CANNES: Jennifer Lawrence attended the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday to promote her upcoming film release The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.The Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook star was joined by cast-mates Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne) and Sam Claflin (Finnick Odair), and the ...

NOOPUR THALPML-N Youth Wing Tehsil Noopur Thal held a function to celebrate the victory of MNA-elect Malik Shakir Bashir Awan and MPA-elect Malik Muhammad Waris Kallu here on Sunday. The function was attended by local PML-N leaders and the wing office-bearers including Advocate Malik Muhammad ...

LAHORE  A majority view in PPP’s Punjab Executive Committee meeting on Friday was that BISP funds if spent to generate electricity could have averted party’s defeat in the recent elections. The Committee which met at Model Town office with Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo in the chair to ...

ISLAMABAD With the decision of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf to vacate one of the federal capital's National Assembly constituencies (NA-48), the race is on for securing party ticket in PTI and PML-N for by-polls from this constituency.On the other hand the chances of recapturing National Assembly ...

islamabadAmidst speculation of change in the top party leadership over disastrous defeat in Khyber Pakkhtunkhwa, Awami National Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) would be meeting here on Thursday (tomorrow).Sources in the party confirmed serious rifts within party with a sizeable group of ...

islamabadThe May 13 election results were equally surprising and interesting with different aspects, as the religio-political parties of the country except its two major factions Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami (JUI-F), might not able to even mark it presence neither in National ...

  MANCHESTER     Alex Ferguson thanked tens of thousands of Manchester United fans as they massed to salute him and his final title-winning side on an open-top bus parade through the city streets on Monday. United manager Ferguson, one of world football's most successful bosses, is ...

ISLAMABAD - The civic authority has launched an operation to clean the federal capital by removing all election banners, streamers and party flags fixed in different parts of the city."We will ensure the removal of every party flag, banner, streamer and graffiti within 24 hours to restore city's ...

MULTANPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi declared on Sunday that his party would play the role of a strong, vibrant and effective opposition in the parliament.Talking to the journalists here, he added that the PTI was the party of the future and it would make ...

LOS ANGELES: Selena Gomez is planning to go all out for her 21st birthday celebration. The actress-and-singer turns 21 on July 22 and intends on throwing a big bash to ring in her personal new year. Selena grew up filming Disney show Wizards Of Waverly Place and is still a firm children’s ...

ISLAMABAD - Whatever the reasons may be behind the going into hibernation of the top leadership of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) but this indifference to the party's election campaign, especially in central and upper Punjab areas, would cost their candidates dearly.Interaction ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN Muhammad Rafiq Kamboh PML-N candidate for NA-139 Sheikh Waseem Akhtar is facing two-pronged opposition from PTI's Sardar Muhammad Hussain Dogar, who left the PPP after serving 27 years, and PML-N local leaders who were denied the party ticket and are contesting independently in ...

British High Commissioner in Pakistan Adam Thomson has said the British government does not favour any political party in Pakistan.Talking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday‚ he hoped that the recent terrorist incidents will not affect general elections.He expressed the confidence that state ...

Kot Radha Kishan - Interesting situation has emerged in the district where candidates who were denied tickets by the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP are contesting the elections independently against the ticket-holders after joining hands with other candidates. In NA-138, the PML-N awarded ticket to ...

PESHAWAR-  Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao says his party will strongly oppose and protest again postponement of elections, as holding free, fair and timely polls is the solution of all crises. "A hung parliament will come in the aftermath of scheduled May 11 elections ...

KARACHI - The ten-party alliance of opposition, led by PML-F and PML-N, has failed to field unanimous candidates to challenge the PPP and MQM as hopefuls from opposition parties are contesting against each other on many seats in the Sindh province. This situation shows a clear negation of tall ...

ISLAMABAD -  Seven senior journalists have submitted applications to the Supreme Court to become party in the Information Ministry secret funds case.The applicants, in their pleas, took the stand that the report issued about the secret funds was false and based on mala fide intentions. They ...

As far as politics in Pakistan is concerned it is becoming a family run private business, what with Hamza Sharif and Marium Sharif joining their fathers and their party. The Likewise, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) should consider renaming their party as per our rich Punjabi dialect, thus ...

PESHAWAR  - Contrary to the decision of his party’ chief Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, Jamiat Ishaat Tawheed-wa- Sunnah (JITS) Central Naib Amir Maulana Ashraf Ali announced to support JUI-F in the forthcoming general elections. Addressing a joint press conference with JUI-F Provincial Amir ...

karachiFormer MNA and PPP leader Khalid Khan Lund has announced to quit the party and contest election as independent candidate against PPP’s Mahar. After a meeting of the PPP leadership with the Mahar and Lund groups of Ghotki at the residence of Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday, both sides ...

karachi Former chief minister of Punjab and PML-N leader, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the ten-party alliance of opposition parties in Sindh has finalised the consensus candidates to defeat the PPP in the province.He was addressing a press conference after chairing a parliamentary board ...

SAHIWAL - The former PML-N’s MPA from PP-222 Sahiwal-III has announced to contest election independently after he was denied a ticket by PML-N.Addressing the media at his residence, he expressed the hope that he would the election with the support of his supporters in the constituency.He said ...

SAHIWAL - The former PML-N’s MPA from PP-222 Sahiwal-III has announced to contest election independently after he was denied a ticket by PML-N.Addressing the media at his residence, he expressed the hope that he would the election with the support of his supporters in the constituency.He said ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan has termed the 10-party alliance a pleasant change and referred to it as a single contestant against MQM in upcoming elections. Addressing a ‘Tarazu Road Caravan’ from Karachi to Peshawar, organised by Shabab-e-Milli on Sunday, the JI chief ...

BUREWALA - The candidates of Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf for PP-233 claimed to win the Punjab Assembly seat in the forthcoming elections. Irshad Ahmad Arain from the PML-N said that PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif was a leader of Muslim Ummah, and added the latter made Pakistan ...

BUREWALA - The candidates of Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf for PP-233 claimed to win the Punjab Assembly seat in the forthcoming elections. Irshad Ahmad Arain from the PML-N said that PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif was a leader of Muslim Ummah, and added the latter made Pakistan ...

LAHORE :Central Working Committee of Pakistan People’s Pakistan-Shaheed Bhutto was held here on Saturday and discussed the current political situation and party strategy. Chaired by party head Ghinwa Bhutto, the meeting was attended by office-bearers of the party from all four provinces. The ...

HAFIZABAD - The PML-N staunch and diehard workers have appealed to party Chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to award party ticket for PP-105 to loyal and sincere worker instead of new comer in the party. Scores of old and diehard workers, with the condition of anonymity, said that some of the local ...

KARACHI - The PPP workers of Malir district in Karachi staged protest demonstration against unfair distribution of the election tickets, threatening to commit self immolation in front of Bilawal House here.Carrying placards and portraits of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and party’s chief Bilawal ...

KARACHI - The 10-party Opposition alliance has finalised its candidates on 24 National Assembly and 38 Provincial Assembly seats of Sindh province except Karachi region as differences emerged among main Opposition parties-PML-N and PML-F on the remaining constituencies. The 10-party Opposition ...