LAHORE JI chief, Syed Munawar Hasan has warned that his party and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would launch joint protests if the Election Commission fails to address the complaints of polls rigging. Talking to the media after inquiring about the health of PTI chief, Imran Khan on Wednesday, he ...

Ankara Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday firmly rejected a Syrian proposal to hold a joint probe over a twin car bomb attack that killed 51 people.“The administration in power in Damascus is illegal ... how can we recognise a structure that isn’t even recognised by ...

  PAJU, South Korea : South Korea was due Monday to pull out its last workers from a joint factory zone in North Korea - a rare symbol of cross-border cooperation now crippled by a tense military stand-off. The move raises the prospect of the permanent closure of theKaesongcomplex, the last ...

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - In the face of attacks on the political offices of both Awami National Party and Muttahida Qoumi Movement offices across the country, particularly in Karachi, MQM Chief Altaf Hussain telephoned ANP President Asfandayr Wali and discussed overall political situation in the country ...

PAJU, South Korea Dozens of South Korean workers returned from a jointly run factory park in North Korea on Saturday as part of an evacuation of the flagship project following months of military tensions.The move plunges into doubt the future of the Kaesong complex - once a rare symbol of ...

ISLAMABAD Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aaghai and Alif-Ailaan, non-governmental organisations, have started an extensive campaign, urging the national political leaders to join all the collaborative efforts being made to make education a top priority nationwide and by, in turn, mobilising votes for ...

A joint FIA investigation team has prepared an 80-point questionnaire for former President Pervez Musharraf in Benazir Bhutto assassination case.Members of the probe team which is to interrogate Musharraf has started arriving in Islamabad.According to sources, the joint investigation team will ask ...

KARACHI - The ten-party alliance of opposition, led by PML-F and PML-N, has failed to field unanimous candidates to challenge the PPP and MQM as hopefuls from opposition parties are contesting against each other on many seats in the Sindh province. This situation shows a clear negation of tall ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD  - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that the 'World Earth Day' is a reminder of the responsibility to undertake concerted efforts to preserve the face of the earth from further degradation caused by ruthless manipulation of the ecosystem and assaults on the balancing forces ...

LAHORE - State Bank of Pakistan and the SMEDA have agreed to make joint efforts for facilitating SMEs’ access to finance. It was disclosed by a team of SMEDA financial experts at an in-house meeting with CEO SMEDA Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera at SMEDA head office. The team informed that in line ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Monday it was withdrawing all workers and suspending operations at a lucrative joint industrial zone with South Korea, blaming foreign “warmongers” at a time of acute tensions.The announcement came amid reports of heightened activity at the North’s ...

RAWALPINDI – Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR), Agency for Barani Area Development (ABAD) and International Center for Agriculture in Dry Areas (ICARDA) would work together for introducing latest technologies in agriculture. This was decided in a meeting ...

LAHORE – The Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tehrik Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan Thursday agreed to gather patriotic forces to defeat the pro-foreign agenda following parties.  The agreement came during a meeting between JI leaders, Liaqat Baloch, Fareed Paracha, Zafar Baloch and TTP leaders, M Khursheed ...

LAHORE – PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has said that the platform of the joint opposition will be strengthened and expanded by including more parties in the run-up to the elections.PML-F chief Pir Pagara and NPP head Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi – who both visited Raiwind residence of Sharif ...

ISLAMABAD  – Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has said that collective efforts are required to create awareness and educate the masses about the environment and its importance. He expressed these views in the inaugural ceremony of one -week training course on ...

LAHORE – Punjab Governor Makhdoom Syed Ahmad Mahmood has said the politicians should forge unity to combat terrorism and sectarianism.Talking to Pir Ijaz Hashmi and Owais Noorani of JUP-N on Saturday, the governor said the elements involved in terrorist and saboteur activity are neither ...

LAHORE – Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need for joint efforts for building the nation. Hameed Nizami Press Institute of Pakistan organised the seminar on ‘media responsibilities in developing countries’ here on Monday. PML-N central leader Ahsan Iqbal presided over the ...

KARACHI - Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) and Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) along with other stake holders would start a joint operation cleanup of harbour and navigation channel from Monday December 24th.The operation would help to ensure hygienic fishing transport activities and ...

ISLAMABAD - The development sector organisations need to work together to accomplish the mission of empowering the neglected segment of society through provision of education, health and livelihood services so that they can stand on their own. This can be done only through joint efforts. This was ...

ISLAMABAD - The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in coordination with the PAF and Pakistan Army, has marked the three joint user airports in Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad under potential terrorist threat while affirming maximum preventive and standby measures having taken at all the airports across ...

India refused to issue a joint statement at the end of interior minister Rehman Malik's three-day visit, a public protest against the provocations of the visiting Pakistani minister, Times of India in  a report said Monday.Though a joint press conference by home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said that Pakistan and Iran enjoy close and brotherly relations, which are rooted in historical, cultural and religious commonalities.  The Prime Minister expressed these views in a meeting with Iranian Parliamentary delegation led by Chairman ...

LAHORE – PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badr and eminent Indian liver transplant surgeon Dr AS Soin on Saturday announced to launch joint efforts for dealing with hepatitis in a bid to increase people-to-people contacts for easing the tensions between the two nuclear neighbours, besides ...

I selected the topic for this column with reluctance as my thoughts may not find resonance with some readers, particularly the younger ones. I have of late come across a mushrooming of incidents involving marital infidelity. While I consider these cases to be intensely personal, unsavoury and ...

A NEW Orleans city prosecutor has resigned after a marijuana joint reportedly fell out of his pocket in court - while he was talking to a police officer. Assistant city attorney Jason Cantrell was chatting with an officer in Orleans Parish Magistrate’s Court when it happened, according to the ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday summoned joint session of the Parliament to meet on March 17th at 11 am.  President will address the joint sitting as part of Constitutional obligation at the end of the Parliamentary year. The Parliament will complete four years on March ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that implementation of joint ventures between Punjab and Istanbul will promote trade and economic cooperation between Pakistan and Turkey. Talking to a Turk delegation here on Tuesday, he said that the recent visit of Mayor Istanbul Kadir Topbas to ...

KARACHII - National Master Haseeb Ahmed and Faraz Saleem with six and half points each emerged as joint leaders in the open category of the 28th Sindh chess championship now in its concluding stage  here at the CDGK complex on Wednesday.Haseeb Ahmed will face NM Aziz Farooqi in deciding last ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan Governor Yaseen Anwar has disclosed that a joint taskforce of SBP and Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has been set up to draft a framework for establishing a vibrant corporate debt market.He was delivering his keynote address at a conference ...