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ISLAMABAD: The government did not bear a loss of $1.33 billion in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal, but the country would get profit of the same amount after finalising this project by the mid of April. While talking to media Federal Minster for Petroleum and Natural Resources denied the high heated 3.5 million tonnes [...]
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases cannot be reopened even if Islamabad makes an official request, as the president enjoys immunity under international law, a private TV channel quoted Geneva’s Attorney General Daniel Zappelli as saying on Saturday. Zappelli said even if they received a proper request by Pakistan with all the required stances [...]
ISLAMABAD: A DNA test has proved that Maryam Khan is the biological daughter of Dr Amjad Khan, Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s former husband, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. Talking to reporters after meeting Dr Aafia’s sister Dr Fauzia, Malik said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – already on a US visit – will hold [...]
ISLAMABAD: The federal ministry for law and justice once again was in the limelight on Saturday for wrong reasons as one of its top officers resigned reportedly because of an alleged row with Law Minister Babar Awan, a source told our correspondent. Senior Joint Secretary Akbar Khan Achakzai has resigned from his post because he [...]
MOSCOW: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other people were killed Saturday when the president’s plane crashed on landing in the western Russian city of Smolensk, officials said. The
NEW YORK: Stressing on the need of establishing peace and a secure environment in Pakistan and Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama has said that dismantling the terror network flourishing in the region is the “singular focus” of his administration. In an extensive interview with the ABC, Obama said rooting out the militant base in the [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a mudslide that buried more than 100 people after the heaviest rains in four decades, reported Reuters. The rains that started on Monday have killed at least 205 people, most in [...]
Not many Indians are happy with the prevailing system. Too many disparities have come to be entrenched and too many people have been driven to live on the margins. Crime has been politicised and politics criminalised. The question that faces the nation is how to change the system. Should it be with the gun as [...]
ISLAMABAD: US Deputy Secretary of State for Resources and Management Jacob J. Lew Friday said the US wanted early disbursement of Pakistan’s claims under coalition support fund, but these claims need verification and the embassy required american audit persons in Pakistan without delay to complete this job. Talking to newsmen here at American embassy, Jacob [...]
PESHAWAR: Renaming NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa turns out to be an expensive proposition worth a staggering 8 billion rupees. According to sources in the NWFP government, all the updated and renamed documents will cost about 5 billion rupees. Whereas the Federal Government will have to bear a 3 billion rupee expense on updating and renaming various [...]
KARACHI: A case of rape, attempted murder, corruption and impunity that took place in 2008 and 2009 continues to haunt two girls in
LAHORE: Showing their reservations on certain clauses of the 18th Amendment, the Supreme Court Bar Association and Lahore
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has the potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years while work is on to produce 100mw power from this field within next 15-18 months. This was said by Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, Member, Science & Technology, Planning Commission while addressing business community at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry. [...]
LAHORE: At least 15,000 daily wage-earners will lose their jobs, following Pakistan Electric Power Company’s (PEPCO) decision to suspend supply to furnaces across the country, resulting in a loss of around Rs7.5 million per day to the economy, sources said. At present, around 150 furnaces, including 70 in LESCO, 10 in IESCO, 10 in PESCO, [...]
ISLAMABAD: Though it’s just a coincidence, one Malik has directed another Malik to get back the passport of a third Malik which has been in the custody of the India police for the past few days. The Malik who issued the directive is Interior Minister Rehman and the one who is supposed to do the [...]
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan’s opposition has seized power in Bishkek, forming an interim administration after anti-government protests erupted into violence as police clashed with demonstrators. Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who has fled to the south of the country, has refused to step down as president. Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the night but a government spokesman said nobody was [...]
BERLIN: Construction of the controversial Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to western Europe under the Baltic Sea has been officially launched. Gazprom holds 51% of Nord Stream, which will run from the Russian port of Vyborg to Germany’s Greifswald. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the ceremony near Vyborg. The project [...]
PRAGUE: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. The treaty commits the former Cold War enemies to each reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 – 30% lower than the previous ceiling. Mr Obama said it was an [...]
LAHORE: Traders, shopkeepers and domestic consumers on Friday took to streets in various parts of the country against 14 to 18 hours unscheduled loadshedding as the wheel of industry has come to a complete halt while massive power outrages are badly affecting the businesses, paralysing routine life and forcing the helpless people to spend sleepless [...]
ISLAMABAD: The United States wants Pakistan to address its immediate energy needs instead of pinning its hopes on a civilian nuclear deal similar to the one Washington has finalised with India. “We have started discussions on the civilian nuclear energy deal and we will continue them but Pakistan’s energy crisis needs immediate attention and for [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
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What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
