News Desk

The Federal Religious Affairs Ministry has allocated quota to 700 Haj Group Organisers (HGO) while details about the number of pilgrims to be served by each group are available on the ministry’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/700-group-organisers-allotted-haj-quota/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday the anti-state elements were trying to destroy Pakistan while the government continued to sleep, a private TV channel reported. Expressing dismay over<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/govt-oblivious-to-dangers-facing-pakistan-nawaz/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Greece’s economic crisis highlighted that growing divisions at the highest levels in Europe over the rights and wrongs of a risky Greek debt re-scheduling or wider restructuring involving the banks. Markets fear<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/greek-economic-crisis-highlights-eu-divisions/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Flames and thick smoke caused by an accidental blast killed one person and wounded 25 Tuesday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a unit in Iran’s Abadan oil refinery, officials and media said.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/deadly-blast-as-ahmadinejad-visits-iran-oil-refinery/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

The Palestinian leadership will seek United Nations recognition of their independent state, a top Fatah official said in Moscow on Tuesday, but insisted it was not a “unilateral” move. “We’re going to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/un-recognition-not-unilateral-move-say-palestinians/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Pakistan has returned to the United States wreckage of a US helicopter destroyed during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday. The delivery of the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/govt-returns-wreckage-of-us-chopper/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Perturbed over the deadly terrorist assault on Pakistan Naval Station (PNS) Mehran in Karachi and other recent acts of terror, the Islamabad-based foreign diplomatic missions are in constant touch with their respective<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/foreign-missions-perturbed-by-pns-mehran-assault/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Meeting of the sub-committee on Weights and Measurement was held on Tuesday, which was chaired by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Khurram Dastgir and attended by Member<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/meeting-of-sub-committee-on-weights-and-measurement-held/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sports

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, who was considering retirement from ODIs on being sacked as skipper, has pulled out of the two one-day match series against Ireland later this month. Although reports<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/peshawar-blast-leaves-16-injured/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

The government has set the size of next fiscal year’s consolidated budget at Rs 3.85 trillion, as compared to Rs 3.39 trillion for the current fiscal, with the federal budget set at<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/rs-3-85tr-budget-set-for-next-fiscal/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Punjab University (PU) External Linkages Director Maria Maldonado organised a presentation on “Spain: Language and Culture” at the Department of English on Tuesday. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Spanish Counsellor<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/presentations-on-spanish-language-culture-made-at-pu/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

The chief of Syria’s armed forces, his deputy and the vice president join President Bashar al-Assad on a list of 10 officials hit by a European Union travel ban and assets freeze,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/25/syrian-military-chief-on-eu-sanctions-list/" title="Read more" >...</a>