Punjab knocked out by Deccan
Shikhar Dhawan cracked an unbeaten 95 and Amit Mishra took a hat-trick as Deccan Chargers knocked Kings XI Punjab out of the Indian Premier...
A rainy weekend?
The city’s temperature fell to 40 degrees Celsius on Friday though the current heat wave is likely to prevail for the next few days....
Car bomb targets US convoy in Peshawar, taliban claim responsibility
Militants bombed a US consulate convoy in Peshawar on Friday, killing one person and wounding 11 others in the first attack on Americans in...
Crowe announces comeback
Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has said that he is contemplating a return to first-class cricket 15 years after retiring from it....
Cabby, nurse found dead in car in Hafizabad
A taxi driver and a nurse were found dead in mysterious circumstances in a locked garage of Mohallah Kashmirnagar. Reportedly, a nurse, Anum, left her...
Girl murdered for ‘honour’
Police on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly killing his daughter over her ‘immoral behaviour’. Police said they nabbed Mairaj Din, a resident of...
‘Government plans setting up IT campuses at district level’
The government plans to establish information technology (IT) campuses at district level across the country, Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek said on Monday. “The...
Punjab govt says no to foreign aid
The PML-N government in Punjab held an important cabinet meeting on Monday and announced an “anti-foreign aid” policy designed to gain economic self-reliance, restore...
Govt decides to set up Inland Water Transport Authority
After years of deliberations on the idea of utilising the Indus River’s waterways for freight forwarding, high fuel costs have forced the government to...
Sensodyne toothpaste
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare, the manufacturer of the leading sensitive toothpaste brand Sensodyne, Monday re-launched ‘Sensodyne’ in Pakistan. The formulation, specifically developed for dentine...
PIFD now awarding degree
The Parliament has granted the status of Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD) Lahore has been reconstituted with the status of a degree-awarding...
800 killed in Nigeria vote unrest: Human Rights Watch
Violence that erupted largely between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan won last month’s vote left at least 800 people dead,...
Foreigners in danger, warns ministry
Sindh Home Department sources said on Saturday that the Interior Ministry had written a letter (No. 701/14) to the department saying foreigners were in...
Gen Pasha doesn’t divulge Osama’s ‘host network’
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha shied away from divulging any information on the “host network” of Osama bin...
Expeditious justice needed
In Pakistan’s history, the year of 2010 will be remembered as “year of air disasters” as just in four month’s short span 185 people...
Parliamentary committee on judges be reconstituted: JAP
The Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) on Saturday demanded the federal government remove Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) members from the parliamentary committee on judges’ appointment,...
Death toll mounts in Syria despite dialogue offer
Syrian troops killed three people and wounded several others on Saturday in the border town of Tall Kalakh, a witness said, as the toll...
