ISLAMABADUzma Khan receives French Embassy Fiction Prize for her book Thinner than Skin Uzma Aslam Khan, a Pakistani citizen, received the French Embassy Fiction Prize the other day for her book “Thinner<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/13/a-real-prize-for-a-surreal-piece/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ISLAMABADUSAID launches $160m Pakistan Reading Project to benefit 3.2m children The United States and Pakistan Thursday launched Pakistan Reading Project, marking the beginning of a five-year $ 160 million investment in reading<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/13/instilling-culture-of-reading-for-a-better-pakistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
KARACHICommenting on the peace talks between the government and Taliban, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has reiterated that dialogue and terrorism could not go together. Speaking to journalists in Karachi on Thursday, the minister said that the law and order situation in Karachi was heading towards chaos. He said that the ongoing operation against criminals needed to be conducted in an environment similar to that of the first three months of the operation.
ISLAMABADBuilding Energy Code, launched by Pakistan Energy Council will help to reduce the electric load in the buildings and save power for the national grid. Talking to media after launch of “Building<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/13/building-energy-code-to-help-save-power/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Arts / EntertainmentThe next iPhone’s display will not only be larger, it could be so strong that you may not need a case. According to a new report, Apple is opening a manufacturing plant<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/12/iphone-6-to-boast-super-strong-5-inch-sapphire-display/" title="Read more" >...</a>
KARACHIKARACHI- A petition was filed on Wednesday in Sindh High Court (SHC) against the alleged abduction and murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker Mohammad Salman. The petition was filed by Salman’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/12/workers-killing-mqm-files-case-in-shc/" title="Read more" >...</a>
CITYSpeakers at a condolence reference organised by Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) in memory of late Nisar Ali Effendi, paid rich tribute and called him a great visionary and missionary of Sindh.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/smiu-holds-condolence-reference-for-pakistan-movements-witness/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignWASHINGTON- The United States military has revised plans for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in order to wait until President Hamid Karzai leaves office and a new president is appointed to sign a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/us-revises-troop-exit-plan-from-afghanistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALDI Khan- One policeman was killed while another was injured on Tuesday when a polio vaccination team was attacked by unidentified gunman in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/one-policeman-killed-another-injured-in-attack-on-anti-polio-campaigners/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignKABUL- An Afghan girl has been diagnosed with polio in Kabul – the capital’s first case since the Taliban’s fall in 2001. The health ministry has ordered a vaccination campaign across the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/first-polio-case-in-kabul-since-2001/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALThe National Institute of Health in Islamabad has confirmed another poliovirus (type-1) case from North Waziristan Agency which brings the total number of cases in 2014 to 10. The latest victim of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/10th-polio-case-reported-from-north-waziristan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignMOSCOW- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that a draft U.N. Security Council resolution aimed boost aid access to Syria was one-sided and detached from reality, the Interfax news agency<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/11/un-resolution-on-syria-one-sided-says-russia/" title="Read more" >...</a>
