LAHOR : Punjab Agriculture Department has advised the growers to complete paddy sowing till June 20.  A spokesman of the department said on Sunday, that nurseries of Basmati 370, Basmati 385, Basmati Pak, Basmati 2000, super Basmati and Basmati-515 should be sown till June 20 while the sowing ...

Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami casted his vote here on Saturday in Defence housing authority (DHA) which has constituencies NA- 125 and PP- 155.Talking to media at the polling station at American Lycetuff School, the  minister appreciated it as a healthy sign ...

LAHORE (OUR STAFF REPORTER):   The Wapda is committed to complete under-construction phase-I of Kachhi Canal Project at the earliest despite financial constraints and difficult law and order situation in the project area, said the authority chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah on ...

Islamabad - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has termed Pakistani judicial system the strongest backer of democracy, enjoying full confidence and faith of legal fraternity, other institutions and the public at large.He was addressing the concluding session of three-day International ...

ISLAMABAD  - Taking a tough stand despite increasing pressure from the United States, Iranian Consul General Hassan Darvishvand has said that the long awaited Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is to be completed “at all costs” by the end of 2014.Darvishvand further said 110 million ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Bachayo Committee comprising of nationalists and other opposition parties on Tuesday demanded complete repeal of Sindh Peoples Local Government Act 2012, and invite suggestions from the public on fresh draft of law immediately. The opposition parties also announced to ...

One is fed up with hearing the fairy tales spun by the politicians again and again. These same politicians who were running the government, that has been declared as the most corrupt in Pakistan’s history, talk about eradication of corruption from the society. There is an old saying, ...

I am glad that Rehman Malik paid attention to his job. Had he been a dedicated and focused person, with the security of the country high on his list of priorities, he would have been able to avert many incidents where lives were lost. He was so hampered by internal politics and saving his own skin ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Monday reiterated that the general elections will be held on time and the government will complete its term.Talking to media persons at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) after launch of cleanness drive in the hospital he ...

ISLAMABAD  - Policymakers and bankers need to make a clear commitment to act now and lift the debilitating uncertainty plaguing the global financial system, International Monetary Fund(IMF) Managing Director(MD) Christine Lagarde has said.In a speech to the Canadian International Council in ...

Hareem Deeba - It is truly said that a glass of milk is a complete food supplement. One of the greatest blessings of nature, milk is cost-efficient and nutritious, and provides calcium, proteins, vitamins and minerals which are essential components for our health and make our bones healthy and ...

QUETTA - A complete shutter-down strike was observed in Quetta on Friday against brutal killing of members of Hazara community in a sectarian targeted killing.At least five people belonging to Hazara community, including a woman were shot dead and six others wounded on Thursday morning when their ...

LAHORE : Punjab Agriculture Department has advised the growers to cultivate corn crop till March 20 in Rawalpindi division as it is suitable time for sowing. A spokesman of the department said on Sunday that the land should properly be prepared before cultivating the corn adding that heavy loam ...

ISLAMABAD – The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) will complete 0.3 million ton urea import operation on Thursday while SABIC’s urea of 0.2 million tons is expected to arrive till the end of March this month.An official who wished not be named told Online that “for importing ...

ISLAMABAD - Disposing of human right case regarding killing of 30 school boys on Motorway near Kallar Kahar, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday asked the Punjab Government to complete the exercise of vehicle examination as soon as possible. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice ...

BERLIN  — Europe's biggest automaker Volkswagen will likely this year complete its takeover of luxury car group Porsche after clearing key hurdles, according to a German media report on Sunday.News weekly Der Spiegel writes in its upcoming issue that VW, which owns 49.9 percent of ...

HAVELI LAKHA - A PPP tehsil leader has urged the PML-N to wait for the general elections added that the polls would be held when the incumbent assemblies complete five-year tenure. PPP Tehsil President Malik Shahzad Nol said that Nawaz Sharif was afraid of the PTI as his companions were joining the ...

LAHORE – Secretary Health Punjab Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan on Monday directed the concerned officers to complete first round of larviciding by Jan 25 in the vulnerable areas of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Multan to eradicate dengue larvae and adult mosquitoes. He also directed ...

SADIQABAD - The government officers and clerks observed complete strike across Rahim Yar Khan district and took out a protest rally to get their Charter of Demands approved. All the employees converged at a camp set up in the Town Hall wherefrom the rally started and culminated at the office of the ...

LAHORE – The Punjab government has failed to fulfill its constitutional duty of protecting the life and property of the people of the province, claims Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi, senior PML-Q leader. He expressed these views while talking to the media after attending the last rites ceremony of ...

MARDAN – Awami National Party (ANP), Chief, Asfandyar Wali Khan Saturday said the incumbent parliament would complete its time and election would be held on its time, which would clear the position of every party. “All the state institutions must work within their constitutional ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Fifty senators will complete their six-year constitutional term on March 11.According to an official list of the Senate, 20 out of 21 senators, who will complete their tenure, belong to the Pakistan Muslim League, five out of 27 from the Pakistan People’s Party, seven out of ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KHANEWAL As many as 292 development schemes will be completed at a cost of Rs 4.07 billion soon, the district coordination officer of Khanewal said. At a meeting of the district development committee, different development projects were discussed. These projects include ...

ISLAMABAD - The federal interior ministry Tuesday in a high-level meeting decided to deweaponise the country in two phases including revalidation as well as computerisation of all arms licenses and launching of a crackdown against the illegal arms holders while taking all the provinces on ...

LAHORE - India while rejecting Pakistans reservations on construction of three hydroelectric projects of 2150 MW capacity on river Chenab in Occupied Kashmir has announced completion of the projects till 2017-18, the highly-placed sources told TheNation on Wednesday. India has stance that it is ...

MOHALI (Agencies) - Indian opener Virender Sehwag and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday completed their 1,000 runs against Pakistan in one-day internationals during the high-octane second semifinal of the World Cup. Sehwag hit the third ball of the semifinal off pacer Umar Gul to the cover ...

ISLAMABAD Accepting the call of the Government, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) have launched the Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) of the recent floods that have devastated the country. The World Bank has completed numerous damage and needs assessments worldwide in ...

ISLAMABAD With the observation that no debate on media and public was made before introducing 18th Amendment, Supreme Court, Thursday, sought complete record of some 980 public suggestions sent to Raza Rabbani-led Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR). Chief Justice remarked ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister has directed former Principal of Government College for boys Gulberg, Lahore to ensure completion of the ACRs of the teaching staff of the college within ten days positively, a directive issued in this regard revealed on Wednesday. It is worth mentioning here that ...

SWAT (APP) - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani here Wednesday said Pakistan Army has set a unique precedent by defeating terrorists in a short span of time in Malakand and Swat Valley and reiterated his strong resolve that the Army will stay here till complete peace is ...