LONDON (SS): Queen Elizabeth is stepping down! According to a bombshell new report from America’s Globe magazine, the British Monarch will abdicate the thrown - much to the delight of her daughter-in-law Camilla. Camilla - who’s married to Prince Charles - apparently declared, ...

LAHORESenior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Aitzaz Ahsan has decided to step down from his Senate seat, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.Aitzaz Ahsan forwarded his resignation to the PPP leadership on Tuesday after his wife Bushra Aitzaz lost elections from NA-124 ...

MANCHESTER – Alex Ferguson has revealed that loyalty to his wife, Cathy, was the key factor in his decision to retire from football management at the end of the current season. The 71-year-old Scot enjoyed an emotion-charged farewell in Manchester United’s 2-1 victory over Swansea City ...

NEW DELHI - Two Indian cabinet ministers quit late Friday over corruption scandals that have engulfed Premier Manmohan Singh’s graft-tainted Congress government, which faces elections within a year.Law minister Ashwani Kumar handed in his resignation after opposition outrage over government ...

CALIFORNIA: A US woman slapped a policeman in the face - because she wanted to be locked up to help her give up smoking. Etta Lopez, 31, is charged with assaulting a police officer following her drastic bid to quit her habit in Sacromento, California. Deputy Matt Campoy was leaving his shift at the ...

BULAWAYO:- Mushfiqur Rahim will quit as captain of Bangladesh after two Twenty20 internationals against Zimbabwe this weekend. Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur made the announcement after Bangladesh lost the third one-day international by seven wickets on Wednesday, conceding a one-day series to ...

Karachi - The leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party has formally requested the Awami National Party to withdraw its candidates in favour of PPP in interior Sindh.  Sources close to the parties confirmed to The Nation that provincial president of ANP, Senator Shahi Syed on Tuesday evening met ...

PAJU, South Korea Dozens of South Korean workers returned from a jointly run factory park in North Korea on Saturday as part of an evacuation of the flagship project following months of military tensions.The move plunges into doubt the future of the Kaesong complex - once a rare symbol of ...

DOHA  ES - Janet Jackson has quit showbiz to become the wife of a billionaire. The singer - who married Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana last year - has been spending her time in the Middle East. “She’s gone,” a source said. “She married a billionaire. She’s ...

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has said the assassinations of the party workers is a conspiracy meant to steer the party out of the elections.In a statement issued from London, the MQM chief said the criminal people have been left to go scot-free for the murder of the ...

KARACHI - After Shirazi brothers of Thatta, the Mahar group of Ghotki has threatened to quit the PPP and contest elections as independent candidates.The Mahar group has expressed reservations over the contesting of election by PPP candidate Khalid Lund’s cousin Babar Lund on PML-F’s ...

HAFIZABAD - PTI District President Ch Amanullah Sindhu advocate and other office-bearers of 42 union councils have announced to resign from the party membership, protesting against the leadership for ignoring Rai Fakharuz Zaman Kharal and awarding election ticket to Qasim Tarar who has never been ...

HAFIZABAD - PTI District President Ch Amanullah Sindhu advocate and other office-bearers of 42 union councils have announced to resign from the party membership, protesting against the leadership for ignoring Rai Fakharuz Zaman Kharal and awarding election ticket to Qasim Tarar who has never been ...

RAMALLAH (AFP) - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad is to present his resignation to president Mahmud Abbas, an official said. Abbas and Fayyad are known to have been at odds over a raft of issues but their relationship took a nose dive last month when Fayyad accepted his finance ...

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that he will quit politics if proved a loan defaulter.Earlier on Thursday, a report quoting sources said that State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) had declared Shahbaz Sharif a loan defaulter along with ...

HAFIZABAD - More than 25 office-bearers of the PPP and PYO have resigned from the primary membership of the party in protest against the attitude of the party high command towards old and loyal workers while awarding party tickets. They have particularly expressed their resentment over the award of ...

HAFIZABAD - More than 25 office-bearers of the PPP and PYO have resigned from the primary membership of the party in protest against the attitude of the party high command towards old and loyal workers while awarding party tickets. They have particularly expressed their resentment over the award of ...

PESHAWAR - Taliban militants in Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar have threatened the locals not to cooperate with the government and security forces, otherwise they would be met with the same fate like of the 21 soldiers of Levies.   The written pamphlets have been pasted on different walls ...

MARDAN - Several politicians, affiliated with different political parties, traders and industrialists, who had joined Awami National Party (ANP) soon after it came into power, are now quitting the party in Mardan, the hometown of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti.A large ...

KARACHI  - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan should fix a deadline for ending the terrorist activities.Talking to media at the wedding ceremony of Federal Minister Babar Ghauri’s daughter in Karachi on Sunday‚ he said talks would be held with ...

WANA  - Ahmadzai Wazir tribe and members of the Wana Peace Committee have given an ultimatum to Mehsud tribesmen to leave the area by December 5. The decision was taken at a grand jirga of Wazir tribes and members of the peace committee in which large number of tribal elders participated. ...

PESHAWAR – Following the resignation of PML-N Women Wing, General Secretary, Shazia Aurangzeb, several other office-bearers of the wing have also quitted the party offices in protest against appointment of ‘undeserving people’ in the party without taking the old party workers into ...

LAHORE – Imran Khan on Saturday lauded the Supreme Court decision in the Asghar Khan case and said that it had exposed the links of the political party with intelligence agencies that accused the PTI of the same. Addressing party leaders and workers at a function held in honour of those who ...

KHANEWAL - Sunni Ittehad Council Chief and Sahibzada Haji Fazal Karim has said that the rulers are following western democracy whereas they are following the lesson of true democracy practiced by beloved Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) who introduced mankind to Islam which is a complete ...

KHUSHAB - Joining the chorus against worst power outages in the country’s history, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has given an ultimatum to the government to end loadshedding and said he would himself join the protests, if it failed to resolve the crisis within next two days.He was addressing a ...

SIALKOT - Federal Regulation and Services Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the PPP-led government has ben utilizing all-out resources for overcoming the gas and electricity crisis in the country. Talking to different delegations at Kubay Chak on Monday, she said that shortage of energy ...

Chief of Pakistan Muslim League–N Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has once again demanded resignation from Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani with warning that his government would have to face stiff mass movement within the parliament and outside on the streets.“Bow down before the ...

QUETTA - Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani has decided to quit PPP over his differences with its leadership on Balochistan, sources said on Wednesday.According to the sources, he would announce his decision at a press conference next week. It is stated that he may join JUI-F and become a strong candidate ...

LAHORE – More than 50 percent of students enrolled in the four-year BS (Hons) programme at Government MAO College have left the programme due to ill-planned decisions made by the college administration, it is learnt, while the Punjab Higher Education Department keeps mum on what is happening ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that development projects worth billions of rupees have been completed during the last four years in a highly transparent manner and he is ready to quit if misappropriation even of a single penny was proved. He said that his government ...