AL-AMADIA, Iraq : Iraqi Kurds living near the border are wary of thousands of Kurdish fighters leaving Turkey for northern Iraq, and hope the move does not lead to more Turkish air and artillery strikes.For years, Turkey’s military has targeted fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

Thailand is a smaller country compared to Pakistan, with no renewable energy production capacity; the country produces almost 90 percent of its energy from petroleum fuel. While Pakistan has 30 percent production from renewable and 70 percent energy is produced from petroleum fuel. Although ...

ISLAMABADLight showers turned weather pleasant in various cities of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa on Friday morning.The sky was overcast and cold breeze started blowing with light rain. However by noon the clouds gave way to sun.According to Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Islamabad, ...

LONDON Surrey have signed Azhar Mahmood for this year Friends Life T20 competition. Mahmood, the former Pakistan allrounder who now qualifies as a non-overseas player, represented Surrey between 2002 and 2007 and is currently with Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.Aged 38, Azhar sustains Surrey's recent ...

COAS Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that the Army would extend all possible assistance to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in holding peaceful and fair elections. He said this in a meeting with Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Magsi and caretaker Chief Minister Ghous Baksh Barozai. That ...

ISLAMABAD – As the civic authorities have made no proper arrangements to facilitate the marchers, heaps of garbage have been piling up at the site of the march. Moreover, unhygienic food and expected rain can cause breakouts of communicable disease. The marchers complained that the government ...

Naomi WolfPeople often ask me, in terms of my argument about “ten steps” that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both US military and by commercial ...

We have gotten so used to being singled out for negative news that we do not really expect any good thing to happen to us. However, the judgment in the Asghar Khan case took us by surprise, to say the least! We really do not know what to do with so much truth in black and white, despite knowing ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that people want change and it is impossible to stop his party’s ‘tsunami’ now.Addressing a public gathering here in Chitral on Saturday, he said that he would end the rule of oppression after coming into power. ...

LAHORE- While some analysts think that PML-Q forward bloc in Punjab Assembly has become insignificant for the PML-N in a changed political situation, the statistics of 2008 elections however reveal that its reliance on estranged PML-Q legislators has increased manifolds. It is evident from 2008 ...

LAHORE – A modern system of traffic control would be implemented in Lahore, to ensure smooth traffic flow on roads, Chief Traffic Officer SSP Syed Ahmed Mobin told this paper on Wednesday. The CTO said that during his recent visit to Turkey, he had thoroughly observed the traffic system of ...

The foreign policy theme that should dominate this year’s presidential campaign is “American renewal.” Each candidate claims to have a strategy for halting the nation’s decline, but their versions often amount to “more of the same” — which ain’t gonna ...

KARACHI - Former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chairman General (r) Pervez Musharraf has announced that he would be return to the country by Jan 30.Addressing through video-conference his party’s first public meeting near Mazara-i-Quaid on Sunday, he told some 7,000 ...

ISLAMABAD - Attorney General for Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq said on Thursday that President Asif Ali Zardari will not file a separate reply in memo case in the Supreme Court.The attorney general while talking to mediapersons at Supreme Court premises after the hearing of the memorandum scandal ...

It is a pity that in our country ordinances are passed with huge enthusiasm and bombastic claims but they are practically applied with least spirit and most regretfully, in the past on majority issues no significant action could have been witnessed on behalf of the concerned authorities. Currently ...

LAHORE The Lahore Waste Management Company is introducing a new waste dumping system in the provincial capital. For the purpose, the company will add 500 new vehicles to its waste-lifting fleet, TheNation has learnt. The new fleet is coming in February next, a month later than originally planned, ...

Britains Got Talent judge Amanda Holden and cricketer Phil Tufnell are among the celebrities who have recorded messages for 'talking waste bins. A total of 25 bins will be installed in London next month as part of Keep Britain Tidys 'Love Where You Live campaign, with further bins planned for ...

The gold price in the local bullion markets on Saturday hits fresh peak of Rs46,800 per tola breaking the previous record level of Rs45,500 touched in the beginning of the current month on the back of ongoing simmering European sovereign debt concerns, inflationary price pressures of China and the ...

LAHORE - The Government College Universitys Dramatics Club is to stage Mumtaz Muftis master piece Nizam Saqqa from next Friday. It will continue till Sunday. The play centers on the legend of Nizam, an ordinary peasant, who was supposedly made the king of India for one day only by the Mughal ...

Mariz Tadros Why did diplomats, policymakers, analysts and academics fail to see and understand the growing popular unrest in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries? It seems that the reasons why we thought a revolution impossible were wrong, our identification of the agents of change was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The former deputy to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is vowing to launch a rival site soon that he says will be more transparent than the original. Dubbed Openleaks (http://www.openleaks.org) and run by Assanges former number two at WikiLeaks Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the site has ...

UNHITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that the coming year promises to be no less difficult than 2008, which he called the "the year of multiple crises." "Our commitments and good intentions will be tested as never before," he told an end of year news conference at UN ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), like other segments of the society, also seems severely rocked by the break up of the ruling political alliance, as the KSE-100 index down by 384 points and pegged at 9431. The market today opened in an extremely pensive environment, as the KSE like others in the ...

A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy. While the development of fuel ...

LAHORE - Italian auto giant Piaggio is coming back to Pakistan, paving the way for European automobile technology, which would give a big boost to the motorcycle industry of the country. Senior Vice President Piaggio Mr Riccardo Mastronardi said while speaking after MoU signing between the ...

THE mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher told. The imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, without ...

CITY NOTES BY M.A. NIAZI The big tsunami that awaits us is not the shock when the judiciary is restored, or when the Millennium arrives, or when any of the many things that can go wrong, really do, such as the food crisis really turning nasty, or the fuel shortages really hitting us (have ...