NATIONALISLAMABAD - A lawyer on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against Islamabad High Court's verdict of dismissing plea for quashing of the FIR and the trial of Salman Taseer's self
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
SportsBERLIN - Formula One world champion and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel should be a future target for Mercedes, fellow German and seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher said on Monday. Vettel
Arts / EntertainmentJay-Z has confirmed he's teaming up with Hollywood couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith to re-imagine the 'Annie' musical for the big screen. The trio, who teamed up last year to bring hit musical 'Fela
SportsTOKYO - Akifumi Shimoda produced an array of counter-hooks for a unanimous decision victory to wrest the World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight title from Lee Retsuri on Monday. Three judge
NATIONALDAMASCUS - On the surface all is calm in Syria, tightly ruled by the same authoritarian party for half a century, despite the upheaval in several of its Arab neighbours. Below, ordinary Syrians are qu
NATIONALISLAMABAD - All Pakistanis in Egypt are safe and if needed, they will be rescued from the troubled country, said the Foreign Office here on Sunday.The Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, in a state
KARACHIKARACHI - Urdu-speaking people were barred from attending the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's National Solidarity Public Meeting on Sunday, and as per party orders, none were allowed inside the Jinnah Grou
ForeignTEHRAN - Iran on Sunday praised Egypt's "revolution of the noble" and slammed Western governments' "backward" reaction to the uprising in the Arab nation, state media reported.<br />"The voice of the brave people of Egypt is the voice of revolution. The start of this revolution has astonished the despotic regimes of the region," parliament speaker Ali Larijani was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. <br />"The parliament supports the uprising of the Tunisian and
NATIONALKARACHI - The police on Saturday arrested a teenage boy for allegedly writing blasphemous material on examination answer sheets. Seventeen-year-old 'S', a resident of Malir, was detained following a c
NATIONALKARACHI - Clues have been found that link not only some officials of the Federal Commerce Ministry, but its minister to the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam as well.<br />Sources in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told Pakistan Today they have found clues suggesting that some bureaucrats and the minister, Amin Fahim might be involved in the high-profile case in which it was alleged that the NICL management had committed misappropriation of up to Rs 5.36 billion in
NATIONALLAHORE - Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that terrorism has adversely impacted the economies of the developing and the developed countries. Terrorists have no religion. The phenomenon of terrorism
