LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has vowed to protect workers’ rights and better employers-employees relationships.“We will make sure that labourers have access to justice at every forum while their wages will gradually be raised to Rs 15,000 a ...

LAHORE - A security guard was found shot dead outside the house a TV anchor in the Defense-B police area on Tuesday. The police are investigating whether the deceased, identified as Ghaffar, committed suicide by shooting himself or he was gunned down by unidentified killers. The police have removed ...

lahore - Mainstream political parties in a bid to establish their maximum presence in the electoral arena, have accelerated their electoral campaigns in Punjab despite security threats.The PTI which needs an aggressive campaign to face the PML-N in Punjab has just speed up its electoral drive to ...

LAHORE - Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman Dr Majid Nizami on Tuesday presided over the 6th annual session of the general council at the Aiwan-i-Quaid-i-Azam in Johar Town.The session reposed confidence in Dr Nizami’s leadership and termed the trust a landmark in the history of Pakistan. The ...

KARACHI - Additional Inspector General Police Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh has ordered Muhafiz Force to provide security to polio teams during the anti-polio drive in the city from April 15 to 17.He said this while presiding over a meeting at the Central Police Office here Wednesday. It was decided that ...

LAHORE – Vowing to guard public rights, Chief Minister Najam Sethi said a helpline is being set up in the Punjab Information Technology Board to provide protection to minorities and women facing violence.Presiding over a meeting at the CM Secretariat Friday, he said He said that women and ...

LAHORE – The tussle between the old guard and newcomers in the PTI reached a point of no return on Thursday when Unity Group founder Aleem Khan along with some of his group members announced not to accept party tickets, claiming their nominees were ignored during the ticket awarding process. ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A total of 5,881 policemen will perform security duty during polling for general elections scheduled for May 11, here in the district.According to police sources here on Saturday, out of 1,004 polling stations to be set up for three National and 7 Provincial assemblies seats in the ...

LAHORE – Guard Group and JPL registered victories in the Bonanza Polo Cup matches here at the Lahore Polo Club on Wednesday. In the first match of the day, Guard Group beat Elan by 5½-4. Abdul Rehman Monnoo contributed two important goals in the winners’ account while Babar ...

MARDAN - A private security guard was killed while two others got seriously injured when an explosive device planted to the house of a well-known industrialist exploded here on Friday evening.The incident occurred in the limits of Par Hoti Police Station, police and local sources told TheNation. ...

MARDAN - A private security guard was killed while two others got seriously injured when an explosive device planted to the house of a well-known industrialist exploded here on Friday evening.The incident occurred in the limits of Par Hoti Police Station, police and local sources told TheNation. ...

KARACHI - A security guard was killed and a police guard was wounded during a robbing bid in a bank in Orangi Town as bandits looted Rs1.8 million on Tuesday. According to details, police said that four bandits barged into the branch of United Bank Limited in Orangi Town while one bandit was ...

LAHORE – A security guard was found shot dead from the washroom of a bank situated in the Defense-A police area, police said on Saturday. Sheikh Qadeer was lying dead in a pool of blood inside the washroom of a private bank in the Y-Block area as the investigators reached the crime scene.

The May 1 Abbottabad raid has now received Hollywood treatment, replete with scenes of massive cruelty, with the subliminal message that valuable information can be extracted through torture.  The movie, “Zero Dark Thirty” – an Oscar contender – has drawn fire for its ...

LAHORE – A guard of a cash-carrying company on Monday fled away with a bag containing Rs21 million, shortly after his colleagues entered a bank branch in Ichhra for routine cash transfers, police sources said. No one was hurt in the robbery that took place at Ferozepur Road in the Ichhra ...

KARACHI - A security guard of a private company was killed in a bid to foil the bank robbery on Wednesday. According to police officials, at least five armed men entered the branch of the private bank within the limits of Gizri police station and tried to rob it and killed the security guard, ...

At least three persons were killed while eight others were injured in gunfire opened by the guards of Riaz Fatyana, MNA, when the enraged people protesting against prolonged durations of load shedding headed towards his residence located in Kamalia. The incident occurred when the protesters ...

LAHORE – The PTI old guard have forced Imran Khan to abandon bringing interim party organisation. They have also led the party to intra-party polls in an effort to dispel the public impression that the PTI has become another traditional political party, TheNation has learnt. The plan to bring ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that in line with the vision of the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto, the present Parliament has undertaken landmark legislation on many women issues. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said this while ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has kept alive the tradition of demolishing the structures owned by his kin, which create hurdles in the construction of flyovers and roads.The latest example is of a petrol pump of a close relative located near the under-construction Canal Flyover ...

LAHORE – Guard Rice, having half goal advantage, beat Newage Cables by seven goals to six in the Caanchi & Lugari Polo Cup 2012 here at the Lahore Polo Club. Guide Rice slammed first goal through Hamza Mawaz Khan. Shaukat Ali Malik of Newage Cables equalized the score. Taimur Ali of Guard ...

LAHORE – An alleged member of a banned outfit and nominated accused in a murder case and his gunman were shot dead and two others sustained multiple bullet injuries shortly after their rival group sprayed indiscriminate firing on them near Carol Ghati area of Gujjarpura Police on Thursday. ...

Ijaz Butt had a damaging tenure for Pakistani cricket as PCB chief. However, his tenure came to end this year, and Zaka Ashraf took his place – who has so far displayed a settled and professional approach. Zaka Ashraf has since then, outlined a set of key strategic objectives, showed ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KHANEWAL - Two minor British national Pakistani twin sisters, studying at the City Public School, were sexually assaulted by school security guard, while the school principal forcing their parents for compromise on the matter. Father of the victims, Mian Junaid Khaliq and ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has arrested a former forest guard in a corruption case, registered against him. As per detail, former forest guard Muhammad Iqbal, a resident of Taranda Muhammad Pannah Town, was wanted in a corruption case, which was registered by the ACE ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RAHIM YAR KHAN - The district police have finalised security arrangements on Eidul Azha to ensure peace during 405 Eid congregations in district Rahim Yar Khan. District Police Officer Sohail Zafar said that 2,400 police personnel and voluntaries would be deputed at mosques and ...

Our Staff reporter HAFIZABAD - For maintaining complete peace and religious harmony on the eve of Eidul Fitr, the district police have deputed 500 cops under the supervision of two DSPs. In this connection all entry and exit points and motorway interchanges at KOt Sarwar, Bhaka Bhatttian and Pindi ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - The demand for a Seraiki province is a political drama and the areas of former Bahawalpur state will never be included in Seraiki province, said Ameer of Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP) Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi while addressing a press conference at the residence of the party ...

LAHORE Raymond Davis, the American who killed two Pakistanis, was shifted to the maximum-security portion of the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday, but only after luxuries had been in place and the entire section vacated, it is learnt. Plain-clothed foreigners, likely to be from the US Consulate, have ...

ISLAMABAD - Detectives have arrested the personal security guard of IGP Islamabad and a CIA constable for their alleged involvement in a kidnapping case for ransom when they demanded Rs 8.5 million here, TheNation learnt on Monday. Sources said that Constable Mansoor, the personal security guard of ...