WASHINGTON The United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Syria, targeting four ministers, one airline and one TV station, just as a new peace conference is being planned to end the 27-month conflict in the Middle East country.The Department of Treasury blacklisted the ministers of ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN/SAHIWALPML-N MNA Malik Rasheed Ahmed Khan defeated two former foreign ministers in NA-140 Kasur and won the slot of MNA by getting 68,460 votes in the general elections of 2013.There was very tough competition in this constituency because the two former foreign ministers were also ...

CAIRO  - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday summoned his defence and interior ministers over the kidnapping hours earlier of policemen and soldiers in the Sinai peninsula, the official MENA agency reported.The crisis talks at the presidential palace come after unidentified gunmen ...

SARGODHAThe general elections 2013 turned out to be a nightmare for the losing candidates, especially for the three former federal ministers who were defeated from their ancestral constituencies. As per detail, former Federal Minister Ch Anwar Ali Cheema was knocked out by the PML-N candidate in ...

BRUSSELS - As tens of millions languish on the dole with EU austerity blamed for deepening recession, finance ministers will switch their focus Tuesday from bailout negotiations to the pursuit of a trillion-euro annual tax-fraud bounty.European Union governments are looking to ready a package that ...

NEW DELHI - Two Indian cabinet ministers quit late Friday over corruption scandals that have engulfed Premier Manmohan Singh’s graft-tainted Congress government, which faces elections within a year.Law minister Ashwani Kumar handed in his resignation after opposition outrage over government ...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the withdrawal of additional unprecedented perks and privileges to former interior minister Rehman Malik, his predecessors and to former prime ministers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Yousuf Raza Gilani.A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief ...

QUETTA - Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Barozai, son of senior PPP leader and former chief minister Muhammad Khan Barozai, was sworn into the office as caretaker chief minister of Balochistan province here on Saturday. Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi administered the oath to Barozai in a plain ceremony at ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday conveyed to all concerned, including the cabinet ministers, to show utmost regard and dignity towards the judiciary while discussing court cases especially during the television talk shows.The Prime Minister made these observations while informally ...

Three government ministers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have resigned after they were accused of watching a pornographic video during an assembly session. The rightwing Bharatiya Janata party, which rules Karnataka, ordered the three ministers to resign after local television channels ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday apprised the Upper House of Parliament about foreign visits undertaken by the persons holding the portfolio of the Federal Information Minister since 2008. Replying to a question during the question-hour, she said in 2008, ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday allocated additional portfolios for the existing ministers. The ministers who got additional portfolios include Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo - Minister of Defence Production, Makhdoom Shahabuddin - Housing and Works, Mian Raza Rabbani - Human Rights, ...

After the assassination of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer three ministers of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa including 22 members assembly have hired private security guards in their security squad, these security guards are from their own constituency. As per details three ministers including 22 members ...

Politicians were consistently deceived by the military over how well the campaign in Afghanistan was going, a former British ambassador to the country said yesterday. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles said the top brass were 'misleadingly optimistic and if any official or minister cast doubt on them, they ...

More than 20 years after a disproportionate assets case was registered against a former Jammu and Kashmir Minister, authorities are yet to grant sanction to prosecute him. The case against former minister Jagjivan Lal of National Conference is among 664 corruption cases registered by the State ...

Foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) countries on Saturday started the plenary session of their informal meeting near Almaty on the security situation in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and other issues.

The long-awaited third Interior Ministers Conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) started on Wednesday in Islamabad under tightened security. The ministers will discuss issues of narcotics and counter terrorism while India and Pakistan are expected to swab ...

PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday changed the portfolios of five federal ministers while two federal ministries have been vanished, report said. According to a notification, Ministries for Investment and Planning Division have been vanished. Minister for Education Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani has ...

Britain's home and defence secretaries arrived in Islamabad on Monday for talks with Pakistani leaders on counter-terrorism and defence in the insurgent-plagued nation, officials said. British Home Secretary Alan Johnson and Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth will meet with President Asif Ali Zardari, ...

The local police have registered a case against eight persons here, followed by an incident of clash and aerial firing between the supporters of Provincial Revenue Minister, Haji Ishaque and the police. SHO City, Bahar Hussain has registered a case against the three nominated and five unidentified ...

Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Dr. Farooq Sattar and Minister for Ports and Shipping, Babar Khan Ghauri on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at PM Secretariat and discussed with him matters relating to KESC. Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was also present ...

Balochistan government has halted the issuance of its official notification for the dismissal of five provincial ministers announced by Chief Minister earlier today, a federal minister and PPP leader told newsmen here Thursday. "The ministers who were dismissed earlier today have called on Chief ...

Former minister of information and broadcasting Sherry Rehman said interference of some ministers in the matters of information ministry forced her to resign from the office. Talking to media at Karachi airport, PPP leader and former minister said principles in politics means a lot for her and she ...

The financial ministers and central bank chiefs of the world's seven leading industrial countries (G7) have gathered in Rome to discuss how to deal with the global financial downturn. Representatives from the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, Italy, Canada and France were expected to consider ...

A suicide bomber slammed his explosives-filled car into the convoy of Iraq's labour minister in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, security officials told a foreign news agency. The bomber attacked Shiite minister Mahmud Jawad al-Radi's convoy in central Baghdad's Tahreer Square but ...

US President George W. Bush and finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich countries opened crisis talks on Saturday, looking for unity on a remedy to the global financial crisis. After the White House meeting, Bush was scheduled to make public remarks at 8:05 am (1805 PST) flanked by the ...

The Group of Eight foreign ministers agreed Friday that North Korea must completely abandon its nuclear weapons and address an abduction row with Tokyo, host Japan said. The ministers of the eight industrial powers held talks in Kyoto, Japan, one day after North Korea submitted a long-delayed ...

The G8 environment ministers on Monday called for actions to maintain biological diversity. Recognizing the fundamental importance of biodiversity for human livelihoods, the eradication of poverty and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, the ministers said that biological diversity ...

Nine federal ministers of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Tuesday tendered their resignations to the prime minister. PML-N ministers Khwaja Saad Rafique, Ishaq Dar, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Tehmina Daulatana, Khwaja Asif, Chaudhry Nisar, Ahsan Iqbal and Sardar Mehtab Khan reached ...