islamabadAmidst speculation of change in the top party leadership over disastrous defeat in Khyber Pakkhtunkhwa, Awami National Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) would be meeting here on Thursday (tomorrow).Sources in the party confirmed serious rifts within party with a sizeable group of ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/SHEIKHUPURAA PTI leader and former MPA Javed Akram announced that he and his supporters will oppose PTI ticket holders Ch Muhammad Ashfaq for NA-93 and Sardar Khawar Gadhi for PP 87.He said that his son Murad Akram was given PTI ticket on Tuesday with the condition that if NA-93 ...

SADIQABAD - The PML-N central and Punjab leadership finally stepped in to remove the intra-party differences between the two factions each led by NA-197 candidate Arshad Leghari and Muhammad Shafiq, the party’s candidate for a Punjab Assembly seat. Against the PPP candidates, the PML-N ...

SADIQABAD - The PML-N central and Punjab leadership finally stepped in to remove the intra-party differences between the two factions each led by NA-197 candidate Arshad Leghari and Muhammad Shafiq, the party’s candidate for a Punjab Assembly seat. Against the PPP candidates, the PML-N ...

KARACHI - Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi has lambasted former cricket board chairman Ijaz Butt for suggesting that M Hafeez and head coach Dav Whatmore had formed a nexus against Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq in the national team."I think everyone knows the scandals that ...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement has declined any kind of internal party dispute over the resignation of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad as the speculative theories spread out in the county.Citizens of Karachi have shown a deep concern over the internal party conflict between the leadership of ...

LAHORE - A rift between the contractual employees of Punjab Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP) and their boss – the Women Development Department (WDD) secretary has reached its peak after the secretary forwarded a summary to end their services with ending of their contracts on June 30.A total ...

BAHAWALPUR - The biggest National Assembly constituency in Punjab, NA- 187 Bahawalpur V consists of 19 union councils of Tehsil Yazman and is famous for traditional politics of Jatt and Araeen families, having 276,087 voters (158,694 male and 117,393 female voters).Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz is ...

BAHAWALPUR - The biggest National Assembly constituency in Punjab, NA- 187 Bahawalpur V consists of 19 union councils of Tehsil Yazman and is famous for traditional politics of Jatt and Araeen families, having 276,087 voters (158,694 male and 117,393 female voters).Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz is ...

BHAKKAR - A rift in the PML-N district Bhakkar chapter has erupted over the nomination of the party office-bearers by the district president, thereby dividing the party into two groups. PML-N workers said that Zaffarullah Khan, the district president, had nominated as party office-bearers the ...

ANWAAR AFTABVEHARI – NA-169, a National Assembly constituency, and its connecting PP-236 and PP-237 constituencies are very important in the district with 318,000 registered voters (166,655 in PP-236 and 157,369 voters in PP-237). In the constituency, the voters’ turnout always remains ...

VEHARI - A rift among the PML-N Vehari leaders is touching its zenith also creating differences among the party workers ahead of general elections. The rift erupted between MNA Tehmina Daultana and Saqib Khurshid, the former parliamentary secretary and candidate for PP-236, when Muhammad Hussain ...

LAHORE – Pakistan team head coach Dav Whatmorehas denied the media reports about his alleged rift with the Twenty20 captain, M Hafeez, and expressed that the reporters should behave in a more responsible manner.Dav Whatmore on Saturday strongly denied wanting Twenty20 captain M Hafeez ...

Five years ago, the nation was introduced to the weird concept of ‘revenge of democracy’. Five years later, the results are now in. Rift and drift have been the revenge of democracy. Some wait expectantly for elections to be an instrument of change in Pakistan. Once again, there is a ...

ASBERG, Germany  - The leaders of Germany and France clashed over plans to monitor Europe’s crisis-hit banks Saturday, overshadowing anniversary celebrations of a symbolic step in their post-war reconciliation.German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande had ...

WARBURTON - The tug-of-war has been started among the expected PML-N candidates for both the national and provincial assemblies NA-136 and PP-173. Reportedly, sitting PML-N MNA Bilal Ahmad Virk who has won twice from NA-136, is being considered a strong candidate in the constituency. On the ...

WARBURTON - The tug-of-war has been started among the expected PML-N candidates for both the national and provincial assemblies NA-136 and PP-173. Reportedly, sitting PML-N MNA Bilal Ahmad Virk who has won twice from NA-136, is being considered a strong candidate in the constituency. On the other ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that growing confrontation over Iran’s nuclear programme threatens further instability in the region.“In our view, dialogue and diplomacy should be the only instruments to resolve outstanding issues,” she said while speaking ...

ISLAMABAD - Differences among the PML-Q legislators have reportedly erupted on the portfolios in the new Cabinet as none of them except Ch.Pervaiz Elahi took oath on Friday.Sources told The Nation that the Federal Ministers and Ministers of State of PML-Q who were also expected to take oath did not ...

ISLAMABAD  - Reko Diq, an untapped copper and gold mine of fabulous potential, was meant to be the biggest foreign investment in the country’s mining sector, but it’s beginning to look more like fool’s gold to the companies involved.Set in one of the bleakest places on earth, ...

KARACHI - Differences emerged among the ruling coalition in Sindh when majority of the allies of the PPP announced to again table a resolution against the 20th bill of MQM in next sitting of the Sindh Assembly on Thursday.After the Sindh Assembly session on Monday, the lawmakers from PML-F, PML-Q, ...

The articles ‘Healing of Pak-US rift on cards?’ and  ‘Finance Minister warns of ’shocks’ that Pakistan can’t absorb’ published in Express Tribune on January 3 and 6 respectively, make shocking reading. At a meeting of Parliamentary Committee on ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had a telephonic contact with President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday, reportedly to dispel the impression of clash between the institutions and discuss some crucial issues involving memo controversy, which is at the centre of political ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The top echelon of Islamabad Police earned the wrath of bosses by unilaterally choosing the cops sought by the ministry of religious affairs to serve as Khuddamul Hujaj for the forthcoming Haj. Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) serving in Islamabad have annoyed their boss ...

MARDAN - A land that has been allotted for extension of a centre for orphans by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has created rift between the owner and Mardan Development Authority (MDA). The owner of a three kanal land, which the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Hadier Khan Hoti had ...

MUMBAI (INP) - It has been two months since the Indian Navy rescued five Pakistani crew members of an Iranian fishing trawler from the clutches of Somalian pirates but they are not sure if they would ever be able to return home. The five are caught between the diplomatic channels of the ...

ISLAMABAD - During the selection process of candidates for 41 consistencies of AJK, two strong groups within Peoples Party AJK chapter had surfaced causing division within the top leadership of PPP at the federal level. Well-placed source in PPAJK informed his scribe that after the long struggle of ...

RIYADH (AFP) - US troops were led to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power struggle, a Saudi newspaper reported on Thursday. Al-Watan newspaper, quoting an unnamed regional source, said the top two Al-Qaeda men had differences ...

LAHORE The lack of coordination between Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Aslam Tareen and Deputy Inspector General Operations Rao Sardar is hampering counter-terrorism efforts of the law-enforcing agencies, impeccable sources in the police department informed The Nation on Tuesday. The sources ...

ISLAMABAD - The Rs 2.6 billion mega Kohala Hydal Power Project is in limbo due to reported differences between a Chinese company and Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Wapda and the Chinese company was signed in 2008, according to which the ...