LAHORE    As the PML-N has emerged as the single largest party in the National Assembly, Mian Nawaz Sharif will set a new record in the country’s history by becoming the prime minister for a third term. And with the PML-N assuming power, the fate of President Zardari ...

Islamabad - Media reports circulating of various efforts underfoot to ensure the former dictator Musharraf's return to exile are not entirely without foundation, but remain vastly exaggerated.  The General's former colleagues advised repeatedly against his return, and upon his arrival in ...

lahore - Indian inmate Sarabjit Singh is still in deep coma at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Jinnah Hospital, where a four-member panel of leading doctors on Monday ruled out the possibility of shifting the condemned prisoners abroad for medical treatment. “The condition of the patient ...

        ISLAMABAD   International Tennis Federation (ITF) Board of Directors will meet tomorrow (April 30) to decide the fate of Pakistan and New Zealand Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group II tie, which was held at the neutral venue of Myanmar.  The ITF meeting will be held ...

The dismissal of former President General Pervez Musharraf’s appeal seeking an extension in his bail in the judges’ confinement case by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday has created a stir in political, military and legal circles. Indeed, all segments of society, supporter or ...

LAHORE – Formally sealing the fate of PML-Q (Likeminded), Hamid Nasir Chattha Friday announced his support for the PML-Junejo, the Muslim League faction he founded in 1993 overtly to challenge the top role of Nawaz Sharif in ML against late Muhammad Khan Junejo. Chattha who was the former ...

Robert FiskHe will stay behind bars. A retrial is not a successful appeal, and - if Egypt’s judiciary gets its way - Hosni Mubarak will be even more firmly locked into prison for the rest of his life once he appears yet again before his judges. Bleak HouseMohamed Mursi’s government dare ...

LAHORE – The fate of 40 slums has been hanging in the balance though the chief minister promised the betterment of these dwellers last year.These shocks have been established in various areas of the City, including Harbanspura Extension, Qalandarpura, Rehamanpura Ranipind, Nawazpura, Nawapind ...

ISLAMABAD - The fate of Afghanistan-Pakistan joint Ulema Conference originally scheduled for January still hangs in balance, as there are no signs that Kabul and Islamabad would be able to convene the important event this month.Sources privy to the slow paced efforts told TheNation on Sunday that ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research has expressed profound grief and sorrow over the deaths of 120 workers in a garment factory in Bangladesh and offered its condolences to the relatives of the deceased.In a statement here on Tuesday, Piler condemned industrial ...

ISLAMABAD :   The fate of over 200 Pakistani lawmakers hangs in the balance as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will decide the case on November 12, following their failure to submit declarations that they do not hold dual nationality.The ECP has called a session on November 12 to ...

The fate of over 200 Pakistani lawmakers hangs in the balance as the Election Commission decides on their future on Monday, following their failure to submit declarations affirming they do not hold dual nationality.The ECP has called a session on Nov 12 to decide on the issue of legislators who had ...

QUETTA - Though the Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has summoned the Balochistan Cabinet meeting in Gwadar on Nov 9th, the fate of Balochistan Assembly’s meeting is yet to be known.According to Balochistan Assembly’s Secretariat sources, so far no summary had ...

KABUL – The fate of 600 detainees added to the Bagram prison, including around 50 foreigners mostly from Pakistan, since March 12 when the US and Afghanistan governments signed pact to hand over the control of prison to Kabul is unknown given that the deal addressed only the 3,100 detainees ...

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." – George WashingtonSuccessive dictators have heaped scorn on Pakistani political leaders accusing them of every wrong that led to the derailment of democracy. It is a fact, to some extent, as scholars and historians have noted that often ...

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Petroleum and All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Monday failed to reach any decision over the suspension of gas supply for 551 CNG stations in the Punjab.A high-level delegation of APCNGA led by Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha met Mohammed Ejaz Chaudhary Secretary ...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Barack Obama Monday that Israel must remain the "master of its fate" in a firm defence of his right to mount a unilateral strike on Iran.Netanyahu and Obama met for delicate Oval Office talks taking place amid clear differences on the ...

LAHORE - While the PPP and PML-Q are struggling hard to prevent the use of ‘second priority vote’ by their lawmakers in today’s Senate elections in Punjab, this vote is going to play a decisive role in the victory of two candidates. While the success of six of the total eight ...

LAHORE – The fate of nearly 40 katchi abadies in the provincial capital hangs in the balance as the matter of awarding ownership to their dwellers has yet to be settled between the federal and provincial governments, sources informed The NationInsiders in the provincial government revealed ...

ABBOTTABAD - Almost nine months after the May 2 operation, uncertainty still shrouds the future of OBL compound amid the reports that any decision regarding the sealed house would be arrived at in the light of the findings of a related commission probing Osama bin Laden’s hunt.Launched in the ...

ABU DHABI  - Left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman took a career best 6-25 to help Pakistan humble England by 72 runs in the second Test here on Saturday, to give them an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.The 31-year-old twice took two wickets in successive overs to dent England's chase ...

ISLAMABAD The Afghanistan exit strategy unveiled by the US President Obama last month is likely to fail largely because of the repositioning of remaining troops from one place to another within Afghanistan, sources said on Saturday. The sources said US troops drawdown plans to be finished by 2014 ...

MULTAN - A number of important projects of Multan have once again been neglected by the Punjab government in recent budget as nothing is earmarked for them, budget document reveals. The PC-1 of most of the projects like Multan Zoo, Safari Park, laboratory for boosting fish production, model ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite the fact that Supreme Court granted three weeks time, which is expiring tomorrow (Tuesday), to find out ways to resolve controversy over parliamentarians elected in bye-polls after the passage of the 18th Amendment, the federal government has taken no step yet. However in many ...

WASHINGTON - A veteran diplomat nominated to be the next US Ambassador to Afghanistan says that the situation in war-torn country will not improve without 'a fair measure of success in Pakistan. Ryan Crocker, a former US Ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq, also warned that the US must be careful as it ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn waited Tuesday in New York's notoriously tough Rikers Island jail to hear whether he will stand trial over the alleged assault on a hotel maid described by neighbours as a gentle, hard-working immigrant. The French politician and head of the International ...

ISLAMABAD - Few days left in the devolution of Ministry of Food and Agriculture but the status of the subordinate organisations of the ministry is still not clear that whether some of them are going to be closed, given to provinces or stay under federal control. As per sources, it is being advised ...

ISLAMABAD - The fate of Traditional Drugs Act is still hanging in the balance, as the Law Ministry has sent back the Draft Bill to the Ministry of Health by raising objections that it could not be taken up because the issue had become a provincial subject after passage of the 18th Amendment, ...

LAHORE Amid strong allegations of massive corruption and inefficiency in Indian establishment, the fate of 19th Commonwealth Games 2010, is hanging in balance as New Delhi has badly failed to build even basic games-related infrastructure like main stadium, swimming pool and other sports venues on ...

KARACHI - The failure of government in approving the law draft of the Competition Bill from the Parliament has not only put a big question mark on the validity of Competition Ordinance 2007, but also on the fate of actions, taken by Competition Commission of Pakistan under the mandate of the said ...