KUWAIT - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.2 billion in damages to Dow Chemical Co over a scrapped plastics joint venture.Nizar Mohammad al-Asani replaced Farouk Zanki as CEO at the oil firm and the ...

lahore - Two officials of Punjab Planning Development Department have been found to embezzle about Rs 21.35 million in their department.This was revealed in reference case sent to the Punjab government for taking action under PEEDA Act 2006 and lodging of FIR against the officials in the ...

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) chairman Syed Ali Akber Shah Qadri has nominated 20 technical officials for the 35th Velo Cup National Boxing Championship to be held at Sialkot from May 25-30. The officials include Ali Akber Shah Qadri (AIBA) technical delegate, Ghulam ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed the driver of a NATO supply truck driving through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said.The shooting took place in the Jamrud area of Khyber. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local government official ...

WASHINGTON : Federal authorities have charged a Texas man with illegal possession of bomb making materials, but would not say whether the arrest is linked to a probe into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant.The US Justice Department said in a statement that Bryce Ashley Reed, ...

Two people were killed and 23 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife ...

Islamabad - A report of a non-governmental organisation indicates that a total of 70 government officials have been found involved participating in political activities in 25 constituencies across the country.Among those thirty-six officials were seen seeking votes for different candidates in 12 ...

North Korea has taken a major step back from a planned missile test, US officials said, even as Pyongyang and Seoul exchanged fresh threats Tuesday of swift military retaliation to any provocation.A US defence official said two North Korean missiles -- primed for imminent test firing -- had been ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

TRIPOLI:Libya’s General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office. Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries ...

A group of officials from the Pakistani High Commission to India on Saturday visited Sanaullah Haq who had been injured in a brawl with an Indian inmate in a Jammu jail at PGI Chandigarh, the Times of India reported.Pakistan was granted consular access to Sanaullah by India on Friday night, as well ...

LAHORE Government of Pakistan will send 270 officials from across the country including 23 from Punjab to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under Hujjaj Muhafiz Scheme of Ministry of Religious Affairs, TheNation has learnt.  Sources in the S&GAD confided that applications from government ...

A passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing at least 30 people, many of them heading for the poppy harvest, officials said.The accident happened in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province as passengers on the packed bus were travelling to join ...

PULI ALAMAfghan village elders negotiated with the Taliban Tuesday to try to win the release of a group of foreign hostages, officials said, but no progress was reported so far.The insurgents seized eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan after their civilian helicopter made a forced ...

Peshawar - A roadside bomb targeting an army convoy killed four soldiers and wounded another four in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.The blast occurred when a vehicle of the military convoy of security personnel rolled over an improvised explosive device near Khawaja Khar checkpost. The convoy ...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reshuffled tax officers with transfers and postings of 18 high-ranking officers in last few days.Sources informed that reshuffle in FBR was expected with new chairman took the charge of the tax department. The notification revealed three officers of Pakistan ...

COLOMBO:- Jayantha Dharmadasa and Nishantha Ranatunga won uncontested elections for the posts of Sri Lanka Cricket president and secretary on Tuesday in the national governing body's first secret ballot.  The election, which lasted eight hours, was held under tight security with several ...

ISLAMABAD - Noticing frequent media appearances of its officials outside their authority and despite order for not doing so, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday appeared to have cut down to size its third-tier management, with the issuance of new directives instructing the ECP ...

LAHORE – District Coordination Officer Lahore, Rizwan Mehboob on Sunday suspended Sub Inspector Market Committee Shadman Ijaz Bhatti and officials Gulberg Town Shahzad and Waheed Gulzar on their absent from Model Town Sunday Bazaar. He also issued showcause notice to District Officer ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The City Police registered a case under section 452 and 506 PPC against four SNGPL officials on the charge of violation of court stay order and removing gas meter from the house of a lawyer.Advocate Abdul Manaf Khan informed police that he had got installed a gas meter in 2001 but ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The City Police registered a case under section 452 and 506 PPC against four SNGPL officials on the charge of violation of court stay order and removing gas meter from the house of a lawyer.Advocate Abdul Manaf Khan informed police that he had got installed a gas meter in 2001 but ...

MULTAN - The government has decided to transfer all SHOs and revenue officers with political links to other districts besides installing CCTV cameras at sensitive polling stations across the district. This was disclosed by the newly-appointed DCO Gulzar Hussain Shah and new CPO Ghulam Mehmood Dogar ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Syed Tahir Shahbaz, has instructed to carry out operation against encroachers in H-9.In a first phase, at least five officials of Enforcement Directorate, CDA, were seriously injured during an operation carried out against the illegal ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has strictly directed all the ECP officials not to issue any statement to electronic or print media.In this connection, the CEC Tuesday issued a special notification barring the ECP officials from giving press statements and ...

Caretaker government’s step of reshuffling the government officials was challenged in Lahore High Court here in Lahore on Wednesday.Rana Arshad, Advocate submitted a petition in the LHC stating that caretaker government was only responsible to hold fair and transparent general elections in ...

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday.The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday."Ten children and eight militants were killed in the ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - A bomb blast killed two top provincial officials on Friday in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, authorities said, blaming the attack on rebel fighters seeking to derail peace talks. The deputy governor of Yala province, Issara Thongthawat, was killed along with Yala ...

ISLAMABAD - Contrary to the rules and regulations formulated by the Election Commission of Pakistan, higher authorities of Capital Development Authority (CDA) have transferred nine officers ahead of the upcoming general elections for not issuing NOCs to former legislators for their outstanding ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - On the directives of the Supreme Court, District and Sessions Judge Sardar Tahir Sabir inspected the Government Girls Primary School of Kotha Arain on Saturday, found its building in dilapidated condition and reprimanded the Education Department over its sorry state of affairs. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Water and Power Secretary Mrs. Nargis Sethi along with senior officials paid visit to Tarbela Dam and Power Generation Units on Thursday to assess hydel generation situation and take stock of the preparation made for the Tarbela Fourth Power Generation unit of 1,400 MW.The ...