washington - Austerity or growth? Europe’s struggling economies have faced the question without fully answering it in recent years, but the United States is on track to do both.Projections unveiled this week by the Congressional Budget Office indicate the US deficit will shrink more than 40 ...

KABUL  -  The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teachings.The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in ...

I am a doctor and have been living in USA for the last 38 years; I am visiting my sick mother in Pakistan and have got to see the political fever for the first time It is good to see an independent Election Commission, the freedom of media as well as judiciary. Despite so much changing in my ...

dublin - Readers of Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper were confronted by an unexpected front page headline this week when the Irish Independent proclaimed the 'End Of Austerity'.In a country that began cutting spending and hiking taxes almost five years ago, well before the scale of the ...

BAHAWALPUR/RAHIM YAR KHAN - PTI Chairman Imran Khan has urged the nation to support his party for a better life, change, a stable Pakistan and a corruption-free society as he is committed to serving and saving the country devotedly and honestly.Addressing a big public meeting on Saturday at the ...

ISLAMABAD -  Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) central leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday came down hard on PTI Chairman Imran Khan, saying Imran should know about his political stature before giving debate challenging to anyone. Ch Nisar said this while talking to media persons.It would not ...

SAHIWAL/RENALA KHURD  - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has once again challenged PML-N President Nawaz Sharif to a televise debate while addressing an election rally on Tuesday in Renala Khurd."Mian Sahib you cannot compete in cricket, at least compete in a debate," Khan ...

WASHINGTON - The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the most ambitious gun safety legislation in nearly two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on expanding background checks for firearm sales.With relatives of the 20 children killed in the Newtown massacre watching from the ...

ISLAMABAD - A special report on the matter of non-appearance of Principal Accounting Officer (PAO) of Supreme Court before the PAC for examination of accounts on Wednesday was presented in the NA with the recommendation that the matter may be resolved through further debate in the Lower House.The ...

LAHORE (PR) – The Lahore School of Economics Association of Debaters held its annual debate at Burki Campus. Around 80 institutions from all over Pakistan participated enthusiastically in the competition.The theme of the Debate was ’An Argument Begins Here’.Leading institutes ...

KARACHI (PR) – A debate was organised at the Commecs Institute of Business and Emerging Sciences to enable the students to voice their opinion about the present political crisis and the resultant economic situation with special reference to the role of the media and the celebrities in guiding ...

No doubt, if one were to speak on the human rights issue in Pakistan it would be hard to overlook the grim situation in Balochistan. And, besides, it has been in the news for so long, in the local as well as international media, and common discourse not only among rights activists, but also ...

Contrary to expectation, the Middle East replaced Pakistan as the most prominent focus of the third and last debate, on foreign policy, between the Democratic and Republican candidates. However, on the subject of Pakistan, incumbent President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney respectively, ...

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are spending the weekend hammering out their foreign policy battle lines ahead of their final debate, dropping off the campaign trail and dispatching their running mates to court voters in battleground states.The debate, which focuses on international affairs, will be ...

LAHORE - Students of various colleges on Friday participated in a debate competition in connection of week-long Youm-e-Iqbal ceremonies.In the competition held under the aegis of Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and Pakistan Movement Workers’ Trust at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrike-e-Pakistan, Adnan Farooq ...

LONDON - A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry.With the prospect of future conflicts between armies controlling weapons ...

As the budget and the general elections near, the confusion about the state of the Pak economy is growing? There are critics like myself who consistently moan about: Pakistan losing its competitiveness, continuously dwindling domestic and foreign investment in the country, growing unemployment and ...

KARACHI  - Best known for mastering the doosra, former Pakistan tweaker Saqlain Mushtaq on Thursday advised off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to ignore the ongoing debate over his bowling action.Ajmal himself ignited the controversy when he claimed in an interview that the ICC had given special ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Assembly’s 33rd session on Monday again witnessed lack of interest of public representatives in issues relating to the masses, as PPP leader Shaukat Basra and Law Minister Rana Sana kept the House engaged in the ‘party war’ instead of taking up a serious ...

The foreign policy theme that should dominate this year’s presidential campaign is “American renewal.” Each candidate claims to have a strategy for halting the nation’s decline, but their versions often amount to “more of the same” — which ain’t gonna ...

LAHORE – The Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly, Rana Mashhood Ahmed deferred the answers to the Call Attention Notices till January 23 after an interested debate between the Opposition and Deputy Speaker when parliamentary secretary, Tahir Khalil Sindhu tried to represent the provincial law ...

LAHORE-The Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal on Monday annoyed legislators on Monday when he did not allow them to agitate the issue of fake Peers (soothsays) on the Assembly floor. Many members across the political divide wanted to highlight the issue but Speaker tried to silence their ...

ISLAMABAD  - Parliamentary Committee on National Security Chairman Raza Rabbani Friday opposed the idea of debate on new provinces in the National Assembly. Talking to the media outside the Parliament, Rabbani said the debate on new provinces in the National Assembly was reflective of a ...

FAISALABAD - Students of The University of Faisalabad (TUF) has secured 3rd position in All Punjab Inter-Universities Urdu Debate Contest for the award of 14th Allama Iqbal Shield, organised by Higher Education Commission (HEC) at UET Lahore. The students from 27 Universities from across Punjab ...

KOT ADDU - Skits, sketching & debate competitions and exhibition of project models were organised by Mairy Darasgah School here the other day.The students of 4th to 10th grades participated in the exhibition. Prizes were also distributed among the winners by the school administration.Principal ...

LAHORE - The wind-up speech by Punjab Finance Minister Kamran Michael in the Punjab Assembly on Monday was more of a replica of his budget speech than what he should have conceived keeping in view the proposals and concerns raised by opposition members during the six-day general debate on the ...

LAHORE An interschool debate competition on the topic Money is more important than time was held in City School Shalimar Campus, here, says a press release. The leading educational institutions of the city including Acheson College, Lahore Grammar School and Beacon House School System ...

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The Wisconsin state Assembly on Tuesday opened debate on a Republican proposal to curb the power of public sector unions that has sparked mass demonstrations and a tense stand-off with Democrats. Hundreds of protesters choked the Capitol halls again on Tuesday ...

Following this weekends tragic shooting, many on the left in the US are calling for Sarah Palin and the Tea Party to be called to account for their alleged culpability in the killings. But these claims are spurious and could do more to help the lefts political detractors than harm them. Saturdays ...

THE mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular. Discovered in 2004, the icy rim is as much as 20km high and runs fully 1,600km from end to end. No explanation for its existence has yet won total support; it is a puzzle. Dr Andrew Dombard ...