NATIONALISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that target killers detained in Karachi were expelled from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) several years ago and had no links with the party anym
ForeignNICOSIA - Thousands of Syrians on Saturday attended the funeral of a man killed in the northwestern city of Banias, while some 2,000 women staged a separate rally in his honour, witnesses and activist
NATIONALISLAMABAD - On the instructions of Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, Pakistani consul general in Houston Aqil Nadeem visited detained Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui in C
NATIONALISLAMABAD - A meeting, called to sort out differences on gas load management, unanimously decided to share 25 percent of gas shortage until June 30. However, the final plan would be fine-tuned on Apri
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Religious Affairs will hire 900 Pakistani students studying in Saudi Arabia as Khuddam-ul-Hujjaj for this year's pilgrimage.Under the Hajj policy-2011, the number of local
BusinessKARACHI - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, along with a trade delegation, is likely to visit Kazakhstan this month, while the two countries have agreed to boost bilateral trade, through various steps discussed in the seventh session of the Pak-Kazakh Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC), held on Friday in Islamabad.<br />This would be Gillani's second visit to Kazakhstan following his visit last month. Pakistan has already stepped up efforts to enhance trade relations with the
NATIONALQUETTA - Former Supreme Court Bar Association president and senior lawyer Ali Ahmad Kurd on Friday stated that there would have been no extra-judicial murders in Balochistan had Chief Justice Iftikhar
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The government filed an application in the Pakistan Bar Council's (PBC) Disciplinary Committee on Friday requesting it to initiate proceedings against senior lawyer Kamal Azfar for profess
NATIONALLAHORE - Observing that the CIA did not trust the ISI because it had demonstrated repeatedly that it was "not trustworthy," a top American daily said on Friday that Pakistan needed to be a given an ul
ForeignNEW DELHI - India's biggest corruption case descended into bickering over the quality of poorly photocopied witness testimonies and noisy ceiling fans on Friday as five senior business executives foug
BusinessLAHORE - The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has generated 3.2 billion additional units of hydroelectricity during the period July 2010 to March 2011 compared with the corresponding peri
NATIONALLAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday again issued notice to the federal and Punjab governments for April 26 on a petition challenging removal of US national Raymond Davis' name from the Exit
