ISLAMABADPicking a living off garbage dumps
Nisar Ahmed, 17, gets up early in the morning and makes rounds in the streets of the federal capital to search and collect waste material. Collecting garbage is not Nisar’s hobby but<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/04/picking-a-living-off-garbage-dumps/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 4, 2011
ForeignUN-sponsored reconciliation talks to open in Somalia
Somali leaders began gathering Sunday for a three-day national reconciliation conference under UN auspices amid high security in war-shattered Mogadishu. African Union peacekeepers deployed around the parliament talks venue in the capital<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/04/un-sponsored-reconciliation-talks-to-open-in-somalia/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 4, 2011
LAHORE132 Pakistanis stranded in Jeddah reach Lahore
The 132 Pakistani Umrah pilgrims who had been stranded at Jeddah airport for the past week reached Lahore on Saturday. As per details, PIA’s first flight, PK-760 carrying 450 passengers, including the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/04/132-pakistanis-stranded-in-jeddah-reach-lahore/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 4, 2011
NATIONALDengue fever hits Punjab
Punjab is in the grip of a dengue epidemic with dozens of cases being reported daily at various hospitals across the province, said officials and hospital sources. A report issued by the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/04/dengue-fever-hits-punjab/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 4, 2011
NATIONALPIA flight cancellations, delays annoy Umra pilgrims
A large number of Umra pilgrims are still stranded at Jeddah International Airport because of heavy rush and mismanagement. Six Lahore-bound Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights have been cancelled in the last<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/03/pia-flight-cancellations-delays-annoy-umra-pilgrims/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 3, 2011
SportsRubens tells Williams to stick with him
Brazilian veteran Rubens Barrichello has urged his Williams team to follow the example of Red Bull and Mercedes and put their faith in experience next year by re-signing him as lead driver<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/03/rubens-tells-williams-to-stick-with-him/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 3, 2011
NATIONALBoth Nawaz, Benazir were against nuclear explosions
Revelations made by WikiLeaks about the US diplomatic cables have suggested that the Pakistani leadership, then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the opposition leader, twice prime minister of the count
Sep 3, 2011
BusinessXinjiang aids strong ties with neighbours: President Zardari
Xinjiang plays a strategic role in tightening the relationship between China and Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview in Urumqi. “The region is the closest point to my border an
Sep 3, 2011
NATIONALUS arrests Pakistani on terror support charges
A Pakistani man who received commando training from Islamist militants before moving to a Washington suburb has been arrested and charged with providing support to a terror group, US officials said Friday.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/03/us-arrests-pakistani-on-terror-support-charges/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 3, 2011
ForeignWorld Bank chief warns of economic ‘danger zone’
World Bank chief Robert Zoellick warned Saturday that the global economy was heading into a new "danger zone", as he urged China to speed up structural reforms to help its development."The financial
Sep 3, 2011
SportsEngland hold their nerve as India lose again
England inflicted yet another defeat upon India as they won the lone Twenty20 international by six wickets at Old Trafford here on Wednesday. The hosts, chasing 166 to win, finished on 169<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/03/england-hold-their-nerve-as-india-lose-again/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 3, 2011
NATIONALHurriyat leaders contemplated contesting state elections in 2008
Whistleblower website Wikileaks, which published its full archive of 251,000 covert US diplomatic cables, claims that the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was contemplating contesting state assembly election in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/03/hurriyat-leaders-contemplated-contesting-state-elections-in-2008/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 3, 2011