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Pakistan continue making efforts for stable, peaceful Afghanstan

Islamabad, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani says Pakistan will continue making efforts for a stable and peaceful Afghanistan, and called for fulfilling joint responsibility of
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COAS meets Karzai

Islamabad, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani held a meeting with visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai here Thursday.During the meeting, they discussed various ...
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Committee formed to ensure austerity in expenditures: Kaira

LAHORE, Provincial Minister for Finance, Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that if comprehensive austerity would not be made ensure at highest level then nation would ...
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Pakistan, Afghanistan reaffirm to build enduring ties, respect each other's sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity

Islamabad, Pakistan and Afghanistan Thursday reaffirmed to build enduring ties by consolidating neighbourly relations and respect each other's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.       This ...
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PILER hails bill against women harassment

KARACHI, : The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on Thursday welcomed the signing of Protection Against Harassment of Women at Workplace Bill, ...
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Ansar Burney demands regularization of NPIW workers

Karachi, Chairman Ansar Burney Trust, Ansar Burney has demanded the government to regularise 3000 workers of national program for improvement of watercourses (NPIW) without any ...
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International seminar at SALU

Khairpur, Sindh,  Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur in collaboration with Higher Education Commission and Statistical Society of Islamic countries has arranged a three-day international seminar ...
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$1.18 bn ADB investment plan in jeopardy

ISLAMABAD: A $1.18 billion, 10-year investment programme, offered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Francaise de Development (French Development Agency or AFD) ...
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The spooks, the Chowkidar and the cash locker

WASHINGTON: With the fairly substantive and meaningful shake-up in the top hierarchy of the Pakistan Army now complete, the key issue of Lt Gen Shuja ...
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South Punjab to be focus of new LHC appointments

ISLAMABAD: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif plans to induct a good number of lawyers from the southern Punjab into his high ...
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PPP govt to take along allies: Faryal Talpur

NAWABSHAH: The government of Pakistan People’s Party is committed to take along all the allied parties and the amendment in the Local Government Ordinance would ...
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Govt removes yet another ‘honest officer’

ISLAMABAD: The government has removed yet another officer of impeccable integrity, the Chief Commissioner, Islamabad, Shahid Mehmood, after he refused to dance to the tunes ...
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Burney for action against human traffickers

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Ansar Burney Trust International Ansar Burney has strongly condemned the apathy of the government towards its nationals with regard to human rights and ...
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Envoy to Syria sacks teacher on defiance

ISLAMABAD: The Syrian lady teacher of the Pakistan International School of Damascus (PISOD), who went public against the Pakistani ambassador to Syria, has been shown ...
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CCP for repromulgation of Competition Ordinance

ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Wednesday formally requested the Ministry of Finance for kick-starting the process for re-promulgation of Competition Ordinance after ...
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General Tariq spends busy day in Italy

ROME: General Tariq Majid, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), who is on an official visit to Italy for bilateral defence talks on the ...
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No clue to kidnapped Afghan envoy

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says that even after nearly two years, it has no clue about the whereabouts of kidnapped Afghan Ambassador-designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi. ...
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Corruption a robbery of human rights: Aitzaz

Islamabad: Corrupt people are in every field of life, even among lawyers. Such people are a threat to the overall reputation of an institution and ...
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Zardari for ensuring Afghan ownership of peace initiative

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said that any initiative on Afghanistan should ensure Afghan ownership of the process as well as territorial integrity of the ...
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Strict security measures in NA-123

LAHORE, Punjab government has adopted strict security arrangements during the by-election in NA-123.        SP Civil Lines Dr Haider Ashraf told this news agency ...
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