WASHINGTON : The beleagueredUSgovernment claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists’ phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach. President Barack Obama’s administration, embattled on several fronts, now ...

ALASKA: A dad has been hailed a hero after he fought off a 25-stone bear by punching it repeatedly when it tried to attack his family. Toby Burke threw himself between his wife Laura, his three children and the wild animal. The 48-year-old, who was on a bird watching trip inKenai PeninsulainAlaska, ...

ISLAMABAD- Deciding on concentrated troops deployment for polling stations under threats, the military leadership on Monday approved a security plan for national and regional polls it had earlier formulated in consultations with the election commission and the government. The security plan ...

LOS ANGELES: John Travolta is desperate to save face! Although John and his wife Kelly Preston are facing a $220 million divorce, the actor is desperate to avoid a messy, high-profile trial where all of his dirty laundry will be exposed. Sources say he’s keen keep up the image that his ...

London - Backdoor diplomacy has been started to save ex-president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf from the cases against him in Pakistan.A senior US official contacted the high-ups concerned in Islamabad and expressed his reservations in this regard. A London-based Western diplomat confirmed that concern ...

PESHAWAR -The disgruntled workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced to launch a “Save PTI Movement”, as ideological workers were totally ignored in awarding party tickets.While speaking at a press conference here at press club, PTI President Town-IV, Peshawar ...

LAHORE– President Pakistan Muslim League-N Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Saturday said only the PML-N could save the country at this critical juncture faced by the country due to corruption and bad governance of the PPP-led former government.Speaking to a party delegation here, Sharif said ...

The reference in the rental power case is in final stages of completion and the investigation officer is under pressure to exclude the names of the influentials, media reported on Sunday.The investigation officer of National Accountability Bureau has been under severe pressure by the high-ups to ...

HAVELI LAKHA - Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran local leader Tajmal Hussain has said that Allam Tahirul Qadri is coming to Pakistan on the December 23 to tell the nation that the country is in need of a democratic model, which suited the genius of people and is an outcome of local conditions. He said that ...

“Nero fiddled while Rome burned” is an old adage but in Pakistan, in reality, we can claim that this is happening. While Karachi and Balochistan are burning, our government and its different parts are sitting calmly giving TV interviews and suggestions and slanders about the culprit or ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) reacted as per expectations, as they showed the door to skipper Sohail Abbas, striker Rehna Butt and manager Khawaja Junaid at least for the time being and replaced head coach Akhtar Rasool for the managerial post. As far Akhtar Rasool is concerned, ...

That parliamentarians in the country get a huge sum of money annually to undertake development projects in their constituencies is no secret; nor is the depressing outcome of the allocation: the utilisation of the funds for the purpose they were given is a rare exception rather than the rule. ...

LAHORE - Business Forum of Punjab (BFP) President Ibrahim Qureshi has said that the government should launch a recovery drive from different departments in order to save the power generation companies from liquidity crunch, as the issue of circular debt would not be resolved even after the issuance ...

LAHORE – The participants of a discussion have stressed upon the government to ensure purchase of wheat directly from the growers at a support price and save them from influential middlemen. They also urged the government to make the process of getting gunny bags easy so that the farmers ...

Peter Beaumont"Actions," said Samuel Johnson in his life of the English poet Abraham Cowley, "are visible." What are secret, Johnson added pointedly, are "motives".In the case of Iran's nuclear programme what we know of Tehran's actions and motives are the following.With some degree of "overall ...

ISLAMABAD - Allegedly colluding with a powerful bloc in the Election Commission of Pakistan, the government elites have mounted pressure for “reconciliation” with the apparent victims of Waheeda Shah slapping incident in an alleged bid to save the ruling party candidate’s skin and ...

LAHORE – SALMAN ABDUHU - The Punjab government is tightening noose around sugar industry as the Cane Act 1950 is being amended and new law is being drafted with a view to ensure payment to growers by the millers.Sources said that Punjab govt has framed a new law to protect the sugarcane ...

IFTIKHAR ALAM LAHORE – Terming the Balochistan situation grave, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has called for seeking apology from the Baloch brothers for the excesses committed in the past and reintegrating them by assuring they will get their due.Shahbaz also said that ending ...

A new electronic system could save the once-threatened method of paying by cheque, its developers have said. Paper cheques fell out of favour with banks as they were costly to process and need to be stored afterwards, yet they remained popular with customers, particularly the elderly. Now a team of ...

A MAN was caught on camera as he stripped and crawled across a frozen river on his hands and knees to rescue his dog.  The dog walker was photographed slowly edging his way across the frozen River Stour in the village of Dedham, Essex, to save his pet.  However, he ended up having to swim ...

ISLAMABAD  - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Programme Officer John Morgan has said that the US is working with the Government of Pakistan to reduce the domain of power sector and energy saving devices.In an interview, he informed that the USAID Tube Well ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has directed to launch Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs; usually called energy saver bulbs) distribution programme from April throughout the country in a transparent manner. He made these directions while presiding over a meeting on ...

OKARA - Asserting that those propagating against the ruling PPP lacked public favour, Federal Parliamentary Interior Secretary Capt Rai Ghulam Murtaza Kherl on Wednesday advised them to be well aware of the terrestrial truths. He rejected that the present government had any involvement in the memo ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice gave approval to the draft of 20th  Amendment for providing constitutional cover to the parliamentarians elected in by-elections.The said lawmakers were elected at a time when the election commission was not complete, a ...

ERIC PAPEIn the United States, sadly, the death of four soldiers in Afghanistan is the sort of routine event that barely makes the evening news. In France, on the other hand, which has seen far fewer casualties in over 11 years of fighting, the killing of four French military trainers and the ...

Amazing how an inept, incompetent and generally-considered corrupt government has taken on the two most powerful national institutions. Its blatant defiance of the highest court of the country and point blank refusal to comply with some of the directives given in the verdict is not only ...

TUNIS - Tunisia’s exiled despot Zine el Abidine Ben Ali plans legal action to save millions in seized assets, his lawyer said Friday as Arab heads of state converged on Tunis to mark his ouster’s anniversary. Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14 last year after a popular uprising, ...

LAHORE – Wapda is deploying two state-of-the-art tunnel boring machines (TBMs) at a cost of Rs8 billion on the strategically important 969 MW-Neelum Jehlum Hydropower Project. This will reduce construction period of the project by about 18 months, resulting in an estimated benefit of Rs.60 ...

FAISALABAD - Gas suspension to industry has drastically impacted the industrial productivity as it has witnessed a decline of 14 per cent in October and 20 per cent in November. The phenomenon has affected millions of daily-wagers, workers and vendors of textile industry badly. These remarks were ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The local Vocational Training Institution (VTI) management’s ‘personal interests’ causing a great damage to the students’ future of the institute by closing motorcycle trade, alleged the victim students’ parents. The parents, while addressing a press ...