LOS ANGELES ES One Direction will be protected by President Barack Obama’s bodyguards on theirUStour. The ‘Kiss You’ hitmakers’ management have reportedly hired a team ex-secret service agents whose previous assignment was protecting the American leader to escort the ...

Pakistan has urged India to ensure protection of Pakistani prisoners languishing in their jails.Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Chaudhry in an interview Saturday asked India to arrange safe return of those prisoners who have completed terms of their punishment.He said Pakistan is considering ...

All political clans who were part of ruling collaboration (2008-13) are being targeted. They had all the administrative and legislative powers, during last five years; they had police, Frontier Corps, armed forces and security services at their disposal. Was this not long enough a period to root ...

LAHOREThe Lahore High Court on Tuesday suspended the three-years jail sentence granted to former Punjab Assembly MPA Chaudhry Rizwan Gill in fake degree case and directed the Sargodha police to release him on bail.Gill was elected as MPA in 2008 on a PML-N ticket.  He was declared disqualified ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Najam Sethi has stressed the need for launching public awareness campaign for environment protection. “More steps should be taken for saving environment. Pollution is disastrous. Environment protection is a collective responsibility,” Sethi said while ...

FAISALABAD - A seminar on” Intellectual Property Rights” was held in collaboration with the National Textile University, the Pakistan Scientific & Technology Information Centre and the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad. The seminar was chaired by Dr Muhammad Akram Sheikh, the ...

FAISALABAD - A seminar on” Intellectual Property Rights” was held in collaboration with the National Textile University, the Pakistan Scientific & Technology Information Centre and the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad. The seminar was chaired by Dr Muhammad Akram Sheikh, the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the interim government in Balochistan and law-enforcement agencies to take steps for protection of voters and election candidates, so that the general elections could be held in a peaceful manner.A two-judge bench of Gulzar Ahmed and Sheikh Azmat ...

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Museums and Archeology Sameen Jan Babar has said that the KPK is very rich in archeological sites and heritage. He said that protecting these national assets was not only our prime responsibility rather it was need of the hour. He was ...

QUETTA – Speakers at a consultative session regretted that incidents of kidnapping for ransom have compelled minorities to migrate from Balochistan who had been living here for centuries. They said that religious extremism and poor role of political parties in connection with protection of ...

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on Sunday said that education is the only way to protect and promote the rights of street children, observing that literacy had the power to curb poverty and ignorance.Representatives of different political parties and civil society organisations stated this while ...

KARACHI-The Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network (PDSN) has expressed serious concern over growing insecurity among the Hindu community of the country, particularly the low-caste minority groups commonly known as the scheduled castes that are not only subjected to rights exclusion and discrimination ...

PESHAWAR - The political administration of FR DI Khan has constructed flood protection walls for the communities of Alludin Kach, Shiekh Mela and Shahal Ragha of the region.  In a press release issued here Tuesday by the Directorate of Information, FATA Secretariat said that due to seasonal ...

LONDON The Association of Pakistani Lawyers, Pakistani origin solicitors, barristers and judges in the UK, has expressed its concerns over the announcement of British Immigration Minister Damien Green and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Maliks press statement in Islamabad giving an impression of ...

LAHORE - Heinous business of prostitution is becoming an industry in the provincial capital. As per details, people involved are marketing their business by having an album of girls and visiting cards. They marketed their 'product in different guest houses, hotels and other places. Police and ...

LAHORE - Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) recently completed Rs 31.0 million date-palm protection project with matching-grant support of Rs 15.5 million. This was the first time in the history of the country that such a project was implemented at the macro level to cater to the needs of date-palm ...

LAHORE - Tehreek Hurmat-e-Rasool (PBUH) on Friday organised conferences and rallies across the country including the City to condemn and protest against publication of blasphemous caricatures in Western media. People thronged venues of Hurmat-e-Rasool (PBUH) conferences in major cities including ...

BUREWALA - A Britain-based family has demanded of the higher authorities to provide them protection, as some influential outlaws wanted to take hold of their agricultural land after killing him and his family. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Ashiq Hussain, the resident of Blackburn, ...

WASHINGTON-The United States said Friday it agreed with a conclusion of the UN report on former PM Benazir Bhuttos murder that she lacked the necessary protection after she returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile. 'We have the report, We are reviewing it. The US cooperated fully not just in ...

LAHORE - How can people welcome 18th Amendment when confronted by the travails of 18-hours daily loadshedding, sky rocketing inflation and record high unemployment? These views were expressed by Moonis Elahi, central leader of Pakistan Muslim League, while talking to party members here on ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP) - A new study by the U.N.s labour agency calls for adopting a rights-based approach to provide better protection for the worlds 105 million migrant workers, who continue to experience challenges such as low wages and unsafe working conditions. The study International Labour ...

KARACHI - A Chinese delegation including a minister is reaching Pakistan to inaugurate the Construction of Quay Wall and Marine Protection Works at deep-Sea Container Terminal, sources told The Nation, The high profile inauguration ceremony is to be held on 30th of this month at the Camp Office of ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has stressed the need for protection of human rights in the interest of peace and harmony in the society. He said the vision and policy of the Punjab government was to foster equality and unity with compassion and care for the oppressed. In a message on ...

LAHORE - The Lahorites are expressing their anger against the decision to erect a security wall in front of Capital City Police Chiefs office that has divided Shaarey Fatima Jinnah (commonly known as Queens Road), one of the busiest arteries of the City, into two. They have urged Chief Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - Owing to the bureaucratic delays, the National Child Protection Bill has hit snags once again as the proposed bill is returned to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education by the Cabinet objecting to increasing the minimum child criminal liability age limit i.e. from 7 to 9, ...

KRISTEN Stewart is scared of vampires. The 'Twilight actress, who plays Bella in the vampire film franchise, is so terrified of the mythical blood-sucking creatures she festoons her home with cloves of garlic in an attempt to deter them. A source said: People are always remarking how smelly it is, ...

LAHORE - Film star Meera has demanded security from the Punjab government. She made this demand during a Press conference here Sunday after some unknown terror elements attacked her house. The terrorists attacked my house aiming to abduct and kill me, she told the mediamen at her DHA ...

KARACHI - Anjum Nisar, President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has urged the federal government to promulgate Geographical Indications Law and establish GI Registry in Pakistan. Addressing the members of KCCI Intellectual Property Rights Sub-Committee here on Wednesday, he said ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Investment, Senator Waqar Ahmad Khan said on Wednesday that government plans to bring legislation through parliament for the protection of investments for next ten years in the country. "The government will not only give full protection to the investments, ...

ISLAMABAD  (APP) - The Federal Minister for Women Development  Sherry Rehman chaired a consultation meeting with government officials and the members of the civil society to finalise the draft of the 'Protection from Harassment Act 2008'. "Harassment at workplace is a very sensitive ...