MARDAN  - Majority of the Awami National Party (ANP) workers of Mardan have rejected the inquiry committee constituted by the party leadership to search the reasons of defeat in recent elections. They demanded immediate resignation of all office-bearers for their failure in the elections ...

MULTANAt least 26 PML-N workers including a provincial assembly candidate from PP-213 Khanewal were released from New Central Jail Multan on Monday night. The detainees were arrested by Khanewal Police on the allegations of creating fuss, brawl, hurdles in polling and snatching ballot boxes on May ...

PESHAWAR Awami National Party (ANP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Senator Afrasyab Khattak on Tuesday revealed that a total of 62 ANP workers had lost their lives and dozens got injuries in 31 terrorist attacks on his party from March 30 to May 11, 2013."Not only our leaders and workers have been ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hussain Mehanti has expressed gratitude to the party workers, supporters and sympathisers for their support in connection with staging successful sit-ins against rigging.In a statement issued here on Monday, Mehanti said the JI workers’ sit-ins had proved that ...

          KARACHI Muttahida Qaumi Movement staged a protest demonstration outside the  Karachi Press Club here on Monday. MQM workers and supporters, including women and children gathered at the KPC to protest against Imran Khan’s alleging MQM chief Altaf Hussain ...

LAHORE - Several employees of PIA affiliated with Peoples Unity have joined Air League after victory of PML-N in general election, claimed an office-bearer of Air League here on Sunday. President, Air League of PIA Employees Lahore chapter, Ahmad Butt has said that workers of the Air League have a ...

LAHORE  - OUR STAFF REPORTER - Aleema Khan, PTI leader and sister of party chairman Imran Khan on late Sunday night, following the directions of Imran Khan, asked the party volunteers to call off the protest against the poll rigging at Lalik Jan Chowk, Defence and gather in the federal capital ...

johannesburg - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after some 470 workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the company said on Saturday.The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) northwest of ...

Tehreek Minhajul-Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said his organization is preparing 10 million workers to lead a revolution in the country.“We are also working on the document of a new state system,” Tahirul Qadri stated while addressing the workers convention in Lahore.He said everyone is ...

FEROZWALAThe PML-N local leaders and workers celebrated the victory of their party with great enthusiasm as PML-N candidates Rana Tanveer Hussain, Rana Afzal, Pir Ashraf Rasool have been declared winners. The party workers brought out bike rally from station road and after marching different ...

LAHORE (PR): Thousands WAPDA Workers took out a large procession under the aegis of" ALL PAKISTAN Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (Regd) from Bakhtiar Labour Hall led by Trade Union leader Khurshid Ahmed accompanied by Rana Abdul Shakoor, Malik Ehsanullah, Zajiod Kazmi, Rana Muhammad Akram, ...

DHAKA - Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment workers, a minister said Sunday, as tens of thousands protested over poor conditions highlighted by a series of disasters. "We've set up a minimum wage board for the garment sector. We did it in view of the ...

LAHORE - Former Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has asked the party workers to start serving the people in their respective areas. While talking to the party workers Sunday, Shahbaz Sharif, who is also sure to be the next Chief Minister of Punjab, said the enthusiasm exhibited by the people in favour ...

rawalpindi - Four political workers sustained severe injuries during firing and stone pelting between two political groups - PML-N and PTI - in election related violence at Benazir Bhutto Road (BBR) here on Saturday.The injured were immediately shifted to Holy Family Hospital (HFH) by Rescue 1122 ...

rawalpindiAs many as 3 people were injured when clashes broke out between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers outside a polling station in Dhoke Mangtal here on Saturday.Some eyewitnesses told The Nation that the enraged political workers also resorted ...

QUETTA/SWAVI - The residence of PML-N candidate and former federal minister Zubida Jalal was attacked with hand grenade in Kech district on Tuesday while two power pylons were exploded near Sibi and a school was exploded in Kohlu.Unidentified armed men hurled a hand grenade at the house of PML-N ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has vowed to protect workers’ rights and better employers-employees relationships.“We will make sure that labourers have access to justice at every forum while their wages will gradually be raised to Rs 15,000 a ...

LAHODRE (PR): Registrar Industry-Wise Trade Union Islamabad has fixed May 29 for holding referendum in WAPDA/Corporatised Elecy. More than one hundred fifty thousands workers will participate in the referendum. This order has been made in compliance with the directive issued by Justice Shaukat Aziz ...

DHAKAThousands of Bangladeshi garment workers walked out of their factories Monday, demanding the death penalty for the owner of a tower block that collapsed and killed at least 381 of their colleagues.Managers at all of the country's 4,500 garment factories had given workers an unscheduled two ...

  PAJU, South Korea : South Korea was due Monday to pull out its last workers from a joint factory zone in North Korea - a rare symbol of cross-border cooperation now crippled by a tense military stand-off. The move raises the prospect of the permanent closure of theKaesongcomplex, the last ...

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said an attempt is being made to push the party out of electoral process through bombings.Condemning the killings of two party workers overnight in Hyderabad, Altaf Hussain noted the entire Pakistan should see as to how the Muttahida’s ...

LONDON: Cathedral volunteers can’t ‘’make eye contact’’ with Mila Kunis on set. The beauty is shooting scenes for ‘Jupiter Ascending’ at Britain’s Ely Cathedral and workers at the place of worship have been urged to not disturb the actress or her ...

PAJU, South Korea Dozens of South Korean workers returned from a jointly run factory park in North Korea on Saturday as part of an evacuation of the flagship project following months of military tensions.The move plunges into doubt the future of the Kaesong complex - once a rare symbol of ...

KARACHI - For the second time in a week, City and other parts of Sindh came to a standstill on Friday as all business and educational institutions were shutdown, a day after six people were killed and 12 others injured in a blast targeting the MQM election office.Schools, businesses, shops and ...

KARACHI - Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has demanded MQM Chief Altaf Hussain to take notice of MQM workers, active in Malir, Jinnah Square, Ice Depot, Jafar-e-Tayyar, who are threatening the MWM candidates and its workers. We demand action against them because they are defaming the MQM, said Allama ...

RIYADH  - Saudi Arabia will make sponsors and employers of foreigners working illegally in the country to pay the cost of deporting them, under new rules approved by the Cabinet, the Saudi Gazette reported on Monday.The world’s top oil exporter is cracking down on illegal expatriate ...

Two workers of Awami National Party (ANP) were killed and another injured in a firing incident in Pishin district of Balochistan on Sunday.Police sources said that motorcycle-riding gunmen opened fire on ANP workers in Killi Karbala village of Pishin district. As a result two ANP workers were ...

PESHAWARCriticising party parliamentary board for alleged unfair distribution of tickets and ignoring ideological workers, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Fata chapter disgruntled workers have announced to field their own candidates on three NA seats from the area.Addressing at a news conference ...

HAFIZABADThe Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Workers took out a rally in front of Press Club to protest against “unjustified” distribution of tickets and ignoring the diehard workers of the party. The rally was led by PTI District President Ch Amanullah Sandhu, District General Secretary and ...

KARACHI - Speakers at the 3rd annual convention of home-based women workers federation (HBWWF) demanded the government to declare status of 10 million informal workers equal to those of formal sector.The convention held at PMA House, was attended by women workers from different parts of the ...