lahore - The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) discussed possibilities of collaboration in research, training and value chain activities for the development of livestock sector. A two member ILRI delegation comprising its ...

FAISALABAD - DCO Najam Ahmad Shah assured the business community to evolve a strategy for the fair distribution of available electricity and announced that the Fesco and local industrialists/traders would hold a meeting within a couple of day to find out some effective solution for distribution of ...

 ISRAR AHMED & ASIM QADEER RANA RAWALPINDI - Dozens of candidates including heavyweights belonging to different political parties along with hundreds of supporters submitted their nomination papers to Returning Officers (ROs) at District Courts.However, the residents and motorists faced ...

ISRAR AHMED & ASIM QADEER RANARAWALPINDI - Dozens of candidates including heavyweights belonging to different political parties along with hundreds of supporters submitted their nomination papers to Returning Officers (ROs) at District Courts.However, the residents and motorists faced troubles ...

Waqt News - After the refusal of Ijaz Mansoor to visit Pakistan, the memo commission can send a team to London or Zurich to record his statement and can even take testimony on video conference, constitutional experts said.Talking to Waqt News, Justice (retd) Saeeduz Zaman Siddique said it seems ...

ISLAMABAD - Senior lawyer Akram Sheikh and Attorney General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haq on Friday discussed to file a joint application before the Judicial Commission to extend the memo scam hearing date, scheduled for January 16th.Mansoor Ijaz's counsel Akram Sheikh met with Attorney General ...

PERTH  – Australia and India are considering an unusual four-pronged pace attack for the third Test but won't settle on their final line-up until just before the match at Perth's WACA Ground, starting on Friday (today).Both teams are considering playing four fast bowlers in the match, ...

SIALKOT - Business community of Sialkot is contemplating on a strategy for initiating electricity generation project to get rid of loadshedding on permanent basis and keep the production wheel in full motion. The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has already constituted a committee ...

RAWALPINDI (INP) - General David Hurley, Chief of Defence Forces, Australia called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters on Friday. The visiting dignitary remained with the COAS for some time and discussed matters of professional interest, particularly ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc has spoken to at least two private equity firms about possibly helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core business, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Google and prospective partners have held preliminary ...

Our Staff Reporter SIALKOT - Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that energy conference will be held on Monday (today) in Islamabad to formulate a strategy for getting rid of electricity loadshedding. Chief Ministers of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and ...

Pakistan has reportedly proposed two separate dates for next months foreign minister level talks to be held in New Delhi, reports an Indian newspaper. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir is also expected to visit Delhi in the second week of July to prepare the ground for the ministerial dialogue ...

CHICAGO (AFP) - US jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman accused of helping to plot the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks. Rana, a 50-year-old Canadian citizen, is charged with providing material support to terrorists by acting as a messenger and providing ...

ISLAMABAD - The Raymond Davis episode and unabated US drone strikes have forced Islamabad to plead with Washington for redefining the rules of engagements to bridge differences between the two strategic allies that plunged their relations into the lowest ebb. Well-placed military and diplomatic ...

KARACHI - Nishat Mills Limited (NML) will hold a Board of Directors meeting on December 20, 2010, to mull over divesting 10 per cent of its stakes in Pakgen Power, formerly AES Pak Gen (Private) Company through an Offer for Sale and Listing of Pakgen, it was stated in a notice issued by NML to KSE ...

His name is Aleksandr Vasilyevich Shcherbakov. Or maybe not. The true name of the Russian spymaster who allegedly defected last summer is just one of the mysteries in the far-from-finished spy story that broke in a Moscow newspaper Thursday. But two longtime spies, a Russian and an American, both ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers vowed Sunday to take up swift and severe sanctions against Iran, as reports emerged the UN nuclear watchdog concluded Tehran has the know-how to build an atomic bomb. A chorus of congressional voices, both Republican and Democratic, urged tough action against Tehran ...

ISLAMABAD - Top leadership of the country Saturday reviewed progress on the current military offensive in South Waziristan Agency and also in the Malakand Agency, vowing to continue fight till achieving the goals. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez ...

The Taliban and Alqaeda committee of UN Security Council is mulling to put more Pakistanis on terror list. According to senior diplomatic sources, a time-tested friend country is helping Pak in this connection. Senior diplomats are also trying to stop inclusion of names of more Pakistanis into ...

RIYADH (AFP) - Finance and economy ministers and central bankers from oil-rich Arab states in the Gulf met for emergency talks on Saturday to forge a common front to battle the global economic crisis. The policymakers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met behind closed doors in ...

SRINAGAR (PPI) The representatives of occupied Kashmir industry and the visiting delegation of the AJK Chamber of Commerce and Industry have proposed setting up of joint industrial ventures. According to Kashmir Media Service, addressing an interactive meeting in Srinagar, the leader of AJK ...