Pakistan today turned out to vote in one of the larger turnouts in its history, for the first time in a transition from a government who has just completed a 5 year full-term in office, to its successor. Defying threats by the Taliban young and old, urban and rural voters, stood in long lines at ...

LIVINGSTON TG - Patrick Kane with his new Touch Bionics prosthetic hand in Livingston, Scotland. The new i-limb ultra revolution has a powered thumb rotation along with multiple grip patterns, which enables users to perform daily activities easier than with previous prosthesis.

LAHORE : Use of biotechnology can bring a revolution in the fields of agriculture, medicine and pharmaceutical industry. Those countries who are using biotechnology, their economies are rapidly growing, said chairperson Federation of Bio-tech Associations (FABA) Pakistan chapter while talking to ...

CARACAS  - Venezuelans flocked to the polls Sunday to pick Hugo Chavez's successor, choosing between the handpicked heir of his socialist revolution and an opponent vowing change in the divided nation.After a brief and bitter campaign, supporters of acting President Nicolas Maduro played ...

After 65 years of Pakistan’s existence, the people are justifiably disillusioned with the performance of our rulers, be they civilian or military, democratic or undemocratic. All of them are responsible in varying degrees for the bad governance and lawlessness that have become the lot of the ...

MARDAN - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, on Friday said that due to the entrance of Russia our region got disturbed and our one generation remained far from education and now we are struggling to make the situation normal of this region, safe for our next generation and ...

GUJRANWALA - General Pervez Musharraf misused the Local Bodies system during his referendum while he extended the proposal for direct elections of district and tehsil Nazims to stop bureaucracy from exercising ruthless powers and provide maximum relief for the masses. Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami ...

ROME - Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday called for a “digital revolution” to alleviate world hunger by increasing agricultural productivity through satellites and genetically-engineered seed varieties.“We have to think hard about how to start taking advantage of the ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - Hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) activists and local leaders accorded a warmly welcome to the party central leader Javed Hashmi when he passed through Pirmahal, Rajana, Toba and Gojra en route to Faisalabad here on Sunday. Everywhere they had set up reception camps but ...

Hani Sabra and Willis Sparks Some of the outsiders inspired by last year’s protests in Tahrir Square and the power of ordinary Egyptians to oust their long-time dictator expressed surprise when the country’s transitional government began in Dec to target prominent NGOs as agents of ...

The calls for a revolution in Pakistan were fairly loud throughout the spring and summer of last year, but then, like so often before, they quieted down and slowly but surely faded away only to erupt, this time as merely a distant echo of previous volleys, during recent weeks yet, if the truth be ...

LAHORE - The Khana-e-Farhang Iran organized an exhibition of paintings, calligraphy and books in connection with 33rd celebrations of Iranian Revolution here at Alhamara Art Gallery on Tuesday.The exhibition included the paintings and photography highlighting the life and works of Ayatollah ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that those who want to weaken ISI and military were the biggest enemies of Pakistan. Addressing a public gathering in Sargodha after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of a number of development projects, the prime minister said Pakistan Peoples ...

KHALID ABDALLASince the very beginning, the Egyptian revolution has been misread. At its dawn, people said it could never happen. Within days it had become the flame to Tunisia’s spark. The euphoria brought with it successive uprisings in the region, and an international movement that ...

ISLAMABAD – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that a revolution must precede elections in the country in order to ameliorate the lot of the masses.Addressing a rally organized by the JI against the US interference, drone attacks, besides price hike and other ...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan called up on the nation on Sunday to be prepared for bringing a revolution in the country and viewed that elections held after the revolution will bear better results. Addressing a rally at Banaras Chowk area of Karachi on Sunday, the JI chief also ...

“There is a difference between those who can see and those who cannot.” – An Islamic tenant from the Quran.Today’s most important question is: Has the people’s revolution arrived in Pakistan? Indeed, Imran Khan’s promised “tsunami” hit the Karachi ...

This year, the certitudes of the old Middle East dissolved with unseemly haste. A regional order frozen in place since the death of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser 40 years ago finally thawed. It produced a torrent of uprisings, coups, standoffs, civil wars, and an orgy of state-sponsored ...

MULTAN - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the foundations of democracy in the country were built with the blood of martyrs of PPP and therefore this building would never cave in.The premier observed this while talking to the notables of South Punjab region here at Prime ...

MULTAN - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has suggested to the Prime Minister to immediately dissolve assemblies if the leadership of all political parties demand new elections in the country.Talking to journalists here at his residence after returning from ...

BAHAWALPUR - The Islamia University of Bahawalpur vice chancellor said that nanotechnology has revolutionised the world of science and the humanity will reap maximum benefits from the development with big change in the industrial sector. He was addressing an inaugural session of the 2nd ...

BUSAN (AFP) - A 3D horror movie set in a public toilet block is part of a revolution underway in the Asian film industry as low-budget 3D productions take on the big studios at their own game. At the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), audiences have been lining up to see the likes of ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Activist Anna Hazare vowed a "revolution" in India as he began a 15-day public hunger strike Friday after a triumphal procession through the streets of Delhi that drew hundreds of thousands of supporters. "We have to bring a total change in this country," the 74-year-old activist ...

Okara - A hard struggle is required to get rid of cruelty of rulers, oppression, obscenity, massacre and bloodshed. Talking to the journalists and party workers on Wednesday, JI district Ameer Farooq Sheikh said the foundation of Pakistan and our existence are linked with Islami revolution. ...

IT has become fashionable to refer to the 18-day Egyptian uprising as the Facebook revolution, much to the dismay of the protesters who riveted the world with their bravery in Cairos Tahrir Square. But revolutions do not happen in cyberspace, even if they start there. What happened in Tahrir Square ...

Revolutions around the world differ in details yet are similar in terms of their internal dynamics and cohesion as well as their progression and conclusions. The Libyan revolution should be no different particularly in relation to what I would like to call the three Ms including momentum, manoeuvre ...

Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabitants of imagined harems, closeted behind rigid gender roles. So where were these women in Tunisia and Egypt? In both countries, ...

KARACHI Chief of PML (F) and spiritual leader of Hur Jamaat Pir Sahib Pagara, in a rare media conference at his residence Kingri House of Tuesday, declared that a bloody revolution was coming to save Pakistan and Army Chief would become the head of the state and elections would be held after 30 ...

MONA ELTAHAWY My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June 1967 war with Israel is euphemistically known in Arabic. My parents generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in ...

A "revolution" is urgently needed in thinking and policy to bring about sustainable economic growth that can both protect the environment and raise living standards, the UN chief said. "We need a revolution. We need revolutionary change, revolutionary action. We need a free market revolution for ...