Quetta - Aftershocks, as strong as magnitude six, jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning, creating fear and panic among the people, while the death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake increased to 41.More than 20,000 people are still waiting for relief activities in tehsil ...

Apropos news item daily The Nation (9-11-12) NAB Punjab Director General, Justice Khursheed Anwar Bhinder had distributed Rs 26 million among 300 affectees of Double Shah. Speaking on this occasion the DG NAB said that NAB was actively working for the recovery of looted money to return it to the ...

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Friday said the party don’t want to oust the government till the appeal in Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s contempt case was pending before the Supreme Court. In a media interview, Imran Khan said ousting the government ...

A sequel to Whitney Houston’s 1995 hit Waiting to Exhale may be in the works, despite the singer’s death.Based on a Terry McMillan novel, the movie starred Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and Loretta Devine as four girlfriends dealing with bad relationships. Before her death, ...

DASKA - As many as 28km-long main Daska-Pasrur Road has become dilapidated as three to four-feet deep ditches appeared on it and waiting for the attention of local elected public representatives.This is the only main road which facilitates more than 200,000 people of 200 villages of these tehsils. ...

SIALKOT - As many as 74 posts of different categories including those of doctors and paramedics have been lying vacant for a long time at Govt Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Hospital Sialkot. The officials concerned are allegedly reluctant to fill these vacant posts. Two years ago, Punjab Chief Minister ...

LONDON  - Premier League leaders Manchester City have to wait until Monday to play their next fixture, away to relegation candidates Wigan, and that may be no bad thing for manager Roberto Mancini.For a start, there is no guarantee reigning champions Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, ...

Our Staff Reporter KHAN GARH - The Mepco technical staff, working with the utility for the last 15 years have been deprived of promotion to the next cadre despite qualifying the eligibility criterion. This situation has caused severe disappointment and sense of deprivation among the staff who has ...

AMY WILENTZ IN Haiti, theres a worker called a Bayakou. The Bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so. Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an ...

LAHORE - Though the Punjab government has increased the salaries and upgraded pay scales of the Punjab Prisons Department officials, yet the staff will only get increased salaries after the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting to get promotion to the next pay scale, sources in the ...

LAHORE - Hundreds of lecturers in government colleges of Punjab are waiting for their promotions to Grade-18 even after the lapse of 21 years. Sources said at least 8,000 lecturers are waiting for their promotions to the next grade pending the decision of DPC. Grade 18 was due to 8,000 lecturers ...

THIS is the amazing scene of a burglar hanging upside down that greeted home owner Paul Ives when he returned home from work. Thief John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass  and was left hanging upside down for more than an hour, unable to move. ...

ISLAMABAD - Unlike the allotments of plots to the habitants of slums of different communities residing in Islamabad, the 'Kutchi Abadi' of I-11 can only wish to get a plot on behalf of the government to get a permanent shelter. It is learnt that these dwellers are living in extremely poor living ...