ISLAMABAD - JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman’s another effort to sabotage the formation of a PTI government in Kyhber Pakhtunkhwa was frustrated Thursday, thanks to the demonstration of political maturity by the PML-N. Fazl met Shahbaz Sharif and asked him to sponsor his efforts to arrange a ...

Lahore - In an intriguing move, PML-N chief and incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday evening visited Shaukat Khanum Hospital to enquire after PTI Chairman Imran Khan who is being treated for injuries sustained in an election rally fall in the run-up to polls. While some viewed ...

  SAINT-PETERSBURGa   A man inRussia’s second city ofSaint Petersburgclimbed one of its lifting bridges before evading police by plunging into the water, in a death-defying stunt that stopped traffic, officials said. Police in the city said they have launched a probe as photos of ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief Hussain Mehanti has reiterated his party demand to deploy army personnel at all polling stations of Karachi on May 11.Mehanti made this demand while addressing a press conference after the meeting of 10-party alliance on Monday at Idara-e-Noor Haq.He said ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated that Pakistan will need to lay the groundwork for taking necessary action to stabilize the economy. At the same time, the IMF mission chief to Pakistan said that it had not received any aid request from Pakistan. However, in a statement released ...

MULTAN - Member MQM Rabita Committee Raza Haroon has said that some hidden powers want to get their wanted result from upcoming election and the recent wave of terrorism in Sindh, Balochistan and KPK is meant to achieve this goal. Talking to the journalists here at Multan Press Club on Thursday, he ...

LAHORE :-Chief Minister Najam Sethi has taken notice of the chopping off hands of an alleged thief in the Choti Bala area of Dera Ghazi Khan and directed RPO to submit a report.  The Chief Minister said that the incident of cutting hands of a person is highly regrettable and a dastardly act ...

A SCOTTISH company has unveiled a new prosthetic hand that can be controlled by a mobile phone app.Touch Bionics’ i-limb ultra revolution features a powered rotating thumb to enhance dexterity, 24 grip options and extra sensitive electrodes. It’s the first upper-limb prosthesis that can ...

KARACHI – A man and his son among six people were killed during targeted operation continued in the city.On one side, police and rangers continue operation against target killing while on the other side target killing on political and sectarian grounds have also been continued in the city. In ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Assistant Commissioner Samia Saleem said that an action against the profiteers, hoarders and adulterators would not be taken for some period due to the extraordinary work regarding general elections. Talking to the media, she said, “Now-a-days, we are unable to look into other ...

ISLAMABAD  - Researchers suggest that people exposed to environmental tobacco smoke are threatened by increasing risk of severe dementia syndromes. Passive smoking, also known as `second-hand’ smoke, can cause neurological disease of dementia besides cardiovascular and respiratory ...

KARACHI - As many as nine people were wounded when a bike-borne duo lobbed a hand grenade on Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Police Quarters, where a number of job seekers had lined up to submit their documents on Sunday morning. DSP Sher Muhammad said that two unidentified bike riders targeted the police ...

AN entrepreneur has found a novel way to get around strict baggage restrictions on airplanes so travellers can take more on board without having to pay extra costs.Engineer John Power has invented the Jaktogo, a £56 coat which doubles as a suitcase.The product cleverly transforms from a coat ...

It seems that the Pakistani state has abandoned its citizens to contend with drones from above and bombs and extremist militants on the ground. Where drone strikes killed 18 in the Bulandkhel area of Orakzai Agency, donkey-cart bombs killed eight more in the Mushti Mela area of the same Agency. A ...

 SADIQABAD - Tehrik-e-Istaqlal Central President Rahmat Khan Wardag has demanded that the federal government should appoint the Sindh interior minister from the MQM or Karachi should immediately be handed over to the army to ensure peace in the biggest city and economic hub of the country.He ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to hand over the charge of Haj scam investigation to Hussain Asghar.Malik Sher Afzal Joint Secretary Establishment Division, appearing before the court stated that Hussain Asghar, former IGP ...

AN Easter egg hunt in Somerset came to a dramatic end when children searching for chocolate found a live grenade. Organisers spotted a child standing on the device as eggs were being counted, reports the Daily Mail. Children were moved away and an army bomb disposal team called in to destroy the ...

HAFIZABAD - PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal has declared that his party has its roots deep among the masses and it will give a crushing defeat to the PPP in the next general election as. The ruling elite, headed by President Asif Zardari, has utterly failed to provide any relief to the ...

RAWALPINDI – With the completion of renovation work of the new building, allotted to National Accountability Bureau (NAB), RMC Boys Hostel would be handed over to the authorities concerned by the end of May this year. According to details, the competent authority in the PM secretariat had ...

ISLAMABAD - The initial investigation into the killings of 15 Frontier Constabulary (FC) men has ascertained the involvement of Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant offshoot of TTP having strong influence in the parts of Pakistan’s north-western tribal belt, it is learnt.Officials at a law enforcement ...

MULTAN - The surgical floor located on the roof of Emergency Ward in Nishtr Hospital presented the view of a battlefield when a sudden brawl erupted among the attendants of road accident patient and doctors here on Friday. The doctors badly thrashed the attendants including women, grabbed them and ...

MULTAN - The administration of Bahaudden Zakariya University (BZU) continues to swindle the students of four-year BS (Hons) Accounting and Finance as the advertisement and prospectus offer them the abovementioned degree but when they pass out theyre given the degree of a two-year course, The Nation ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century. A delegation of 55 Namibians is in Berlin to attend the solemn ceremony to receive the remains ...

ISLAMABAD - Terming rupee depreciation against dollar a mysterious development, eminent economist Dr Ashfaq Hassan Khan on Thursday said that invisible hands are active in depreciating rupee against dollar with a fact that there was no fundamental change in countrys imports during last three ...

ISLAMABAD - While demanding of the government not to hand over Raymond Davis to Washington, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has urged to arrest the driver of the second vehicle which ran over an innocent bystander Obaid-ur-Rahman whose family is seeking justice. He said it is not understandable that while ...

JAM SAJJAD HUSSAIN & AMRAIZ KHAN LAHORE - A human hand was found from the meal (sehri) offered to the prisoners of New Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday, TheNation reliably learnt. Reliable sources said that a thumbless hand of almost 14-year-old youth was found from the plate of a prisoner namely Dr ...

LAHORE Security agencies have unearthed the involvement of foreign hand in spreading hatred in Balochistan province as well as to poison the minds of innocent Baloch youth against the non-Balochis, particularly the educationists. According to a classified document sent to the Interior Ministry, ...

ATHENS (AFP) - The European Union told Greece it stands ready with a debt lifeline in its hour of need on Friday amid a market conviction that a crescendo is near. The Greek government is courageous and is breaking with the past. We would be ready to intervene if the Greeks ask us to, EU President ...

PARIS (AFP) - Neuroscientists have discovered that learning to juggle causes changes in white matter, the nerve strands, which help different parts of the brain, communicate with each other. University of Oxford researchers recruited 48 healthy young adults who were unable to juggle and put them in ...

KARACHI - Rasool Bakhsh Palejo, head of Awami Tehreek, on Monday said that the government had given free hand to the land mafia in the metropolis which were involved in occupying the historical lands to deprive the old settlers. Talking to the representatives of Sindh Shehri Federation (SSF) ...