Senior PPP leader Mian Manzoor Wattoo has tendered resignation from his office reportedly over party’s failure to grab sufficient seats from Punjab in May 11 general elections.Wattoo, who is president of Pakistan Peoples Party’s central Punjab chapter, has dispatched his resignation to ...

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman, has tendered resignation from his office.She had replaced Hussain Haqqani in November 2011 after he resigned from the post over the secret memo scandal.Sherry Rehman sent her resignation to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mir Hazar ...

DURBAN - Gary Kirsten has decided not to renew his contract as South Africa coach, which ends in August, to be able to spend more time with his family. The Champions Trophy in England in June will be his last assignment with the South Africa side, which he led to the top of the Test ...

TRIPOLI Gunmen in Libya’s Tripoli kept up their siege of ministries on Monday despite the adoption of a law to purge Gaddafi-era officials from their posts, with some demanding the government’s resignation. Different groups at the justice and foreign ministries, however, failed to reach ...

TAIPEI - Chinese Olympic gold-medallist Lin Dan on Friday quit the Badminton Asia Championship citing an injury, effectively ending hopes that he would lead China's drive for a clean-sweep of titles. 'Super Dan', an icon in China and rated by many as badminton's greatest player, had to withdraw ...

RATODERO - Former MPA Ghulam Sarwar Siyal parted ways with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP_ here on Saturday. Addressing a press conference at his residence in Sachal Colony, Larkana, the ex-MPA, who was elected from PS-35 during 2008 elections, announced his resignation from the basic ...

PRINCE William has handed in his notice.The British royal - who’s expecting his first child with wife Kate Middleton - has submitted his formal notice with the Search and Rescue Force at Royal Air Force Valley in Anglesey, Wales.The helicopter pilot’s current tour with the RAF concludes ...

Englishman Richard Pybus has quit as coach of Bangladesh's cricket team over contract differences just five months into the job, officials said Wednesday.Pybus, 48, told the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) of his decision on Tuesday night, just weeks before the team take on the West Indies in a home ...

DHAKA  - Bangladesh's chief selector Akram Khan resigned from his post on Wednesday, citing interference from the country's cricket board president in team selection for the upcoming Asia Cup.Khan quit a day after Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Mustafa Kamal rejected the inclusion of ...

LAHORE – Meera has quit Lollywood in protest over massive corruption which has penetrated in film industry. According to Meera this corruption has severely damaged the industry like termites. Talent has no reward in Pakistan, she deplored.In an exclusive chat with The Nation, Meera ,however, ...

QUETTA - Pakistan People’s Party Balochistan Vice-President Ghulam Akbar Lasi has tendered his resignation from his party office and basic membership.Talking to the media on Friday, Akbar Lasi said he had been a sincere worker of PPP which could be gauged from the fact that he had spent half ...

LONDON  - Fabio Capello resigned as manager of England following the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy, the FA confirmed.In a remarkable twist to one of the most dramatic days in English football history, Capello's resignation was confirmed just hours after ...

Male  - The Maldives’ first democratically elected president resigned Tuesday after a police mutiny described by his office as an attempted coup, capping weeks of political upheaval in the holiday paradise. “It will be better for the country in the current situation if I resign. I ...

WASHINGTON - In what appears to be an attempt to irritate Pakistan, US special envoy Marc Grossman, who is tasked with gathering support for reconciliation talks with the Taliban, will go to India on his current trip around the region, only days after Islamabad said he was not welcome there. ...

CAROLINA - Former Chinese ambassador and one-time Utah governor Jon Huntsman is dropping his US presidential bid and will endorse frontrunner Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination on Monday, his campaign said. The timing of the news was a shock, coming hours after Huntsman picked up a major ...

A Chinese mechanic quit his job to create a larger-than-life bike for his cartoon-obsessed son. Zhang Yali, 49, from Jilin City, started the bike three months ago as a surprise gift for his son Zhang Wenzhong. He said he son was a cartoon fanatic who majored in animation at university, and works as ...

LAHORE - Former Punjab minister Abdul Aleem Khan who is at distance from PML-Q leadership since long, has finally tendered resignation from the party and is expected to join the PTI. Aleem on Sunday resigned from PML-Q, overtly differences with the party’s top leadership for joining hands ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - OneAsia chief executive Ben Sellenger on Friday abruptly announced his resignation, two years after setting up the ambitious circuit that sent shockwaves through Asian golf. Sellenger's decision, which pre-empted any official statement from OneAsia, will inevitably provoke ...

ISLAMABAD - Successful counter moves by PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in foiling attempts by some party MPs to create forward bloc in the Punjab Assembly was the chief reason for former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to resign from his National Assembly seat. Well-placed political sources ...

KARACHI - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has declared that by-elections will be held if the political opponents resigned from their assembly seats to achieve their political motives. The time is to lower down the political temperature and work unitedly for the welfare of the people instead ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Standard & Poors president Deven Sharma is stepping down, its parent company announced, just weeks after the credit rating agency cut the US sterling AAA rating and sent global markets into turmoil. Sharma, who will take another role in the company before leaving altogether at the ...

LAHORE - Dr Sher Afgan Niazi Saturday resigned from the newly-born APML of Pervez Musharraf over serious differences with other party leaders. The resignation of the political veteran is a big jolt for the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), which was registered with the Election Commission sometime ...

LONDON (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch sacrificed his embattled British newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks and issued his first apology over phone-hacking Friday as he tried to defuse the growing crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. As an FBI investigation spread the crisis to the United States, Murdoch ...

NEW YORK - Embattled US Congressman Anthony Weiner announced Thursday that he is resigning from Congress, making him the first congressman whose career was wrecked by indiscretions on Twitter. Weiner's wife, Human Abedin, who is of Pakistani-Indian heritage, was not with him when he made the ...

LAHORE - All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief, Pervez Musharraf rushing for damage control measures on Monday regarding partys member Attiqa Odho liquor affair, has directed Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain, Chief Coordinator APML to probe into the matter and submit report at the earliest. While, ...

DANNII Minogue has quit the popular ITV talent show, X Factor, days before the new series was due to launch. The 39-year-old posted a link through Twitter to the website mydaily.co.uk - of which she is a contributing editor - confirming the news. The Australian was quoted as saying: 'I am so ...

WASHINGTON - Philip Crowley is out as chief spokesman at the State Department after he publicly criticised the Defence Departments handling of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a senior administration official said Sunday. The resignation came under pressure from the White House, where officials ...

KARACHI - Atif Aslam Bajwa, President and Chief Executive Officer of MCB Bank, completes his term as on June 11. According to spokesman of MCB, he informed the Board of Directors about his decision on June 1 that he had made a personal decision, not to seek any renewal for a further period. The ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L K Advani on Friday handed over the baton of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to Sushma Swaraj and assumed charge as the first chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party. The Parliamentary Party earlier ...

MUMBAI- Doug Cowie, the former Kiwi umpire quits as ICC's manager for umpires and referees, it is reliably learnt here. According to the Dubai-based sources, Cowie (who turns 64 on December 2) has already submitted his resignation citing "domestic reasons". He officiated at New Zealand first-class ...