SportsCOLOMBO - History-making Lasith Malinga played down his landmark second World Cup hat-trick, insisting that his famous four wickets in four balls against South Africa in 2007 was a greater achievement
BusinessKARACHI - United Bank Limited (UBL), one of Pakistan's largest commercial bank, has signed an agreement with Xpress Money, a leading money transfer company to facilitate home remittances sent by Pakistanis living abroad. UBL and Xpress Money have an extensive network of branches, with UBL having over 1,100 branches nationwide and Xpress Money having its presence in 90 plus countries.
Arts / EntertainmentMusician Prince is being sued by his former lawyers who say he owes them more than $700,000, according to court documents. The firm, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, said in documents filed in Manhatta
NATIONALISLAMABAD - Prime Minister (PM) Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani announced Rs 1.7 billion on Tuesday for the rehabilitation of around 32,000 internally displaced people (IDP) of Kurram Agency (KA) who had to leave their homes because of sectarian riots and militancy. He told members of a grand jirga from KA in a meeting at Prime Minister's House that Rs 1 billion would be provided to the IDP from the current budget and Rs 700 million from the next. <br />He appreciated the efforts of Federally
LAHORELahore - Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO has approved Punjab University's (PU) project proposal "Sui-Vihar Excavations and Archaeological Reconnaissance of Southern Punjab" today, amounting to US$ 26000 under the participation programme 2010-2011. The project has to be completed by the end of current year. The field work around the unique Sui-Vihar shrine would unleash various facets of Buddhism and particularly Mahayana cult. <br />Ghandhara Buddhist art has its own
KARACHIKARACHI - Malik Munsaf Awan, the lawyer who volunteered to represent Muhammad Faheem's family in court in the case against US citizen Raymond Davis, is allegedly pressuring the family into 'becoming p
SportsLAHORE - Matches of the 7th SBP Governor's Cup Inter-Bank Super Series Cricket Tournament were washed out on Tuesday due to Monday night's rain. All the ten teams were awarded equal points as per rule
KARACHIKARACHI - The Sindh police's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two arms smugglers and recovered a huge cache of weapons and ammunition from their possession. During a press conference on Monday, CID SP Mazhar Mashwani said that the CID carried out a raid at Nadeem Centre on the University Road and arrested Sajid Khan and Muhammad Nazeer. <br />The suspects had arrived from Peshawar for a deal. The CID seized three Kalashnikovs, two 8mm rifles, a repeater, four mortar
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power was informed Monday that India was taking advantage of the flaws in the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) to build dams on the rivers allotted to Pakistan under the deal. The representatives of the Ministry of Water and Power told the committee that they were keeping an eye on the India's designs to build dams on the Chenab River while steps were under consideration to curtail the violations of the treaty.<br />The committee, which
LAHORELahore - 'The Verve', dramatics society of Beaconhouse School System, A level Gulberg Campus, staged their annual play, 'One wife too many', on February 24 and 25 at Alhamra Cultural Complex Hall No 1
LAHORELahore - The Medical Laboratory Technologists Association of Pakistan (MLTAP) in collaboration with the King Edward Medical University (KEMU), Lahore organised a national CME-based seminar on medical laboratory technology, titled Molecular Biology and Laboratory Medicine. CEMB Lahore Director Dr Tayyab Husnain chaired the function. Addressing participants, MLTAP President Ali Malik and Punjab chapter president Raza Mohaiyuddin said that manifesto of the MLTAP is to promote literary
LAHORELAHORE - Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din has announced that whenever Pakistan People's party (PPP) will join opposition benches, he will resign from the post following the Pervaiz Elahi's precedent. While talking to the journalists on Monday outside Punjab Assembly building, Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din said that lotacracy was a menace and added that the party had prepared references against the lotas of the party as they had not responded to the show -cause
