PRAGUE: Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas resigned on Monday over a bribery and spying scandal involving his top aide that has plunged the recession-hit EU state into a fresh political crisis. "Mr President, in line with the constitution... I resign," Necas told his rival President Milos Zeman, who ...

LAHORE -Provincial Minister for Health and Education, Salima Hashmi, on Wednesday inaugurated three-day exhibition of Czech glass and porcelain products at Alhamra Arts Council here.Addressing on the occasion the provincial minister said that the Czech government, through its Ministry of Foreign ...

PRAGUE: Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone will be awarded a top prize at the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary international film festival this year, organisers said Tuesday. The US director is set to receive the Crystal Globe award for his contribution to cinematography at the 48th ...

lahore - The Czech Republic is organizing a three-day exhibition of Czech glass and porcelain products at Alhamra Arts Council from April 24 to 26, 2013 (Wednesday-Friday). More than eight leading Czech glass and porcelain manufacturing companies will be displaying their products while a live glass ...

PRAGUE (AFP) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan at the weekend, meeting President Hamid Karzai and Czech military forces, his office said Sunday. The 500 Czech troops in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mission are due home by the end of next year but according ...

PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan at the weekend, meeting President Hamid Karzai and Czech military forces, his office said Sunday. The 500 Czech troops in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mission are due home by the end of next year but according to the ...

PARIS - Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic put the defending champions into the Davis Cup semi-finals with a tough win over Kazakhstan's Evgeny Korolev at Astana on Sunday.Rosol, who is 63rd in the ATP rankings, won 7-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 his first ever head-to-head meeting with the 25-year-old Korolev in ...

PARIS - Petra Kvitova led holders Czech Republic into the Fed Cup semi-finals by giving them a winning lead with a three-set victory over Australia's Samantha Stosur in Ostrava on Sunday. The Czechs also won the dead doubles rubber later on Sunday for an overall 4-0 win.Russia also reached in ...

PRAGUE  - The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia both sounded an upbeat note Tuesday as they looked back on the peaceful split of the former Czechoslovakia into two states 20 years ago. "The step was correct, and it was the only option," Czech PM Petr Necas said during a ...

KARACHI - A six-member delegation of Czech Republic led by chairman Noel Vladimir Jaros held a meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Monday. The delegation expressed willingness to install coal power plant with a capacity of 200 to 400MW in Badin.The meeting was attended by Martin ...

PRAGUE  - The Czech Republic won the Davis Cup after a team led by Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek beat holders Spain 3-2 in the 100th final here on Sunday. In Sunday's games, Berdych lost to David Ferrer before Stepanek stunned Nicolas Almagro in the decisive rubber.The Czech Republic lifted ...

PRAGUE  - The Czech Republic won a second straight Fed Cup here on Sunday after Lucie Safarova gave them an unbeatable 3-1 lead over Serbia by thrashing Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 6-1. Safarova, the world number 17, cruised past 22-ranked Jankovic in just an hour and 17 minutes, keeping the Serbian ...

PRAGUE  - The Czech Republic’s ruling Civic Democratic Party suffered a drubbing in regional and upper house elections as voters punished the government for spending cuts and sleaze scandals, results showed on Saturday. The Civic Democrats of center-right Prime Minister Petr Necas won ...

ISLAMABAD - The Czech Republic has showed keen interest to enhance economic cooperation with Pakistan, said MoS/Chairman BoI Saleem H Mandviwalla.On the sidelines of an investment conference in Czech Republic, Mandviwalla held several successful meetings with Pavel Bem, Chairman Inter-parliamentary ...

PRAGUE  - Czech President Vaclav Klaus was left shaken Friday after a man clad in camouflage gear shot at him with a so-called airsoft replica gun, local media reported. Klaus was opening a bridge in Chrastava in the northern Czech Republic when the man approached him and took several shots at ...

KARACHI – A delegation of Santex Pakistan Limited (SPL) apprised Murad Ali Shah, Finance Minister and Muhammad Zubair Motiwala, Chairman Sindh Board of Investment about their Steel Billets Making Plant (1.2 million ton annual capacity) and 300MW Coal-fired Power Plant during a meeting at ...

PRAGUE  - Czech police raided thousands of bars, restaurants and shops after methanol poisoning caused by bootleg spirits left 19 people dead and others seriously ill. As 20 people remained in hospital, some in artificial comas or going blind, police said they checked over 19,000 premises ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has signed an MoU with WIKOV WIND AS, a Czech Republic company for the power generation of 50MW at the wind corridor in Gharo Jhimpir, district Thatta. The MoU was inked by Sindh Board of Investment DG Muhammad Ziauddin and Czech Republic company head Martin Wichterle ...

NEW HAVEN - Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova claimed her second title of the season by beating Maria Kirilenko 7-6 (11/9), 7-5 in the final of the WTA Tour's New Haven Open on Saturday.The 22-year-old second-seeded Czech earned her ninth singles title by hammering seven aces and winning 56 ...

PRAGUE  - Petr Jiracek has gone a long way since moving up from the Czech second division four years ago -- his goal against Poland on Saturday paving the way to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals for the Czech Republic.In the 72nd minute, Jiracek took the ball from striker Milan Baros, fooled ...

Metal thieves in the Czech Republic dismantled an entire 10-ton bridge and more than 650ft of track.The gang reportedly arrived at a depot in Slavkov, in the east of the country, with forged paperwork claiming that the footbridge over the disused railway track had to come down.  A Railways ...

ISLAMABAD - Ambassador of Czech Republic Miroslav Krenek called on Saleem H. Mandviwalla, MOS/ Chairman Board of Investment, to discuss about a proposed investment conference to be held in ICC (International Chamber of Commerce). ICC is the forum which brings together various heads and CEOs of ...

PERTH  - World number two Petra Kvitova continued her imposing start to the year to give the Czech Republic the lead in the Hopman Cup final against France in Western Australia on Saturday.Unbeaten in her three previous singles matches in Perth, including beating world number one Caroline ...

Vaclav Havel, the playwright turned dissident who led Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution, had died at the age of 75 after years of battling ill health. Havel died on Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Dancecova said. A former chain smoker, Havel ...

EAST HARTFORD (Connecticut) (AFP) The United States fell 4-2 to Czech Republic on Tuesday in their last friendly football match before coach Bob Bradley names the 23-man squad for the World Cup finals. Czech Republic took full advantage of defensive lapses by the Americans, who will host Turkey in ...

OSTRAVA (Czech Republic) (AFP) - They are grandmothers or great-grandmothers with ample silhouettes and X-sized outfits, but this golden age can-can troupe has charmed the Czech Republic and is fully booked to 2009. "We do this for fun, we laugh a lot and people love it," said Libuse Novakova, ...

Czech shooter Katerina Emmons won the first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics when she took the women's 10m Air Rifle competition at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall here on Saturday. Lioubov Galkina of Russia won the silver and Snjezana Pejcic of Croatia claimed the bronze. 

India is deploying additional 10,000 troops in Kashmir, which has been engulfed in week-long protests triggered by a dispute between Hindus and Muslims over allotment of land for Hindu pilgrims. At least nine people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the unrest that has gripped the ...

LONDON (AFP) - The dollar rose against the euro and the yen on Friday amid a Group of Eight finance meeting in Japan, with analysts keen to see whether ministers will back US efforts to strengthen the dollar. The euro, meanwhile, was pressured by growing concerns that Irish voters could reject a ...

Peace protesters have taken to the trees at a Czech military site where the US military wants to put up a controversial anti-missile radar. For the moment the Czech authorities are turning a wary blind eye to the Greenpeace protesters at the Brdy military base who number between 10 and 20 at any ...