BEIRUT - Syria's outgoing opposition chief published an initiative for his war-torn country on Thursday that would grant President Bashar al-Assad a safe exit, and urged dissident factions to adopt his plan. Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib published his initiative on Facebook, as the main National Coalition ...

PESHAWAR - Five persons were killed and seven other were injured when US predator targeted a house on border region between South Waziristan and North Waziristan on Wednesday. Local sources said that US drone fired 12 missile on a house situated in Obara village of South Waziristan Agency. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Illegal fruit market running in the area of Khanna Pull has turned into safe haven for criminals and murderersThis market is located alongside Expressway, which has now become a security risk. The alleged murderers are sitting there in the guise of owners of hand driven carts. They have ...

Concerned over the extremist safe havens in border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has said that the issue requires more than simply military actions."With respect to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan all have an ...

According to a report compiled by Civil Society Front of Pakistan, 2,000 people were killed in cylinder blasts in 2011. This is four times more than the number killed in drone attacks. The figures are likely to double this year, as the government has not taken any concrete step in this regard.The ...

ISLAMABAD - National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Wednesday brushed aside all the allegations levelled against the security and safety of its database by the UK tabloid “The Sun” in its story titled “”Olympic terror visa racket” and claimed that no ...

ISLAMABAD - The two-day core group meeting of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States (US) concluded Friday with an agreement on establishing a sub-group to explore ways to arrange safe passage for Afghan Taliban wishing to engage in peace and reconciliation process.Foreign Secretary Jalil ...

QUETTA - Four people, including three Hazara men, were shot dead and three others wounded in separate incidents of firing in the provincial capital on Thursday.According to police, three people were sitting at a roadside stall on Shahr-i-Iqbal when armed motorcyclists fired shots at them, killing ...

Karachi (PPI) - An unwanted child, dropped in ‘Chhipa Cradle’ a few days back in Surjani Town Center of Chhipa Welfare Association was named as “Rashid” after national hero, ‘Rahid Minhas’ and was handed over to a childless family on Sunday.A ceremony was held at ...

RENALA KHURD - On the instructions of SSP Mirza Farhan Baig, the National Highways & Motorway Police have initiated action against lane violators in an attempt to raise the notion of safe mobility. Admin Officer Imran Shah informed certain violators about traffic laws and safe driving. He ...

WASHINGTON - The United States believes that its success in Afghanistan is very much dependent on a strong constructive relationship with Pakistan, a Pentagon spokesman said, hoping for a better cooperation and coordination in their anti-militant operations. “That relationship (with ...

LAHORE - APML leadership has started contacts with meaningful quarters of the establishment for safe return of former President Pervez Musharraf, while they will also ask these quarters for non-interference of the public prosecutors when his legal team moves bail applications for remedy to the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on Friday clarified that KANUPP and its surroundings are absolutely safe as the safety of Kanupp is being monitored by an independent Safety Committee. A spokesman of PAEC while clarifying a news item appeared in a section of the press ...

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used in humans and animals for the treatment of mild to moderate pain in conditions like arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and acute musculo-skeletal disorders. In 2006, a very popular and commonly used NSAID, diclofenac ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Shortage of affordable and safe drinking water has given boost to mushroom growth of bottled water industry in the country but fate of this water is also suspicious and 69 fake brands are being sold in the market. Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) recently ...

ISLAMABAD - The spokesman for National Assembly Secretariat has said that original draft of 1973 Constitution, containing the signatures of all the members of the then National Assembly, is very much safe in the custody of the Legislative Wing while its copies and the computer images of the same ...

PARIS (AFP) - US Treasury bonds remain a hot ticket for investors looking for a low risk investment in a volatile market despite the unprecedented downgrade of Washington's credit rating, analysts say. The decision by Standard & Poor's to strip Washington of its top triple-A rating has done little ...

IF youre packing lunch for your kid, chances are it will end up at unsafe temperatures before its eaten. Thats according to a Texas study that tested more than 700 preschoolers lunch packs and found less than two percent of the meats, vegetables and dairy products were in the safe temperature ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) became the first Central Asian exchange to acquire the membership of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE). With the addition of Kazakhstan, the number of countries having stock exchanges from their countries as the members of SAFE has ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - In Azad Jammu Kashmir an integrated drive has been launched in order to ensure safe and comfortable travelling facilities to the commuters by the public transport across the liberated territory. Disclosing this, official sources told this correspondent here that Special Mobile ...

LAHORE Jafferia Alliance President Allama Ali Abbas Kameli has stressed upon the government to ensure safe return of people displaced from Parachinar during the wave of terrorism. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that the rulers should take concrete steps to break the network ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday ordered the federal government to enter 'Safe City Project - security venture in Islamabad and Peshawar - with Huawei Technologies in highly transparent manner. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and ...

Nuclear scientist Dr. Samar Mubarakmand said that Pakistans nuclear assets are in safe hands and nation is resolute. Our nuclear power is being used for peaceful purposes since 1960 and helped us a lot in agriculture sector. Talking to a local TV at Youm-e-Takbeer occasion, Dr. Samar Mubarak ...

WASHINGTON - In an other embarrassing revelation for Pakistani intelligence agencies, US officials said that CIA maintained a safe house in Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance on slain Osama bin Laden's compound for months before President Barack Obama signed ...

ISLAMABAD - Renowned Indian tennis coach Birbal Wadhera in an exclusive interview with The Nation here at PTF Courts on Thursday said: "It was my moral and national duty to come to Pakistan to fulfil my commitment made by me with the PTF and also with the people of Pakistan as more than 90 per cent ...

LAHORE - National Highway and Motorway Police (NH&MP) N-5 Central claimed to have made extraordinary arrangements to provide safe passage to the participants of 16th Tour De Pakistan Cycling Race during its 8th phase from Sahiwal to Lahore. On the directions of IG NH&MP, safe passage for the ...

BANANA peels are no longer just for composting or comedy shows: New science shows they can pull heavy metal contamination from river water. Metals such as lead and copper are introduced to waterways from a variety of sources, including agricultural runoff and industrial wastes. Once there, heavy ...

ISLAMABD - Anne Arren, President of Youth Commission of International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation, Jens Jacob Simonsen, Deputy Head of Mission Danish Embassy, and Samina Baig, Pakistan's first winter woman mountaineer, called on Federal Minister for Sports Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani at ...

PARIS (Reuters) - An international network may have obtained data about Renault's electric car programme, but its vital technology secrets are safe and production of the vehicles will not be held up, the French carmaker said on Saturday. Three Renault executives, including one member of its ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Zebra crossings at busy roads of the capital are no more providing a safe passage to the pedestrians, as drivers rarely bother to stop to let people cross safely. Despite knowing that zebra crossings are made to let people safely cross the roads, but motorists dont even ...