KHANEWALAfter general elections 2013 in Khanewal district, the PML-N has bagged three seats of National Assembly out of four and, four seats of Punjab Assembly out of seven while the remaining seats have been won by the independent candidates, according to unofficial results. The PP-217 election ...

Peshawar - The PTI has emerged as the most popular party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by bagging biggest chunk of the provincial assembly seats but with its 34 seats, out of the total 99, it is not in a position to form provincial government on its own.Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl JUI-F, which has secured 16 ...

  California BBC The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences is to allow all of its members to vote in the documentary shorts and foreign language film categories. Previously, members had to see the nominees in cinemas to be eligible to vote in the final round of balloting. However, DVDs ...

Is Fata a colony of Pakistan? This question may sound ridiculous to some but let’s be honest, is Fata a part of Pakistan or is it a colony? I am from Fata and have always felt that I was alienated from Pakistan; I would need a visa to enter Pakistan. This, in all honesty describes the plight ...

Pakistan Muslim League N Chief Nawaz Sharif has severely criticized previous government, saying they had priorities other than serving the masses.Addressing a mass gathering in Sangla Hill on Tuesday, he said the previous government only focused on indulging in corruption, instead of solving the ...

Regrettably, our country has remained democracy-starved. However, genuine democracy can only be attained in Pakistan when our political elite accept the reality of ‘Rule of Law’ and when hypocrisy is eschewed. The consequence should be right policies and taking into consideration ...

KARAK  - Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that there will be a new Pakistan after three weeks and the corrupt rulers have no right to govern the country any more. “President Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Asfandyar Wali Khan have ruled the ...

LOS ANGELES - The comic book superheroes of “The Avengers” and comedy romance “Silver Linings Playbook” ruled at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday on a night packed with irreverent jokes and sneak peeks of some of the year’s biggest upcoming films.“The ...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has once again been firm in saying that the judiciary has a constitutional responsibility to preserve democracy and the rule of law. While addressing the Matiari District Bar Association at a reception in his honour on Saturday, he also said that social ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhamad Chaudhry has said that progress was not possible without ensuring rule of law in the country.Speaking at Mityai Bar on Saturday, The CJ said that it was incumbent upon the judiciary to work for the basic rights of the people and it could discharge its ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that Pakistan is passing through difficult times due to poor law and order situation.Speaking at Supreme Court’s Lahore registry here on Saturday, Chief Justice Chaudhry said it is the responsibility of state to protect life and ...

Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered the arrest of Raja Pervez Ashraf, the Prime Minister in a rental power corruption case. In response to this order, Fawad Chaudhry, an advisor to Prime Minister has said that any attempt to arrest the prime minister would be unconstitutional, since he too enjoys ...

LAHORE – “This country will not progress and will keep on deteriorating until and unless rule of law is ensured and lawbreakers are brought to justice wihle media should try hard for a society where rules are put into practice,” this was established at a seminar on ‘Culture ...

The spectacular return of Dr Tahirul Qadri to the national stage has added another dimension in the already polarized spectrum of Pakistani politics. The realignment of political forces seems to be traversing towards a disturbing course that has a potential of getting out of control. The articulate ...

Creation of Pakistan is a tribute to political struggle led by politicians of integrity, men of vision. Then there some who loyalties were bought with grants of lands, titles and jobs to keep the natives submissive under the British occupation, with few thousand British troops and bureaucrats. Men ...

The remarks by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, to Saturday’s roll-signing ceremony have not received as much attention as they deserve, because they were merely reiterations of what he has said before. However, the very fact that he continues to make them ...

It was never easy to get to see or even reach by phone the police chief of a city or a province. He was always said to have been summoned by the minister or the chief minister. Of late, the likely response also can be that he had gone to the Supreme Court. For more than a year now, police officials ...

MARDAN – Peshawar High Court Chief Justice, Dost Mohammad Khan on Monday said that without rule of law establishment of a peaceful society was impossible. “Missiles, tanks and weapons cannot establish a peaceful society. In our neighboring country, a force of a powerful country along ...

KARACHI – Major city markets remained closed while traffic on roads and attendance in schools and colleges thinned out on Wednesday following a strike called by the Jamaat-e-Islami against the killing of one its senior leaders. Dr Pervaiz Mehmood was killed in a targeted attack in North ...

The prospect of holding senior officials accountable for their deeds, and the mere thought of punishing them, is something very rare and unheard of in Pakistan. Thus, when the army declares that it has recalled three retired generals for the purpose of holding them accountable for their misdeeds in ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said rule of law must be upheld and conducive environment created for easy and speedy dispensation of justice.Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Bar Council led by its Vice Chairman Akhtar Hussain in Islamabad on Monday he emphasized that the lawyers community must ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/ AGENCIES LONDON - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that respect for law and rule of law are the available solutions to counter terrorism and the judiciary can act as deterrent against anyone who breaks the law in order to create anarchy and ...

OKARA - The federal minister for Kashmir affairs has said the PPP has come up victorious in the Senate elections and will form the next government as well by winning the upcoming general elections. “PPP is the only political party in the country which can confront with any situation,” ...

The issue of missing people has not been given its due importance. One must give credit to the Supreme Court for properly raising it and pulling up officials of the intelligence agencies. Recently the intelligence agencies acting on the orders of the Supreme Court produced seven of the eleven ...

DAMASCUS  - Syria’s president has called a referendum on a new constitution that would effectively end nearly five decades of single party rule, state media said Wednesday, as troops reportedly stormed protest hubs.A day after flatly rejecting UN allegations of crimes against humanity, ...

SUKKUR - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain has said that his party is not thinking of dividing Sindh province, adding, that there is also no ban in Karachi for the admission of Sindhi students in various educational institutes. Addressing a big gathering ‘Sindh Strong ...

CAIRO  - Egypt's military ruler said the country's decades-old state of emergency will be lifted on Wednesday except in cases of fighting "thuggery," and rights groups swiftly slammed the move as cosmetic."I have taken a decision to end the state of emergency, in all parts of the country, ...

LAHORE – Dozens of ‘high profile’ prisoners at a high security prison (HSP) in Kot Lakhpat Jail are enjoying immunity from rules and regulations of the Jail Manual and moving freely inside jail with prison staff virtually having no control over them, reveal two separate reports ...

ISLAMABAD - The US Embassy and British High Commissioner to Pakistan Adam Thomson have said their countries support democracy and rule of law in Pakistan.According to private TV channels, the US Embassy said in a statement on Wednesday that the Washington supported the supremacy of law and ...

CAPE TOWN  - Sri Lanka lost two wickets after taking a pounding from South African batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers on the second day of the third and final Test at Newlands on Wednesday. Sri Lanka were 149 for two at the close in reply to South Africa's 580 for four declared, a ...