About 20 operations are put off every day and around 60 have been postponed so far in few days in a 1400-bed Jinnah Hospital.Hospital sources said 1000 patients including 300 visit the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

About 20 operations are put off every day and around 60 have been postponed so far in few days in a 1400-bed Jinnah Hospital.Hospital sources said 1000 patients including 300 vist the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

SEOUL (AFP) - The US has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid stoking tensions with North Korea, as fears escalated that weeks of angry rhetoric could erupt into conflict on the Korean peninsula.The Pentagon's disclosure that it would reschedule the test due in California ...

MADRID  - A Spanish court Friday delayed a corruption hearing of King Juan Carlos’ daughter Princess Cristina after prosectors lodged an appeal against her summons. Pending the result of the appeal, Judge Jose Castro agreed to postpone his summons for her to testify as a suspect on April ...

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has taken serious notice of delays in Hajj flights of the Pakistan International Airlines.According to a statement issued by the ministry, the PIA has been asked to explain reasons for more than 24 hours delay in haj flights.Officials said a penalty will be imposed ...

Pop star Katy Perry was evacuated from her recent concert in the Philippines after a terrifying bomb scare.The I Kissed a Girl hitmaker was due to perform the final show of her California Dreams world tour with a gig at Manila’s SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds in January when police were ...

LAHORE – Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has called for fixing age limit for the appointment of the Chief Election Commission and also for quizzing the incumbent CEC as to why he failed to prepare the electoral rolls by September last, the time fixed for this purpose.Talking to media men at the ...

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 ...

GARETH PORTER AND JIM LOBEThe postponement of a massive joint United States-Israeli military exercise appears to be the culmination of a series of events that has impelled the Barack Obama administration to put more distance between the United States and aggressive Israeli policies toward Iran.The ...

  TEHRAN  - Iran delayed promised long-range missile tests in the Gulf on Saturday and Tehran signalled it was ready for fresh talks on its disputed nuclear programme.Iran’s state media initially reported early on Saturday that long-range missiles had been launched during naval ...

WASHINGTON — A US military investigation has concluded that it took about 90 minutes for Nato officers to notify a senior allied commander about Pakistan’s calls that its outposts were under attack, underscoring a lack of timely senior-level “override” measures to avoid ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Monday against sought reply from Punjab government on a writ petition challenging the establishment of four unrecognized medical colleges in the province. The CJ refused to issue a stay order against the medical ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - More than 54 airlines including PIA operating Haj flights from Jeddah Haj terminal to different countries are facing six to eight hours of flight delays due to inherent infrastructural constraints at Jeddah Haj terminal which is beyond the control of PIA, a spokesman ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - The Sindh government Saturday morning issued a notification to lift the ban on holding public rallies and processions in the provincial metropolis for two days. The Home Department had imposed ban on rallies and public processions on September 28, but according to the ...

KARACHI - Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, who announced his retirement from international cricket soon after the World Cup to protest the working of the Pakistan Cricket Board, says he will decide on comeback after a month. "There is a lot of pressure from fans and friends to come out of ...

BULAWAYO (AFP) - Pakistans attempt to wrap up their one-off test with Zimbabwe a day early was thwarted by a resolute innings from Tatenda Taibu at Queens Sports club here Sunday. An astonishing collapse by the hosts in their second innings saw them go to tea on the fourth day on 56-5, just two ...

ISLAMABAD - The appointment of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate will be in doldrums for some time due to Chairman Senate Farooq H Naeks scheduled visit of Poland starting from today. The slot of the Leader of the Opposition had fallen vacant soon after Senator Wasim Sajjad resigned as his ...

LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was on a three-day visit to Paris has to delay his return owing to a problem developed in the special PIA aircraft chartered to bring him back on Friday, TheNation has learnt. Now the Prime Minister will return home on Saturday (today). Sources ...

LAHORE - Former president Pervez Musharrafs meetings with political leaders, which were scheduled for next month in London, have been delayed till October 22, as Musharraf wants to get the outcome of the meeting of his loyalists with PML (Functional) Chief Pir Pagara in Karachi on September 22, ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Apple said Wednesday it was delaying the worldwide release of the iPad for a month, until the end of May, because of heavy US demand. Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, Apple ...

KARACHI - The bureaucratic 'red-tape has resulted in inordinate delay of the inauguration of the first-ever medical college in Lyari, as the college has not been registered despite the end of dateline given by the President, The Nation has learnt. As per detail, the bureaucracy has neglected the ...

LAHORE The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has delayed naming their preliminary 30-man squad for ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2010. The PCB was supposed to name the squad until November 15, reported Cricdb. The website said that it was learnt that there were some players who are not eligible to ...

KARACHI - Dozens of UC nazims here in the City have not received the forms from the Sindh Local Government Department so far, for the establishment of Public Participation Committees (PPCs) in their respective UCs, directed by the Federal Government as a preventive measure to combat the wave of ...

ISLAMABAD - Utterly alarmed by the huge and unexplained delay in issuance of UK visas, as many as 9 mid career civil servants of the Punjab government have contacted the Foreign Ministry to intervene into the matter; otherwise they (officials) may lose the opportunity to study in leading ...

KARACHI - Medicam KCCA Inter-zonal Under-19 Cricket Championship will start Friday July 31 with Zone II Greens facing Zone IV Blues at the KCCA stadium. The championship- which was to start last week was put off due to torrential monsoon rains that lashed the city seven days ago rendering most of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) has asked the contractor of Zero Point Interchange to submit demand notice of around Rs 89 million regarding shifting of 12 feeders from project site through Capital Development Authority (CDA)). According to official sources, CDAs ...

CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) (AFP) - NASA deferred the launch of its shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday for the second time in less than a week due to a nagging hydrogen leak whose cause experts are struggling to figure out. Obviously there is something we dont understand, deputy shuttle manager LeRoy Cain ...

A court in India has postponed the release of a film entitled Hari Puttar, after complaints from the makers of the blockbuster Harry Potter films. Hollywood company Warner Bros has filed a lawsuit against all parties involved in the production and distribution of the Hari Puttar film. It has been ...

LAHORE - Bureaucratic red-tapism is delaying remodelling of MM Alam Road with the Punjab Government showing least interest to expedite the process of providing necessary funding to WASA for laying sewerage lines, thereby hindering TEPA from executing the project. It is highly unlikely for ...

WASHINGTON - The US environmental protection agency (EPA) postponed Friday any decision on regulating greenhouse gas emissions, citing "the complexity and magnitude" of the issue. The decision follows last year's ruling by the US Supreme Court, which ordered the agency to devise ways to ...