NATIONALISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has categorically told the government to come up with economic reforms to qualify for the next tranche of $1.7 billion under the $11.3 billion standby
SportsLAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation has succeeded in its efforts to convince Michel Van Den Heuvel to continue as head coach of the national team, with added remuneration and authority of selectio
SportsLAHORE - The Punjab National Junior Squash Championship 2011 rolled into action here at the PSA Complex on Wednesday. On the opening day, qualification round matches were played after Tariq Rana, Hono
ForeignBERLIN - Revolt in Egypt and the implications for the stalled Middle East peace process are set to be key talking points for top defence officials at the Munich Security Conference in Germany from Fri
BusinessKARACHI - Forecasting Pakistan's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at two to three percent, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has said that the country's external accounts would deteriorate duri
NATIONALISLAMABAD - While hearing the Reko Diq lease case on Tuesday, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday observed that the deal was signed under a caretaker government and appeared to have been finalised in a day
NATIONALISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Tuesday deplored a US media report that dubbed its nuclear programme as a major challenge to the Obama administration's policy. Commenting on David E Sanger and Eric Schmitt's
LAHORELAHORE - Around 41 percent milk being supplied to the provincial metropolis is reported to be adulterated, the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) Food Department Report 2010 has revealed. The CDGL Food Laboratory compiled a report from January 1 to December 31, 2010 and found 41 percent milk samples impure in comparison to other commodities being consumed by people.<br />The daily consumption of milk in Lahore is around 1.6 million litres out of which 0.3 million is packed while
NATIONALKARACHI - Ram Singh Sodho, a Hindu Sindh Assembly member who recently resigned and shifted to India, might have decided to move to the neighbouring country to join his family members who were already there. His family members had actually started shifting to India around years ago, people of his home district Tharparkar told Pakistan Today.<br />They say that one of his sons, Dileep Singh had left the country to settle in the Indian state Gujrat some 10 years ago. Dileep later died in
LAHORELAHORE - A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on petitions challenging President Asif Ali Zardari for holding dual offices. Now the bench headed by Chief Justice Ijaz
NATIONALISLAMABAD - Urging the government to convey to the United States that the issue of Raymond Davis would be decided in accordance with the law of the state, senators on Tuesday said Pakistan could not a
NATIONALFAISALABAD - Dozens of Faisalabad District Court workers held a protest rally in support of their pay raise. Reportedly, the protesters including sessions and civil courts' employees, readers, clerks
