HAVELI LAKHA/TOBA TEK SINGHFormer federal minister for Kashmir affairs Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo as well as his son and a daughter have lost all the seats they contested in the general elections in Okara district. Manzoor Wattoo contested in NA-146, NA-147 and PP-188 constituencies. In NA 147, he was ...

HAVELI LAKHA/TOBA TEK SINGHFormer federal minister for Kashmir affairs Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo as well as his son and a daughter have lost all the seats they contested in the general elections in Okara district.  Wattoo contested in NA-146, NA-147 and PP-188 constituencies. In NA 147, he was ...

ROB CRILLYIn a country where almost no-one pays income tax, including more than two thirds of MPs, it only took seven months for Ali Arshad Hakeem to become a hated man.As Pakistan’s newly-minted chief taxman, he built a database designed to monitor the spending habits of millions of people, ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

LONDON (DS): Jessie J has reportedly been forced to pay £1 million to her former manager. The singer was discovered by Raymond Stevenson when she was attending The Brit School aged 15, The Sun reports. He is said to have developed her trademark 'swagger' and signed her to a label four years ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court has taken notice an incident of rape and forced marriage of a young girl with an aged man of Muzaffargarh and directed the sessions judge to probe into the matter.The LHC complaint cell has taken the notice on the news clippings that highlighted the ...

LONDON  - David Collier, the ECB chief executive, has urged the BCCI to reschedule future IPL seasons to dovetail more successfully with the England first-class season in response to pressure from England players who are clamouring to participate in the event.In an interview with the Times, ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - North Korea has no choice but to “confront” the United States which is to blame for tensions in the Korean peninsula, a top Iranian commander said in remarks carried on Friday by Fars news agency.“Tensions in the region are due to excessive demands by the United ...

KARACHI - Beside extortion and protection money, collection of Fitra and Zakat by various religious and political parties intensified the problems of business community already suffering from lawlessness in the City.Traders and businessmen in various localities of the metropolis are perturbed over ...

DHAKA  - A Bangladeshi lawmaker filmed naked with a woman in his office was forced to undress at gunpoint by a gang who used the footage to extort money from him, police claimed on Monday. Assistant police commissioner Abdul Ahad said officers had arrested five people, including three women, ...

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 - Israel “shall prevail” if forced to fight Iran, “an evil, cruel and morally corrupt regime” bent on controlling the Middle East, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in Washington Sunday.His speech to a powerful pro-Israel lobby charged up the atmosphere for ...

Chief of his own faction Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said it was his party which ran first of all to help those, who were marooned in water of rain and flood in Sindh. Addressing a huge public gathering in Nawabshah, former prime minister said Punjab is proud of ...

LAHORE - SALMAN ABDUHU - The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO), by sending hefty power bills, have forced the small rerolling mills to shut down their units once and for all. All Pakistan Small Rerolling Mills Association (APSRMA) Senior Vice Chairman Mohammad Ashraf while talking to The ...

LAHORE - Chanan Development Association in collaboration with Global Fund for Children, British Council and Punjab University Department of Gender Studies organised an interactive dialogue with parliamentarians on Early Forced Marriages at PU on Tuesday.Chanan Theatre Group performed an interactive ...

Our Staff Reporter FAISALABAD - Forced loadshedding for industrial feeders in Fesco region has been eliminated as generation situation is improving gradually, said Nadeem Aftab Sindhu Chairman Board of Directors (BOD) Fesco. In a statement issued here Wednesday, he said that the Fesco was fully ...

MULTAN Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani declared on Saturday that Pakistan could play key role for regional and international peace but all the bigger or smaller countries should talk to Pakistan on equality basis. Addressing a public gathering here at Billiwala after inaugurating ...

ISLAMABAD - Shahid Khan Afridi has finally realised that he has gone too far in his fight with Pakistan Cricket Board and that's why he not only withdrew his case from the Sindh High Court but is also ready to appear before the PCB disciplinary committee, besides vowing to follow whatever ...

TAIPEI (AFP) - A Taiwanese couple are under investigation after allegedly forcing their Indonesian Muslim maid to fry pork steaks in their restaurant, local media reported Sunday. The woman, identified only as "Ati", also accused her employers in the southern city of Chiayi of owing her at least ...

DASKA Teachers on Friday forced innocent girl students to wipe sewerage water out of the low-lying ground of the classrooms in sweltering hot weather. Teachers forced innocent girl students of Govt Girls Primary School, Glotiyaan Kalan, Daska Tehsil, to wipe out stagnant sewerage water from the ...

ISLAMABAD - Wheat growers across the Punjab especially are facing sever financial problem due to Punjab government policies of not providing more than 200 gunny bags to a farmer irrespective of their area of cultivation. As per market sources, Punjab government has not only decreased the size of ...

Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle has claimed that the ill-treatment of the West Indies board forced him to skip the series against Pakistan and opt for the Indian Premier League (IPL). Gayle was left out of the initial part of the one-day and Twenty20 series against Pakistan due to an ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - An Iranian cargo plane en route to Syria was forced to land in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir airport for an inspection, security forces said Sunday. The plane, a civilian Ilyushin, landed on Saturday night on the orders of the Turkish authorities. Military fighter ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - Turkish authorities searched an Iranian plane Wednesday after forcing it to land on suspicion it was carrying illicit nuclear material to Syria, security sources said. The plane, instructed to land at Diyarbakir airport as it overflew eastern Turkey on its way to Syria, ...

KARACHI - Following strong resentment by industrialists, the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) on Thursday released Afroze Alam Lari, an Interpol wanted industrialist, within just 12 hours. According to details, the industrialists staged a protest at Garden Police Headquarters and chanted slogans ...

FAISALABAD Three armed men forcibly gave poisonous pills to Muhammad Sarwar, the uncle of Shumaila Kanwal, the widow of Fahim shot dead by Raymond Davis, after barging into his house in Rasool Nagar, Chak Jhumra. Sarwar was rushed to Allied Hospital in critical condition where doctors were trying ...

KARACHI - Javed Inayat, Jahangir brothers Danyal and Aadil and Karachi's Waheed Baloch all made the cut at the end of the second round of the Grameen Bangladesh Masters now in progress at Kurmitola golf course in Dhaka, according to information received here Friday. Though lying far low on the ...

LAHORE The Federal Investigation Agency has pressurised Muhammad Maalik, the accused in the NICL scam, to record his statement against some political figures in order to arrest them for settling political scores. In a press statement issued on Friday, Senator Kamil Ali Ahga, PML-Q central ...

KARACHI (AFP) The failure of Pakistan cricket bosses to take action against three players accused of spot-fixing forced the world governing body to intervene by suspending them, former selectors said Friday. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday provisionally barred Test captain ...

ISLAMABAD The official of Islamabad Police while showing their 'strength thrashed three staffers of a hotel and later illegally shifted them to the Aabpara Police Station. This incident, which was full of polices 'heroism occurred at Aabpara Market. According to details, five armed cops belonging ...