ISLAMABAD - Incoming Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is said to have short-listed two candidates for the top slot of principal secretary. According to highly credible sources high-ranking bureaucrats Ch Qamar-u-Zaman or Mohammad Sami have been short listed and one of them could be the ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has formally nominated his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif for the post of Punjab chief minister, Dunya News reported on Thursday.Shahbaz Sharif had won seats from Lahore’s PP-159, PP-161 and Rajapur’s PP-247 constituency.The ...

PANGASINAN: A high school senior in the Philippines is drawing attention for his unusual name, which includes 40 first names and a surname. The latest senior to enroll at Urdaneta City National High School in Pangasinan is a 15-year-old student named Ratziel Timshel Ismail Zerubbabel Zabud Zimry ...

PESHAWAR - The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) have announced names for three ministries in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government.Sirajul Haq, Inayatullah Khan and Habibur Rehman have been put forward for the ministries of education, zakat and finance. Speaking to the media after a meeting, provincial ...

LOS ANGELES - Sophia tops the list of names for American baby girls for the second year in a row, while King and Messiah are becoming increasingly popular names for boys, the US Social Security Administration said.Jacob has become a standby for boys’ names, topping that category for the 14th ...

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday named James Dobbins, an experienced diplomat with a history of difficult assignments from Kosovo to Somalia, as his special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan.“This is a pivotal moment for both Afghanistan and Pakistan, with ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Office has written a letter to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking names of polling officers to be stationed abroad.In its letter, the FO said the names of the polling officers be provided at the earliest so that it could start necessary work including visa ...

KARACHI - Awami National Party Senator Shahi Syed has announced his party candidates in Sindh for upcoming polls.Addressing a news conference at Mardan House here on Sunday, Syed said the ANP is contesting elections form 17 National and 36 Provincial constituencies of Sindh. He said his party has ...

lahore The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Wednesday cleared names for 13 National Assembly and 25 Punjab Assembly seats of Lahore. Of the 13 candidates for national seats, seven are repeat election contestants. On the other hand, at least nine candidates, who won from their constituencies in ...

MULTAN - The PML-N has finally started issuing tickets to its candidates from different constituencies of Multan as the names of final candidates from four out of six national assembly and nine out of 13 provincial assembly constituencies have been announced, The Nation has learnt.Sources disclosed ...

SIALKOT - Electioneering got momentum following the finalisation of candidates by the PML-N for five National Assembly and 11 Provincial Assembly constituencies here in the district.The candidate have started their election campaign with the focusing on not to violate the election code of conduct ...

QUETTA – The Pakistan People’s Party has announced its candidates on 11 National and 50 Balochistan Assembly seats for the upcoming general elections.Addressing a news conference here Friday, PPP Balochistan president Mir Sadiq Umrani announced names of the candidates. Other party ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN- After a prolonged delay, PML-N has finally announced its candidates for one national and two provincial assembly seats of Nowshera Virkan.The PML-N leadership decided to award all three tickets to Nahra Group after reviewing overall situation of the constituency. PML-N has ...

 LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is likely to announce names of its final contestants for the May 11 elections on Wednesday (tomorrow). Sources in the PML-N say the party has completed most of the work about finalising names of its election candidates that will be made ...

KATE Middleton says her friends have been texting her baby names. The British beauty is expecting her first child with husband Prince William. “My friends keep texting me names,” Middleton said. “We have a short list for both [BOY AND GIRL] but it’s very ...

ISLAMABAD  - Supreme Court has refused to delete the names of former Parliamentarians holding dual nationality from disqualified members list and directed them to resort to respective forum. A three-member bench of Supreme Court presided over by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States said Thursday it was nominating Air Force General Philip Breedlove as the new Nato Supreme Commander, filling the key position a month after top general John Allen stepped aside.President Barack Obama “is nominating Air Force General Philip Breedlove to ...

After their recent visit to Bangladesh, Pakistan Medical Delegation narrated their observations about the Bangladesh Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and the contributions made by Brig Malik Ali in the establishment and development of that institute. They commended Dr Ali’s hard work and ...

LAHORE – The PML-Q has nominated former MNA Syed Muhammad Asghar Shah as its candidate for the general election in the constituency of NA-188 Bahawalnagar.Shah along with the local notables called on PML-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain and Deputy Prime Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Monday. ...

PESHAWAR - PML-N Women Wing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has nominated women organizers for four National Assembly (NA) constituencies of Peshawar district here on Wednesday.Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club here on Wednesday, PML (N) Women Wing Central General Secretary Shazia ...

PESHAWAR - PML-N Women Wing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has nominated women organizers for four National Assembly (NA) constituencies of Peshawar district here on Wednesday.Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club here on Wednesday, PML (N) Women Wing Central General Secretary Shazia ...

LAHORE – PML-Q chief Shujaat Hussain and Punjab President Pervaiz Elahi have nominated Rehman Naseer as the party’s candidate for the upcoming bye-poll in NA-107, Gujrat.  The decision was taken during a party meeting on Friday held under Shujaat’s chairmanship.  Party ...

LAHORE – The Search Committee for the appointment of Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s (BISE) on Thursday finalised 27 names for the posts of secretaries and controllers examination in six boards. Officials of Punjab Higher Education Department told TheNation that ...

The Core Group meeting of Pakistani, Afghan and US officials Friday agreed to form sub-group at the United Nation level to work for the removal names of Taliban leaders from the UN sanctions list. This was announced in a joint press conference by Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani, US Special ...

MULTAN - The PML-N leadership has appointed Syed Mutiul Hassan Bokhari as deputy secretary information Multan district. “He is given this office in recognition of his services he rendered for the party and loyalty exhibited with the Quaid Nawaz Sharif,” declared Sheikh Athar Mumtaz, ...

LAHORE - The revealing of names of those who tried to ‘buy’ loyalties of the N lawmakers during the Governor’s Rule of 2009 by using Intelligence Bureau’s secret funds will stun the public, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said here on Thursday. He expressed these views while ...

ISLAMABAD – The Judicial Commission on Saturday recommended the names of six new additional judges for their appointment at the Lahore High Court and two for the Federal Shariat Court.The names recommended for the appointment at the FSC are Sheikh Ahmed Farooq and Jahangir Arshad. The ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan People's Party leadership has started scrutinizing and short-listing the names of those applied for the party tickets for the Senate elections scheduled to be held March 2 and the list would be finalized in next few days.Sources in the party informed that some 475 ...

LONDON - Receiving an honour from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth marks the pinnacle of many careers. But for more than 250 people named in a once-secret official document, the idea was so unappealing that they turned down the monarch’s offer.Artist Lucian Freud, sculptor Henry Moore and ...

LAHORE - Umar Akmal and Wahab Riaz succeeded in getting place in the Pakistan Test squad against England while Shoaib Malik and seamer M Khalil have been left out. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) selection committee in a press briefing here at the board’s headquarters on Monday announced the ...