NATIONALPESHAWAR - Human right activists, officials and technocrats unanimously resolved to make joint efforts for the protection of child rights at a two-day capacity-building workshop on "Making Child Right
NATIONALKARACHI - Though the social networking website Facebook has removed Mumtaz Qadri's pages, a number of communities are emerging with the name and more than 1,000 people have liked these community pages.<br />Qadri's fan page reportedly attracted more than 2,000 fans in less than 24 hours that was later deleted by the Facebook administration but Qadri's fans were creating communities and different pages on the site.<br />The communities like 'Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri Should be
LAHORELAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry urged bar associations and lawyers to cooperate in eradication of bribery and corruption from courts and government departments with the sa
ForeignPARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday said Christian minorities in the Middle East are victims of "religious cleansing", following deadly attacks on churches in the region."We cannot acce
NATIONALISLAMABAD - FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed on Thursday told the Supreme Court that Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was involved in the multi-million rupee Haj scam.Quo
ForeignCOLOMBO - India and Sri Lanka on Friday signed an agreement to restart sea ferry services shut down for nearly 30 years, the latest sign of resurgent economic ties since the end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century civil war. <br />The two nations gave no immediate timeframe, but said the service should start shortly. <br />"Sea passenger transportation between India and Sri Lanka is being established...to speedily restore the traditional links between the two countries," a joint statement
LAHORELAHORE - A large number of people attended slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's qul at the Governor's House on Thursday. Special prayers were offered for his departed soul while people remembered hi
LAHORELAHORE - A 65-year-old disabled woman was burnt when fire erupted at her house at Pakistani Chowk, Ichra, in the early hours on Thursday. The deceased, Razia, lived in a two-story house with her daugh
LAHORELAHORE - The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), in collaboration with Routes2Roots, an Indian organization working for peace and dialogue between Pakistan and India, introduced "Exchange for Change,"
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The Executive Director Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Mahmood Jamal Wednesday handed over the final postmortem report of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's murder to Muhammad
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The appointment of Mumtaz Qadri in the security detail squad of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has raised many questions, as the killer had been declared unfit for the sensitive job
LAHORELahore - Parents of students have expressed their reservations against the newly proposed uniform syllabus of medical entry test for both Fsc and A-levels students by the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Pakistan Today has learnt.<br />The medical entry test conducted by the UHS has been marred in controversies for a past few years, as A-level students claimed they were at a losing end in a test which they claimed favoured Fsc students. Several protests have been held in previous
