As a society we have emerged as intolerant towards minorities; patriotism is only reflected in wearing a green shirt and carrying a large flag on March 23 or August 14. In Pakistan, everyone is for sale, it appears we have proved to the world that we can sell our loyalties for a few dollars, ...

LAHORE - Former Interior Minister and PPP leader Rehman Malik has said that he will go to the Supreme Court with proofs against ‘Sharif brothers corruption’. Holding files and documents, he said that these were proofs of cases of corruption, collected by him against the Sharif brothers. ...

ISLAMABAD - ISLAMABAD - Chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari on Friday warned the NAB officials that any clue of corruption within the bureau would not be tolerated and all regions should evolve a strong mechanism for internal monitoring to improve ...

“Unless and until corruption is eliminated from the society, the dream of prosperous Pakistan could not be materialized”.This was stated by Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, Imran Khan while addressing a gathering in Paplan town of Mianwali district, here on Tuesday.Imran said that he ...

Mario Puzo, in his bestseller novel, entitled “Godfather”, writes: “Behind every great fortune lies a crime.” Most early fortunes in the US were made by methods that could be called unethical, illegal and immoral. The sources of such ill-gotten fortunes could not be ...

The shocking headline showed how the PPP government has been so busy making money that they ignored their prime responsibility to the welfare of the people. An outbreak of measles killed 50 in Karachi. A disease that has been eradicated throughout the world has somehow surfaced in Pakistan, to ...

President, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif has said that corruption has badly damaged the country during the last five years.Addressing a public rally on Friday‚ he said during the tenure of previous government poverty and unemployment has risen and economy is in ...

LAHORE Pakistan's former captain Salman Butt said Wednesday he had offered to take part in anti-corruption rehab a week after an international court threw out his appeal against a spot-fixing ban. The 28-year-old, along with team-mates Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer, was banned for contriving ...

PARIS : IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to be grilled by a special court investigating suspected corruption dating from her time as French finance minister, her lawyer said Thursday.Lagarde, who took over at the International Monetary Fund in 2011 when the previous boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

KARACHIFormer Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who on Wednesday lost their appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against spot-fixing bans, were the first players with team-mate Mohammad Aamir to be punished by the International Cricket Council (ICC).Before them all ...

HAFIZABADPML-N President Nawaz Sharif has pledged that his party, on coming to power, will steer the country out of the prevalent crises as it is capable of eliminating terrorism, unemployment, loadshedding and hunger. Addressing a big gathering here Tuesday evening, Nawaz Sharif said he would ...

KARACHI – The National Accountability Bureau has arrested a secretary of the Sindh government on charges of corruption of million of rupees. According to NAB spokesman, an intelligence team of NAB conducted a raid on Sajjad Haider Shah’s residence in Block-2 Clifton and arrested him. ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has an important role to play in stemming corruption in the country. The Prime Minister made these observations during a presentation made by the NAB at the Prime Minister’s ...

QUETTA - The leader of Jamaat-i-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has said that elections is the only way to change the system and get rid of feudals, capitalists and exploitative forces.He said this on Sunday while addressing a party gathering of the JI held here in Quetta.He said that the corrupt ...

 Prime Minister, Justice (retired) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Monday underlined that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has an important role to play in stemming corruption.The Prime Minister said this during a presentation made by the NAB chairman Admiral (retired) Fasih Bukhari at the Prime ...

ISLAMABAD - The corrupt management of Directorate General of Immigration and Passports (DGI&P) is behind the crisis of passports manufacturing and issuance when the backlog of passports has jumped to unprecedented figure of more than 800,000, TheNation has learnt.Well-placed sources said that ...

ISLAMABAD – The menace of corruption in Pakistan is neither government nor party centric but it is the system centric, said Brig (R) Musaddiq Abbasi, Director General (DG) Awareness and Prevention, National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Islamabad, on Wednesday. He expressed these views ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that loot and corruption of Zar Baba and Forty Thieves has pushed the country to the verge of collapse Talking to assembly members of various districts on Monday, the chief minister said despite completion of five years, the government ...

LAHORE - Speakers at a national conference have stressed the need for Muslim unity to foil the conspiracies of the colonial powers and for the liberation of Kashmir, Palestine and other occupied areas. Addressing the conference organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Lahore in memory of Qazi Husain Ahmed and ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was to be under investigation by NAB as per orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan for corruption in rental power plants. It appears that the greater the level of corruption, the higher one goes. Take the example of Raja being catapulted to becoming the Prime ...

CHOLISTAN – The residents of Cholistan appreciated the steps of the Cholistan Development Authority Managing Director Javaid Mehmood Akhter against corrupt revenue staff, and demanded recovery of illegally allotted land to them. They said that revenue staff of CDA was taking bribe from the ...

SADIQABAD - PML-N Rahim Yar Khan district and city presidents said that all the conspiracies against their party would be thwarted with the public cooperation, and added that the N League would get landslide victories across the country in the forthcoming general elections and form governments at ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has said corruption is the biggest problem of Pakistan, as it is rampant everywhere and every level eating away the foundations of the country.Addressing a public meeting at the ground of high school in Khipro, district Sanghar, PTI chief said he has ...

Sh Shahid mehmoodNANKANA SAHIB – The PML-N would resolve the public problems such as loadshedding, unemployment, lawlessness by taking steps on a war footing after coming to power also at the federal level through the general elections, said a PML-N leader, linking national progress and ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Leader Mazhar Iqbal Sajid said that corruption was black spot on the face of Islamic Democratic Pakistan. In a press briefing here the other day, the JI leader said that the road to prosperity and peace cannot be achieved in this worst situation. He said that ...

KARACHI - The PML-N Sindh has alleged that corruption is rampant in the Sindh Information Department and the provincial information minister is committing contempt of court by holding interviews for the posts of the information officers in the department.PML-N Sindh leader Nehal Hashmi while ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - The International Anti-Corruption Day was observed with the theme 'Act Against Corruption Today", to raise awareness regarding corruption to eliminate the menace, here the other day. In this connection, a seminar was hled at Jinnah Hall District Council wherein the participants the ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that corruption has weakened the foundations of the country and all records of corruption have been broken in the tenure of the inefficient federal rulers. In a message on International Anti-Corruption Day, the chief minister said the aim of ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has said that every year they celebrate and acknowledge the International Anti-Corruption Week in December and renew their commitment to eradicating this menace from the society. “Corruption, indeed, is a curse which seriously ...

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Wednesday that the PPP and its allies had done nothing but corruption in the past four-and-a-half years. The removal of a number of ministers and the decisions of the judiciary were a testimony to the fact that Zardari and his allies had left no stone ...