WARBURTON All the institution heads should be committed for compliance with Chief Minister School Reform Roadmap (CMSRR), said EDO Education Muhammad Ghiaz in a joint meeting held here the other day. Reportedly, Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association, Headmistresses Association, Punjab ...

WARBURTON - All the institution heads should be committed for compliance with Chief Minister School Reform Roadmap (CMSRR), said EDO Education Muhammad Ghiaz in a joint meeting held here the other day. Reportedly, Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association, Headmistresses Association, Punjab ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to crank up pressure on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad Thursday, but offered no concrete new measures to do so.Obama warned there was no “magic formula” to force Assad to leave power, ...

UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people and government of Pakistan on the successful conduct of the general elections, calling it "a significant step forward for democracy in the country.""By exercising their constitutional right to vote, the people of Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - European Union chief election observer Michael Gahler on Monday described Pakistan's 2013 landmark elections as a step forward, but said the province of Sindh topped in polls irregularities and rigging. Unveiling preliminary conclusions of EU observers’ team at a packed news ...

LONDON : Oil prices pushed towards $100 a barrel on Friday, recovering some ground after a steep six-day fall as bargain hunters stepped in, although worries about global demand and oversupply kept a lid on the rebound. Analysts said the market seemed to be stabilising after a week of heavy ...

The new Chinese government is firmly in power. President Xi Jinping’s government has taken its first tangible and decisive steps in the international arena. These steps indicate a continuation of policies to further strengthen the economy. They acknowledge too the potential implications of ...

KARACHI  - The Caretaker Chief Minister (CM) Sindh, Justice (Retd) Zahid Qurban Alvi, has said that the provincial government would take every step for ensuring the conduct of fair, free and transparent general elections.He was talking to an eight-member delegation of the Bohra community which ...

LAHORE – After a long period, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has at last withdrawn exemption on taxability of joint ventures in which one partner is non-resident company, saving national exchequer from loss of around Rs300 billion annually, as over 1,200 AOPs were evading tax, which has ...

LAHORE - The political situation in the country has entered a decisive phase with Dr Tahirul Qadri reaching the federal capital along with a large number of his supporters and insisting that he will not go back unless all his demands are met and is given ‘institutional’ guarantees for ...

FAISALABAD - Adviser to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim has agreed to the allocation of specific gas quota for export-oriented textile sector in Faisalabad. The proposed gas quota will be allocated for one week on trial basis for Khurrianwala industrial cluster and later ...

RAWALPINDI - Chief Traffic Officer, Syed Ishtiaq Hussain Shah, has said that traffic police are making adequate arrangements to ensure smooth flow of traffic in the city. “The top priority of traffic police is to resolve traffic problems in cantonment and other areas of the city and every ...

KARACHI - When the International World XI led by Sri Lanka's Sanath Jaysuriya take on all Pakistan Star XI captained by Shahid Afridi here on Saturday night (tonight) in the first of the two T20 match series at the National Stadium, it will be first tentative step towards resorting international ...

NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, breaking new ground in US-led exploration of an alien world.The one-ton rover is the largest ever sent to Mars, and its high-speed landing was the most daring to date, using a ...

PARIS - Scientists in the United States reported a further step towards a celebrated “invisibility cloak” by masking a large, free-standing object in three dimensions.The lab work is the latest advance in a scientific frontier that uses novel materials to manipulate light, a trick that ...

RESEARCH In Motion’s (RIM) co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down from their roles to make way for a new leader to turnaround the BlackBerry maker’s recent poor run of fortunes.Chief operating officer Thorsten Heins will now assume the role of chief executive and ...

GAZA CITY - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who survived a 1997 Israeli assassination bid, has confirmed he wants to step down after eight years in the post, the Islamist movement said Saturday.“Political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal has notified Hamas’s consultative council that he does ...

ISLAMABAD - President of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan on Thursday said that ANP would not support any unconstitutional step.Talking to media after the party’s consultative body meeting here, Asfanyar Wali said the constitution clearly elaborates powers of every institution ...

LAHORE – The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) has termed the Pakistan National Board’s recent meeting to bring uniformity in the postgraduate medical education all over the country a self-proclaimed step. A spokesman for the CPSP said on Tuesday that every country in ...

WASHINGTON  - White House chief of staff William Daley is to step down and will be replaced by President Barack Obama’s budget chief Jacob Lew, a White House official said Monday.Lew is a veteran of Washington and has served in President Bill Clinton’s administration, on Capitol ...

RAWALPINDI - Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that nobody will dare to take extra judicial step in the country and there will be rule of law only, reported a private TV channel.Speaking at a ceremony on Friday, the Chief Justice said that those who were ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The most senior woman to have ever served at the Pentagon, Michele Flournoy, plans to step down from her policy post to spend more time with her family, officials said Monday. Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, has today announced her intention to step down, Defense ...

NOORPUR THAL - The yellow cab scheme is a revolutionary step of the Punjab government, which will not only provide job opportunities to the youth but also help eliminate unemployment. PML-N MPA Malik Muhammad Waris Kallu said this while addressing a public gathering at Biland Thal. UC Pelowains ...

ISLAMABAD - Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has revealed that Director General (DG) Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) was appointed in M-I scale instead of management grade-II. The appointment in M-I resulted in overpayment of Rs4.2 million on account of pay and allowances from June 16, ...

WAZIRABAD - Shaheed Naveed Younis Centres (SNYCs) for the rehabilitation of addicts are being expanded to the national level to make Pakistan a drug-free state. Mohammad Sohail Younus, President Drug Free Pakistan Foundation (DFPF) said while addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony of a ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said. The bacteria, found to have microscopic wires sticking through their cell walls, might also be used to clean up oil spills or uranium ...

BRUSSELS (PPI) - Plans to grant emergency trade preferences to Pakistan, as a response to the countrys humanitarian and economic disaster caused by floods in the summer of 2010, were supported by the European Parliament. However, MEPs insisted on adding a safeguard clause to ensure that any trade ...

Last year a mainstream psychology researcher called Daryl Bem published a competent academic paper, in a well-respected journal, showing evidence of precognition the ability to see the future. Instead of designing new studies to see whether people could consciously tell you about the future, he ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite timely directives of the Federal Ministry of Health to quarters concerned regarding effective preemptive measures to combat the likely outbreak of Congo Crimean Haemorr-hagic Fever (CCHF) in the backdrop of slaughtering of sacrificial animals, neither the livestock experts had ...

LAHORE - Speakers at a seminar have suggested the government to distribute 2.6 million acres of state land among the landless tillers in the flood-hit areas, as in this way 58 percent tenancy will be abolished. Our first and foremost plan should be the rehabilitation of the small farmers and best ...