DUBAI :Iran denied on Wednesday any link to members of a spying ring detained by its Sunni Muslim regional rival Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media. Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people accused of spying for Iran after arresting 18 people in the same ...

  LAHORE   Veteran Test cricketer M Yousaf Tuesday denied retirement from international cricket and said despite not being involved in any form of cricket in recent years he had no plans to call it a day. “It is a reality that I am not playing cricket for the last three years but I ...

LAHORE (OUR STAFF REPORTER)Former Wapda Finance Director Ijaz A Babar has said that neither he ever became a state witness before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in rental power projects (RPPs) case nor he handed over any sensitive documents to NAB in this case. Accompanied by his lawyer Raja ...

WASHINGTON  - US Attorney General Eric Holder says he is unaware of the subpoenas for phone records of Associated Press, the American news agency,  but defended them as a necessary measure. Holder removed himself from the case that has been branded as an “unprecedented ...

MULTAN Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that the elections are held in peaceful environment in Punjab and there is no complaint regarding large scale rigging in the province.“If there is any tiny complaint, it’s just a local issue,” he added while talking to ...

Former Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to the masses to set aside political differences and work for the prosperity of Pakistan.Talking to media here in Lahore on Monday, he denied rigging allegations in Punjab, and urged upon rivals to restrain from leveling allegations.Shahbaz ...

NEW YORK: Former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm has poured cold water on rumours he will reunite with the band. Gramm made moves to put aside his decade-long feud with the band’s guitarist Mick Jones ahead of their induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame next month and had hinted at the ...

ISLAMABAD - A United States Embassy spokesman has clarified a news item published in this paper on Thursday regarding a “secret meeting” between visiting US Congressional delegation and former President Pervez Musharraf, terming it as false.“No such meeting took place,” the ...

LAHORE - Terming ‘baseless’ reports on breakfast hosted for the PML-N candidates, a PU spokesman denied  offering tables to the party, said a press release.“Such reports are being published at the behest of a political party,” he said, adding that the PU VC neither ...

MOSCOW : A Russian court ruled to keep Pussy Riot punk Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in jail, denying her request for parole from her two-year sentence for the band’s performance against President Putin last year.  Judge Lidiya Yakovleva sided with prison officials, who said that 23-year-old ...

BEIJING  - China dismissed as speculations on Monday complaints from New Delhi that its troops had crossed into Indian territory and set up a camp in a remote disputed area of the Himalayas.The Indian government claimed at the weekend that soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ...

KARACHI  - Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has been denied permission by the government to hold its conference at Nishtar Park scheduled on Sunday (today) over security threats.On the other hand, MWM Karachi Secretary General Allama Sadiq Taqvi told The Nation that the gathering will be held on its ...

SIALKOT Former MPA Engineer Imran Ashraf has withdrawn his nomination papers from both NA-110 and PP-123 constituencies as he has been denied party tickets by the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, the party he joined after defecting the PML-N. The PTI leadership totally ignored Ashraf and did not award him ...

Miranshah - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston."We believe in attacking US and its allies but we are not involved in this attack," TTP spokesman ...

CAIRO - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and the military have closed ranks to deny charges that soldiers had killed and tortured protesters, following leaks of an inquiry report implicating officers. Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who is also army chief, denied in a statement aired on ...

LAHORE – A spokesman for the Punjab government has termed “rubbish” a news item published in The Nation on Wednesday that Muneeb Farooq, ex-co-host of “Aapas Ki Baat” is interfering in the postings and transfers of government officers, says a handout. The spokesman ...

amritsar - The Pakistan High Commission has denied visas to Sikh devotees who had applied through the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for pilgrimage to the neighbouring country, reported Times of India on Wednesday. However, visas have been issued to other small Sikh groups. While talking ...

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia denied on Tuesday reports that a court in the kingdom has ordered a punishment of paralysis for a man who committed a crime that paralysed another man. The reports about the sentence, which sparked condemnation after Amnesty International urged the Saudi authorities to ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the work on Metro Bus Service (Bus Rapid Transit System) is afoot and the buses will run soon.The statement apparently came in response to a story titled ‘Rapid Delay’ published on  the same page of this ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - PML-Q Central Vice President Chaudhry Tariq Bashir dispelled the impression that there were differences between PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and his counterpart from the PPP, Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo.Talking to the media during the wedding ceremony of the daughter of ...

NEW DELHI  - Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta on Monday refuted reports of her involvement in any match-fixing ring which allegedly used the actor as honeytrap to lure cricketers. Mehta warned that she will take legal action against the British paper The Sunday Times which came out with the ...

SUKKUR – Faryal Shah (Rinkle Kumari), reportedly forced to accept Islam after marrying Naveed, on Thursday denied reports and has admitted that she converted to Islam on her own will and was not forced by any means.She along with her husband was brought to the Sindh High Court in Sukkhur on ...

Washington –  - The Federal Communications Commission said on it was delaying its decision on whether Dish Network Corp can build a wireless cellular network, a move that could hurt the value of the satellite television company’s newly acquired wireless assets.Dish shares fell more ...

MANILA A Philippine official denied claims by Hollywood star Taylor Kitsch that he got rough treatment from a customs official in the country, saying the actor was apparently actually in Indonesia at the time. Bureau of Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon said he investigated claims an airport ...

BAHAWALPUR - District Health Officer Dr Saeed Asghar has refuted a news item appeared in a section of the media regarding outbreak of measles in Ahmedpur East.He said that no case of the disease had been observed at Noushehra Jadid.He added that a special team was sent there to carry out medical ...

British comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen has not been banned from attending Sunday’s Academy Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter.US reports suggested the Borat star had been told not to attend if he went dressed as a character in his new film.An Academy spokesman said Cohen was still ...

DUBAI - The International Cricket Council Monday denied it had cleared Pakistan's Danish Kaneria to play, after he was implicated in a spot-fixing trial that saw a former English county cricket jailed for four months.Prosecutors in the case, which culminated last week, told the Central Criminal ...

JERUSALEM  - An Israeli defence official on Thursday denied a Kuwaiti report that Israel’s Mossad spy agency had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate Defence Minister Ehud Barak during a visit to Singapore this week. “We have no knowledge of this,” an official told AFP on ...

UNITED NATIONS - Russia’s UN Ambassador has dismissed as “blatant lies” reports over the Internet regarding reports that he had threatened the prime minister of Qatar during last weekend’s deliberations over Syria in the Security Council.Moments before the latest resolution ...

ISLAMABAD - The situation got very interesting when this correspondent contacted a high-ranking security official to seek his confirmation on Major General (R) M Akram Sahi's claim regarding the Army Chief's support to his candidature.The security official, on condition of anonymity, said: ...