PESHAWAR - The PTI, JI and QWP have agreed on a power sharing formula to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The JUI-F of Fazlur Rehman, the second majority party in the province which was too eager to engineer its own coalition, will now have to sit on the opposition benches along ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - Out-going coalition government at the fag end of her constitutional tenure had granted extension in the contract appointment of Managing Director SNGPL Arif Hameed as a ‘political gimmick’ before the expiry of his tenure, it is reliably learnt. ...

Lahore Misbahul Haq continued his winning spree as a caption as he led Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to 32-run victory over Wapda to clinch the title of the President’s Cup One-day Tournament 2012-13 played at National Stadium Karachi. This title marks the third for Misbah ...

ISLAMABAD – As many as 400 charged workers of PTI gathered in front of Imran Khan’s house in Bani Gala and protested against what they said the “discrimination” in the nominations process of for general elections.Rahat Qadoosi, one of the prominent politicians of Rawalpindi, ...

LAHORE – Two different tax slabs by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) led to registration of bogus companies in the country.This was pointed out by the acting chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Wisal Monnoo, who said that the textile industry is fully tax compliant and responded ...

A delegation of Defa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) led by Maulana Samiul Haq met Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) President Nawaz Sharif on Monday in Raiwind. During meeting, the leaders discussed current political situation in the country and exchanged views over formation of ‘alliance’ in ...

RIYADH (AFP) - US troops were led to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power struggle, a Saudi newspaper reported on Thursday. Al-Watan newspaper, quoting an unnamed regional source, said the top two Al-Qaeda men had differences ...

NEW YORK - The tide in the long-running hunt for Osama bin Laden turned in August when the Al-Qaedas leaders trusted courier was located in a secure and large compound in Abbottabad, The New York Times reported Monday. Intelligence operatives surmised that such a compound was not designed for a ...

ISLAMABAD The Headquarters building of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) plunged into darkness at 8:30 p.m. the other night when it observed 'World Earth Hour by switching all the electrical lights off in the premises of the building. Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat Elahi switched off all the ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - An overspend on security for the Cricket World Cup has forced the Bangladesh government to divert money from other departments to meet a $7 million (4 million pounds) shortfall, officials said on Thursday. "The expenses have overshot the budget but that would not hamper the event, ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman National Assemblys Standing Committee on Commerce Engr Khurram Dastagir Khan Thursday said that due to the ongoing sugar crisis, the government faced loss of Rs800 million as the whole crisis was the result of connivance between Ministries of Commerce, Industries & Production ...

KARACHI - The speculations relating to the bank defaults, freezing of lockers, accounts and devaluation of rupee led to the abrupt withdrawal of Rs96.50 billion from different banks in just two weeks of October 2008. Though a number of factors explain the slowdown in the growth of deposits, it was ...

A roadside bomb killed at least two people in a confessionally mixed neighbourhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. Four people were also wounded in the bombing on a major thoroughfare Al-Salekh district which was crowded with pedestrians and cars.  Police said the bombers appeared to ...