HAFIZABAD The Apca Hafizabad chapter has rejected 10 percent increased in salaries and announced a complete strike in the district from Monday till June 19.  Apca Hafizabad President Nusrullah Hunjara and General Secretary Rana Amjid said that all offices would be kept locked during the strike ...

Lahore- All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has cautioned the government that textile mills in Punjab are on the verge of destruction, as electricity cut has increased to 12 hours a day on the one hand and gas supply has decreased to twice a week on the other.As a result, the ...

KARACHI  - State Bank of Pakistan released its Third Quarterly Report for FY13 on the State of Economy Thursday, envisaging that economy would continue to face fiscal and external challenges in Q3-FY13.The Report says that key challenges to macroeconomic management emanated from fiscal as well ...

If the kind of a new start the US has been wishing for with the newly elected PML-N government apparent in the welcome speeches of President Obama, it is but natural that the chapter of drones which are one of the biggest irritants is closed once and for all.According to reports in the ...

WAH CANTT/TAXILA- Prices of gadgets that provide electricity during power outages such as uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and dry cell batteries are skyrocketing in the city and the manufacturers are fleecing the consumers by taking advantage of massive and unscheduled power shortage.During a ...

DODOMA : Tanzania will continue building a China-funded $1.2 billion gas pipeline from the south of the country to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam despite violent protests over the project, the energy ministry said. Tanzania’s parliament was due to approve the 2013/14 budget proposals by ...

ISLAMABAD - In a move to have political dividends in the long run, the upcoming PML-N government is all set to re-name the much criticised poverty alleviation Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) with National/Pakistan Income Support Programme.Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) will not discontinue ...

ISLAMABAD Chairman NAB Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari is determined to continue his job and is in no mood to resign even on moral grounds in case Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) pursues its petition challenging his appointment after forming the federal government, The Nation learnt on ...

karachi - Awami National Party Sindh Chief and Senator, Shahi Syed has vowed to continue struggle for democracy in the country.He said though liberal parties had been victimised in the election but the ANP could not be wiped out from the political scene. Shahi expressed these views during the ...

MIRPUR (AJK) The students of Mirpur University of Science & Technology continued their protest here the second consecutive day by boycotting their classes as a protest against the non-accreditation of their department by the Pakistan Engineering Council, the public-sector regulatory authority ...

  ROME     Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki is still without a win in a major clay-court tournament this season as the French Open approaches after losing a marathon match to Bojana Jovanovski 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) at the ATP/WTA Rome Masters on Tuesday. The 10th-seeded ...

The electricity loadshedding scenario is worsening by every passing day with the caretaker government being unable to tackle it. There seems to be no workable solution in sight leaving people to suffer the scorching heat of the current and coming months. The power subsidy being paid by the federal ...

lahore - The long-hours loadshedding is increasing day by day despite the government claims that Rs45 billion have been issued to power sector for fuel arrangements.On Wednesday, the city feeders of Lesco conducted 12 hours loadshedding with two to three hours consecutive cuts in some areas while ...

KARACHI - Six more people, including a policeman, were gunned down in various violent incidents here on Saturday.A policeman was shot dead in the remits of Iqbal Market police station.Police said that Sub-Inspector Sohrab Ali Abro left home to drop his eight-year-old daughter Asfa to School when ...

islamabad - Pakistan has never defaulted in its international obligations since 1947 and will never default, said Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance.Pakistan’s economy is strong enough to meet its international obligations. “Japan is very special country for ...

KARACHI - Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan said that Law-Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are taking action against criminal elements for terrorism, target killings and kidnapping for ransom. Ibad said this while talking to the participants of Staff Course of Command and Staff College Quetta in a ...

SWAT - The girls of different schools of the Swat valley on Tuesday vowed that they would continue Malala Yousafzai’s mission. They said they would struggle hard for girls education in the country. Talking to this scribe, they said they were inspired from the bravery of Malala and would ...

KARACHI - Foreign investors are interested to continue their investment in Pakistan with profitable and fastest growing companies and they are reluctant to sell their shares against meager prices offered by a Fast Moving Consumer Good Company (FMCG) recently.These investors have planned to increase ...

QUETTA - Baloch National Front (BNF), an alliance of different Baloch nationalist parties, has announced to continue the boycott of all Urdu news channels and some daily newspapers in Balochistan for allegedly ‘promoting the state agenda and distorting the Baloch national struggle’.This ...

ISLAMABAD - Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Washington DC, Alex Vatanka who is also a lecturer at the US Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field has said that the strained relationship between the US and Islamic Republic of Iran is likely to continue in the foreseeable ...

KARACHI - A large number of people, hailing from different coastal villages, staged a two-day Long March on Tuesday to register their protest against the sale of precious islands, Dingi and Bhundar, located near Ibrahim Hydri. It is to be noted here that the government has allowed investors and ...

LONDON - Gold edged lower on Monday, after rising by nearly 2 percent in the previous session, as funds were seen cutting bullion holdings for better investment yields in riskier assets such as equities.Spot gold dropped 0.4 percent to $1,575.26 an ounce by 1406 GMT. On price charts the metal ...

LAHORE – Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has asked the departments concerned to continue anti-polio campaign in the province as well as motive the parents to protect the future of their children by getting polio drops administered to them.  “Polio is a dangerous disease ...

Additional secretary Election Commission of Pakistan, (ECP) Afzal Khan has said that the process of scrutiny of candidate’s papers would continue even after elections.Talking to media, he also stressed on the caretaker government to eschew making appointments of partial officials, ...

LAHORE – Nawa-i-Waqt Group Chairman Majid Nizami has said that he will never compromise on his policies and continue his struggle to make Pakistan an Islamic democratic welfare state as dreamt by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. He was addressing a ceremony, ...

ISLAMABAD - Managing Editor of Nawa-i-Waqt Group Majid Nizami has said that during his 50-year professional career as Editor he unflinchingly faced dictators in the country from President Ayub Khan to Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf and raised the voice for the truth.He expressed these remarks at a ...

Voting on vacant Senate seats in Pakistan started on Friday as the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party is set to emerge as the single largest party in the Upper House of the parliament.A total of 50 senators in the 104-member Senate have retired after completing their six-year term and polling is being ...

KARACHI – Led by oil and fertilizer stocks, the Karachi stock market closed bullish on Wednesday amid higher trades after the apex regulator confirmed reformed CGT regime implementation from April1.The benchmark KSE 100-share index gained 138.66 points or 1.09 percent to close the day at ...

In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has said that the people of Kashmir would continue their struggle for securing right to self-determination till complete success.Syed Ali Gilani in a media interview urged India to realise the ground reality and accept ...

By-elections for 10 seats of National and provincial assemblies continued on Saturday across the country. Poll rigging and exchange of fire between rival groups disturbed voting in different constituencies of National Assembly and provincial assemblies reported.At least three people were injured in ...