VEHARI - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader and former Minister for religious affairs, Syed Khurshid Shah has said that case against former President Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf will leave far-reaching effects on the national politics.He was talking to media persons after his meeting ...

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday that the United States was running out of patience with Pakistan over safe havens of insurgents who attack US troops across the border in Afghanistan.Panetta spoke after talks with Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak on the latest leg of an ...

LAHORE - Higher Education Commission Chairman Prof Dr Javaid R Leghari has said that the greatest challenge faced by the HEC was to reach out to the people in remote areas at their doorstep and financially support the students who cannot afford higher education. He stated this while addressing a ...

ISLAMABAD - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has dispatched 17,000 shelter and non-food item (NFI) relief kits to help families displaced by flooding following torrential monsoon rains in Pakistans southern province of Sindh. The aid, which includes plastic sheeting, ropes, ...

LAHORE In yet another clandestine move, banned radical outfit Hizbut Tahrir is reaching out to the bureaucracy, and it is finding soft corners as well, while the intelligence agencies are yet to start strenuous exercise for screening the babus. The officialdom, which is supposed to be neutral ...

A NEW 'superbus capable of speeds of up to 155mph has been created by Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels. The eco-friendly electric vehicle can carry 23 passengers and cost 13million to develop. The bus futuristic look includes wing-opening doors and is streamlined to help achieve maximum speeds. A ...

LAHORE The speakers at the first National Islamic Microfinance Conference said that Islamic microfinance addressed the limitations posed by interest-based loaning, besides facilitating the poor by Shariah-compliant methods as well as focusing on micro-enterprises. Islamic microfinance enables us ...

PUNE (India) Peter Siddle was on fire in the first Test of the 2010-11 Ashes series in Brisbane and took a rare Test hat-trick. The day also happened to be his 26th birthday. So it was dual celebrations at the end of play. Sadly, his parents, father Stephen and mother Allison, missed watching ...