News Desk

NATIONAL

Gunmen shot dead seven shiite muslims in two separate incidents in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan on Saturday, police said. The incidents took place near Quetta, the capital of the oil<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/01/gunmen-kill-seven-shiites-in-pakistan-police/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The bulls stamped their authority on the Karachi stocks market on last working day of the week Friday with benchmark, KSE 100-share index gained 137.87 points. The day saw the index closing<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/01/bulls-hit-another-ton/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index closed 0.90 percent, or 137.87 points, higher at 15,391.58, on volume of 13.12 million shares. Pakistan’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 9.1 percent in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/01/pakistani-stocks-hit-four-year-high/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Senator John Hogg, President of the Australian Senate, has said that the Australian government highly values its relations with Pakistan and is keen on strengthening its economic relations with Pakistan, which is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/01/australia-values-its-relations-with-pakistan-john-hogg/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

At least six people were killed in an overnight missile attack by the US surveillance plane in capital area of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) near Pak-Afghan border.According to the media reports, th

Sports

Andy Roddick celebrated his 30th birthday on Thursday by announcing his retirement as Roger Federer, the great Grand Slam tormentor of the American, eased into the third round at the US Open.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/01/roddick-to-quit-federer-into-us-open-third-round/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The garrison city could not get large city package during the current financial year 2012-13 which has put a question mark on various development projects. However, Rawalpindi got Rs 500 million during<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/31/no-big-city-package-for-rawalpindi/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The Pakistan Steel has opened two Letter of Credits for the purchase of 0.11 million metric tons of coal after the clearance of National Bank of Pakistan on Wednesday. These LCs were<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/31/psm-orders-0-11m-mt-coal-as-nbp-opens-lcs/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Ecuador’s president fears Julian Assange would not get a fair trial in the United States and has insisted that Britain and Sweden guarantee they will not extradite the WikiLeaks founder. Assange took<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/31/ecuador-doubts-assange-could-get-fair-us-trial/" title="Read more" >...</a>

LAHORE

The rift between MAO College Lahore principal and teaching staff continues, allegedly due to the principal’s vindictive attitude towards his colleagues. According to sources, the teachers on Thursday organized an Eid Milan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/31/mao-college-teachers-have-eid-party-sans-principal/" title="Read more" >...</a>

LAHORE

By launching a post card campaign the Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab has urged the provincial government to take immediate steps to notify Child Domestic Labor (CDL) in the list of banned<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/31/punjab-govt-should-honour-child-rights-conventions-crm/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military Tuesday of withholding hundreds of emails over fears of a publicity nightmare. The defense<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/30/us-withheld-email-evidence-in-wikileaks-case/" title="Read more" >...</a>