The Lahore High Court on Wednesday declared the sacking of seven additional advocate generals and thirteen assistant advocate generals in Punjab as invalid.Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Umar Ata Bandial heard the petition filed against sacking of the law officers and fresh appointments ...

  islamabad   The detailed judgement of Supreme Court noted that Chagai Hills Exploration Joint Venture Agreement (CHEJVA) dated 23-07-1993 was executed contrary to the provisions of Mineral Development Act, 1948, Mining Concession Rules, 1970 and Transfer of Property Act, 1882 therefore, ...

PESHAWAR - US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt are illegal, Peshawar High Court declared on Thursday and directed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the UN against such attacks.The PHC issued the verdict against the strikes by CIA-operated aircraft in response to four ...

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has declared the US drone strikes within Pakistani territory as illegal and ordered the government to contact International War Crime Tribunal (IWCT) over the issue. A two-member bench of the PHC headed by Chief Justice Dost Muhammad heard the case against the CIA-led ...

karachi - Following the directive of KMC Administrator Hashim Raza Zaidi, a state of emergency has been declared in the medical and health services department of KMC in view of forthcoming elections with immediate effect till the polls are over. Keeping in view the emergency, leaves of officials, ...

LAHORE - Two more patients lost their lives at a local hospital on Tuesday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 23. So far 45 children have died because of measles in Punjab. Jannat, 2, a resident of Mufti Road Islampura and Abdullah, 6 months, of Ghaziabad breathed their last at Children’s ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) Friday declared the appointment of Chairman Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) illegal and invalid.A two-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja issued the brief order in the case. According to the judgment, the appointment of Chairman SECP ...

ISLAMABAD - After facing severe criticism from main stream political parties, caretaker Interior Minister Malik Habib Khan on Tuesday backtracked from his statement and said he was not affiliated with any political party.The minister had to face brash criticism from major political parties ...

KARACHI  - Degrees of 77 out of 189 former parliamentarians on Saturday were proved genuine as the time allowed for the ex-legislators to get their degrees verified was expired.A list of dubious degrees will be forwarded to the Election Commission of Pakistan.According to reports, 80 former ...

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital territory Administration (ICTA) here on Saturday declared April as Month of Iqbal (Maah-e-Iqbal) to pay tribute the great philosopher poet, in the capital territory. This was decided at a meeting chaired by the Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Tariq Mahmood ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed ‘Arms and Ammunition Bill 2013’, declaring the possession of illegal weapon as non-bailable offence and increased the punishment to 14 years imprisonment.The provincial Assembly also passed four other bills into law, including ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the people of Pakistan will not allow any adventurist to undermine the democratic system for satisfying his own lust of power. In a statement issued on Tuesday, he said the nation faced Musharraf’s dictatorship and later the malpractices ...

ISLAMABAD – The Cabinet Division has declared Mir Kamal Marrian absconder, member finance of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), allegedly involve in Rs82 billion corruption scandal and stopped his salary and other privileges, TheNation learnt Thursday.The sources said that Marri, also ...

KARACHI - Board of Directors’ of National Bank of Pakistan announced a payout of 10pc Bonus shares and 75pc (Rs.7.50 per share) cash dividend to the share holder’s as final dividend for the year 2011 which translates into payout ratio of 81.18pc.In the meeting held on Tuesday at the ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday disqualified PPP candidate Waheeda Shah for two years. Heading the proceedings Chief Election Commissioner Justice(R) Hamid Ali Mirza, along with Justice(R) Riyaz Kayani, Justice(R) Fazlur Rehman, Shahzad Akbar Khan and Roshan Ali Essani passed ...

NEW YORK  - Just days from learning whether his latest film, “Midnight in Paris,” will win an Oscar, Woody Allen spent the evening in New York talking about his first love — radio.The famed director and New Yorker met late Tuesday with a large audience at 92Y Jewish cultural ...

LAHORE – King Edward Medical University has announced result of MBBS Third Professional Annual Examination 2011. As many as 278 candidates appeared and 240 declared pass and as such pass percentage is 86.96 per cent. The result of two candidates will be declared later on.Ansab Abbas Haider ...

Pakistan legendary Test spinner Danish Kaneria has declared all allegations against him  as baseless which has been leveled by English county player Mervyn Westfield on Friday in a hearing of spot-fixing. Kaneria said that he was innocent and not feeling any pressure regarding the allegations ...

SARGODHA - The University of Sargodha has declared the result of BA / BSc second annual examination 2011. A total of 6,666 candidates appeared in the examination of which 1,455 students were declared pass. The passing percentage remained 21.94 per cent in general. Candidates appeared in BA were ...

LAHORE – Nestlé Pakistan announced top line growth of 26pc for the year ending 31st December 2011 at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company held. The company’s net profit closed at Rs 4.668 billion for the year ending 31st December 2011 registering an increase of ...

KARACHI – Habib Bank Limited (HBL) has declared the profit rates on various categories of PLS deposits for July-December 2011, says a press release. On PLS savings account during one month the rate of profit is 5 percent per annum. The rate on HBL value account for one-month up to Rs 1 ...

MULTAN - The Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) declared on Wednesday that it was going to cut off the connections of all defaulter government departments, disclosing that different departments had to pay their electricity bills worth over Rs614 million.A list of defaulters issued by Mepco ...

LAHORE- The University of Health Sciences has announced the result of Second Professional BDS annual examination. As many as 424 candidates from 09 affiliated dental colleges appeared in the examination out of which 233 passed and 184 failed. Result of 07 candidates was put on RL list. The pass ...

BAHAWALPUR - The Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Bahawalpur has announced the revised results of Intermediate Part-I annual examination 2011 after rechecking. According to the latest results, pass percentage has increased to 33.98. It was 33.69 previously. The results of 4,852 ...

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that country has undergone a big shift of opinion as sapling of change has been planted and with nutrition of efforts to restore peace and economy of country it would soon start bearing fruit. Talking to media persons at Allama Iqbal ...

MIRPURKHAS - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Sunday that owing to breaches in LBOD drains, the situation has worsened in rain-hit Mirpurkhas, Badin and Tando Mohammad Khan districts. Unprecedented devastation occurred in the province, the chief minister observed, and said that he ...

HYDERABAD - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, on Saturday, declared Badin district as calamity-hit area and announced an initial grant of Rs 5 million to undertake relief works for the rain-hit people there. Addressing a gathering of internally displaced persons (IDPs) camped at the Government ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu & Kashmir Supreme Court on Friday declared null and void, the recent order of AJK High Court directing holding of re-polling in five more polling stations in the electoral constituency LA-16 (Bagh-4 Haveili) of AJK Legislative Assembly, AJK SC sources told The Nation. 'The ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) declared 16 out of 69 brands of bottled water unsafe though a large crosssection of citizens was using bottled water due to poor quality of water. Out of these 69, 53 were declared safe. Besides this, number of chemically ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan declared Dr Khatu Mal Jeewan s/o Dayaram, resident of village Janhero, Taluka Umerkot, district Umerkot, as returned candidate on the seat reserved for non-Muslims in the National Assembly of Pakistan, which fell vacant due to the demise of Shahbaz ...