ISLAMABAD : The PEW on Monday said the credit of successful elections goes to undeterred masses, judiciary and the EC. The failure of PPP is being attributed to unabated corruption, energy crisis, destruction of independent institutions and decisions of some advisors with dual nationality, it ...

PARIS2013AFP Vladimir Putin and the pope joined a chorus of condemnation Tuesday from across the globe over what the Russian leader called the “barbaric” bomb attack that killed three and wounded more than 140 at the Boston Marathon.Here with some of the main reactions from around the ...

RIYADH  - Abdel Qayum had to borrow money back home in India to buy a Saudi labour visa, but with new curbs on foreigners in the kingdom the construction worker could be deported even before paying off his debt."I paid an equivalent of $4,000 in India to get a work visa in Saudi Arabia," said ...

New British immigration laws have unleashed a stampede to wed and a frenzy of English lessons for Pakistanis desperate to migrate as new restrictions come into effect.The boom was particularly marked in Mirpur, where Islamabad estimates 200,000 of Britain's 1.2 million Pakistanis have their family ...

SYDNEY - Australian emergency services Monday ordered thousands more to evacuate a New South Wales town threatened by rising floodwaters, as the crisis claimed a second life when surging water swept a car off the road. Days of heavy rain have hammered the eastern states of Queensland, New South ...

The gung-ho nuclear industry is in deep shock. Just as it and its cheerleader, the International Atomic Energy Agency, were preparing to mark next months 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident with a series of self-congratulatory statements about the dawning of a safe age of clean atomic power, ...

ISLAMBAD An old disabled man died in helpless condition when fire engulfed his bed on Saturday, police said. The tragic incident took place in Muslim Colony that falls in the jurisdiction of Secretariat Police Station. According to details, 70-year-old disabled Raja Niaz was lying on his bed and ...

LAHORE - Top leadership of various religio-political parties while strongly condemning the firing and violence incidents at the Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations termed it an attempt to push the country towards Iraq like Shia-Sunni conflict. JI ameer Syed Munawar Hasan, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur ...

UNITED NATIONS The OIC on Thursday afternoon strongly condemned Israel for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as Israeli national heritage sites, calling the move aggressive, provocative and irresponsible. In a statement issued after a meeting of its ambassadors at UN headquarters in ...

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehrans hard-line government, US General David Petraeus told Reuters. Irans June election gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term but sparked the ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) Alex Ovechkin will lead world champion Russia into the Vancouver Winter Olympics and a host of his fellow National Hockey League superstars will follow him onto team rosters in the next week. Washington Capitals playmaker Ovechkin, named the NHLs Most Valuable Player the past two ...

KARACHI - Protest in Sindh against the influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the province took a violent turn here on Wednesday around four protesters of Sindh Taraqqi Passand Party (STP) were killed allegedly by the police. The deaths sparked a number of rumours including the death of ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices sank this week to three-and-a-half-year lows close to 50 dollars a barrel, prompting the OPEC exporters' cartel to call an emergency meeting to discuss a mooted output cut. Commodity markets took a heavy knock as recession swept across the world's advanced economies, ...

LONDON - A British think-tank on Tuesday warned that Iran's nuclear programme may start a "cascade of proliferation" that could end with a dozen countries in the Middle East possessing nuclear weapons. Thirteen countries across the Middle East have embarked on nuclear energy projects in the ...