MANCHESTER     Alex Ferguson thanked tens of thousands of Manchester United fans as they massed to salute him and his final title-winning side on an open-top bus parade through the city streets on Monday. United manager Ferguson, one of world football's most successful bosses, is ...

ISLAMABAD -Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Saturday sought clarification from Interior Minister Malik Habib about his recent statement showing his tilt towards a major political party of the country.Sources in the PM’s House said the prime minister had asked the caretaker ...

LAHORE – A Full Bench of the Lahore High Court was told on Wednesday that dictators had inserted articles 62 and 63 in the Constitution on their own and they had distorted it.“The returning officers have no powers to interpret any article of the constitution,” Advocate Bilal ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that drone attacks are not only violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty but are counter productive and their legality is questionable.He expressed these concerns to US ambassador Richard Olson who called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr‚ in ...

CHRISTCHURCH  - This is not the first time that match-fixing rumours have started doing the rounds and former New Zealand cricketer Craig McMillan has told Indian bookmakers to "put up or shut up", following the recent allegations against Kiwi players. 'Sunday Times', a British newspaper, ...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Barack Obama Monday that Israel must remain the "master of its fate" in a firm defence of his right to mount a unilateral strike on Iran.Netanyahu and Obama met for delicate Oval Office talks taking place amid clear differences on the ...

HASILPUR - JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has expressed deep concern over deteriorating law and order, corruption and price hike, urging the rulers to stop hoodwinking the people by tall claims and false slogans.He was addressing a press conference at the residence of JUI Federal Joint Secretary ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Monday through a resolution demanded that the centre should make public the investigation report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto immediately. PPP lawmaker Ghulam Majdid Isran piloted the resolution which was supported by all the government allies. The ...

JERUSALEM  - A UN envoy called on Israel on Friday to do all it can for the health of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past 55 days in protest at his detention without charge.Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said he ...

DUBAI  - Lee Westwood was forced to apologise after his mum caught him swearing on live television at last week’s Qatar Masters, the world number three said.The incident occurred during the 38-year-old Briton’s closing 69 Sunday, a round that left him in a tie for 12th place behind ...

WASHINGTON  - The US on Wednesday said it has ‘long-standing concerns’ over ISI’s links with the Taliban and wants Pakistan to ‘cut-off’ those ties, hours after a NATO report that ISI had links with Afghan Taliban’s senior leadership.Pentagon spokesperson ...

ISLAMABAD – In a belated attempt to mend fences with the apex judiciary Pakistan People’s Party leadership has barred all the party leaders, particularly those having hawkish tendency, to comment on the NRO implementation case or any other related matter.It was further decided that only ...

MIAN DAWOODLAHORE – The Lahore High Court was told on Thursday that Special Branch SSP Manzoor Sarwar Chaudhary is a dishonest official and not eligible for promotion to BS-20. Secretary of the Establishment Division further  submitted that promotion to BS-20 “is made on the ...

CAIRO  - Hosni Mubarak was "a just man, not a tyrant" and his accusers have no evidence to support their charge that he ordered the killing of protesters during the uprising against him, the lawyer defending the former Egyptian president said on Tuesday.Defence lawyer Farid el-Deeb said the ...

DAMASCUS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people, saying the path of repression was a “dead end,” as Damascus announced a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest.“Today, I say again to President Assad of ...

MIAN DAWOODLAHORE - The ruling Pakistan People’s Party has barred its lawyers from appearing before the Lahore High Court during the hearing of petitions against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and its top leadership, sources say.The Lahore High Court Registrar Office Friday admitted a writ ...

ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry Thursday asked Asma Jehangir to refrain from disrespecting Pakistan Army officials and questioned her as to why should the court deem a foreign general’s statement more credible than that of ‘our own men’.The chief justice ...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain held a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday to discuss the overall situation in the country and important national issues. Hussain told the premier that the attack by the US and NATO forces on ...

THERMOMETER, stethoscope... smartphone? Research from Worcester Polytechnic Institute shows that smartphones could replace anything from heart monitors to microscopes. Researchers proved that simply pressing a patients finger against a Motorola Android smartphones camera, they could harvest data as ...

ISLAMABAD - I have some strong impressions from my visit to flood stricken areas in Sindh this weekend. I have seen people who have lost everything in the floods, now living in shacks on the roadside with nothing to eat and no clean water to drink. Huge areas were flooded and roads were blocked. I ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Seventy years after the Nazis encircled Leningrad, the diary of a teenage girl chronicling the World War II siege has been published, sparking comparison with Anne Frank. In May 1941, Leningrad teenager Lena Mukhina started writing a diary, pouring out her hopes and fears, her crush ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - Danish Kanerias long battle to gain clearance from the PCB will continue, as he has now been asked by the Sindh High Court to produce a transcript of the Essex police inquiry that cleared him of criminal charges in a spot-fixing case last year. Kaneria had filed a petition in ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The head of the European Central Bank called on eurozone leaders on Monday to speak with one voice in the debt crisis, while defending German Chancellor Angela Merkel against accusations of foot-dragging. "There is an absolute need to improve 'verbal discipline'," Jean-Claude Trichet ...

ISLAMABAD - Group Companies Registration Regulations, 2008, were issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan in 2008 to provide a regulatory framework for the formation of group companies, comprising a holding company and its subsidiaries and to streamline the group ownership ...

LAHORE - British High Commissioner to Pakistan Adam Thomson has said that the United Kingdoms engagements are strengthening with Punjab and why we are doing all these things in terms of engaging more is because the Punjab matters and Pakistan matter to the United Kingdom. While talking to TheNation ...

ISLAMABAD - Hassan Sadpara, the second climber of Pakistan after Nazir Sabir, who successfully climbed Mount Everest recently, gave briefing to media about his venture during a press conference here at National Press Club on Saturday. The expedition was launched on March 30 by Alpine Club and the ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday said that Pakistan Peoples Party would continue to strengthen democracy and state institutions besides putting economy back on track by following the policy of reconciliation and holding dialogue with its allies and all the political forces in the ...

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador Cameron P Munter called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Tuesday. According to official sources, Pakistan-US bilateral issues including war on terror, strategic dialogue process and prevailing economic situation in the country were discussed. The ...

UNITED NATIONS The United Nations Security Council has urged Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to form an all-inclusive, broad-based government now that he is assuming his responsibilities as head of State following the surrender of his predecessor, who had until this week refused to cede ...

COLOMBO (Agencies) - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on Tuesday asked his unpredictable team to be more consistent and make winning a habit if it hopes to go all the way in the ongoing cricket World Cup. Pakistan had a tumultuous build-up to their World Cup campaign, which was ridden by captaincy ...