ISLAMABAD - The Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is facilitating attendance of regulatees at hearings before adjudicating officers scheduled at Head Office Islamabad, through video link facilities at the nearest concerned Company Registration Office (CRO). The Securities and ...

The International Judicial Conference 2013 was recently held in Islamabad with the objective of involving all stakeholders in the dispensation of justice and to share their experiences, knowledge and perceptions on critical issues being faced by the judicial system. It was based on nine thematic ...

KARACHI -  The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has released CDs of party’s election songs to attract the voters for the next elections.Two songs are in four languages-Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashtu and Balochi launched by the PPP leaders during their Press conference at Karachi Press Club on ...

LAHORE – Chairman of Service Group of Industries, Ch Ahmed Saeed inaugurated Link International Exchange Private Limited at M M Alam Road here on Monday. Link International Exchange Director Anis Rajput, Sheikh Noman, Sheikh Arsalan and others were also present at the opening of the ...

PARIS - Anthropologists have dealt a blow to theories that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, bequeathing humans today with some of the genetic legacy of their mysterious cousins. Over the last two years, several studies have suggested that H. sapiens got it on with Neanderthals, an enigmatic ...

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) Maulana Fazalur Rehman has strongly condemned drone attacks in tribal areas and demanded the government to take up the matter at diplomatic level with the US government.Addressing a grand jirga in Peshawar on Sunday‚ he stressed the need for ...

PESHAWAR - With an aim to ease the problems of dwellers and provide them better transportation facilities besides restoring connectivity between different villages, the government has rehabilitated four link roads in the flood-hit areas of Dir Lower, which would facilitate thousands of people in ...

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has said allegations that Islamabad cooperated with North Korea's nuclear program were unfounded and represented a thing of the past.In an interview with Korean News Agency, the premier said the matter has been investigated with Pakistan officially denying any ...

NEW YORK (AFP)— Relatives of people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States Friday welcomed moves by two former senators to link Saudi Arabia to the events as part of a huge lawsuit.Ex-Florida senator Bob Graham and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey said in sworn ...

ISLAMABAD – The high-powered judicial commission, probing the memogate issue, ruled on Friday that it would record the statement of Mansoor Ijaz through video link on February 22 and directed the government to facilitate the commission in this regard.The commission rejected the application of ...

ISLAMABAD  - Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday that there was no proposal under consideration to link transfer of civil nuclear technology with the resumption of NATO supply. Talking to reporters after briefing the Parliamentary Committee on National Security ...

THE growth of an embryo during the early stages of pregnancy is linked to its risk of miscarriage, says a University of Nottingham study. Scientists found that 78% of single-baby pregnancies which ended in miscarriage were in the smallest 5% of embryos. Researchers measured the length of more than ...

NEW DELHI - In a bold move to assert itself in the Af-Pak region and reduce Pakistans room for manoeuvre, India is finalising a plan to construct a 900-km railway line that will connect Chabahar Port in Iran, being built with Indian help, to the mineral-rich Hajigak region of Afghanistan, reported ...

ISLAMABAD As Pakistan and Iran have only one international crossing point but strong recommendation for opening additional international crossing points is simmering on back burner. The proposal seems to hit a snag as both country after recommendation from Pakistan-Iran Joint Commission on Road ...

New data released in Germany strongly suggests that locally produced bean sprouts were, as suspected, the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak. Its the bean sprouts, said Reinhard Burger, head of Germanys centre for disease control. Officials initially blamed the E. coli, which has killed 33 ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Federal advisor on textile, Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, during a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Hamrokhon Zarifi in Dushanbe, has stressed the need for a road link to facilitate the trade between Pakistan and Tajikistan, as from Chitral, only 36km road can link Pakistan ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Two link bridges were blown up by unknown militants in Aka khel area of tehsil Bara on Sunday, local sources said. According to details, the militants blew up bridges after installing explosive material which went off with big bang and demolished them completely. After getting ...

KARACHI Raising objections over the release of water into Chashma Jehlum Link Canal from Indus River, the Government of Sindh on Saturday decided to take up the issue before inter-provincial ministerial meeting. The opening of CJ Link Canal always remained issue of differences between Sindh and ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed federal and provincial governments to ensure that officers discharging their duties in government departments on the contract after their retirement were not reemployed in violation of the law. An eight-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

PAKISTAN International Airlines (PIA) is to stop flying out of Glasgow from next month, it has announced. The management said the service was not attracting enough business and had been running at a loss. However, the decision has caused anger among Glasgow's Pakistani community, with local MP Anas ...

ISTANBUL (APP) President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday said Tajikistan had a key role in promoting stability in Afghanistan and called for enhancing cooperation in security areas besides increasing trade and economic ties. The president was talking to his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon on the ...

MADRID (AFP) - As debt-stricken Ireland heads for a Greek-style EU bailout, Spain is desperately trying to avoid being lumped in the same basket but analysts warn it will have to do more to keep investors happy. There is absolutely no reason to compare Spain with Ireland, Finance Minister Elena ...

PARIS (AFP) - Frances former prime minister Dominique de Villepin on Sunday denied any link between arms deals and the deaths of 11 French engineers in a bombing in Pakistan in 2002. Witnesses have alleged the bombing was revenge for the cancelling of kickbacks paid to officials in the arms deals, ...

Indian-Held Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has claimed that there are 'visible and invisible links among the militants in the state, including the Maoists, Left-leaning academicians and supporters, reported a Indian newspaper. We have no experience with Maoist insurgency even though ...

ASHGABAT (Reuters) - The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan will revive talks on construction of a major gas pipeline when they meet at next months United Nations General Assembly session, a Turkmen government source said on Tuesday. Turkmenistan, holder of the worlds fourth-largest natural ...

LAHORE - The Federal and provincial governments should resolve the matter of closure of Chashma Jehlum Link Canal according to the accord of 1991 through IRSA. This was stated by various stakeholders while reacting to the closing down of the CJ Link Canal whereof water supply to Punjab stands cut ...

LAHORE - Farmers Association Pakistan (FAP) has demanded of the Prime Minster to personally take up the water shortage issue for irrigation in South Punjab. FAP, in a meeting chaired by its Vice Chairman Hussain Jahania Gardezi here on Wednesday, appealed to the PM to attend to the issue of water ...

WASHINGTON - A top Republican lawmaker on the Senate Intelligence Committee says he hasn't seen the evidence to support Obama administration claims that the Times Square bombing suspect was linked to the Pakistani Taliban. In a written statement released on Wednesday, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) Military warned Wednesday that it had yet to establish a link between the Pakistani-American charged with trying to bomb New York and the countrys main militant stronghold in Waziristan. Army spokesman Athar Abbas told AFP that a link between Faisal Shahzad and Waziristan had yet ...

LONDON (AFP) Everton manager David Moyes has dismissed reports that he is set to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson as boss of Manchester United. It was claimed this week that Ferguson has told the Old Trafford board that he wants Moyes to replace him at the end of next season, when it is believed the ...