LAHORELAHORE - Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP) Project Coordinator Hafiz Ilyas inaugurated the spring festival session to mark the Women's Year 2011 at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursda
LAHORELAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) is facing differences within the alliance over its future strategy. The SIC chairman-led Markazi Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, Sunni Tehrik and Nizam-e-Mustafa Party, an offshoot of JUP-N, are pushing for a greater role in politics while Jamat-e-Ahlesunnat Pakistan, the leadership of Tanzim-ul-Madaris and others are vehemently opposing the idea. Some small parties of the Ittehad are sitting on the fence. <br />The SIC, an alliance of 23 parties of the
NATIONALNICOSIA - Members of Arabic-language jihadist forums have called for war on France over its ban on niqabs, the full-face coverings worn by ultra-conservative Muslim women, a US-based web service said
KARACHI - To eliminate targeted killing from the city, the government has adopted a two-pronged strategy under which it is contacting political parties and also taking administrative measures, said Si
NATIONALLAHORE - Four armed robbers disguised as patients robbed the Government Hospital Shahdara on Wednesday. The criminals, riding on a car, entered the hospital and one of them pretended as a patient.Late
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The protest rally taken out by teachers and students against the Higher Education Commission's proposed devolution on Tuesday turned euphoric after the participants heard the Supreme Court
KARACHIKARACHI - A local court sent an alleged drug peddler named Khan Muhammad alias Kano to judicial custody on Tuesday. The suspect was arrested by the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department (E&TD) police o
BusinessISLAMABAD - Pakistan is estimated to have produced 4.1 million tonnes of sugar from the 2010/11 crop, industry officials said on Wednesday, adding there was no need to import the sweetener this year,
TEHRAN - Iran has stopped refuelling "western passenger planes" since Europe-bound Iranian commercial planes were refused fuelling there, the first vice-president was quoted as saying in the governmen
SportsJOHANNESBURG - South Africa will stage the richest single tournament in the sport when it launches a new World Golf Championship event next year, Sunshine Tour commissioner Gareth Tindall said on Tues
NATIONALISLAMABAD/ LAHORE - After the government's failure to convince the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) to continue the two-day gas curtailment, the association announced an indefinite strike across
SportsDHAKA - Bangladesh on Tuesday showed the door to coach Jamie Siddons, just days after the national team failed to make it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. "It has been agreed that head coach Ja
