MOSCOW : The Syrian regime will attend a peace conference on ending the conflict with the armed opposition, Damascus’ top ally Russia said Friday, but the rebels reacted to the pledge without enthusiasm. Diplomatic efforts to hold a conference first proposed by Russia and the United States ...

President, Air League of PIA employees Lahore chapter, Ahmad Butt has said that workers of the Air League have a strong commitment to transform PIA into one of the top airlines of the world under the dynamic leadership of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. He resolved to use talent of the workers for ...

Alex Lantier In a series of interviews, UN investigator Carla del Ponte said that sarin gas used in Syria was fired by the US-backed opposition, not the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.Her account explodes the lies on which Washington and its European allies have based their campaign for war ...

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s ruling coalition retained its 56-year hold on power, the country’s Election Commission said early Monday, but a bitter opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim refused to concede defeat.The commission said the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition led by ...

BANGUI  - The interim govt of the Central African Republic said it had held its first cabinet meeting, after seizing power in a bloody coup last month. Govt spokesman Crepin Mboli-Goumba said the meeting was called due to the “need to get to work without delay in order to deal with the ...

President Asif Ali Zardari said that as part of liberal investment policy regime, the present government has embarked upon a policy of trade liberalization with India and other countries in the region including granting Most Favoured Nation status to India. Speaking at the Lahore Chamber of ...

DAMASCUS  - Regime forces fired on protesters who took to the streets of Aleppo on Friday, wounding several people at the biggest rally seen in Syria's second city since a revolt erupted last year, a watchdog said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said demonstrators also suffered gunshot ...

NEW YORK - Former Israeli intelligence chief Meir Dagan, who has more than once expressed his position that an Israeli attack in Iran would be a mistake, has reiterated his position, this time on an American network.In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” ptogramme, which will air ...

DAMASCUS  - Syrian forces pressed a relentless assault on the protest city of Homs Wednesday, with dozens of civilians reported killed, hours after President Bashar al-Assad said he was committed to ending the bloodshed.The barrage of gunfire, mortars and shells was launched at daybreak and ...

DAMASCUS - Russia said on Wednesday it would consider “constructive proposals” to end bloodshed in Syria but was opposed to force or sanctions, as regime troops reportedly pounded the protest hub of Hama.“We are open to constructive proposals that go in line with the set task of ...

BANI WALID, Libya  - Diehard supporters of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Gaddafi seized control Monday of Bani Walid in a brazen attack on his one-time bastion that killed five people, officials told AFP.The assault on a base of former rebels who helped oust Gaddafi was the first major ...

The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral forum for disarmament diplomacy. It has evolved important treaties banning biological and chemical weapons, as well as underground nuclear tests. The CD hasnot yet produced anything worthwhile, since the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), ...

LAHORE – Khaksar Tehrik has warned that elections under the present regime would be meaningless and would act merely to facilitate change of faces.Addressing the participants of Akhuwwat-e-Pakistan March taken out to mark the second death anniversary of Khaksar Tehrik former chief Hameeduddin ...

DAMASCUS - The opposition Syrian National Council accused the regime on Thursday of “liquidating” journalists in order to hush up what is happening in the country, a day after a French reporter was killed.The SNC’s accusation came as France demanded an investigation into the death ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is revamping the regulatory regime for the brokers of the stock exchanges to bring it in line with the best practices, standards and IOSCO principles. The proposed regime reinforce the reforms undertaken ...

LAHORE (APP)- While agreeing with the LCCI proposal to ease visa procedures, Indian Commercial attache Arvind Saxena has assured that a businessmen-specific liberal and flexible visa regime would be in place very soon. He was talking to LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh and VP Saeeda Nazar at the ...

LAHORE PML-Q Senior Leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has flayed the Punjab government for what he stated its violent and inhuman handling of the protesting college teachers and students on the second consecutive day in different cities of the province. The former Punjab chief minister said by this ...

LAHORE -All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Acting Chairman Shahzad Ali Khan has urged continuity of zero rate tax regime for textile industry. According to a press release issued on Monday, the Acting Chairman in a letter to the Standing Committee of National Assembly on Finance said ...

CLAUDIA Schiffer, the supermodel, uses highly intensive pilates to help win work after the birth of her third child. Shes been training with me at my TenPilates studio in Notting Hill. After the baby, she was coming three times a week, but now she comes here everyday, says her trainer David ...

ISLAMABAD Nepotism begins at the Competition Commission of Pakistan immediately after the President signed its law that had gone through a painstaking and much-delayed process of its enactment by the Parliament. New Chairperson CCP Rahat Kaunain Hassan is up for elevating a junior officer lacking ...

ISLAMABAD - Former foreign minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said that realism and idealism both were important for the formulation of a foreign policy. He said this while addressing the Youth Parliament Pakistans first session after the plane crash in which its six members including Prime ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Chairman, Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), Khalid Mirza, has said that CCP has laid the foundation of sound competition regime in Pakistan and now it is imperative that all stakeholders ensure the implementation of competition policy in letter and spirit. He was ...

LONDON - Fatima Bhutto, daughter of late Mir Murtaza Bhutto, has said that corruption and assassinations have stalked her family and dominate her countrys politics as well. Her crime was to write about it and that is why she became a public enemy in Pakistan, she added. She said that her father, an ...

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - The military-supported interim regime in Honduras on Saturday tightened control on the region close to Nicaragua, a day after ousted President Manuel Zelaya stepped across the border in a symbolic act of defiance. Interim president Roberto Micheletti extended a curfew along the ...

MANCHESTER (AFP) - Amir Khan believes he has been transformed in less than six months working with trainer Freddie Roach and on Saturday plans to show that improvement when he boxes Marco Antonio Barrera. The English lightweight faces his toughest opponent since turning professional after winning ...

Lahore - Mobilink has announced that is fully prepared to ensure that all SIMs sold by the company February 1, 2009 onwards are verified and issued as per PTA's guidelines. Inaugurating Mobilink's Call Centre fully compliant to the new PTA regime, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, Chairman Pakistan ...

HARARE  - Zimbabwe's government rejoiced Saturday at the failure of a UN bid to impose fresh sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle, but there was exasperation in London and Washington. Particular praise from the Harare regime was bestowed upon South African President ...

KARACHI - Imamia Student Organization (ISO) Karachi Chapter here on Friday staged a protest rally in connection with the 60th anniversary of the Zionist State of Israel in Palestine. The rally started from Numaish Chowrangi, led by Central President of ISO Arif Qanbri, Jaffaria Alliance leader ...