ISLAMABAD :  OGDCL has closed Qadirpur gas field for the annual maintenance and repair the plant for seven days. Qadirpur gas field, which supplies 400 MMCFD (million cubic feet per day) gas to national gas network, would now supply 125 to 130 MMCFD during the maintenance of plant. Due to ...

Seoul : North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend.The latest firing was confirmed by the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who said it was unclear if the ...

In the judges’ detention case, the special anti-terrorism court (ATC) of Islamabad on Saturday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for 14 days.Judge of ATC’s special court Kausar Abbas Zaidi heard the case.During the hearing, the court was informed ...

California (GN): Angelina Jolie’s surgeon has revealed that she was back to work four days after her double mastectomy. Dr Kristi Funk - who operated on the Salt star at the Pink Lotus Breast Center - said the she was already thinking about her next movie project before the post-op tubes were ...

LAHORE - (OUR STAFF REPORTER) - The SNGPL management is planning to provide four days a week gas supply to CNG sector of Punjab.The gas outlets of the province are observing four day a week gas load management plant for past two months. “The gap between demand and supply is shrinking and we ...

LAHORE - After taking charge of the government, PML-N has started deliberations over such measures which will provide an overview to the people of its bona fide intentions in its first 100 days of governance. Able and competent individuals are being put in charge of institutions, and made members ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday warned that his party would launch a protest if rigging issue was no addressed in three days.In a written message read out by PTI leader Ejaz Chaudhry at a press conference here, Imran Khan said PTI believes in democracy and that his ...

ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Tuesday accused the PML-N leadership of compromising on the principles and preferring corrupt politicians over diehard and committed workers.“Dynastic families have turned into political mafias and only two ...

islamabad - Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Saturday extended judicial remand of former President General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf for 14 days in judges’ detention case. The ATC Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi also directed to present the former military ruler before the court on the next day of hearing ...

islamabad - Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Saturday extended judicial remand of former President General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf for 14 days in judges' detention case.The ATC Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi also directed to present the former military ruler before the court on the next day of hearing and ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has remarked days are  gone when some one was lifted illegally and now all including intelligence agencies will have to abide by law and constitution.CJP gave these remarks while heading a 3-member bench of SC during the course of ...

RAWALPINDI - New building of RCCI will be completed within 180 days said President RCCI, Manzar Khursheed Sheikh.  RCCI here on Wednesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new building.  Senior most member of RCCI and former President Iqbal Ahmed Sheikh, Group leader Najam-ul-Haq ...

Anti Terrorism  Court (ATC) Rawalpindi has ordered for sending  former president Pervez Musharraf to jail on 14 days judicial remand in Benazir Bhutto assassination case.Pervez Musharraf was to be produced in the court on Tuesday on expiry of 4-day physical remand in this case but it was ...

LODHRAN/PAKPATTAN - The 11th May of this year will be the day of celebrations and the nation will get rid of corrupt and incompetent leaders through their vote to ensure justice, peace, progress and prosperity in the country.This was stated by PTI Chairman Imran Khan at a public meeting in Lodhran ...

BAGHDAD: A bloody two days of violence inIraqleft 118 people dead, with 99 of them killed in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said on Wednesday. More than 240 people were wounded in the same period, most of them in protest-related unrest, ...

KARACHI Two cops and political activists among 15 people were gunned down in various violent incidents in last two days.An incident of firing took place in the remits of Jamshaid Quarter police station which claimed three lives, including a local leader of All Pakistan Muslim League and a ...

VIENNAA hotelier in rural Austria was stuck in a lift for four days but skills acquired on a Swedish military survival course helped him pull through, police said.A friend delivering bread eventually alerted rescue services on Friday after noticing post piled up outside the hotel in Bad Gastein ...

TEHRAN:- AFP A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistan, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the latest quake which ...

LAHORE : A spokesman for Punjab Health Department has said that OPDs in all teaching hospitals, DHQ, THQ, Rural Health Centers, Basic Health Centers and Special Health Institutions will remain open six days a week as usual. He said medical colleges would remain close, whereas the staff of clinical ...

Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday extended the pre-arrest bail of former President Pervez Musharraf for another six days in a case pertaining to the house arrest of Supreme Court judges in 2007.The former president had filed an interim bail plea in the court which was accepted today after ...

RAWALPINDI – A trial court on Monday handed over an alleged terrorist to police for seven days physical custody in ‘Pir Chanmbal intelligence agencies officials killing’ case.Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi Number 2 Special Judge Rana Masood Akhter granted Police Station ...

KARACHI - Police on Friday admitted before the Supreme Court the presence of No Go Areas in the city. The Supreme Court issued stern warning to the law-enforcement agencies, saying that the court wants to see concrete results within a week in this regard otherwise it would be compelled to give ...

KARACHI  – Sindh Inspector General of police Shahid Nadeem Baloch has given 15 more days to replace the motorcycles’ number plates, said a statement issued by Central Police Office Karachi on Friday.The previous deadline for replacing the number plates was April 5 which is now ...

KARACHI  – The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the law enforcement agencies’ reports regarding the state of peace in Karachi saying it was ‘like throwing dust into the eyes of judiciary’.The court extended its deadline to the law enforcer for another week so that ...

 A lawyer on Friday threw a shoe at ex-dictator Pervez Musharraf as he walked to a court room to extend his bail on charges of conspiracy to murder and sacking judges.A group of around 20 lawyers protested against the former military ruler at the Sindh High Court, shouting "he's a dictator and ...

MULTAN - Jamaat-e-Islami Central leader and former MNA Hafiz Salman Butt has said that the days of corrupt rulers have been numbered as the judiciary, media and masses have arose.Addressing a news conference here at local JI office on Thursday, he added that the Supreme Court verdict against prime ...

MULTAN - Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has said that Pakistani Taliban have no existence and American agents are committing terrorism in tribal areas.Addressing the JI workers here on Saturday, he added that the arrest of Raymond Davis proved that the Americans caused terrorism ...

FAISALABAD - Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said the days of engineering the elections were over and the PPP will sweep the upcoming elections.“Now no one can play ‘Jhurloo’ in elections as tehsildars and patwaris can no more facilitate in rigging the elections,” he ...

As the election dates draw nearer, our TV channels have been airing nostalgic clips of the good old days, when our leaders were respected and Pakistan was referred to as an ‘Important and powerful ally’ by the US. Today, of course, it is just the opposite and this land of the Pak and ...

KARACHI - Seven days are left for exchanging old design and bigger size banknote of Rs 500 denomination from the field offices of SBP Banking Services Corporation (SBP BSC) and branches of all banks. The State Bank of Pakistan and SBP BSC will neither exchange nor be liable to pay any value of such ...