ISLAMABAD - Resolving the impasse between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) to jointly form next government in centre, the leaderships of both parties are likely to announce their alliance next week.“The ongoing talks, which is going in the positive ...

CAIRO Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have set a three-month timetable to form a unity government and organise elections, officials from both sides said on Wednesday.The agreement came during a meeting late Tuesday between Fatah’s official in charge of reconciliation affairs, Azzam ...

peshawar - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central leader and former chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan has said that they respect Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf mandate to form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.“PML-N will not become part of any game that could politically destabilize the ...

  LAHORE The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is bracing for the formation of government in the centre without support of any political party. Party sources say that the PML-N has attained the simple majority. However, in order to meet the magical number of 171 seats, the PML-N decided to get ...

Peshawar/Islamabad  - With 34 seats in hand, the PTI is all set to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for which the modalities with political parties are almost final and their leaders are just giving final touches to the power-sharing mechanism.Sources told TheNation that PTI would be ...

PARISChelsea will be looking to keep their hopes alive of their marathon season ending with a trophy as Rafael Benitez's men host FC Basel in their Europa League semi-final second leg clash at Stamford Bridge on Thursday. The English Premier League outfit lead 2-1 from last week's semi-final, first ...

KARACHI : KCCI and International Chamber of Commerce Pakistan, to uplift the economy and promote further international interaction between the business and industrial community in Pakistan and its counterparts internationally, have agreed to make a special joint ICC Pakistan-KCCI World ...

RAWALPINDI  - A large number of police officials have constituted "gangs in civvies" in several police stations of the city and have been extorting money from innocent people by implicating them into fake cases and providing safe passage to criminals after receiving bribe.Moreover, the daring ...

KARACHI - Karachi University has announced that the last date for registration and enrolment for the annual examination of MA both regular and private candidates, is April 20.The controller of examination asked the candidates to complete their forms by this date as it would not be further extended.

LAHORE – Pakistan Cricket Commentators Club (PCCC) involving veteran commentators of the country has come into existence for the first time in the history of Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan in Lahore. All the members attended the first meeting in person and through telephone and ...

LAHORE – The Spanish Ambassador to Pakistan on Thursday identified energy, textiles, tourism, food products, agro-based products, infrastructure and Spanish cellular technology as the potential areas for joint ventures between Pakistan and Spain.Ambassador Javier Carbajosa Sanchez was talking ...

LAHORE - Dropped all-rounder Shahid Afridi might be reconsidered for Pakistan's one-day international series against India if he performed well in the two Twenty20s against India, said Pakistan one-day captain Misbahul Haq on Wednesday. Earlier, the selectors picked Afridi for the two Twenty20s ...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said the majority party will form the government after next elections in the country. He said the political parties should accept results with open heart in order to ensure smooth democratic transition. Talking to a private ...

CENTURION - A rampaging Sydney Sixers will look to maintain its winning momentum and book a berth in the final when they take on local side Nashua Titans in the second semi-final of the Champions League Twenty20, in Centurion, on Friday (today).Sixers is the only side to win all its four group ...

KARACHI - Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Friday notified to all concerned that all regular candidates of commerce regular group, who are desirous and eligible to appear at the HSC Supplementary Examinations 2012, may submit their examinations forms in respective colleges from ...

LAHORE - Punjab University Chairman Admission Committee Prof Dr Liaqat Ali has said that keeping in view the interest of the candidates, who could not submit their admission forms for PU’s bachelor and master level programs due to non-availability of equivalence certificate, result cards etc, ...

NAWABSHAH  - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif has termed the government incompetent, saying there would not have been slogans of ‘Go Zardari Go’ if the government had served the masses. He said PML-N would form next government in Sindh.While addressing a big ...

It gives my soul an exquisite pain when I see the children of school going age looking carefully and thoroughly in the garbage to find something to eat in this wild winter mornings when the inclement cold is at its acme. These children don't have the slightest inkling how profusely the rulers of ...

ISLAMABAD - A Senate Special Committee reached consensus in its meeting Thursday to form Healthcare and Drug Regularity Authority (HDRA) at the federal level after the assurance of the committee to redress the objections of Punjab. Senator Ishaq Dar representing the Punjab government gave the ...

Our Staff Reporter PESHAWAR - The governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Iranian province Fars have agreed to KP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hotis suggestion for constituting a joint working group for mutual cooperation between the two provinces in hydropower, tourism, agriculture, trade and ...

PESHAWAR - In the wake of dispute in Regi Model Town between Revenue Department and Koki Khel tribe on boundary line, the tribal elders from Tehsil Khyber Agency demanded of Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to form a commission for excavation of Maffey and Grift Award in order to resolve the issue. ...

ISLAMABAD - The leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party, Azad Jammu Kashmir chapter, has announced that the PPP has simple majority to establish future AJK government devoid of having alliance with any political party. PPP-AJK President Ch Abdul Majeed, Vice President Ch Muhammad Yasin, General ...

SCIENTISTS have found fossils that could rewrite the history of life in the rocks of northwest Scotland. These microfossils are the remains of cells with a complex internal structure. They suggest that these sophisticated microbes may have arisen in freshwater lakes rather than in the sea. Until ...

UNITED NATIONS The United Nations Security Council has urged Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to form an all-inclusive, broad-based government now that he is assuming his responsibilities as head of State following the surrender of his predecessor, who had until this week refused to cede ...

Will Arabs be able to form real democracies? (or some variation on that theme) is a question I am frequently asked these days. After several exchanges with those who ask this question, I have come to realize that in most instances, in the backs of their minds, are a set of assumptions about what ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani directed the Ministry of Commerce to immediately constitute Federal Export Development and Promotion Board (FEDPB) and organise its first meeting in March, which he would personally preside over. He further asked the Ministry of Commerce to make a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Soon after Nasa-funded researchers announced this month they had found a new life form that thrives on arsenic, critics took to the blogosphere with skeptical views and downright insults. I dont know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether theyre unscrupulously ...

LAHORE-The PPP newly nominated Punjab President, Imtiaz Safdar Warraich on Friday showed his determination to form his partys government in Punjab, while claiming that PPP had enough vote-bank in the province to materialize this objective. The PPP leader, however, had the realization that it was a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has extended the last date of filing the Form 29 till November 15 to facilitate the corporate sector. The last date for filing the Form 29 for most of the companies, which had closed their accounts on June 30, was November 13 ...

LAHORE - The City Police have formed a 45-men First Responder Team (FRT) while it will constitute six similar squads in all its six divisions in the provincial metropolis in a couple of months, a move supposedly aimed at responding quickly to terrorist assaults and creating a sense of security ...