I am writing this letter with reference to a meeting with your late venerable father at Jati Umrah in 1998. This meeting was desired by your late father regarding total ban on marriage food as being repugnant to injunctions of Islam. Later on one dish was allowed at marriage functions. Your late ...

Sir, your appointment as CEC was a decision taken by consensus of major parties. This was a unique distinction. They reposed full confidence and trust in you as you were a man of impeccable integrity and character. However, looking at the canvas of the recent general elections, the acting CEC ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has written a confidential letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ibrahim expressing his grave concern over security situation and persistent attacks of Taliban against 3 political parties.As per a private TV channel president had mentioned PPP complaint ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

In a letter from the Presidency to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), President Asif Ali Zardari has complained that the PML-N and other parties were committing character assassination against him, and asked the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice. To lend emphasis to this complaint, ...

WASHINGTONAFPUS authorities intercepted a letter that contained the deadly poison ricin and was bound for Senator Roger Wicker's office, officials said Tuesday, triggering new security concerns a day after the terror attack in Boston.The tainted letter was detected during a routine mail inspection ...

ISLAMABAD - The 17-member governing body of Higher Education Commission (HEC) in its meeting has expressed concern over the opening of new universities and grant of charters without obtaining NOC from the HEC.The Commission said Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for establishment of a new ...

ISLAMABAD - The 17-member governing body of Higher Education Commission (HEC) in its meeting has expressed concern over the opening of new universities and grant of charters without obtaining NOC from the HEC.The Commission said Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for establishment of a new ...

GENEVA - A senior Pakistani diplomat in Switzerland has confirmed that letter written to Swiss authorities for reopening the cases against President Asif Ali Zardari has been conveyed to the officials in Switzerland, reported a private TV channel on Friday.Talking to media, the official said that ...

Attorney General for Pakistan Irfan Qadir on Monday said that the Supreme Court had not directed him to address a letter to the Swiss authorities in NRO case.Talking to mediamen on the premises of Supreme Court, he said that the Court could not issue him such directions. He said if asked he would ...

Common people in the US, the Middle East and around the globe are “sick of wars, death and destruction”, writes Jarrah.Dear Mr President,In 2009, only 10 months after being elected to the highest office in the most powerful nation in the international society of states, you were awarded ...

Dear Mr Khan,When people say you are a breath of fresh air in the suffocating Pakistani political environment, I do not disagree. When people say you can smash the moth-eaten status quo in this country of ours, I do not disagree. When people say you can vanquish the demigods perched on our Mount ...

Abrar Saeed -  Last week was a week of relief as well as grief. The relief was brought about by the government’s commitment to write a letter to the Swiss authorities - in accordance with the guidelines given by the Supreme Court - to have graft cases against President Zardari ...

Sir you have commented on my article Indian water aggression or genocidal war? As published on Friday, 09 March 2012 in The Nation. It was based on the talk delivered at a seminar, a day earlier. It is a surprise for those who know that you have been participating in many discourses and events in ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday evening said he would decide on writing a letter to the Swiss authorities after consulting his lawyer, adding that he did not exactly know in which case the court had passed these orders.Talking to media persons at the Prime Minister’s ...

LAHORE – Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) Chief in Pakistan has sent another letter to Minister Defence seeking intervention in one of the biggest deals involving $1.5 billion (almost Rs 140b) for the procurement of five new Boeing ER 777-300 by the state-owned Pakistan International ...

This is apropos of news item about the strikes of Young Doctors in Punjab( Feb 16). This is very unfortunate that “Doctors’ belonging to one of the respected profession in the world are protesting to reinstate their two Doctors belonging to Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC). They are ...

ISLAMABAD - Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar Monday said according to constitution of the country President Zardari would continue to enjoy full immunity until the relevant article was amended by the Parliament.Talking to media persons here on Monday he said the government had always ...

ISLAMABAD - Accusing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of creating hurdles inobtaining the record of BBM, which Mansoor Ejaz and Hussein Haqqani exchanged, the judicial commission asked the authorities concerned to write a letter to the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), which owns the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court insisted Thursday that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani write to the Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, saying “No one is above the law.”Heading an eight-member bench hearing Gilani’s intra-court appeal ...

WASHINGTON  - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration’s bid to broker peace in ...

The candid letter of Eng. Khurshid Anwer on KBD in the Daily Nation of 17.01.12 is appreciated in that he has effectively replied to the anti-KBD stance of Mr. Sial. There seems to be no sane reason for opposing KBD simply for it being located in Punjab while favouring Bhasha solely due to its ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Governor cannot be called before Public Accounts Committee. Financial affairs of Governor House do not come under the purview of PAC. The PAC cannot question Governor’s salary, privileges and funds because President decides such matters of provincial constitutional ...

A ranch family in Laytonville, California has found a letter to Santa that was sent by a girl nearly 700 miles away.Helen Cardenas, 5, requested a doll, a tea set, shoes and trousers. Her letter, written in Spanish, was released into the air with two pink balloons attached to it. It was sent from ...

No political leader in Pakistan can claim to have offered more sacrifices for democracy than Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, Sher e Bengal Fazalul Haq and other leading political icons. However their sacrifices have not earned for their families an eternal right to rule sans ...

Oil prices fell below $92 a barrel on Monday in Asia on fears a U.S.-led financial crisis is spreading across the globe, exacerbating an economic slowdown that will cut crude demand. Light, sweet crude for November delivery was down $1.96 to $91.92 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York ...