ISLAMABAD   Prime Minister Justice (r) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill. These prisoners have already served their sentences. The decision was taken at a high level meeting attended by Federal ...

LOS ANGELES: The anticipated June 2014 release of the fourth installment of “Jurassic Park,” one of the highest-grossing film franchises, has been put on hold, Universal Pictures said on Wednesday. The decision was made to give “the studio and filmmakers adequate time to bring ...

Islamabad - Owing to financial constraints of Pakistan State Oil (PSO), which is left with five days storage of furnace oil, already spiralling up power outages might worsen if the cash-starved government did not release at least Rs 10 billion to the state owned fuel supplier. Official sources in ...

BAKU : The Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday approved a prisoner amnesty proposed by the country’s glamorous and powerful first lady that will likely see thousands of convicts released. The move — put forward by Mehriban Aliyeva, the influential wife of strongman President Ilham Aliyev ...

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court has set aside the conviction of a Kashmiri youth, Muhammad Iqbal Jan, who was awarded life imprisonment in 2009 by the Additional Sessions Judge Delhi in a fake case.A division bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice SR Butt and Justice SP Garg set aside ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Thursday declared illegal the detention of Maulana Muavia Azam Tariq under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and ordered the Punjab government to release him.On February 17, the Punjab government detained him under 16 MPO after declaring him threat to peace. Maulana ...

Lahore/Delhi - India on Monday requested Pakistan to take a ‘humanitarian’ view of death row convict Sarabjit Singh’s case and release him.In an statement Indian government asked Pakistan to consider the option of transferring 49-year-old Sarabjit to India for medical treatment, ...

karachi - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has made an urgent SOS call to the Federal and provincial Governments for release of payments against government dues of Rs71 billion. In a distressed message sent to the government, KESC has said that the power utility is facing a severe liquidity ...

LOS ANGELES: Quentin Tarantino’s violent slavery revenge fantasy “Django Unchained” will be released in China in May, its US distributors said, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been made after Chinese authorities halted the film’s initial rollout this month. ...

KANDAHAR:Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid ...

CALIFORNIADSDisney is set to release a new Star Wars film every year from 2015 to 2019, with a new installment in the franchise set to come along every summer.The company acquired Star Wars makers Lucasfilm last year, gaining the rights to make new Star Wars films for a cool $4 billion. Disney ...

islamabad - After the successful negotiations between two archrivals India and Pakistan, the former has agreed to release 117 Pakistani prisoners who have completed their term in prison, sources in Interior Ministry told TheNation on Wednesday. These Pakistanis were detained on charges of overstay ...

ISLAMABAD - With unrelenting efforts of Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso prospects of release of funds to tackle power crisis has brighten as high ups of the Finance Ministry Tuesday pledged to release first installment of Rs.10 billion soon.The premier on April 10 announced Rs.20 billion to ...

ISLAMABAD - Defying Prime Minister’s direction to release Rs 20 billion to reduce power outages in the country, finance ministry on Wednesday failed to release fund for the power generation resulting in up to 18 hours loadshedding, it has learnt.0 has directed the ministry of Water and Power ...

PESHAWAR - The paramedic staff of district Peshawar have expressed grave concern over delay in disbursement of honorary to polio campaigners for the last five rounds, demanding release of stipend to volunteers before next round of anti-polio drive.Addressing a press conference here at the press ...

PESHAWAR - The Peshawar High Court on Thursday directed the law enforcement agencies and Khyber Paktunkhwa Inspector General of Police to either release the missing persons or bring them for an open trial and convince the court as well their relatives. When the hearing started, dozens of relatives ...

MULTAN - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has issued orders for the release of another Rs30 million grant for ongoing Qila Qasim Bagh beautification project, disclosed Member of National Assembly (MNA) Sheikh Tariq Rasheed. Talking to The Nation here on Tuesday, he added that the CM had visited ...

KARACHI - The CBA union of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has demanded immediate release of salaries of Lyari and Saddar Towns’ workers.According to a statement, the union leaders Fareed Awan and Zulfiqar Shah said that the KMC management had not paid the salaries of August to the employees ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Friday directed the Ministry of Finance to allocate fund to Higher Education Commission with immediate effect. The Prime Minister said the allocated funds to HEC must be released without any delay as it is a question of the future of thousands of students. The ...

UNITED NATIONS - A UN human rights expert Wednesday called on Israel to release Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month. “The situation of Ms. Shalabi is morbid and life-threatening,” said Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the ...

HAFIZABAD - Muhammad Yameen Kamboh, son of Muhammad Jameel Kamoh, rice miller of Sukheke Mandi who was kidnapped for ransom last week, has been recovered safely from the custody of the accused without paying even a single penny. According to police source, after an armed shootout with the Jhang ...

QUETTA - The law enforcement agencies on Friday secured the release of three abductees in Gulistan. The Frontier Corps, backed by the local administration, secured the release of three people, including a child, in Gulistan, FC DIG Brig Shehzad Akthar said while addressing a press conference ...

LONDON  - A British judge on Monday ordered the release on bail of radical cleric Abu Qatada, allegedly a former top aide of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, despite government concerns he poses a security risk.The interior ministry condemned the decision, saying the 51-year-old is “a ...

LAHORE - The Provincial Review Board comprising Lahore High Court judges on Friday turned down a Punjab government/police request and ended detention of Malik Ishaq, leader of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.The Board headed by Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh with Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik and Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan on Tuesday demanded of Pakistan to release commercial containers that were stranded at Pak-Afghan border after Islamabad blocked NATO supplies, as Kabul is of the view that these containers contain food commodities for their people and tries to give the impression that ...

MICHELLE Dockery, who plays Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, is to release an album with Elizabeth McGovern, her co-star in the popular ITV costume drama. As Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, Michelle Dockery made hearts sing when she accepted Matthew Crawley’s marriage proposal. In real life, the ...

NEW YORK - With frontman David Lee Roth back on board, American rock group Van Halen released Monday their first single and video with the flamboyant frontman in 27 years.The black and white video for the new song, “Tattoo,” from the band’s upcoming album, “A Different Kind ...

NAROWAL - The police succeeded in securing the release of the family of a serviceman who was taken hostage by an armed man after six hours long negotiation here in Bajjar village, situated in the remit of Shakargrah Police the other morning. Reportedly, the family of a serviceman namely Muhammad ...

LAHORE – Speakers at a convention have vowed to revive the spirit of Pakistan Movement and work for solidarity and integrity of the country. They said spiritual offsprings of the Mushaikh would fight alongside the military to safeguardthe  geographical boundaries of the country. ...

ISLAMABAD-Adopting tight cash release policy to contain soaring fiscal deficit; the beleaguered government is unlikely to release targeted fund Rs 145 billion for the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) during the first half (July-December) of the ongoing financial year 2011-12, it has ...