new yorkA number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supporters Friday staged a demonstration in front of the British Consulate in New York City calling for action against MQM chief Altaf Hussain for making statements prejudicial to the integrity and solidarity of Pakistan.They carried banners ...

  islamabad A large number of angry workers and supporters, mostly the youth, organised a peaceful demonstration in the heart ofIslamabadon Sunday to record their protest against the cold-blooded murder of their leader Zehra Shahid inKarachi. The protesters, mostly the females, gathered in ...

TOKYO : The dollar slipped against the yen in Asia on Thursday as investors locked in profits on the greenback’s recent surge, while the euro was weak on gloomy European growth data. The currency market’s reaction to upbeat Japan economic growth data was muted despite figures showing ...

TOKYO  - The dollar's rally against the yen stumbled Tuesday as investors looked for concrete signs that the US Federal Reserve would roll back its huge bond-buying programme. The dollar broke through the 102-yen level in Asian trading Monday on the back of speculation that the Fed could be ...

Karachi - Pakistan stocks closed yet again at all time high led by stocks across the board on renewed foreign interest and speculations ahead of general elections.KSE-100 share index gained 254.81 points or 1.30 percent to end the day at 19,916.27 points compared to 19,661.46 points of the previous ...

MULTAN The PPPP leadership has cancelled its Multan rally because of security concerns, declared a party spokesman. The procession was scheduled to take place on May 9.“The public meeting is cancelled because of life threats given to Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani by defunct religious organisation, ...

LAHORE - PTI leader Malik Abdul Qayyum will address a public rally in Lala Musa today at 9pm, says a press release.  Local PTI officebearers and candidates for NA-106, Mian Afzal Hayat, PP-112, Ch Zahid Akram and PP-113, Ch Sharafat Hussain have organised the meeting.

MOSCOW: Thousands of protestors on Monday filled a square in centralMoscowto denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin one year into his new Kremlin term, as the opposition seeks to recover the momentum of their challenge to his rule. Organisers said tens of thousands attended the rally, which ...

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/QUETTA - A bomb blast struck a JUI-F public meeting in central Kurram on Monday, killing as many as 20 persons and injuring over 50 others, including two candidates of the religious party.Political Agent Riaz Masood confirmed the incident but there was no confirmation of the ...

At least 12 people were killed and several others wounded in a suicide blast near a JUI-F’s election gathering here on Tuesday.According to police, the blast took place at the main market in Doaba area of Hangu district.JUI-F candidate in PK-43 Mufti Saeed Janan is also among the injured.It ...

Quetta - Three people, including an attacker, were killed and another wounded in a bomb attack on convoy of an independent election candidate for PB-21 in Sibi district, some 160 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on Sunday.A security official said one of the attackers was killed in trade of fire with ...

A bomb tore through a political rally Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks on the campaign for Pakistan's historic elections on Saturday.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying its target had been a lawmaker elected as an independent but allied to ...

LONDON : World oil prices held firm on Friday as investors locked in profits after a strong rally following the European Central Bank's decision to cut interest rates, and at the end of a rollercoaster week that was mostly driven by global economic data, analysts said. The market was also buoyed by ...

madrid - Workers hit by lower living standards and record high unemployment staged May Day protests across Europe on Wednesday, hoping to persuade euro zone governments of the case for easing austerity measures and boosting growth.Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid, snaking up the Gran Via ...

KARACHI  - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) organised May Day rally to commemorate the declaration of labour rights. The rally demanded better wages, facilities and environment for the labourers.Zulfikar Thaver, as representative of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), ...

islamabad - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announced on Saturday that the party has cancelled its public rally in Karachi scheduled for May 1 citing security concerns. PTI Chairman Imran Khan was scheduled to address the rally. A PTI spokesman said the rally had been cancelled due to worsening law and ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announced on Saturday that the party has cancelled its public rally in Karachi scheduled on May 1 citing security concerns.PTI Chairman Imran Khan was scheduled to address the rally. A PTI spokesman said that rally has been cancelled due to worsening law and order ...

karachi - Market closed to an all-time high Thursday on the back of continuous rally in mid cap stocks and better March quarter results. The local equity benchmark KSE 100-share index gained 105.95 points or 0.56 per cent to end the day at 18885.61 points compared to 18779.66 points of the day ...

LONDON : World oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday as traders set aside demand concerns after a raft of weak global economic data, and digested the latest update on American energy stockpiles, analysts said. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in June jumped $1.31 to $101.62 per barrel in late ...

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN  - A man was killed and three others wounded when a rocket struck an election rally of an independent candidate in NA-41, South Waziristan on Friday. Reportedly four rockets were fired from the nearby Wacha Khwara Mountains, one of which landed in the area where the rally was ...

At least nine people including a child and two police officials were killed and 45 others including women and children were injured during a blast at a political rally of Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar.The bomb blast took place in Yakatoot, a congested neighbourhood of Peshawar, just after ...

SIALKOT - Hundreds of Sialkot-based perturbed traders, industrialists and exporters on Friday took out a protest rally and paraded main city roads against "what they called" unbearable and forced electricity loadshedding in export-oriented Sialkot city.The rally started from the grand building of ...

SIALKOT - In Sambrial, hundreds of PML-N activists including local leaders took out a protest rally against the nomination of a candidate, who does not belong to the tehsil, at PP-131 Sambrial constituency, and also threatened to go on a hunger strike if the decision was not withdrawn. Rana Dilshad ...

CHINIOT: Armed men kept thrashing traders, customers and common public on Wednesday and pasted objectionable pamphlets in the city besides getting the shops closed at gunpoint.However, the police could not arrest even a single outlaw despite the fact that they started aerial firing in front of the ...

MULTAN - With a pledge to ensure safe and respectable environment for working women in the society, a large number of women brought out a rally in connection with World Day for Working Women here on Saturday. The walk started from Commissioner Office under the leadership of the Commissioner ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Enraged Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited’s employees took out a protest rally as a factory’s staffers thrashed its recovery officials with cubs and pelted stone on them besides resorting to aerial firing for taking action against alleged gas theft here on Friday, as per ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - During a rally outside the Press Club, the senior vice president of the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Society urged the ex-servicemen to get united to press the government for early implementation of “one rank and one pension” scheme.SVP Commodore (r) M Farooq Mirza said that ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The Civil Defense, Rescue-1122, Vocational Institute, and Chinab Technical College organised a rally here to mark World Volunteer Workers Day. Local traders and other notables from different walks of life and representatives of civil society participated in the rally. The rally was ...

SARGODHA - The Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz-e- Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and other religious parties' activists on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the target killings in the country and American intervention in the national affairs. The protesters took out a rally from Jamia Masjid Block 1 and ...

NOORPUR THAL – The Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz took out ‘Labaik Ya Rasoolallah’ rally to protest against the anti-Islam movie and blasphemous caricatures. The TNRM activists were carrying flags, placards and banners inscribed with slogans against the US, India and Israel. ...