RAWALPINDI - As bombs curtail campaign rallies, political parties are ploughing millions of dollars into TV and print adverts to sway voters ahead of next week’s historic polls.Competition is fierce but it’s a cash market and those with the biggest bucks get the most air time ahead of ...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 747 developed a technical fault in one of its engines in early hours of 26th April at Jeddah Airport; the aircraft was to operate PK-732 from Jeddah to Karachi with around 500 passengers, it is learnt on Monday. Reportedly, the aircraft ...

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

LAHORE -  National Fertilizers Marketing Limited (NFML) is being run by retired officers who were rehired in the department after being given golden handshake under Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS), said well placed sources in the NFML on Wednesday. Certain other officers who had accepted VRS ...

LAHORE - Goods, machinery, and valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when huge fire erupted in a shoemaking factory at Bund Road in the Shafiqabad police limits on early Tuesday, police and eyewitness said. Firefighters said the fire, which erupted because of short-circuiting, ...

LAHORE – Dacoits robbed six residences at gunpoint in different parts of the provincial metropolis and made off with cash, gold ornaments, and other valuables worth Rs3.8 million, police sources said on Friday. Armed bandits walked into the house of Hanif Ahmed in the Sanda police limits and ...

ALLAHABAD, India - Millions of Hindu pilgrims streamed into the river Ganges on Monday, for a record-breaking start to the world’s biggest religious festival.The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual ...

AHMEDABAD - Millions of Indians voted Monday in the final stage of Gujarat state elections with Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi. Long queues formed at polling stations with turnout nearly matching the 70pc recorded in the first round of voting last week in Gujarat, one of India's fastest-developing ...

SHEIKHUPURA - The outlaws snatched six motorcycles, cash, cellphones, gold ornaments and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in different strikes here in the district. According to reports, Hafiz Muhammad Jamil along with his mother was on the way back home. When they reached near ...

Fire gutted a cloth market in a trade centre of the provincial capital early Saturday morning causing millions of rupee losses.According to details, fire caused due to unknown reasons erupted in a three-storey building located in Azam cloth market.Fire brigades and rescue teams reached the scene ...

LAHORE – Authorities of the Water and Sanitation Agency have misappropriated millions of rupees in the purchase of sewerage pipes, laid at on going construction project of Link Model Town Road while the project was also started before inviting tenders, The Nation has learnt.A copy data ...

DASKA - In three major dacoity incidents in Chak Gillan, Daska tehsil unknown armed dacoits dressed in police uniforms looted valuables worth millions. As many as eleven armed dacoits stormed the house of local farmer Muhammad Ilyas and made his family hostage. They looted gold ornaments, ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Customs Intelligence recovered artefacts of worth million of rupees and arrested the two accused allegedly involved in the smuggling of these antiques on Friday. According to Customs officials, they arrested two persons identified as Imran and Asif Jamal when they were going to ...

ISLAMABAD  – The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said SECP’s move to push Sharia compliant risk coverage in Pakistan is to benefit millions.  The move may triple insurance density and penetration in which Pakistan ranks lowest in the region, it said.Islamic insurance ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RAJANPUR - An increasingly sophisticated cartel stole oil worth millions of rupees from PARCO facilities in Kot Addu, officials said. Disguising himself as a cotton dealer, one Mir Ahmad, son of Dur Muhammad, constructed a house in Model Town, Jampur. The man allegedly tapped ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Cultural Day, highlighting the traditional Sindhi Topi and Ajrak, was celebrated across the province on Saturday and Sunday. The event was sponsored by the Sindh government which has allocated millions of rupees to celebrate the day in a befitting manner. The people and the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - The shutdown of Qantas Airways' flights is costing Australia's economy "tens of millions" of dollars with each hour that it continues, a labour tribunal heard Sunday. The comments were made by a government lawyer at an emergency session of the country's industrial regulator that has ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - The City Police claimed to have nabbed the ringleader of a swindlers gang who had deprived a local trader of Rs8m. Mushtaq and his accomplices purchased articles worth amounting to Rs8 million from a renowned local store Kashmir Super Store and made payment through cheque which later ...

LAHORE - Public funds in millions of rupees were mercilessly wasted on the publicity of the 'fraudulent Ashyana Scheme and ever since its launch, nothing but huge irregularities have been coming to the light, alleged Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi, senior federal minister and president PML-Q Punjab. He ...

LAHORE Finally, life threats became fate of job-seeking students who were promised positions by impersonators in esteemed organisations of the country. Many of the cheated guys are now running pillar to post, as provincial top cops and other high-ups did nothing to address their grievances. A ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama was worth millions of dollars in 2010, mostly due to royalties from the sale of his books, financial disclosure forms showed on Monday. Obama had between $100,001 and $1,000,000 from Audacity of Hope, a book tied in with his run for the White House ...

KARACHI The owners of petrol pumps earned million of rupees just from Karachi on the stock of petrol that they saved during strike on Monday, the insider of the petroleum ministry informed The Nation. According to details, petroleum dealers went on strike against declining profits and closed their ...

LAHORE The speakers at the first National Islamic Microfinance Conference said that Islamic microfinance addressed the limitations posed by interest-based loaning, besides facilitating the poor by Shariah-compliant methods as well as focusing on micro-enterprises. Islamic microfinance enables us ...

AMRAIZ KHAN LAHORE - Every year international and domestic air traffic is disrupted for weeks because of dense fog at Lahore airport, which occurs when dew point and still air temperature are the same and there is no wind. The fog phenomenon becomes acute because of pollution. This year, the sub ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Pakistan Railways is facing million of losses due to flood, as railways tracks have been washed out in flood-hit areas of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan provinces. Railway administration has started rehabilitation work and survey for damages. According to railways ...

DHAKA (Agencies) - Seeking divine blessing, hundreds of thousands of Muslims from around the world held prayers in Bangladesh on Friday, the start of one of the biggest annual gatherings of the faithful after the Hajj to Makkah. The faithful participated in the Juma prayers at the three-day Biswa ...

LIKE a blizzard filling the sky, these pictures show one of natures most amazing displays as more than a million snow geese stop for a rest during their annual migration. The spectacular shots were taken by Mike Hollingshead in Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri. The ...

HYDERABAD - The speakers at a seminar emphasized the need for promoting community awareness to save the worldwide-threatened specie, vulture, saying tens of millions of vulture have been perished in the world due to a drug called Diclofenac. Speaking on the International Vulture Awareness Day, ...

KARACHI - Various projects worth millions of dollars in Balochistan, NWFP and partly in Sindh have been found stagnant due to the sheer ignorance of the Board of Investment (BoI), the Trade Develop Authority Pakistan (TDAP), Balochistan Development Authority (BDA) and the Small and Medium ...

SEOUL (AFP) - The global economic crisis is also a social crisis in Asia, with an estimated 60 million people remaining mired in poverty due to falling growth rates, an Asian Development Bank executive said Thursday. The social consequences of the economic crisis are very severe, Rajat M. Nag, ADB ...