NEW DELHI  - India's opposition called the government the "most corrupt since independence" on Tuesday as a row over political interference in a police probe escalated in the Supreme Court.The top court rebuked the nominally independent Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for showing the ...

HARAREBrendan Taylor carved his way to a career best score as Zimbabwe posted 389 in their first innings on day two of the first Test against Bangladesh at the Harare Sports Club on Thursday.The Zimbabwe captain reached 171 before he was caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim off the bowling of ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said the present government is doing its best to facilitate the media industry to grow.Talking to a delegation of All Pakistan newspaper society here on Tuesday‚ he said “we believe that media independence and strengthening ...

PRISTINA - Kosovo was to be granted full sovereignty by the West Monday, over four years since it declared independence, in a celebration marred by new Serbian allegations about organ trafficking. Western powers members of the International Steering Group — which has overseen Kosovo since its ...

ISLAMABAD - President Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jahangir has said that the extension to additional judges office of the high courts has undermined the independence of judiciary. The president SCBA on Friday also stated that three extensions dropped by the Judicial Commission sent a poor ...

LAHORE The Punjab Rugby Association under the auspices of the Pakistan Rugby Union and Punjab Olympic Association is holding the Azadi Cup final here as part of the Independence Day celebration. The PRU is organising such events throughout the country as part of the celebration and promote sports ...

KARACHI (APP) Unfancied Afsar Ali of KPT surprised Pakistans top golfers Shabbir Iqbal and Muhammad Munir to clinch the DHA Independence Day Cup Golf Championship at Defence Authority Golf Club on Sunday. Afsar carded an aggregate of 217 to lead a-pack-40-golfers to claim the glittering trophy ...

LAHORE - Jammu Kashmir Independence Movement (JKIM) on Sunday took out a protest rally in front of Lahore Press Club in order to urge the United Nations to compel India to follow the UN resolutions regarding Kashmir dispute to resolve the issue as per the aspirations of the Kash-miris. JKIM ...

LAHORE - The two-day international conference on 'challenges in implementing competition law in developing countries was commenced under the aegis of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) here on Monday. Mr. Bill Kovacic, Commissioner in the US Federal Trade Commission, Mr. Joseph Angland, ...

KARACHI - The second International Urdu Conference was started here on Tuesday evening at the Arts Council Auditorium in the midst of men of letters and thinkers. While expressing their views pertaining to the importance of Urdu as a language, the speakers said that it had been able to withstand ...

DHAKA (AFP) - A Bangladesh court ruled Sunday that the father of the countrys current premier Sheikh Hasina and not the late husband of her arch-rival Khaleda Zia proclaimed independence from Pakistan in 1971. In a bid to end a decades-old dispute over the issue, the High Court found that Sheikh ...

Australia beat Bangladesh by 73 runs in the third and final one-day international here on Saturday. Australia made 198 for five off 50 overs after electing to bat and Bangladesh made 125 from 29.5 overs in reply. Australia won the series 3-0.  

TOM Cruise showed his patriotic side as he took his family on an Independence Day outing in Telluride, Colorado. The Hollywood star was joined by wife Katie Holmes, daughter Suri and 13-year-old son Conner for the day out near the actor's home. Wearing a traditional American cowboy hat, the ...

BOCHUM (Germany) (AFP) - The Dalai Lama insisted Friday he was not seeking independence for Tibet, as he pressed ahead with Western tour. "We want to live in peace with our Chinese brothers and sisters," the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told a news conference in the western city of Bochum on ...