ISLAMABAD - Pakistan cricket team dismal performance in the last edition of the Champions Trophy exposed all the tall claims made by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and proved the fears, which were raised regarding the poor selection of the team, absolutely right. When this scribe contacted chief ...

ISLAMABAD - The worst possible performances of World Team Squash Championship bound Pakistan players in the Kuwait and Hong Kong events should be enough for Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) to come out of fool’s paradise and accept ground realities. All the fears regarding poor selection of ...

PAKPATTANThe Traffic Police has failed to perform their duties as gridlock on almost all main thoroughfares continues to irk the masses.The Traffic Police officials remain busy in vexing the motorcyclists, especially villagers, by handing them challans instead of controlling traffic.The traffic ...

PAKPATTAN - The Traffic Police has failed to perform their duties as gridlock on almost all main thoroughfares continues to irk the masses.The Traffic Police officials remain busy in vexing the motorcyclists, especially villagers, by handing them challans instead of controlling traffic.The traffic ...

KARACHI - The increasing crime rate in the metropolis ahead of general elections has exposed tall claim of the government and law enforcing agencies.Being directed by the Supreme Court, the law enforcing agencies have been carrying out targeted operations in various areas of the city. The ...

ISLAMABAD  - Reko Diq, an untapped copper and gold mine of fabulous potential, was meant to be the biggest foreign investment in the country’s mining sector, but it’s beginning to look more like fool’s gold to the companies involved.Set in one of the bleakest places on earth, ...

SADIQABAD The monitoring officer has filed an application with an anti-corruption police station against the district monitoring officer for allegedly embezzling funds and changing official record. However, Rahim Yar Khan Anti-Corruption Deputy Director Tariq Mehmood Bukhari has issued notice to ...

7LAHORE Parts of the country including the City received rainfall of light to moderate intensity on Friday with experts predicting the wet spell to continue with intervals during the next couple of days. Lahore received 47 mm rain. Rains, overcast conditions and continuously blowing winds caused ...

SAHIWAL - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sahiwal District Organiser Shakeel Ahmad Khan Niazi congratulated party Chief Imran Khan upon staging a successful sit-in in Karachi in protest against the American drone attacks in tribal area. During a press conference the other evening, he said that only ...

LAHORE A mentally retarded woman shook the entire City police on Saturday, shortly after she managed to take away the wireless set installed in the police mobile vehicle from Firdous Market area. Parveen Bibi silently managed to remove the wireless set from the police van when the driver and ...

HOLLYWOOD is a world of fawning sycophancy and downright deceit. Theres one exception: for 35 years, British critic David Thomson, Editor of The Biographical Dictionary Of Film, has been compiling compellingly unvarnished critiques of the stars. In the latest edition, this is how he describes the ...

The White House report on Afghan strategy released Thursday was notable as much for what it did not say as for what it did. It reports some real military gains, but acknowledges that they remain fragile and that NATO troops will need more time to achieve their goals. However, that progress has come ...

LAHORE - The WikiLeaks cables have exposed the faces of opportunist politicians, while the revelations in the cables have deeply shocked the nation, says Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri, senior leader of PML-Q (Like-Minded Group). He expressed these views while addressing members of the Like-Minded at ...

KARACHI Zaid Noor Sumar grabbed mens singles title of the Sindh Ranking Tennis defeating top seed and favourite Omer Shahid in straight sets here the other day at the Kashmir Road Tennis Complex. While winning the crown, Zaid who took the final 6-3, 6-0, proved that those given better seeding and ...

A surge in US-Pakistani tension this week exposes deep contradictions in their aims for Afghanistan but both sides will try to repair ties because they still need each other, experts say. The core of the problem, experts say, is Pakistan refuses to cut ties to the Afghan Taliban and other ...

ISLAMABAD The recent by-polls held in three National Assembly constituencies were conducted in extremely high security and police barricades but suspicious voting patterns as well as incidents of fraudulent voting were observed during these by-polls, says a preliminary report of Free and Fair ...

ISLAMABAD Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has presented documentary evidence to prove gerrymandering of the Punjab government in the recently held bye-poll to the PP-160. Addressing a press conference at the PTI Central Secretariat, Thursday, he lashed out at the Election ...

Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Irans most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers ...

LAHORE - The budget committee of the PML-Q has issued a 19-point questionnaire to flay the performance of the Punjab government during financial year 2008-09. Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Ch Zaheerud Din and MPA Moonis Elahi, who are heading the committee, termed the fiscal year 08-09 as ...

ISLAMABAD - The speech of Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at the floor of the National Assembly had further exposed the fragility of four-party alliance led by Pakistan Peoples Party running the governmental affairs at Centre and three provinces. Maulana Fazlur Rehman not only ...

KARACHI - Defective transport system of the two largest public universities of the country, Karachi University (KU) and NED University, have once again been exposed after the horrible accident of NED girl student which occurred near the KU Silver Jubilee Gate on April 18, 2009. Conversely, KU has ...

LAHORE - The monsoon crash program initiated on the directives of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has been entirely exposed, as just 38 millimetre rain on Monday brought flood like situation in the city making alarming bells for the CDGL, WASA, SWM and other civic agencies that if it rains ...