FAISALABAD: New Government will confidently present a business-friendly budget and revival of economy would get pace, said President FCCI Mian Zahid Aslam here Saturday.  He congratulated to Mian Nawaz Sharif, unprecedented third time Prime Minister of Pakistan and his Cabinet to take charge ...

LISBON - Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo is confident he will reach a deal to renew his contract with the La Liga club. The Portugal captain arrived at Real Madrid from Manchester United in 2009 for a world record fee of more than 90 million euros and continued his goalscoring spree in Spain. ...

lahore - The working class of Pakistan commends the work of Chief Election Commission of Pakistan and Care-take government for arranging to hold fair, free and peaceful general elections in the country.The working class expects that the newly-elected government headed by Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif ...

LONDON- Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech believes the battle for a place in next season's Champions League will not be resolved until the final day of the season. Cech and hisChelseateam-mates faceSwanseaatStamfordBridgeon Sunday looking to bounce back after dropping two points following Luis Suarez's ...

Syria hopes to clinch more financial aid from its allies Russia and Iran soon, but still has enough foreign reserves to pursue its war on rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad, the central bank governor said.Speaking at the bank's headquarters, hit by a car bomb on April 8, Adeeb Mayaleh ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received a total of 24,094 nomination papers from 425 returning officers across Pakistan, of which, nearly 21,000 papers have been scrutinised by the ROs concerned while the electoral body estimates women voters’ turnout in the general ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that in 2012 Oil prices were expected to remain high; and spillovers from Syria could affect a number of countries in the region. According to Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia it is projected to post near-zero growth in 2012 ...

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that overall country’s economy showed healthy trend with an impressive achievement of $25 billion exports in the first six month of the current financial year, saying that an overall growth of 4 per cent is ...

KAPALUA  - Tiger Woods should have a strong 2012 season, one that will help secure US PGA finances and lift golf globally ahead of its 2016 Olympic return, US PGA commissioner Tim Finchem said on Sunday.At the season-opening Tournament of Champions in Hawaii, Finchem said that strong showings ...

LAHORE– The counsel of an Indian convicted spy Sarabjit Singh has said that he is expecting a kind decision by President Asif Ali Zardari on the fresh mercy petition moved on behalf of the prisoner.Advocate Awais Sheikh was addressing a press conference here on Wednesday. He said the fresh ...

KABUL (Agencies) - Nato says it hopes for a quick reopening of the blocked supply routes through Pakistan because the 5-week closure is damaging the economies of both Afghanistan and Pakistan.Nato spokesman Brig Gen Carsten Jacobson says the coalition has a stockpile of supplies that can keep ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Greg Norman says he expects a match-up between Tiger Woods and Adam Scott at the Presidents Cup, in what could be a spicy showdown after a racial slur directed at the American former world number one. Norman, captaining the International team for a second time in the biennial clash ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's economy is expected to grow 4 per cent in the coming financial year starting July 1, picking up steam again after devastating floods pushed back growth to around 3 percent this year, officials said on Thursday. "We are looking at a growth rate of 4 percent for the ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni said he was confident of a landslide win in Friday's presidential election, which saw a low turnout despite what diplomats described as big state spending to woo voters. Some European Union observers put the turnout as low as 30 ...

NEWCASTLE (AFP) Newcastle manager Chris Hughton has challenged hat-trick hero Andy Carroll to prove he is capable of emulating the achievements of his clubs legendary strikers. Carroll bagged a treble as Hughtons side demolished Aston Villa 6-0 at St James Park on Sunday to confirm their ...

IRVINE (California) (AFP) Beijing Olympic star Michael Phelps is looking forward to see how the worlds best swimmers handle the ban on the now-banned bodysuits that created world records until being outlawed by FINA. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at Beijing, will swim five events this ...

LAHORE (APP) - Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is expecting an additional quantum of 3267 MW electricity to be inducted into the national grid by mid July. Briefing media at Wapda House here Friday, the PEPCO Director General (Energy Management and Conservation) Engineer Muhammad Khalid ...

DUBLIN (Ohio) (AFP) Jack Nicklaus still expects Tiger Woods to break his all-time record of 18 major golf titles, even though the world number one is struggling with injury, scandal and second-ranked Phil Mickelson. Nicklaus will host defending champion Woods and Mickelson at Muirfield Village ...

WASHINGTON - The World Bank said Monday that the global economy is to further stay in uncertain conditions, downgrading its earlier forecasts for the global economy in 2009. The World Bank, during its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) held in Seoul, said the world economy is ...

MANCHESTER (AFP) - Amir Khan believes he has been transformed in less than six months working with trainer Freddie Roach and on Saturday plans to show that improvement when he boxes Marco Antonio Barrera. The English lightweight faces his toughest opponent since turning professional after winning ...

TEHRAN  - Iran, the number two oil producer in OPEC, expects the cartel to discuss ways of controlling the quotas of member countries at its next meeting in September, the official news agency IRNA said. "In case of the continuation of a downward trend in oil price, one of the serious ...

WASHINGTON  - The White House said Monday it expected North Korea to submit a long-awaited accounting of its nuclear programs on June 26 but warned against expecting any immediate changes in US policy. "That is the deadline June 26th is the deadline," spokeswoman Dana Perino said, adding ...

BEIJING (AFP) - The World Bank said Thursday it expected China's economic growth to fall to single digits in 2008 for the first time in six years, while inflation would be higher than previously forecast. "China's economic growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace," the bank said in its ...