LAHORE - A four-member Pakistan snooker team will depart today (Thursday) for Doha to take part in the first Asian Team Event and 2nd Red Snooker Championship starting from May 24-30. Pakistan Billiard and Snooker Association (PBSA) spokesman said Wednesday the team comprised world champion M Asif, ...

Lahore - After 15-day hospitalisation, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan was discharged from Shaukat Khanum Hospital on Wednesday. He was shifted to his Zaman Park house where he would stay for three days before leaving for Islamabad. Although doctors have advised bed rest, PTI chief ...

BEIJING : A blast which ripped through an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, an official said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record.Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by ...

LAHORE:Punjab Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal on Wednesday left for Dubai on two-day official visit. Senior Member of Board of Revenue will hold additional charge of the top administrative slot in the CS absence, a notification issued by S&GAD said. Meanwhile, Higher Education Special Secretary ...

PAJU, South Korea South Korea on Friday withdrew its last remaining workers from a joint industrial zone in North Korea at risk of permanent closure due to soaring military tensions.It is the first time that Seoul has pulled out all its workers from the flagship project since it was opened in 2004, ...

PESHAWAR - An independent candidate from NA-46 Khyber Agency Qadar Khan Afridi on Friday withdrew in favour of former MNA Haji Muhammad Shah Afridi.The announcement he made during a news conference at the press club.On the occasion, Qadar Khan Afridi said that he had decided to contest election ...

I have just finished rereading a book titled “Eats Shoots and Leaves”. This fascinating piece of writing was presented to me by a dear friend some years ago in the hope that I may understand the English language and the intricacies of its punctuation marks, a little better. The title of ...

LAHORE  - A 12-member delegation of Pakistani businessmen will leave for Kathmandu Nepal on April 19 to attend 57th Executive Committee meeting and the 18th General Assembly of the SAARC CCI being held from 20-21 April.The delegation include Tariq Sayeed, Iftikhar Ali Malik, Zubair Ahmed ...

SHEIKHUPURA - One person was killed while two others sustained serious bullet injuries in an ambush occurred in front of Saddr Police here on Monday.According to details, Nazir, Mubashar, Amir and others were coming out of the Saddr Police Station after a meeting with the investigation officer. As ...

SHEIKHUPURA - One person was killed while two others sustained serious bullet injuries in an ambush occurred in front of Saddr Police here on Monday.According to details, Nazir, Mubashar, Amir and others were coming out of the Saddr Police Station after a meeting with the investigation officer. As ...

At least 33 people died and 10 others were injured early Sunday after a bus plunged 200 meters (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said.The bus with the Horna company veered off a mountain road near the town of Otuzco some 570 kilometers (350 miles) north of Lima. Authorities blamed ...

QUETTA - At least four people were injured in a hand grenade attack on Nadra office in Kharan while Quetta-Taftan railway track was exploded in Chagai district on Monday.According to the police, unidentified attackers, riding a motorbike, hurled a hand grenade on the office of Nadra, causing an ...

    KARACHI  - Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad left for Dubai on Sunday. According to the Governor’s spokesman, Ebad had been suffering from neck pain and visiting Dubai occasionally for treatment. As Ebad left for Dubai, Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khuhro has taken ...

Gunmen on Saturday hurled a firecracker and opened fire at a primary school in Karachi, killing its principal and wounding eight children, police said.The children were aged between five and ten while the headmaster was a member of the Awami National Party, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtun ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf left here for Laos Sunday to attend Asia Europe Meeting Summit (ASEM) and discuss with world leaders important regional matters. The Prime Minister during his two-day visit, besides attending the ASEM-9 at capital Vientiane, would also meet a number of world ...

KARACHI - KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed has said that doctors, professors, specialists and medical staff associated with the hospitals, dispensaries and maternity homes run by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation will not be allowed to go on long leave in future. These professionals were in ...

KARACHI - The Old Golimar area engulfed in tension as clash between two war gangs left one person killed and two other injured here in the remits of Pak Colony Police on Monday.According to police, two criminal groups, Anwar kojack and Sajid-Shahid, started armed scuffle over some unknown issue at ...

A German town has been left bewildered by an anonymous philanthropist who leaves envelopes stuffed with thousands of euros. So far the mystery benefactor has given away the equivalent of £158,000 in a series of donations in the Lower Saxony town of Braunschweig. The cash has been left in ...

Rescue workers toiled overnight to pull survivors from the wreckage of a head-on train crash in southern Poland as the death toll rose to 15 on Sunday, in one of the country's worst rail disasters. "We know that 15 people are dead. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to remove the body of the ...

RAWALPINDI  - General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, on Sunday left for a four-day official visit to Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. According to ISPR, during the visit the Chairman will also meet the military leadership of Turkmenistan. Earlier, the CJCSC has ...

A South African presidential spokesman says Nelson Mandela has been released from the hospital. Spokesman Mac Maharaj says the 93-year-old Nobel peace laureate was released Sunday after undergoing a laparoscopy. During the procedure, surgeons make an incision in the belly to insert a thin, lighted ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has conditioned participation in the All Parties Conference with trial of Nawab Akbar Bugti’ assassins and concrete steps for recovery of missing persons.Talking to a private TV channel, before leaving for Umrah, Nawaz Sharif ...

SIALKOT - Two minors were killed in an incident of firing in jubilation here at the wedding ceremony of a local at Kot Bora-Kotli Loharaan, the other day. According to police, two minors between 10 to 12 years were killed at the wedding ceremony of one Kaleem. The younger brother of groom namely ...

RAWALPINDI  - A Pakistan Army contingent left for United Nations mission at Darfur, Sudan on Friday. According to the ISPR statement, the contingent comprises 22 officers, nine junior commissioned officers and 214 soldiers. At present, a contingent comprising 500 troops of Pakistan Army ...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will leave for Russia today (Tuesday).  She is paying an official visit to Russia on the invitation of her Russian counterpart Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov.  In Moscow, Foreign Minister Khar will hold talks with her Russian counterpart on expanding and ...

ISLAMABAD  - Chairman of Board of Investment Saleem H Mandviwalla has left for Japan and South Korea to discuss investment opportunities and attract foreign investment in Pakistan.According to a BOI statement issued here on Wednesday, Mandviwala left for Japan on January 30. He will travel to ...

CAIRO - Egyptian youths camped out on Thursday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and vowed to stay put until the army hands power to civilians, a day after a mass demonstration marked a year since an uprising which brought down Hosni Mubarak.Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into the square and ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday left here for Davos to attend the annual summit of the World Economic Forum being held from January 25-29. He was accompanied by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and other officials while he was seen off at the ...

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo left Beijing for New Delhi on Sunday morning to attend the 15th meeting between special representatives on China-India border issues, Xinhua reported.Special representatives from China and India will meet to discuss border issues from Jan. 15 to 17 in India, ...

MARDAN – One student sustained minor injuries during clashes between two student groups of the Government Post Graduate College, Mardan.The local police has registered cases against 33 students and arrested several students of PkSF, a student wing of ruling Awami National Party (ANP), and ...