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Pakistan Muslim League (N) member Balochistan assembly Abdul Majid Abro escaped a life attempt but sustained injures in an attack here on Saturday, officials said. |
Pervez Musharraf's wife today requested the Pakistan government to lift a foreign travel ban on him even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the embattled former military ruler's fate will be decided by a special court. |
image OKARA: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday the youth loan programme would help alleviate poverty in the country. |
CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home on Saturday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice. |
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Sri Lanka fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekera has been ruled out of the remaining two test matches against Pakistan because of a hamstring injury. |
DHAKA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Scores of polling centers in Bangladesh capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country have been torched ahead of Sunday's controversial parliament elections, source said Saturday. |
The Iraqi government has admitted that it has lost control of the town of Fallujah to al Qaeda-linked militants. The town was an insurgent stronghold during the US-led occupation. |
Officials say a Taliban attack on a joint NATO-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan has killed one NATO soldier. Spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai in Nangarhar province said the attack took place on Saturday morning when a suicide bomber struck outside the ... |
CAIRO: Egypt vowed on Saturday to confront Muslim Brotherhood protests with “full force,” as security officials said 17 people had been killed in nationwide clashes the previous day. |
ROME : The Italian navy said Friday it had rescued in 24 hours more than 1,000 migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean by boat in rough winter seas. |
2,200 flights canceled; state of emergency declared in New York and New Jersey; hundreds of schools shut down. By The Associated Press | Jan. 4, 2014 | 3:54 PM. |
Karachi: The Provincial Sindh government on Saturday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to challenge the high court verdict that recently abrogated amendments made by the treasury in the local government laws. |
ISLAMABAD: A PPP legislator in Senate on Friday expressed suspicion that the army is unhappy over the high treason trial of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and that is why the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has not issue any clarification ... |
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that politicians, industrialists, traders, bureaucrats, judges, generals and all members of the society will help to play an active role for national progress and development. |
ISLAMABAD: Apparently for the first time in almost 15 years, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has started decreasing tariff following an intervention by the Supreme Court. |
A Pakistani stockbroker talks on phones during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in Karachi on January 3, 2014. |
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines commenced on Friday its direct flight from Multan to Jeddah, with PK-739 carrying passengers taking off from the Multan airport for Saudi Arabia. |
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Friday remarked that non-provision of basic necessities of gas and electricity in severe cold weather had made citizens' life miserable. |
COLOMBO Jan 4 (Reuters) - Afghanistan will be the fifth team in this year's Asia Cup and Bangladesh will remain the host of the tournament despite political turmoil in the country, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said on Saturday. |
Serena Williams continued her dominance of women's tennis on Saturday, beating nearest challenger Victoria Azarenka in straight sets to win the Brisbane International final. |
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) acting Chairman Najam Sethi has said the decision on appointing a new head coach of the Pakistan cricket team has been delayed due to restrictions placed on them by the Islamabad High Court. |
NELSON, New Zealand (AP) - Opener Martin Guptill struck early for New Zealand with 81 to lead the hosts to victory over the West Indies by 58 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis Method in the fourth cricket One-Day International earlier today. |
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) just announced its nominees for the PGA Awards. And now, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has announced its own nominees for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen. |
KARACHI: Made for Stage Production with support from Theatrical Rights Worldwide announced to present Nida Butt's production of Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs' 'Grease'- the musical. |
(Billboard) - Beyoncé's self-titled album racks up a third week at No 1 on the Billboard 200—the longest run at No 1 for any album since last April. |
Islamabad: India has announced an extention in a deadline till February 14, for polio vaccinations for all Pakistanis to travel India. |
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is granting three months free trial of the next generation technology services to major mobile companies in Pakistan to enable them to improve their preparedness before its complete adoption. |
Looks like Typo, the Seacrest funded iPhone keyboard, has received its fair share of free publicity. BlackBerry announced yesterday that they decided to go after the case maker for basically copying its iconic smartphone keyboard, what BlackBerry Steve ... |
While the Snapchat data breach came as bad news for users, what many may not have realised is that the really scary part was that mobile numbers of users were breached. |
WASHINGTON: Facebook has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging the social networking behemoth gleans data from purportedly private messages, in violation of users' rights. |
Organizers of an ambitious private mission to colonize Mars say they have whittled 200,000 applicants down to just over 1,000 -- including 52 Russians -- and that they hope to select the final team with the help of a reality TV show. |
It still remains a mystery why the dogs align at all, whether they do it deliberately or for comfort.(Photo:Reuters). Dogs align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field (north-south axis) before squatting to poop, a new study has found. |
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