NATIONALISLAMABAD: As the government blocked a joint resolution by the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the PML-Q in the National Assembly against spiraling prices, Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan vowed
NATIONALISLAMABAD: The military leadership, perturbed over the US's endorsement of India's bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, will raise this issue with General David Petreaus, commander of
KARACHIKARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday arrested six alleged members of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), believed to be plotting an attack on a procession in the upcoming hol
NATIONALLAHORE: Spokesman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), Fawad Chaudhry, on Tuesday rejected a statement by PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain regarding the Lal Masjid operation, claiming that Sh
BusinessLAHORE: The Managing Director of Pakistan Electric Power (PEPCO) Rasul Khan Mahsud has said that the industry is not suffering from load-shedding and their entire power requirements are being met by P
NATIONALPESHAWAR: Prof Dr Ajmal Khan is a respectable educationist and apolitical person who should be freed by Taliban on purely humanitarian grounds without attaching any conditions or his family members, f
BusinessKARACHI: Analysts smell a rat as the State Bank of Pakistan despite global and domestic economic slowdown was able to raise Rs 51.84 billion ($608 million) by selling three-year Islamic bonds in the l
KARACHIKARACHI: The Ministry of Ports and Shipping is patronising a gimmick of around Rs 50 million a year just by ignoring private maritime colleges providing GP3 training to students aspiring to be professional seamen.<br />It has been learnt that these private colleges pay commissions to their agents for enticing young students for the costly GP3 training, commonly known as seaman training, despite the fact that some 500,000 seafarers are idle and have no jobs. Every year some 1,200
NATIONALISLAMABAD: Emphasising the need for good governance in the country, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir on Sunday said good governance was also needed in the judiciary where s
NATIONALKARACHI: At least five people were killed in separate incidents in Karachi on Saturday amid heightened security measures that were put in place ahead of the arrival of the body of slain MQM leader Dr
NATIONALISLAMABAD: Islamabad on Saturday urged New Delhi to allow a Pakistani commission to visit India to gather more evidence for the prosecution of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Interior
LAHORELAHORE: FC College parliamentary debates continued on the second day. Top debaters put their well honed skills to test against debutant rivals in the second round of the competition. Newcomers provide
