the party stalwart from Multan.An ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently launched SMS based consumer perception survey system 8899 aiming to sought consumers perception about performance of their respective cellular mobile operator. PTA has made special arrangements to make it free of ...

LAHORE Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) Vice Chairman Taufiq Ahmed Khan has said that Pakistan has exported around 18,000 metric tons of rice worth $19 million to the US during the fiscal year 2011. He was talking to Ian C Winborne, Plant Health Advisor, US Embassy Islamabad. Dr ...

ISLAMABAD - The tribal elders and Pakistans security set-up have developed consensus and finalised modalities for raising armed tribal militias against cross-border incursions from Afghan forces, NATO and Taliban in South Waziristan, it is learnt. Three of the South Waziristans most influential ...

MIANWALI - Following the directions from Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif, DCO Tariq Mehmood has constituted a task force check hoarding, profiteering and food adulteration in the district. The DCO will head the task force while the DO Enterprises will act as its Secretary. In the regard a formal ...

BUREWALA - The assistant commissioner urged the people to help make successful the one-month campaign launched by the Punjab government against adulteration, hoarding, overcharging and water theft. Addressing a meeting here on Thursday, AC Shahid Zaman Lak said that efforts of various local ...

LAHORE National Highways & Motorway Police N-5 Central launched a special campaign to check the vehicles without back lights and remove iron grills covering the backlights mostly of Heavy Transport Vehicles (HTVs). The campaign has been launched on special directions of the Deputy Inspector ...

SIALKOT - There is a great need for setting up mini industrial estates in deprived and far-off areas for edging out the rapid rural migration towards the city. Sialkot is a hub of cottage industry and totally export-oriented city of Pakistan that earning over $ One billion dollars through its ...

FAISALABAD - Speakers at a seminar called for taking steps to counter dropout trend in educational institutes and to pay special focus on education in children and youth. There are 70 million people across the country who are either lying under the age of 17 or have dropped out in ...

MULTAN - The Chamber of Small Traders Multan (CSTM) has demanded the Chief Executive of Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) to take notice of complaints regarding sudden rise in voltage, launch action against the officials responsible for this problem otherwise traders will encircle the office of ...

NISAR MEHDI AND MANSOOR KHAN KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced that the government had decided to impose partial curfew in the violence-hit parts of the provincial metropolis from Sunday. Security agencies, however, failed to control law and order situation in the city as eight ...