HAFIZABAD Round-the-clock efforts are being made by the contestants to woo electorates for ensuring their victory in the upcoming election. The arch rivals in the general election Ch Afzal Hussain Tarar of PML-N and Ch Mehdi Hassan Bhatti of independent group (both were not contesting the election ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN Rashid AshrafSleepless nights and restless days are being spent by the candidates as they are carrying out their respective political campaigns in a bid to muster maximum public support regarding elections in the National Assembly constituency NA-100. However, the main contest in ...

M RAFIQUE KAMBOkot radha kishan - Though all the political parties including PPP, PTI and the PML-N are claiming to bring about a change after coming to power, but the people are taking least interest in their slogans as they are disappointed with their oft-repeated manifestos, especially in Kasur ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Political campaign is gaining momentum day by day here especially in For NA-100 as the general elections are approaching fast. All the parties and candidates are making efforts to win the voters’ trust. Public gatherings and corner meetings are being held after the ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Political campaign is gaining momentum day by day here especially in For NA-100 as the general elections are approaching fast. All the parties and candidates are making efforts to win the voters’ trust. Public gatherings and corner meetings are being held after the ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - A meeting of about 30 lawyers belonging to PTI has decided to launch a mass contact campaign to woo the public towards his party in the upcoming general elections. The meeting was presided over by Shakeel Ahmed Advocate. Prominent among the other participants were Khuram Shezad, ...

DOHA (AFP) - Representatives of donor countries and aid groups began meeting on Sunday to endorse a strategy to rebuild Sudan's Darfur region, where a decade-long conflict shocked the world with atrocities against civilians."Peace time has begun in Darfur. A peace that will be protected by ...

DOHA  - Representatives of donor countries and aid groups met on Sunday to endorse a strategy to rebuild Sudan’s Darfur region, where a decade-long conflict shocked the world with atrocities against civilians. “Peace time has begun in Darfur. A peace that will be protected by ...

LAHORE - As part of preparations for the All-Party Conference (APC) expected next month, the government is considering making fresh contacts with the Baloch leaders abroad who are believed to be supporting militancy in the volatile province.Informed circles told this correspondent on Saturday that ...

SINGAPORE  - If you have money and want to flaunt it, mansions, limousines and yachts are no longer enough. For the super rich of Asia, owning a private jet has become the ultimate status symbol.Executive-jet makers aiming to woo Asia's growing ranks of billionaires and multi-millionaires were ...

QUETTA - Efforts have been started to bring back the political personalities, belonging to PML-Q particularly Parliamentarians into the fold of PML-N after PML-N President Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhel, a senior PML-Q member in Balochistan Assembly, ...

SYDNEY (APP) - Qantas Airways is offering free flights to passengers who were affected by the airline's decision to ground its entire fleet over a labourdispute, in the first of a number of measures to regain customerloyalty. Passengers who were unable to fly last weekend are eligible for a free ...

KARACHI - PPP and MQM relations are being dominated by political expediency in the garb of political reconciliation. Both the parties are working for enhancing their party interests by conceding ground to each other at the federal level. However, at the Sindh level things are different. The PPP ...

Government cronies on Wednesday made an other effort to woo back JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazl ur Rehman into the fold of the government, however the JUI-F Chief has refused to review, his decision. According to sources Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Head of Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional ...

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to be on the same page with the coalition partners, President Asif Ali Zardari accelerated his direct political contacts as he dined with an ANP delegation at the Presidency here on Friday. PPP as the largest political force in the country possesses the will and capacity to ...

US President Barack Obama Tuesday will hold talks with congressional Republicans who complain his 825-billion-dollar stimulus plan is too expensive, unworkable and larded with unneeded spending. Obama is hoping for strong backing from opposition Republicans for the emergency economic plan, and ...

DUBUQUE (AFP) - Sarah Palin tossed her trademark pencil skirt in favour of jeans Monday as she wooed rural votes in Iowa with the help of country music star Hank Williams Junior on the eve of the US presidential election. The Republican vice-presidential candidate exuded confidence despite polls ...

NEW DELHI8 (AFP) - India's embattled coalition government stepped up its efforts Thursday to win over MPs ahead of a confidence vote in parliament that commentators say it is far from certain of winning. Congress party leaders said they have the support of 290 lawmakers - more than the 272 ...

HE'S got to start somewhere and footballer Ashley Cole has been wooing the wife he cheated on - Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole - with balloons and flowers on the girl group's tour. Cheryl and her Girls Aloud bandmates posed before going onstage at the girl's gig at the Birmingham National Indoor ...

Republican White House hopeful John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama both face a balancing act to placate their parties' bases while also courting the floating voters of the political center. McCain carries a lot of baggage into the campaign for November's presidential election, having alienated ...